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Note 54: See: FMDB, Benger Family; PANL, MG 247, Carter – Benger – Nason Papers, especially files 3, 18, and 37; and Mannion Name Files, Ferryland, "Benger" and "Nason." back

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'Benger's Folly,' built in 1796, has in the evening of its days been utilised by conversion into a signal-tower.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

Rachel and William left Ferryland in 1782, and William left the management of his Ferryland properties to John Benger Jr. (it is likely that at least some part of the properties had come to William by way of a marriage settlement with the Bengers as well).

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Both the Nason and the Benger families had extensive holdings on the southern Avalon, particularly in Ferryland, and although most members of the families had returned to Youghal or removed to America by the nineteenth century, they maintained many of the southern Avalon holdings as rental properties.

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Their alliance was reinforced when John's daughter, Dorcas Benger, married Richard's son, Richard Nason Jr., in 1754.

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The women of the Benger family were exceptional, since they did reside in Ferryland in the eighteenth century (see Chapter 9), but details of their marriage settlements have not survived in public repositories.

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Anstice Gorman of Youghal, County Cork, was a servant to the family of Richard Nason and Dorcas Benger Nason, and had an illegitimate child, Thomas, by Richard.

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Several examples of such agreements involving stay-at-home daughters appear in the Carter-Benger-Nason Papers, but they involve properties in Ireland only and have therefore been omitted from this discussion.

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See PANL, MG 247, Carter-Benger-Nason Papers, files 18, 20, and 33, various papers respecting John Nunan v. Robert Carter and James H. Carter in re: estate of Richard Nason. back

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Note 38: PANL, MG 247, Carter-Benger-Nason Papers, file 7, Will of Richard Nason, 1 April 1818. back

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