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Orange County Indexed

Will of Joseph (x) McCulloch

Will Book D, page 503 · dated 21 April 1814 · proved February 1817

Joseph McCulloch allocated creek lands to sons and named daughters; George McCulloch and Wm Walker were executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Joseph (x) McCulloch (printed JOSEPH (x) McCULLOCH)
Dated
21 April 1814
Proved
February 1817 court
In the court minutes
Family named
John McCulloch (son); George (son); William (son); Joseph (son); George McCulloch (son); Mary Johnston (daughter); Deborah Walker (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Wm Walker (son-in-law)
Executors
George McCulloch (son); Wm Walker (son-in-law)
Witnesses
Robt L. Mitchell; Thos. McCullock; Sam’l Edmiston; Andrew McCullock
Land
a mill-stone quarry; tract whereon he now lives on the S. Side of Toms Creek; tract whereon he now lives which I purchased of John Tate, lying on both sides of Watson’s Creek
Also named
John Tate (land seller)

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 503.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 76.
  • 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).
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