Orange County Indexed
Will of Francis Moreland
Will Book D, page 75 · dated 27 March 1802 · proved August 1802
Francis Moreland left property to his wife for life, named relatives and beneficiaries, and appointed three executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Francis Moreland (printed FRANCIS MORELAND)
- Dated
- 27 March 1802
- Proved
- August 1802 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Nancy (wife); Joseph Moreland (nephew)
- Also left something
- Thomas Cooke; Francis Asbury; Richard Walcot; John Major (son of William Major deceased); Francis Moreland (son of William Moreland); Francis Ashly (son of William Ashly deceased)
- Executors
- Wm. Rhodes (Jun’r); Page Patterson; John Major
- Witnesses
- Thos. Steele; J. Dixon; John Hampton
- Land
- land, etc.
- Also named
- William Major (father of John Major; deceased); William Moreland (father of beneficiary); William Ashly (father of beneficiary; deceased)
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 75.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 11.
- 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).
