Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Moore
Will Book D, page 383 · dated 16 January 1813 · proved August 1813
Joseph Moore left his plantation and unnamed enslaved people to Mary Ferguson for life, then John Moore; three relatives were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Moore (printed JOSEPH MOORE)
- Dated
- 16 January 1813
- Proved
- August 1813 court
- Family named
- John Moore (brother); Mary Ferguson (sister)
- Executors
- John Moore; Sampson Moore; Mary Ferguson (sister)
- Witnesses
- John Allison; James Allison
- Enslaved people not named
- Enslaved people
- Land
- plantation
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 D, page 383.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 56.
- 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).
