Orange County Indexed
Will of Samuel McCracken
Will Book F, page 8 · dated 23 December 1836 · proved August 1828
Samuel McCracken named sons John and Thomas and appointed Thomas McCracken and James Tate executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Samuel McCracken (printed SAMUEL McCRACKEN)
- Dated
- 23 December 1836
- Proved
- August 1828 court
- A second reading
- As the abstract prints them, the will was proved before it was dated, so one of the dates is wrong. Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as August 1838. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- John (son); Thomas (son); Thomas McCracken (son)
- Executors
- Thomas McCracken (son); James Tate
- Witnesses
- Sam'l N. Tate; Thomas Squires
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 8.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 179.
- 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).
