Person:William Bentley (19)

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William Bentley
 
d.Mar 1760 Richmond, Washington, Rhode Island
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  • H.  William Bentley - 1760
  • W.  Elizabeth (add)
  1. Elizabeth Bentley - Aft 1748
  2. Caleb Bentley
  3. Mary Bentley
  4. Tabitha Bentley - Aft 1763
  5. George Bentley
  6. Ruhama Bentley
  7. John Bentley
  8. Ezekiel Bentley
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m. 1 Aug 1734
  1. William Bentley1735 - 1800
  2. James Bentley1739 -
  3. Greene Bentley1741 - 1821
  4. Benjamin Bentley1758 -
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Name William Bentley
Gender Male
Marriage to Elizabeth (add)
Marriage 1 Aug 1734 Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United Statesto Bathsheba Greene
Will? 18 Aug 1748
Death? Mar 1760 Richmond, Washington, Rhode Island
Other? 12 Mar 1760 Richmond, Washington, Rhode Island, United StatesInventory of Estate
Probate? 12 Aug 1760
References
  1.   Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. (Orig. 1887; Reprinted 1969 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing).

    WILL: {found in Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of RI, p. 19 }
    Dated Aug. 18, 1748; pvd Aug. 12, 1760 - by Governor after petition May, 1760.
    Executrix, wife Bathsheba;
    sons: John, oldest, George, Caleb, Ezekiel, Benjamin under age 14,;
    daughters: Elizabeth Potter, eldest, Tabitha Sweet, Ruhama James, and Mary James. Five youngest: William, Thomas, James, Greene and Benjamin. [Richmond TCP]

  2.   LAND:
    March 7, 1712/3 Wm Bentley Jr. of K & wife Elizabeth to Jeremiah Sweet of K 67 A in K bounded: E-my brother James Bentley, SW-Joseph Reynolds & Robert Reynolds, N-highway. Witn: James Eldred, Robert Eldred.
    [NK Land 3:107-8; RIGR 1994, p. 255]
    William Bently and Elizabeth his wife, cordwainer, to son George Bently, bachelor, part of the farm I now dwell on, 60 A bounded: John Tift, me Wm Bently, land which John Tift bought of Joseph Hull, Dec. 24, 1723. Witnesses: Thomas Barber, Francis Colegrove Jr. [Westerly Deeds 4:1-2]
    William Bently and Elizabeth his wife, cordwainer, to son George Bently, husbandman, 50 A bounded: James Hall, sd William Bently, Aug. 17, 1730. Witnesses: Mary Dickinson and Chas. Dickinson. [Westerly Deeds 5:281]
    George Bently and Ruth his wife to father Wm Bently, 60 A bounded by: sd Wm Bently, John Teft, Aug. 18, 1731. Witnesses: Wm Champlin and Samll Perry. [Westerly Deeds 6:121]
    -July 10, 1734 William Bently to son Caleb Bently, Laborer, 50 A bounded: Nathll Potter, James Halls, grantor. Witnesses: Ephraim Gardner and Isaac Shelden, justice. [Westerly Deeds 6:263-4]

    1758 -Pg. 501. William BENTLEY, of Richmond, yeoman, gave land "for love" to his son William BENTLEY Jr. of Richmond, weaver. dtd & ack 27 Mar 1758. Witn: Joseph Boss & Edward Perry (Nellie M.C. Beaman, "Abstracts of Richmond, Rhode Island Land Evidence, Vol. 1, 1748-1759." Rhode Island Genealogical Register Vol. 3.1 (July 1980), p. 66).
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