Orange County Indexed
Will of John McDade
Will Book F, page 208 · dated 25 July 1844 · proved August 1844
John McDade left plantations to sons after wife Levina’s death and hundred-acre tracts to Henderson and John and appointed Joseph Allison executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John McDade (printed JOHN McDADE)
- Dated
- 25 July 1844
- Proved
- August 1844 court
- Family named
- Levina (wife); James B. (son); Patterson H. McDade (son); Henderson C. McDade (son); John A. McDade (son)
- Executor
- Joseph Allison (friend)
- Witnesses
- John Kelly; Joseph Smith
- Land
- plantation after wife's death; 100 acres where he now lives
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 208.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 205.
- 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).
