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Orange County Indexed

Will of Isaac Dale

Will Book D, page 555 · dated 7 October 1815 · proved February 1819

Isaac Dale left his estate to Margaret and ten dollars to daughter Margaret Haddock; Thomas Holaday and stepson Robert Andrew were executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Isaac Dale (printed ISAAC DALE)
Dated
7 October 1815
Proved
February 1819 court
Family named
Margaret Dale (wife); Margaret Haddock (daughter); Robert Andrew (my step-son)
Executors
Thomas Holaday Sr. (friends); Robert Andrew (my step-son)
Witnesses
Lewis Hornaday; Dinah (x) Bittick
Money and goods
$10

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 555.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 86.
  • 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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