Will of Richard Leak

Richard Leak named daughters and younger relatives, left an unnamed enslaved person to Richard Leak Moore, and appointed Walter Slatter executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Richard Leak (printed RICHARD LEAK)

Dated

7 February 1784

Proved

May 1784 court

Family named

Elizabeth Terry (daughter); Mary Moore (daughter); Jean Harley (daughter); Susannah Campble (daughter); Richard Leak Terry (grandchild); John Terry (grandchild); Walter Slatter (Slaughter ?) (grandson); James Terry (wife of); Richard Slatter (my grandson Walter Slatter's son)

Also left something

Richard Leak Moore (relationship not stated); John Moor (relationship not stated); Richard Campble (relationship not stated)

Executor

Walter Slatter

Witnesses

Charles Clindenin; George Webb; John Pugh

Enslaved people not named

One enslaved person now in the care of my daughter Mary Moore

Land

land in Richmond County upon P D (Pee Dee River

Places

Richmond County; P D (Pee Dee River)

Reading note: Continues on PDF page 51. Walter Slatter (Slaughter ?) uncertain. Relation of Richard Leak Moore, John Moor and Richard Campble unstated.

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 288.
• 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).