Orange County Indexed
Will of David (x) McCrorey
Will Book E, page 415 · dated 9 February 1837 · proved May 1837
David McCrorey left his plantation to son David, named son William and nephew Thomas McCrorey, and appointed Anderson Thompson executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- David (x) McCrorey (printed DAVID (x) McCROREY)
- Dated
- 9 February 1837
- Proved
- May 1837 court
- Family named
- David (son); William (son); John McCrorey (brother); Thomas McCrorey (brother John McCrorey's son)
- Executor
- Anderson Thompson (true and faithful friend)
- Witnesses
- Samuel Tate; Thomas McCrorey
- Land
- my plantation adjoining Wm. Faucett, ... Sellers, James Mebane
- Also named
- Wm. Faucett; Sellers; James Mebane
- In the paper’s words
- “sick in body”
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 415.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 173.
- 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).
