Orange County Indexed
Will of William Clendennin
Will Book D, page 25 · dated 17 June 1790 · proved February 1801
William Clendennin named his wife, children and niece, devised land, and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Clendennin (printed WILLIAM CLENDENNIN)
- Dated
- 17 June 1790
- Proved
- February 1801 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Mary (Wife); Younger (son); William (son); John (son); Joseph (son); James (son); Fisher (son); Polly (daughter); Rebecca (daughter); Ann (daughter); Fanny (daughter); Jenny (daughter); Ann (my niece, daughter of John Clendenning deceased)
- Executors
- John Thompson (Esquire); Andrew Murdock
- Witnesses
- James Johnston; John Johnston
- Land
- 200 acres of land; the home plantation
- Also named
- John Clendenning (father of niece; deceased)
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 D, page 25.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958).
- 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).
