Orange County Indexed
Will of James Moore
Will Book E, page 388 · proved August 1836
James Moore protected daughter Patsey Smith’s property from Hosea Smith’s debts and appointed sons Robert and John Moore guardians of the property.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Moore (printed JAMES MOORE)
- Dated
- As printed: “Will dated --”
- Proved
- August 1836 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as November 1836. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Patsey Smith (daughter)
- Guardians
- Robert (son); John Moore (son)
- Witnesses
- Jesse O'Daniel; Henry O'Daniel
- Also named
- Hosea Smith
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 388.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 168.
- 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).
