Orange County Indexed
Will of Daniel May
Will Book E, page 36 · proved August 1823
Daniel May named Barbary, four sons and three daughters and appointed Jacob and William executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Daniel May (printed DANIEL MAY)
- Dated
- As printed: “Will dated --”
- Proved
- August 1823 court
- Family named
- Barbary May (wife); David (son); William (son); Daniel (son); Jacob (son); Mary Allbright (daughter); Barbary May (daughter); Catherine May (daughter)
- Executors
- Jacob (son); William (son)
- Witnesses
- James Nelson; Samuel Curtis
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 36.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 105.
- 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).
