Jeremiah Moody was mentioned in the 13 October 1765 will of his father George Moody. “I lend to my Jeremiah [sic] during his natural Life the tract of land he now lives upon bounded by the Spring branch down to the main Branch of Hoskins’s run & up the run wch divides this & the land of Upshaw, & along the line of this & Sherwoods land till it comes to a new mark’d Hickory Tree a Corner between this & the land hereby Given to my son Thos & from the sd Hickory a Straight line by a crooked Persimon tree marked in the Cornfield to a Small black walnut tree another Corner & from thence along a Crooked line to a Small red oak a few yards below my Spring & after his Decease, & the Decease of his wife Elizabeth (to whom I lend the same if She Should Survive my Sd Son Jerimiah During her widowhood) .” Jeremiah was to receive one shilling of the rest of the estate. The will was proved on 16 June 1783 and 21 July 1783. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 13, page 379.]

On 19 May 1801, Lewis Moody answered a bill of Wm Snodgrass, stating that he is the grandson of George Moody and son of Jeremiah Moody deceased. That George Moody died intestate sometime in 1782 or 1783. [Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery No. 17, item 17-K-1.]