Orange County Indexed
Will of John Moore
Will Book B, page 274 · dated 24 October 1793 · proved February 1794
John Moore left his plantation and a Cumberland land obligation to his only son, provided for his wife and daughter, and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Moore (printed JOHN MOORE)
- Dated
- 24 October 1793
- Proved
- February 1794 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Asahel (only son); Elizabeth (daughter)
- Executors
- James Moore (trusty friends); David Turrentine (trusty friends)
- Witnesses
- Jno. Umstead; Samuel Turrentine; James Turrentine
- Land
- plantation whereon I now live with an obligation for 900 acres of land in Cumberland
- Places
- Cumberland
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 B, page 274.
- 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).
