Elizabeth Moody was mentioned in the 13 October 1765 will of her father-in-law 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) .” The will was proved on 16 June 1783 and 21 July 1783. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 13, page 379.]