Orange County Indexed
Will of John Moore
Will Book C, page 147 · dated 9 February 1799 · proved August 1799
John Moore named his wife and seven children, devised creek land to four sons, and appointed his wife and son James executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Moore (printed JOHN MOORE)
- Dated
- 9 February 1799
- Proved
- August 1799 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); James (4 oldest sons); John (4 oldest sons); Nathan (4 oldest sons); Alfred (4 oldest sons; a minor); Mary (daughter); Martha (daughter); Sarah (daughter)
- Executors
- Mary (wife); James (son)
- Witnesses
- James Boyle; Lem’l C. Jepson; Robert Moore
- Land
- land on waters of Laughlens Creek
- Places
- Laughlens Creek
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 C, page 147.
- 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 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).
