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Orange County Indexed

Will of Robert McCadams

Will Book F, page 293 · dated 13 June 1846 · proved August 1846

ROBERT McCADAMS made a will; the compiler lists only the testator and dates.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Robert McCadams (printed ROBERT McCADAMS)
Dated
13 June 1846
Proved
August 1846 court
A second reading
Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Robert McAdams. Check the will book to settle it.

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 293.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 215.
  • 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).
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