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Orange County Indexed

Will of Lettice (x) McCulley

Will Book E, page 213 · dated 23 January 1830 · proved February 1830

Lettice McCulley left pewterware to Thomas McCulley and the remaining estate to William Hamilton, also naming Albert Hamilton.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Lettice (x) McCulley (printed LETTICE (x) McCULLEY)
Dated
23 January 1830
Proved
February 1830 court
Also left something
Albert Hamilton (son of William Hamilton); Thomas McCulley; William Hamilton
Witnesses
Chesley F. Faucette; Edward Fausett
Money and goods
all my pewterware

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 213.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 136.
  • 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).
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