Orange County Indexed
Will of Richard Bennehan
Will Book E, page 96 · dated 24 April 1820 · proved February 1826
Richard Bennehan named daughter Rebecca and son Thomas and provided one thousand for religious propagation; Thomas and Duncan Cameron were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Richard Bennehan (printed RICHARD BENNEHAN)
- Dated
- 24 April 1820
- Proved
- February 1826 court
- Family named
- Thomas D. Bennehan (son); Rebecca Cameron (daughter)
- Executors
- Thomas D. Bennehan (son); Duncan Cameron
- Witnesses
- Samuel Yarborough; Wm. M. Shaw
- Money and goods
- 1,000 for the propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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 E, page 96.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 117.
- 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 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).
