Will of Henry O’Daniel

Henry O’Daniel named three brothers and four sisters and appointed James O’Daniel and Thomas Hastings executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Henry O’Daniel (printed HENRY O’DANIEL)

Dated

16 May 1813

Proved

May 1813 court

Family named

Samuel (three brothers); John (three brothers); Joshua O’Daniel (three brothers); Susannah Pickard (four sisters); Jane McDaniel (four sisters); Sally Hastings (four sisters); Peggy Pickard (four sisters)

Executors

James O’Daniel; Thomas Hastings

Witnesses

Arch’d Holmes; John Grimes

Names and places are given as the abstract writes them, spelling and all. This record has not been checked against the will book.

Where to find it

• Orange County Will Book D, page 377.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 55.
• Also listed in Mark Chilton, “Wills Recorded in Orange County, NC 1756–1893” (Wandering through the NC Piedmont, 2019), an index of the will books with references to the court minutes.
• Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).