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Snow Hill Plantation, Orange County, North Carolina

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Plantations Index

The Bennehan-Cameron Plantations

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Biography

Snow Hill Plantation, which began as a store, was first established by William Johnston[1] in 1763, and then later co-owned with his business partner Richard Bennehan[2], who bought partial interest in the store in 1768, and expanded the plantation from there[1]. Richard Bennehan later established Staggville Plantation[3], among others. Snow Hill was located in Orange Co, NC, and was one of the earliest plantations in what is now Durham Co, NC today[1].

While Snow Hill was initially established as a store on the route of an old Indian Trading Path [1] [4], as time went on, Snow Hill was expanded into a plantation. Many of the records for Snow Hill can be found in the Cameron Family Papers.[5]

Owners

Richard Bennehan 1743-1825 was a merchant and planter. He was born in Virginia, came from Virginia in 1768 to work with William Johnston at his store on the Snow Hill Plantation[3][1], and lived his adult life in Orange Co, NC.

Thomas D. Bennehan 1782-1847 was born in Orange Co, NC and there he spent his life. Thomas never married and when he died he gave the bulk of his properties to his nephew, Paul C. Cameron.

Duncan Cameron 1777-1853 was a planter. He spent his adult life in North Carolina where he raised his family. He was the son-in-law of Richard Bennehan, and shared plantations and expenses with the Bennehan family until brother-in-law, Thomas D. Bennehan, died. After that Duncan's plantation partner was his son, Paul C. Cameron.

Paul C. Cameron 1808-1891, raised on Fairntosh plantation, received Stagville and other plantations from his uncle Thomas D. Bennehan when he died in 1847. Paul continued expanding the plantations in North Carolina, and planted new ones in Alabama and Mississippi.

Slaves

Under Bennehan & Cameron

After Richard Bennehan's death in 1825, Snow Hill belonged to Richard's son, Thomas D. Bennehan, and Duncan Cameron.

1830 Snow Hill Slave Census:[2]

Females

1834 December Snow Hill Plantation Slave Census, Duncan Cameron Slaves[6]

Women & Children

Children of Mary

Children of Jincey

Children of Mary Taylor

Children of Silva

Children of Chesney

1839 Snow Hill Slave Census[7]

children

Under Bennehan, Cameron & Paul C. Cameron

In 1844 the Cameron's selected 144 enslaved persons to move to their new Alabama plantation. Some of those slaves came from the Snow Hill Plantation. Now there are new names on the Snow Hill lists.

By 1845 Duncan Cameron's son, Paul C. Cameron, was involved in the Snow Hill Plantation.

1845 Snow Hill Slave Census[2]

Under Paul C. Cameron

After Uncle Thomas Bennehan died in 1847, nephew, Paul C. Cameron, owned Snow Hill Plantation.

1865 Snow Hill Slave Census[8] This list seems to be built on the earlier 1845 list. Some of the persons who are named as children here are actually adults by this time.

Women

Boys

Girls

Children

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

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 https://www.opendurham.org/buildings/snow-hill-plantation-farm/
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cameron Family Papers https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133/#folder_2207#1 Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
    • Subseries 6.4.1. Johnston-Bennehan Daybooks, 1773-1785. 4 items. Journals of original entry, chiefly for the store at Snowhill, owned by William Johnston and Richard Bennehan.
    • 1830 slave list, Folder 3653 Volume 115: 1830
    • 1845 slave list, Folder 3658 Volume 120: October 1844-March 1845
    • 1865 slave list, Folder 3668 Volume 130: circa 1865
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.opendurham.org/buildings/stagville
  4. ↑ http://tradingpath.org/?page_id=4
  5. ↑ Cameron Family Papers https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133/ Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  6. ↑ Cameron Family Papers https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133/#d1e9979 Subseries 6.7.1. Other Antebellum and Civil War Era Account Books, 1768-1865
    • Folder 3654, Volume 116: 1834
  7. ↑ Cameron Family Papers https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133
    • Folder 3657, Volume 119: 1839 Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  8. ↑ Cameron Family Papers https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133/#d1e9979
    • Folder 3668, Volume 130: circa 1865 Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.




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