Orange County Indexed
Will of Edward McDade
Will Book E, page 229 · dated 31 July 1830 · proved August 1830
Edward McDade named daughter Peggy, niece Peggy McDade, and Elizabeth Wilfong and appointed John McDade and Thomas Clancy executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Edward McDade (printed EDWARD McDADE)
- Dated
- 31 July 1830
- Proved
- August 1830 court
- Family named
- Peggy McDade (daughter); John McDade (brother); Peggy McDade (niece, daughter of brother John McDade)
- Also left something
- Elizabeth Wilfong (Mrs)
- Executors
- John McDade (friends); Thomas Clancy (friends)
- Witnesses
- J.W ? Smith; Wm. Nelson
- Money and goods
- saddles, etc. in my shop
Reading note: Witness initials questioned J.W ? Smith.
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 229.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 139.
- 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).
