Will of Benjamin (x) Cate

Benjamin Cate named his wife, six children and two other beneficiaries, requested burial at the Reading House, and appointed two executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Benjamin (x) Cate (printed BENJAMIN (x) CATE)

Dated

2 December 1798

Proved

May 1799 court

Family named

Mary (wife); John Cate (5 sons); Timothy Cate (5 sons); Jesse Cate (5 sons); William Cate (5 sons); James Cate (5 sons); Mary Cate (daughter; under age); Richard Cate (brother)

Also left something

Elijah Hunt (Henry Hunt’s oldest boy); John Nutt (David Nutt’s oldest son)

Executors

Richard Cate (brother); William Cain (merchant)

Witnesses

Alex’r McMullan; Edward Wortham; William (x) Cate

Deeds that cite this paper

Deed Book 10, page 208; Deed Book 10, page 209

Places

Reading House

Also named

Henry Hunt (father of beneficiary); David Nutt (father of beneficiary)

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 C, page 136.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
• 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 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).