Hunt Plantation, Orange County, North Carolina

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Orange, North Carolina, United States [uncertain]
Surnames/tags: Bennehan Slavery Black_Heritage

Plantations Index

Biography

The Hunt Plantation was owned by Thomas D. Bennehan. It was most likely located in Orange Co, NC. It is unknown when the Hunt plantation originated and is only seen in Thomas Bennehan's probate inventory papers.^[1] The Hunt Plantation was most likely sold just after Thomas Bennehan died as it is not listed in any further Cameron Family Papers.

Slaves

1847 The enslaved listed in Thomas D. Bennehan's probate inventory.^[2]

• Cato age 34
• Peggy age 31
• Paymore age 13
• Lucy age 10
• Anderson age 8
• Rhody age 6
• Margaret age 1

• Henry Wagoner age 31
• Lina age 25
• Tom age 9
• Jerry age 7

• Tower age 26

• Nat Weaver age 30, B.S.
• Martha age 31
• Winney Weaver age 16
• Davey Weaver age 12
• Dicey Weaver age 10
• Nat Weaver Jr. age 6
• Bill Weaver age 8
• Stephen Weaver age 2
• Betsey Weaver age 2 months infant

• Henry Laur age 26
• Lucy age 26
• Ben Laur age 8
• Maranda Laur age 10
• Phill Laur age 6
• Amey Laur age 5
• Alvira Laur age 2

• Henry age 4, son of Cato

Please see the Bennehan-Cameron Plantations Page for more information.

Sources

1. ↑ Cameron Family Papers https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133 Subseries 2.6. Estate Papers, 1804-1942, Folders 2153-2156 Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2. ↑ Cameron Family Papers https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133
   • 1847 probate inventory Folder 2154 image 23 Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.