Orange County Indexed
Will of Melchi McDaniel
Will Book E, page 209 · dated 27 August 1829 · proved February 1830
Melchi McDaniel left plantations to son William, daughter Martha Smith, Elizabeth Britt, and Eli Britt and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Melchi McDaniel (printed MELCHI McDANIEL)
- Dated
- 27 August 1829
- Proved
- February 1830 court
- Family named
- William McDaniel (son); Martha Smith (daughter, wife of William Smith); William Smith
- Also left something
- Elizabeth Britt (daughter of Celia Britt); Eli Britt (son of Celia Britt)
- Executors
- David Roach; William Thompson
- Witnesses
- Thomas G. Willis; Alfred Pickard; Henry O'Daniel
- Land
- plantation known as the Henry Hasten place; my plantation; my plantation known as James Minnis plantation on E Side of Cane Creek; plantation where I now live on E Side of Cane Creek
- Places
- Cane Creek
- Also named
- Celia Britt; Henry Hasten; James Minnis
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 209.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 135.
- 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).
