Orange County Indexed
Will of Charles McCauley
Will Book E, page 404 · dated 16 December 1836 · proved February 1837
Charles McCauley divided his estate between wife Elizabeth and son Matthew, provided education, and named brothers Matthew and George.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Charles McCauley (printed CHARLES McCAULEY)
- Dated
- 16 December 1836
- Proved
- February 1837 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Matthew (son; he is to be educated); Matthew McCauley (brother); George McCauley (brother; who now resides in the State of Tennessee)
- Executors
- Matthew McCauley (brother); Bryant Strowd (friend)
- Witnesses
- Charles King; Henry McColum; John Cheek
- Land
- 150 acres on Cub Creek; land on E side of Morgan Creek known as Brewer or Tilly land including my saw mill
- Places
- Cub Creek; Morgan Creek; State of Tennessee
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 404.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 171.
- 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).
