Does the name Henry Canaday (Kennedy???) ring any bells with any of you
Orange Co. researchers? He was one of the guardians (along with Alexander Morris)
for a family of Riley children. They were children of Abraham Riley who d.
Sept 1821. I am curious if there is a family relationship.... Abraham's widow's
name is unknown.
Thanks for any help.
Sharon Tingley
Probate Order Book B, Pages 240-241: ORANGE PROBATE COURT Please before the
Honorable Thomas Vandiver, Probate Judge of the County of Orange, at the Court
House in Paoli on the 7th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-one. Widow of Abraham Riley, dec'd) Petition to Assign
Dower) Be it remembered that heretofore, to wit, on the 11th day of March 1831,
Henry M. Canaday, on behalf of the said widow, filed his certain petition in
open Court in the words and figures following, Viz: To the Honorable Thomas
Vandiver, Judge of the Probate Court of the County of Orange in Chancery
Sitting: Henry M. Canaday, who guardian for the minor heirs of Abraham Riley,
deceased, and whose names will more fully and at large appear, reference being had to
the record of this Honorable Circuit, would hereby represent to your honor
that a petition is now depending in this Honorable Court praying for the sale of
certain lands of which the said Riley, dec'd, seized in the County aforesaid
and for the benefit of said minor heirs according to the prayer of said
petitiion as in said petition set forth. Your petitioner would suggest to your honor
that there is no record by which it can be ascertained that the Dower right
of the widow of the said Abraham in the land aforesaid hath ever been set off
and assigned to her according to law and that your petitioner may be inabled
[sic] and more effectually to sell and convey the said lands and thereby avoid
the filtering and clogging the said Estate by such proceeding. He prays that
Dower may be set off and assigned to the widow of the said Abraham according to
law and equity and that commissioners may be appointed for that purpose and
that your Honor may grant such other relief, &c. H. M. Canaday, Guardian for the
minor heirs of A. Riley, dec'd