Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Dannelley
Will Book E, page 311 · dated 13 August 1822 · proved February 1834
John Dannelley named wife Nancy, four daughters, and two sons and appointed daughters Sarah and Margaret executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Dannelley (printed JOHN (x) DANNELLEY)
- Dated
- 13 August 1822
- Proved
- February 1834 court
- Family named
- Nancy (wife); James Dannelley (son); John Dannelley (son); Rosanna Smothers (daughter); Prisvilla Rumbley (daughter); Sarah (daughter); Margaret Dannelley (daughter)
- Executors
- Sarah (daughter); Margaret Dannelley (daughter)
- Witnesses
- Robert Lackey; Thomas Woody
- Money and goods
- $1
- In the paper’s words
- “frail and old”
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 311.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 154.
- 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).
