Orange County Indexed
Will of Moses Atwater
Will Book E, page 392 · dated 4 July 1836 · proved November 1836
Moses Atwater left land to sons, named wife Anney or Amey and daughters, and appointed Wilson and Jehaza executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Moses Atwater (printed MOSES ATWATER)
- Dated
- 4 July 1836
- Proved
- November 1836 court
- Family named
- Anney or Amey ? (wife); Gehiel (son); Jehaza (son); Wilson (son); Lois Strowd (daughter); Celia Strowd (daughter); Edmund (All my children)
- Executors
- Wilson (son); Jehaza (son)
- Witnesses
- J. H. Norwood; Martha Bilbow
- Land
- lands which join James Norwood, Maderson Cook, Isham Smith; mill purchased from Fearington
- Also named
- James Norwood; Maderson Cook; Isham Smith; Fearington
Reading note: Wife printed Anney or Amey ?.
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 392.
- 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).
