Will of Mordecai (x) Gwinn

Mordecai Gwinn named wife Elizabeth, four sons, five daughters and two grandsons; his wife and son Edward were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Mordecai (x) Gwinn (printed MORDECAI (x) GWINN)

Dated

As printed: “No date”

Proved

February 1785 court

In the court minutes

• Will proved, 1 March 1785

Family named

Elizabeth (wife); John (my three sons; all under age); Alexander (my three sons; all under age); James (my three sons; all under age); Edward (son); Margaret (daughter); Mary (daughter); Jane (daughter); Sarah (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); John Gwinn (grandson); Mordecai Gwinn (grandson)

Executor

Edward (son)

Witnesses

Thomas (x) Moore; William Gwinn

Deeds that cite this paper

Deed Book 7, page 269

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 320.
• 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).