Will of William Clendennin

William Clendennin named wife Jean, daughters and unmarried son William and appointed friend and neighbor John Stockard executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

William Clendennin (printed WILLIAM CLENDENNIN)

Dated

21 November 1843

Proved

February 1844 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as William Clendenin and the date as 21 November 1842. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Jean (wife); William Clendennin (son; unmarried); Hanor S ? (daughter; so long as they live single); Nancy Ann (daughter; so long as they live single); Sarah M. (daughter; so long as they live single); Letitia ? or Lavinia ? Cornelia ? Bradshary ? (daughter; so long as they live single); Sarah Margaret (In another place); Caroline (daughter; married)

Executor

John Stockard (friend and neighbor)

Witnesses

George Clendennin; Fisher Clendennin

Reading note: Questioned daughter list: Hanor S ?, Nancy Ann, Sarah M., and Letitia ? or Lavinia ? Cornelia ? Bradshary ?. Sarah Margaret elsewhere.

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 F, page 179.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 201.
• 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).