Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Caldwell
Will Book E, page 363 · dated 26 September 1817 · proved August 1835
Joseph Caldwell named wife Helen, stepson William Hooper, and niece Margaret Caldwell and appointed William Hooper and James Webb executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Caldwell (printed JOSEPH CALDWELL)
- Dated
- 26 September 1817
- Proved
- August 1835 court
- Family named
- Helen (wife); Margaret Caldwell (niece); William Hooper (step-son; Esq.)
- Executors
- William Hooper (Esq.); James Webb
- Witnesses
- John L. Bailey; Pleasant H. May
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 363.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 162.
- 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).
