Will of Cason Capps

Cason Capps provided for wife Mary and beneficiaries, excluded three husbands from property, and appointed sons Richard and James executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Cason Capps (printed CASON CAPPS)

Dated

2 November 1833

Proved

November 1833 court

Family named

Mary (wife); Robert (son); James (son); William (son; now in the Western Country); Richard (son)

Also left something

Nelly McDaniel; Milly Carter; Mary Stout

Executors

Richard (son); James (son)

Witnesses

James Moore; Thomas Scott

Also named

Joseph McDaniel (their husbands); Joseph Carter (their husbands); Samuel Stout (their husbands)

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 308.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 153.
• 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).