Published in 1910, this volume contains an abstract of North Carolina wills. Compiled from original and recorded wills in the office of The Secretary of State.

William Chaney Sr. (b.ca.1750/1755) moved as an adult from Craven County, North Carolina to Anson and Mecklenburg Counties, North Carolina. Noah Ashley Chaney Sr. (ca.1842-1863/1865), a direct descendant in the fourth generation, married Bedie Melinda Little and farmed in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He served and died in the Civil War. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and elsewhere. Includes some early Chaney--Cheyney immigrants to Virginia, without tracing the connection to William Chaney Sr.

Chief among its contents we find abstracts of land grants, court records, conveyances, births, deaths, marriages, wills, petitions, military records (including a list of North Carolina Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Line, 1775-1782), licenses, and oaths. The abstracts derive from records now located in the state archives and from the public records of the following present-day counties of the Old Albemarle region: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Halifax, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington, and the Virginia counties of Surry and Isle of Wight.