Will of Andrew (x) McCauley

Andrew McCauley named grandchildren, widowed daughter-in-law Sarah, and son-in-law Gabreal Lea and appointed Gab. B. Lea executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Andrew (x) McCauley (printed ANDREW (x) McCAULEY)

Dated

30 September 1841

Proved

February 1844 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 20 September 1841. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Robert (my son; dec’d); John W. McCauley (grandson); John (grandson; under 21); Andrew Lea (grandson; under 21); Hannah Moore (granddaughter); Martha Lea (granddaughter); Sarah McCauley (widow of my son Robert); Gabreal B. Lea (son-in-law)

Also left something

Andrew J. McCauley

Executor

Gab. B. Lea

Witnesses

Wm.Ward Sr; John Barnwell

Money and goods

$2

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 F, page 186.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 202.
• 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).