Orange County Indexed
Will of Samuel Cleneay
Will Book C, page 68 · dated 2 July 1795 · proved November 1795
Samuel Cleneay named three sons, left western land claims to three unnamed daughters, and appointed his son-in-law executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Samuel Cleneay (printed SAMUEL CLENEAY)
- Dated
- 2 July 1795
- Proved
- November 1795 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Samuel Clenny. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- William (son); Samuel (son); Johnathan (son); William Belvin (son-in-law)
- Executor
- William Belvin (son-in-law)
- Deeds that cite this paper
- Deed Book 6, page 110
- Land
- claim of land on the western waters
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 68.
- 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).
