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Orange County Indexed

Will of Peter (x) Moser

Will Book F, page 162 · dated 8 August 1841 · proved August 1843

Peter Moser named wife Barbara and appointed Ephriam Mitchell and Levy Moser executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Peter (x) Moser (printed PETER (x) MOSER)
Dated
8 August 1841
Proved
August 1843 court
Family named
Barbara (wife)
Executors
Ephriam Mitchell; Levy Moser
Witnesses
Martin Moser; Bostian Moser

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 162.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 199.
  • 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).
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