Orange County Indexed
Will of John Moore
Will Book D, pages 471–474 · dated 10 March 1809 · proved February 1816
John Moore named Nancy and children, allocated Tennessee and Orange County lands, and appointed Nancy, Sampson and Mann Patterson executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Moore (printed JOHN MOORE)
- Dated
- 10 March 1809
- Proved
- February 1816 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Nancy (wife); Thomas Moore (son); Sampson Moore (son); Lewis (son); Sampson (son); Frances (daughter); Mary (children under age; under age); Nancy (children under age; under age); Susannah (children under age; under age); Lewis (children under age; under age); Betsey (children under age; under age); Sarah (children under age; under age); John Hart (husband of Frances)
- Executors
- Nancy (wife); Sampson (son); Mann Patterson (friend)
- Witnesses
- P. Henderson; James (x) Davis; Richard (x) Davis; Christopher (x) Daniel
- Land
- ½ of tract of land in Tennessee on Blooming Grove Creek in Montgomery County; tract in Orange joining Colonel Greene; other half of land in Orange County
- Places
- Tennessee; Blooming Grove Creek; Montgomery County; Orange County
- Also named
- Greene (adjoining owner; Colonel)
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, pages 471–474.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 70.
- 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).
