Will of Moses Harvey or Hervey ?

Moses Harvey or Hervey named wife Hannah, daughter Grace, and other unnamed children and appointed Samuel Woods and John Newlin executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Moses Harvey or Hervey ? (printed MOSES HARVEY or HERVEY ?)

Dated

9 July 1833

Proved

August 1833 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Moses Harvey. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Hannah (wife); Grace (daughter)

Executors

Samuel Woods (Worthy friends); John Newlin (Worthy friends)

Witnesses

Robert Cheek; Isaac Andrews

Reading note: Maker surname questioned HARVEY or HERVEY ?.

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 306.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 153.
• 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).