Orange County Indexed
Will of Charles McCawley
Will Book E, page 183 · dated 21 April 1829 · proved May 1829
Charles McCawley named wife Mary, three daughters, five sons, and deceased father William and appointed John McCawley executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Charles McCawley (printed CHARLES McCAWLEY)
- Dated
- 21 April 1829
- Proved
- May 1829 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); William McCawley (son); James McCawley (son); Johnston (son; under 21 years of age); Archibald (son; under 21 years of age); Henry Crawford McCawley (son; under 21 years of age); Eliza McCawley (daughter); Sarah McCawley (daughter); Mary Jane McCawley (daughter); William McCawley (father; now deceased)
- Executor
- John McCawley (son of Matthew)
- Witnesses
- Joseph Kirkland; James Long
- Also named
- Matthew
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 E, page 183.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 132.
- 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 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).
