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Orange County Indexed

Will of Margaret J. McDade

Will Book F, page 96 · dated 12 June 1841 · proved August 1841

Margaret McDade named parents John and Lavinia and Lucinda McDade and appointed John McDade executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Margaret J. McDade (printed MARGARET J. McDADE)
Dated
12 June 1841
Proved
August 1841 court
Family named
John McDade, Sr. (father); Lavinia (mother)
Also left something
Lucinda McDade (relationship not stated)
Executor
John McDade
Witness
Ast. Moore

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 96.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 192.
  • 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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