Orange County Indexed
Will of William Cain the older.
Will Book E, pages 324–328 · dated 14 December 1827 · proved November 1834
William Cain distributed land and property among children, sons-in-law, and grandchildren and appointed Duncan Cameron and William Cain executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Cain the older. (printed WILLIAM CAIN the older.)
- Dated
- 14 December 1827
- Proved
- November 1834 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as William Cain. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- William Cain (son); Polly Southerland (daughter); Charity Cain (daughter); Ann Davis (daughter); Peggy Cain (daughter); Martha (my daughter; deceased); William Cain (grandson); William R. Southerland (grandson); William Cain Davis (grandson); Timothy Cain (my brother); Willie P. Mangum (son-in-law married to Charity Cain); Edward Davis (her husband)
- Also left something
- Eliza Moore (daughter of Philip Moore)
- Executors
- Duncan Cameron (friend); William Cain (son)
- Witnesses
- Thos. D. Bennehan; Sam'l Yarborough
- Land
- tract called Fannings; lot in Hillsborough
- Money and goods
- a bureau
- Places
- Fannings; Hillsborough
- Also named
- Philip Moore
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, pages 324–328.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 157.
- 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).
