Orange County Indexed
Will of Moses (x) Gwinn
Will Book A, page 250 · dated 8 September 1780 · proved August 1782
Moses Gwinn named wife Elizabeth, three daughters and son Moses, devised a plantation and horse, and appointed James Mordah and Elizabeth Gwynn executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Moses (x) Gwinn (printed MOSES (x) GWINN), Planter, of Parish of Saint Mathews
- Dated
- 8 September 1780
- Proved
- August 1782 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Moses (son); Jane (daughter); Mary (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Joseph (my brother)
- Executors
- James Mordah; Elizabeth Gwynn
- Witnesses
- James Mordah; Elizabeth Mordah
- Land
- plantation he now lives on
- Money and goods
- horse I got from my brother Joseph
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 A, page 250.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
- 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 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
