Orange County Indexed
Will of William (x) M'Caddams
Will Book E, page 318 · dated 18 March 1833 · proved May 1834
William M’Caddams provided for wife Fanny, children, and grandson William and left James the Robson place.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William (x) M'Caddams (printed WILLIAM (x) M'CADDAMS)
- Dated
- 18 March 1833
- Proved
- May 1834 court
- Family named
- Fanny (wife); Hugh (son); Samuel (son); James M'Caddams (son); William M'Caddams (son); Nancy M'Caddams (daughter); Margaret M'Caddams (daughter); Catherine Thomas (daughter); William M'Caddams (his son)
- Also left something
- M'Caddams; Samuel M'Caddamd; Martha Redden
- Executor
- Edward Benson
- Witnesses
- Stephen Benson; William Benson
- Land
- my plantation in the North East corner of the county called the Robson place
- In the paper’s words
- “on the decline”
Reading note: Residue list includes an unread given name before M’Caddams and varies Samuel M’Caddamd. Heading continues as E 319 on next page.
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 318.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 155.
- 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).
