Orange County Indexed
Will of John Moore
Will Book C, page 59 · dated 7 March 1794 · proved August 1794
John Moore named his wife, four children, grandson and cousin and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Moore (printed JOHN MOORE)
- Dated
- 7 March 1794
- Proved
- August 1794 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as August 1795. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); James (son); Henry (son); Elizabeth (daughter); Martha (daughter); Ashahel Moore (grandson); Martha Moore (cousin)
- Executors
- James Moore; Charles Robinson
- Witnesses
- James Watson; Henry Moore; Margaret Watson
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 59.
- 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).
