Orange County Indexed
Will of Nancy Moor
Will Book F, page 142 · dated 7 June 1842 · proved November 1842
Nancy Moor named daughters, son-in-law Samuel Strayhorn, and grandchildren and appointed grandson William F. Strayhorn executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Nancy Moor (printed NANCY MOOR)
- Dated
- 7 June 1842
- Proved
- November 1842 court
- Family named
- Frances Hart (daughter); Nancy Hart (daughter); Susannah Yergan (daughter); Sally Pratt (daughter); Elizabeth Allen (daughter); Mary E. M. Strayhorn (granddaughter); Nancy Craig (granddaughter); Samuel Strayhorn (grandson); Thomas Strayhorn (grandson); William F. Strayhorn (grandson); Samuel Strayhorn (son-in-law)
- Executor
- William F. Strayhorn (grandson)
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 F, page 142.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 197.
- 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).
