Person:Benajah Gentry (3)

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Benajah Gentry
b.1733 Hanover County, Virginia
d.1830
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Elizabeth Gentry1731 - 1820
  2. Benajah Gentry1733 - 1830
Spouse and Children
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  1. Sarah 'Sallie' Gentry
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Benajah Gentry1733 - 1830
  • W.  Ann JonesBef 1763 -
m. Abt 1780
  1. Thomas Gentry1792 - 1849
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Facts and Events
Name Benajah Gentry
Gender Male
Birth? 1733 Hanover County, Virginia
Marriage to Elizabeth 'Leah' Austin
Marriage Abt 1780 Virginiato Ann Jones
Death? 1830
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Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:


  • Vol. 2 - Carter's executors vs. Dunlap--O. S. 303; N. S. 108--Bill, December, 1818. Will of Edward Carter of Fredericksburg. Wife, Sally, tract "Blenheim" in Albemarle; sons, Charles and Edward Carter, land in Amherst; son, John, and his wife Apphire, daughter of Col. Fielding Lewis; sons, George Whitacre (Whitdore?), Hill, Robert; son, William Champ Carter; daughters, Mary Champ and An Williams; daughter, Elizabeth Stanard, wife of Wm. Stanard; legatee, Francis Thornton; daughter, Jane Bradford, wife of Maj. Saml. Bradford; daughter, Sally Carter, wife of George Carter. Dated 21st February, 1792. Recorded in Spottsylvania, 6th June, 1792. Widow Sally died September, 1815. 5th June, 1820, Nancy Woods deposes, in Charlottesville, in 1795 she was wife of James Jones, now deceased. John Marrs married her daughter. 5th June, 1820, Elizabeth Gary deposes, her Uncle Dudley Jones. 6th June, 1820, George Harden, son-in-law of Benajah Gentry deposes, James Suddarth commonly called Suthers.
References
  1.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

    16. Benajah GENTRY5 was born in 1733 in Hanover County, Virginia.5 He died in 1830 at the age of 97.5

    Benajah was married first to ?Elizabeth [Leah?] Austin and second to Ann Jones. The Brown families that lived near the Gentrys used the name Benajah.

    Will was proved January 1831, Albemarle Co VA.

    Benajah married twice, his first wife was Elizabeth(?) Austin, his second was Ann Jones whom he married in about 1780. His children by his first wife were Mary, Elizabeth, Sally, Annie, Jane, and William. His children by his second wife were Thomas, James, Robert, John, Katherine (Kate), Patsey Frances, and Susan. William and Thomas moved Dickson County, Tennessee while James settled in Monroe County, Kentucky. Robert and John were the only ones of the sons to remain in Virginia.

    http://www.tngenweb.org/dickson/gentry_family.htm
    1. Mary Gentry; married Jeremiah Cleveland, brother of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland - a hero of the Battle of King's Mountain who was terror to the North Carolina Tories during the Revolution; died in 1846 in Albemarle County. Children included: Benejah Cleveland, William Cleveland, Martha Cleveland, Sara Cleveland, Elizabeth Cleveland, and Ann Cleveland.
    2. Elizabeth Gentry married William Goodwin.
    3. Annie Gentry married Benjamin Sowell.
    4. Sallie Gentry married George Hardin.
    5. Jane Gentry married Thomas Fulture and settled in Kentucky .
    6. William Gentry, born 24 January 1780 in Louisa County , Virginia ; married Lucy Carr; moved to Dickson County , Tennessee ; died there on 28 February 1840 . Ancestor - see later.
    7. Thomas Gentry, born 4 April 1782 in Albemarle County; married in Albemarle County on 12 December 1804 to Anna Carr, daughter of Gideon Carr and Ann Sandridge; moved to Dickson County, Tennessee in 1805; died there on 1 February 1849; buried in the Stuart Cemetery. His will is dated 1 March 1847 and filed in Dickson County , page 172, No, 105. Children included: Anderson Gentry, Nancy Gentry, Mary Ann Gentry, Benejah Gentry, Susannah Gentry, Eliza Jane Gentry, Martha Gentry, Jane Gentry, and Lucinda Gentry.
    8. James Gentry, born 15 October 1786 in Albemarle County ; married 4 August 1808 in Virginia to Elizabeth Tooley; died 15 January 1861 in Meshack, Monroe County , Kentucky
    9. John R. Gentry, born circa 1790 in Albemarle County; married 20 November 1804 in Albemarle County to Mary "Polly" Thurman; died circa 1845 at Crozet, Albemarle County, Virginia.
    10. Robert Gentry, born 1788; married Mary Wingfield; died 1879. Children included: Albert Gentry.
    11. Martha "Patsey" Gentry; married Elijah Dawson; moved to Calloway County , Missouri . Children included: Robert Dawson, Elizabeth Dawson, Martin Dawson, and James Dawson.
    12. Kate Gentry; married her cousin John P. Gentry, moved to Madison County, Kentucky.
    13. Frances Gentry married William Dunkum. Children included: Susan Dunkum.
    14. Susan Gentry did not marry.

    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~katy/gentry/b19510.html#P19510

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