Person:Levin Benson (2)

Disambiguation

NOT to be confused with Levin Benson (1755-1835) of Augusta and Greenbrier Counties, Virginia who married Jane ____ [widow] 1779, likely in Virginiq. Some researchers have confused and/or combined the two likely unrelated persons.

1.   United States. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. (Washington D.C.).

   Name: Elevin Benson
   Application State: Delaware
   Second Applicant Name: Rebecca Benson
   Archive Publication Number: M804
   Archive Roll Number: 221
   Total Pages in Packet: 1

2.   United States. 1810 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M252).

   Name: Levin Benson
   Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Baltimore, Dagsboro, Indian River, Lewis, Rehoboth, and Broadkill, Sussex, Delaware
   Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
   Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1 [b. bet. 1766-1784]
   Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2
   Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1 [b. bet. 1766-1784]
   Number of Household Members Under 16: 3
   Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
   Number of Household Members: 5

3.   United States. 1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M33).

   Name: Leven Benson Senior [Leven Benson Sr.]
   Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Lincoln, Tennessee
   Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
   Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 [b. 1775 or before]
   Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 2
   Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over: 1 [b. 1775 or before]
   Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1
   Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
   Total Free White Persons: 4
   Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 4

4.   United States. U.S., Revolutionary War Pensioners, 1801-1815, 1818-1872. (Ancestry.com [database online]).

   Name: Levin Benson
   Year range: 1831-1848
   Pension Office Place: Pulaski, Tennessee, USA

5.   United States. U.S., Revolutionary War Pensioners, 1801-1815, 1818-1872. (Ancestry.com [database online]).

   Name: Levin Benson
   Year range: 1835-1850
   Pension Office Place: Pulaski, Tennessee, USA
   Spouse: Rebecca Benson

6.   The Pension Roll of 1835: Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, in Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. (Washington, District of Columbia: Duff Green, 1835).

   Name: Levin Benson
   Rank: Private
   Age: 83
   Birth Year: abt 1748
   Pension Enrollment Date: 4 Mar 1831
   Residence Place: Lincoln, Tennessee, USA
   Service Description: Delaware line

7.   .

   Scott side: William Moores is believed to have embodied the move of our Morris line from New Jersey to the south, and he's said to have died in New Dellrose which is on highway 411 west of Fayetteville. George Lawan Leonard went to Lincoln County about the same time as our Scotts, coming from South Carolina. He was there until the 1840s, and Eliza Leonard wed William T Scott in Lincoln and had all but one of her children there. Thomas Newcomb senior, great grandfather of Myrtle Meredith, was married in 1807 in Davidson County. He went to Kentucky from there, and his wife died in childbirth in 1809. Levin Benson senior, great grandfather of John J Morris, died in Lincoln [County Tennessee] in 1836. He came there by 1820.
   
   (2) Scott side: Isaac Morris moved on to Salisbury in Rowan County by 1790, and his son James in our line is believed to have been born there in 1816. Multiple generations, from William who began the line's trek to child James, were in Tennessee by 1820. Salisbury is the county seat and could be a good source of general western North Carolina records. A Levin Benson was in Salisbury in 1790, and his son of the same name in our line is believed to have been born there in 1794. Levin got married there in 1785. This name may not have been rare, because we know that our Levin senior in Tennessee fought in the Revolutionary War from Delaware, and a Levin Benson was in Delaware in 1810. A move from Delaware to North Carolina is significant enough for the age, but I doubt that our Levin went back and forth. A visit to Rowan might help to clear this up. The area that Levin lived in became Davidson County. Salisbury hosts the county's genealogical society.
   
   Scott side: Levin Benson senior is believed to have been in Guilford before 1784, but after the battle there. Winney Todd was born the same year her father Joshua died, 1812 in Wake. Joshua was in Bertie County in 1790 and Wake in 1800. His father Moses was in Bertie in 1787 and his address was Freemans District. Moses is claimed to have been born in Bertie in 1743 and he died in Hillsboro of Wake in 1816. His father William came to Bertie by way of Virginia after immigrating to Pennsylvania from Armagh Ireland. I have a document of how William related to Mary Todd Lincoln. He died in Bertie in 1769. See the Wake section in (9) below.
   
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