Orange County Indexed
Will of John McCauley
Will Book E, page 53 · dated 1 January 1823 · proved February 1824
John McCauley provided inherited land for Mary and possible children, with a conditional gift to Lea daughters, and named siblings and an in-law.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John McCauley (printed JOHN McCAULEY)
- Dated
- 1 January 1823
- Proved
- February 1824 court
- Family named
- Mary R. (wife); Mary Ann Lea (sister); Robert W. McCauley (brother); William M. Lea (brother-in-law)
- Also left something
- Maria (daughters of Gabriel B. Lea); Martha Lea (daughters of Gabriel B. Lea)
- Executor
- Joel B. Lea
- Witness
- Robert Morrow
- Land
- land I may inherit from my father by Will at his death
- Also named
- Gabriel B. Lea (father of conditional legatees; Esq.)
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 53.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 108.
- 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).
