Orange County Indexed
Will of Andrew McCauly
Will Book F, page 23 · dated 9 June 1839 · proved August 1839
Andrew McCauly named his wife, daughter, son, nieces, and Nobel beneficiaries and appointed Johnson McCauly and John Nobel Jr executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Andrew McCauly (printed ANDREW McCAULY)
- Dated
- 9 June 1839
- Proved
- August 1839 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Johnson McCauly (son); Jane Long (daughter); Martha Nobel (niece); Mary Nobel (niece)
- Also left something
- John Nobel; Robert Nobel
- Executors
- Johnson McCauly; John Nobel Jr.
- Witnesses
- Robert Fausett; C. F. Faucette
- Land
- tract including the place where John Fitch ? now lives; tract adjoining Margaret Watson
- Money and goods
- note on George & James Graham; note on Gabriel B. Lea
- Also named
- John Fitch ?; George; James Graham; Gabriel B. Lea; Margaret Watson
Reading note: Shields questions John Fitch ?. George & James Graham share surname printed once.
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 23.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 182.
- 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).
