This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BENNETT, BOATRIGHT, CORBETT, DENMARK, GEIGER, HARRIS, LANE, MOODY, PADGETT, SHEFFIELD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JOY.2ACEB/914.1.1.1 Message Board Post: For what they're worth, here are my notes on Lucy. Anne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ancestors of LUCINDA (LUCY) BENNETT - 20 Dec 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Generation 1. LUCINDA (LUCY) BENNETT was born about 1786 in Bulloch County, Georgia. She died on 8 Feb 1832 in Bulloch County, Georgia. "Revolutionary War Records, Duplin and Sampson Counties, North Carolina," by Virginia L. Bizzell & Oscar M. Bizzell, states she was born in 1786 and lists her as first child of William Bennett and Mary Sheffield (married 1784). James R. Boone manuscript says she was born on 8 May 1794 and that she died in childbirth on 8 Feb 1832. Will go with the Bizzell records for now. Second Generation 2. WILLIAM BENNETT died in 1828 in Appling County, Georgia. From Faye Walenceus at <walenceus@alltel.net>: "The father of Cynthia Ann Geiger, born 3/14/1825, was David Geiger (3/15/1795-5/5/1870) son of Abraham and Mercy. Cynthia Ann's mother was Lucy Bennett, daughter of William and Mary (Sheffield) Bennett." Note: there is a later Mary Sheffield in Bulloch County, Georgia, married to a Denmark and to Richard Lane (marr. 15 Jan 1825). Kathy Torkelson on Bulloch County List: "From 'Revolutionary War Records, Duplin and Sampson Counties, North Carolina' by Virginia L. Bizzell & Oscar M. Bizzell: "About 1784, [William] Bennett married Mary Sheffield, a daughter of another Revolutionary Soldier of Duplin County in the Continental Line, and they made their home in Duplin County. The couple was listed in the 1790 Duplin, North Carolina, census. "Their children were: Lucy b. 1786 who married David Geiger; a daughter b. abt 1790 who married John Padgett; John b. 1795 who married Frances Harris; Richard b. 1799 who married Rebecca Boatright; Henry b. 1810 who married Nancy Corbett; Isham b. 1812 who married Molly Moody. "William, the soldier, and two of his brothers, Richard and James, moved to Georgia. William and his family made their home in Bullock County until 1825 and then moved to the new Georgia County of Appling. He died in 1828. Widow Mary continued to live in the 583rd District of Appling County until her death in the 1840's. As a widow of a Revolutionary Soldier she drew land in the Cherokee land lottery." Note: At Wayne County Court House in Jessup, Georgia, there is a Richard Bennett on the SAR Monument to "Revolutionary War Soldiers Who Lived in Wayne Country." I have a picture of the monument with the names. From "Wills of the Bennet Family" at http://bjhughes.org/benwill.html: "Some time about 1820-25 soon after the settling up of the new county of Appling, William Bennett moved there in order to find better grazing lands for his large herds of cattle. There he died in 1828. Record is found of two deeds by his heirs to David Strickland of Bulloch County dated October 17, 1828, conveying the two 200 acre tracts of land there which the deceased owned at his death. These deeds appear signed by the widow, Mrs. Mary Bennett, Richard Bennett, John Bennett of Lowndes County, John Padgett (in the right of his wife). Henry Bennett, another son [Isham] was a minor, and did not sign. A daughter married David Geiger and William Bennett made him a deed of gift, July 8 1815, for a part of his homeplace lands in Bulloch County, this being apparently in full in advance of Mrs. Geiger's share of her father's estate at his death, as she nor her husband signed the deeds as heirs in 1828. (See dee! d book AA, page 301, Bulloch County.) "Mrs. Bennett was Mary Sheffield and was said to have been a daughter of William Sheffield, a Revolutionary War Soldier, of Duplin County, NC. She lived in 583rd District of Appling County until her death sometime in 1840s. As the widow of a Revolutionary Soldier, she drew land in Cherokee land lottery, and was granted lot 85, Second section, 11th district, Cherokee County. (see Knight's Roster of the Revolution, p. 329). Her husband was paid for his services in the continental line (see Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina, p. 225). William and Mary Bennett had 5 children. (Huxford, Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, vol 1, pp 15-16)" WILLIAM BENNETT and MARY SHEFFIELD were married about 1784 in Duplin County, North Carolina. 3. MARY SHEFFIELD. WILLIAM BENNETT and MARY SHEFFIELD had the following children: 1 i. LUCINDA (LUCY) BENNETT. ii. (_____) BENNETT was born about 1798. iii. JOHN BENNETT was born in 1795. iv. RICHARD BENNETT was born in 1799. v. HENRY BENNETT was born in 1810. vi. ISHAM BENNETT was born in 1812. Third Generation 6. WILLIAM SHEFFIELD. He was a Revolutionary soldier of Duplin County, North Carolina. WILLIAM SHEFFIELD and (_____) were married in Duplin County, North Carolina. 7. (_____). WILLIAM SHEFFIELD and (_____) had the following children: 3 i. MARY SHEFFIELD.