Person:Benjamin Dabney (4)

Watchers
Benjamin Dabney, of Bellevue
b.Abt 1764
  • HBenjamin Dabney, of BellevueAbt 1764 -
m. Bef 1791
  1. Ann Dabney
  • HBenjamin Dabney, of BellevueAbt 1764 -
  • WSarah SmithEst 1774 -
m. Oct 1791
Facts and Events
Name[1] Benjamin Dabney, of Bellevue
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1764
Marriage Bef 1791 Virginia[1st wife]
to Unknown
Marriage Oct 1791 Virginiato Sarah Smith
Death? King and Queen, Virginia, United States
References
  1. Pecquet du Bellet, Louise. Some prominent Virginia families. (Lynchburg, Virginia: J.P. Bell Company, 1907)
    4:81.

    In October, 1791, their daughter, Sarah [Smith], in her seventeenth year was married to Benjamin Dabney. He was a widower with three children, though but twenty-seven years old. Sarah's stepdaughter, Ann, afterward married her brother, Major Thomas Smith, b. January 17, 1778.

    Benjamin Dabney had given up the family mansion at Dabney's Ferry, together with his patrimony, on his father's death, to his brother and his half-brothers, and he made his home on the York River, at Bellevue, in King and Queen County. He had also, to some extent, used his own means in the education of his half-brother, James Dabney, and his wife's favorite brother, John Augustine Smith. Both young men received medical educations abroad - James Dabney in Edinborough, and John Augustine Smith in London and Paris. His kindness and trust were not misplaced. When his own early death deprived his children of a father's care, Dr. James Dabney and Dr. John Augustine Smith were the best friends whom his children had. ...