Will of Alfred Moore

Alfred Moore left his estate to son-in-law Francis Nash Waddell and provided Moorefields for sister Sarah and three unmarried daughters.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Alfred Moore (printed ALFRED MOORE), of Moorefields

Dated

6 January 1837

Proved

August 1837 court

Family named

Augusta (his daughters; all unmarried); Emma (his daughters; all unmarried); Caroline (his daughters; all unmarried); Sarah Moore (sister; unmarried); Francis Nash Waddell (my son-in-law; of the State of Louisiana)

Executor

Francis Nash Waddell (son-in-law)

Land

Moorefields plantation in Orange County

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, pages 503–505.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 177.
• 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).