"Richard Bennehan was of Orange. Coming from Petersburg as a clerk in the country store of a rich Hillsboro merchant named Johnson, partly by marriage, but mainly by investments from time to time of his earnings in slaves and in the rich bottom lands of the Neuse and its tributaries, the Eno and Flat, he accumulated one of the largest estates in North Carolina. His only daughter married Judge Duncan Cameron, and at the death of her brother, Thomas D. Bennehan, who never married, succeeded to all the estates of her father. Richard Bennehan was a man of boundless hospitality, of large public spirit, one of the early Trustees of the University, of which he was a generous benefactor."
—Kemp P. Battle, The Early History of Raleigh, the Capital City of North Carolina, Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1893, Vol 1, pp. 19–20.
—Kemp P. Battle, The Early History of Raleigh, the Capital City of North Carolina, Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1893, Vol 1, pp. 19–20.
"Richard Bennehan was of Orange. Coming from Petersburg as a clerk in the country store of a rich Hillsboro merchant named Johnson, partly by marriage, but mainly by investments from time to time of his earnings in slaves and in the rich bottom lands of the Neuse and its tributaries, the Eno and Flat, he accumulated one of the largest estates in North Carolina. His only daughter married Judge Duncan Cameron, and at the death of her brother, Thomas D. Bennehan, who never married, succeeded to all the estates of her father. Richard Bennehan was a man of boundless hospitality, of large public spirit, one of the early Trustees of the University, of which he was a generous benefactor."
—Kemp P. Battle, The Early History of Raleigh, the Capital City of North Carolina, Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1893, Vol 1, pp. 19–20.
—Kemp P. Battle, The Early History of Raleigh, the Capital City of North Carolina, Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1893, Vol 1, pp. 19–20.
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