Person:Benjamin Proctor (4)

Military Service

American Revolutionary War Veteran

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 4, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Proctor, Benjamin - born 1760* in Rowan County, North Carolina, but partly reared at Boonsboro, Virginia (area later in Kentucky); entered service there 1776 under Colonel Daniel Boone as spy, scout adn frontier guard against indians; resided after Revolutionary War in Madison County, Kentucky, 1796, thence abt. 1808 in Louisiana Territory (area later Missouri) where settled in vicinity of St. Charles, thence in 1818 to St. Louis County, Missouri, then to Benton County, Missouri, then to Cooper County, Missouri, where granted Pension in 1833, occupation clergyman; referred then to brother Joseph, who was also a Revolutionary War soldier; George Shirley (no kinship given) made affidavit then in Cooper County, Missouri, abt. age 60; soldier moved abt. 1838 to Benton County, Missouri where he died 7/4/1850; married 4/5/1779 or abt. 1788 to Susannah Shirley, Estell's Station, Kentucky; widow granted Pension age 87 in Benton County, Missouri in 1850 when residing with daughter Nancy Harryman; granted Bounty Land Warrant #53668 there in 1856; children's status in 1853: eldest child Elizabeth abt. age 65 (married 1807-08 to David Stockstill, Madison County, Kentucky & moved with husband soon thereafter to Missouri, where he died before 1853, she resided 1856 in Dade County, Missouri), Joseph abt. age 60 dec'd, Nancy abt. age 58 (married Simkin Harryman, who was born 4/26/1794, & he made affidavit jointly in 1850 with James P. Harryman, no kinship given, Benton county, Missouri), John abt. age 56, Frances Proctor age 53, Katherine Proctor age 51 dec'd, Lusaney age 48, Jabez age 45, Mary age 42 dec'd & Susannah age 40 dec'd; births of children of Elizabeth & David Stockstill: Thomas 1/17/1809, Huldah 11/11/1811, Salley 12/10/1812, Polley 9/3/1814, Benjamin 9/13/1816, Lucy 10/23/1819, Susannah 2/7/1821, Katharine 6/24/1823, Zebedie 10/2/1825, & David 5/15/1828. F-W3594, R1980.

• Nicholas' brother Little Page Proctor was born in November 1760 prior to the family's move to Rowan County, North Carolina, so Benjamin was likely born closer to late 1761 or early 1762. This is also indicated in the Revolutionary Pension Service declaration of their older brother Nicholas Proctor, born in 1756, who stated: he was "born 1756 in Brunswick County, Virginia; moved at age 5-6 to Rowan County, North Carolina", which places the family's move to North Carolina in abt. 1761 or 1762 during the Indian unrest in much of Colonial Virginia, a likely reason for their migration.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

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