Orange County Indexed
Will of David Raney
Will Book D, page 68 · dated 7 June 1800 · proved August 1802
David Raney named his wife and children, gave land to son James, and appointed James and William Horne executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- David Raney (printed DAVID RANEY)
- Dated
- 7 June 1800
- Proved
- August 1802 court
- Family named
- Siney or Liney (wife); John Rainey (son); David Rainey (son); James Rainey (son); James (son); Susannah Rainey (daughter); Jenny R. (daughter); Margaret R. (daughter); Mary Rainey (daughter); Cathrin (daughter); Jinny (daughter)
- Executors
- James (son); William Horne
- Witnesses
- Zaccheus Boroughs; Mark Barbee; Wm. Horn
- Land
- all lands
- Money and goods
- a cow; five shillings each
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 68.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 10.
- 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).
