It is no wonder so many people are confused with so many having the same name.  And you have to wonder since there was a Thomas Benson, around in mid 1700s, if he was the brother of James.  And that would make sense to James naming a son Thomas and Thomas naming a son Thomas.  Has anyone looked at the ACME map of Union county before.  I see Fairforest Creek on it and not far from Evans Branch and Kelly Branch, which Bensons married Evans and Kelly.  Learning a lot here. Thanks, at this point I have most names and dates and now have to find the juicy stuff to go with it, like the wills and deeds, etc. I am new to this, only having done by just plundering on internet at this point. Only information I have on Thomas Benson, is married Mary Kelly and date and where, born abouts for both, census showing lived in Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin, but no deaths or what after Wisconsin.  Any suggestions on how to find more on him at that point?  Last seen 1855 Census in Wisconsin for him and Mary.   At this point I have all the stuff in boxes and files.  How has everyone put their information in usable format?  Trying to decide how to handle all this information now. Brenda ________________________________ From: Harriet Imrey <hhimrey@gmail.com> To: sc-bushriverquakers@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:20 PM Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] James Benson's land purchase Hi, Brenda.  I apologize for giving you incorrect information in my previous message about a 1773 purchase of 300 acres by James Benson from Samuel Young.  The purchaser was a different James Benson, a member of the Spartanburg Co SC family--not the James Benson of Union Co SC. The deed abstracts confused me because there were a lot of different Anson Co NC grants to Samuel Young and to John Gordon, and a lot of different waterways called Little River at different times.  However, there was only one NC grant to a Thomas Timmons by 1754, and I know where that one was.  It's on the south fork of Tyger River (apparently called Little River in the 1750's, at least in NC), west of I-85, and south of the town  of Wellford SC in western Spartanburg Co.  The Fort Prince historic site was described as "near Timmons Old Field", which adjoined the land purchased by that other James Benson. Your James Benson of Union Co owned a 300-acre tract in addition to his 100-acre grant.  The SC provincial and state deeds through 1788 do not include a record of the purchase.  If he bought land from the state of SC, there is no longer a record of the plat.  James Benson Jr. inherited that particular land, and must have sold it before leaving for Ohio in 1805.  The record of that sale would be in the Union Co deed books, and should describe its location and its chain-of-title. Harriet ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message