Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Moore
Will Book E, page 247 · proved August 1831
Joseph Moore left land to sons William, Peyton, and Joseph and named son Carter and three daughters.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Moore (printed JOSEPH MOORE)
- Dated
- As printed: “Will dated 22 May 18--”
- Proved
- August 1831 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Joseph Moorre. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- William Stanford Moore (son); Peyton P. Moore (son); Joseph Moore (son); Carter Moore (son; married); Patsey Bird (daughter); Celia Reynolds (daughter); Susan (daughter; unmarried)
- Executors
- Peyton P. Moore; Jehu Bird
- Witnesses
- James Mebane; James Picket
- Land
- 100 acres; balance of land
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 E, page 247.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 143.
- 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 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).
