Orange County Indexed
Will of Benjamin Rainey
Will Book D, page 286 · dated 17 April 1811 · proved May 1811
Benjamin Rainey allocated Tennessee and Orange County lands, named descendants, and left surveying instruments to Isaac.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Benjamin Rainey (printed BENJAMIN RAINEY)
- Dated
- 17 April 1811
- Proved
- May 1811 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Nancy (wife); John (son); Isaac (son); Benjamin Able Rainey (son); Nancy (daughter); Sally (daughter); Milly (daughter); Austin (grandson); Wm. Holt (son-in-law); John King (sons and sons-in-law); Isaac Rainey (sons and sons-in-law); Benjamin Abel Rainey (sons and sons-in-law); William Holt (sons and sons-in-law)
- Executors
- Benjamin Able Rainey (son); Wm. Holt (son-in-law)
- Witnesses
- John Gant; Mason Tapley
- Land
- land in Tennessee on Turnbull Creek, 500 acres; land in Orange County, N.C. joining Guilford County line, Anthony Coble, etc.
- Money and goods
- surveying instruments
- Places
- Tennessee; Turnbull Creek; Orange County, N.C.; Guilford County line
- Also named
- Michael Holt (land purchaser); Neil Bhon ? (land purchaser); Anthony Coble (adjoining owner)
Reading note: Neil Bhon ? questioned; John King and Isaac Rainey appear in mixed sons and sons-in-law group. Duplicate recording D 295-299 cross-reference omitted.
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 286.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 44.
- 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).
