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Orange County Indexed

Will of Robert McCulley

Will Book D, page 574 · dated 25 November 1814 · proved May 1820

Robert McCulley named three of seven children and appointed Moore and Sally McCulley executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Robert McCulley (printed ROBERT McCULLEY)
Dated
25 November 1814
Proved
May 1820 court
Family named
Moore ? McCulley (son); William McCulley (son); Moore (son); Sally McCulley (daughter)
Executors
Moore (son); Sally McCulley (daughter)
Witnesses
Daniel Johnston; John Boon

Reading note: Moore ? McCulley questioned.

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 574.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 89.
  • 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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