.... I believe the James Benson Jr you refer to is the one that married Elizabeth Clark dau of John Clark and Mary Campbell. They moved to Ohio. James Benson Sr was married to Martha Quinn, not sure but found a book years ago with this information: A James Benson in 1779 census Union co., S.C. From The Benson Family of Ireland and the United States freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jacmac/benson.htm Some taken from "Copeland, Bostick, Patton, and Allied Families". James and Matha Quinn Benson were both born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. This is taken from James Benson's great-grandson, Dr. Henry Clark Benson, a Methodist minister, who wrote an autobiographical sketch some years ago. Dr. Benson wrote that the Benson family was of English descent, though residents of Ireland. James Benson, born about 1730 attempted to go to America when about 12 yrs. of age because he could not get along with his stepmother. He packed a few clothes, went to Belfast and booked passage to Richmond, Va. where his uncle resided. He hoped that his uncle would pay for his passage to America. Young Benson decided to remain in Ireland, however, and did not attempt to make the trip until about 2 yrs. later. His ship, instead of going to Va., went instead to Charleston, S.C. and there James was taken over by a man who paid for the passage to America in exchange for James' labor on his farm. James Benson lived in Union district, S.C. where he eventually married and became quite prosperous. James and Martha resided in S.C. for the remainder of their lives. Martha is believed to have died in Union County prior to 1799, while James died there in 1801. His will, which was written on 20 April, 1799, was subsequently probated before the Union County Court on 17 April 1801. >________________________________ > From: Harriet Imrey <hhimrey@gmail.com> >To: sc-bushriverquakers@rootsweb.com >Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 9:20 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 > > >
I have that file, as a matter of fact, I was the one who sent him the information on Samuel Benson, son of Thomas Benson. I do appreciate it though, you never know what we may have missed at times. I would think if the book had any more on the Benson's he would have put it in his tree. I do know he was more interested in his direct line, so he filed other information I gave him, but not listed in his direct tree. Thomas is where we split off, not sure which brother was his direct ancestor though. Brenda ________________________________ From: Patty <pattydb@sbcglobal.net> To: "sc-bushriverquakers@rootsweb.com" <sc-bushriverquakers@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 1:23 PM Subject: Re: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] James Benson .... I believe the James Benson Jr you refer to is the one that married Elizabeth Clark dau of John Clark and Mary Campbell. They moved to Ohio. James Benson Sr was married to Martha Quinn, not sure but found a book years ago with this information: A James Benson in 1779 census Union co., S.C. >From The Benson Family of Ireland and the United States freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jacmac/benson.htm Some taken from "Copeland, Bostick, Patton, and Allied Families". James and Matha Quinn Benson were both born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. This is taken from James Benson's great-grandson, Dr. Henry Clark Benson, a Methodist minister, who wrote an autobiographical sketch some years ago. Dr. Benson wrote that the Benson family was of English descent, though residents of Ireland. James Benson, born about 1730 attempted to go to America when about 12 yrs. of age because he could not get along with his stepmother. He packed a few clothes, went to Belfast and booked passage to Richmond, Va. where his uncle resided. He hoped that his uncle would pay for his passage to America. Young Benson decided to remain in Ireland, however, and did not attempt to make the trip until about 2 yrs. later. His ship, instead of going to Va., went instead to Charleston, S.C. and there James was taken over by a man who paid for the passage to America in exchange for James' labor on his farm. James Benson lived in Union district, S.C. where he eventually married and became quite prosperous. James and Martha resided in S.C. for the remainder of their lives. Martha is believed to have died in Union County prior to 1799, while James died there in 1801. His will, which was written on 20 April, 1799, was subsequently probated before the Union County Court on 17 April 1801. >________________________________ > From: Harriet Imrey <hhimrey@gmail.com> >To: sc-bushriverquakers@rootsweb.com >Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 9:20 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 > > > ------------------------------- 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