Mordecai
Benton
Born in Frederick County, Maryland
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Joseph Benton III
and Elizabeth (Smith) Benton
Brother of
Thomas Benton, Joseph Benton Jr., William Benton, Benjamin Smith Benton, Hezekiah Benton and Nathaniel Offutt Benton [half]
Husband of
Priscilla (Pratt) Benton
— married
8 Dec 1785 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died about
at about age 47
in Jones County, Georgia, USA [uncertain]
[uncertain]Profile last modified
| Created 9 Dec 2011
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Biography
- The original profile indicated that he was born in Montgomery, Alabama. No sources were given for this location, and the Find-a-Grave memorial that indicates Maryland also does not cite sources.
Sources
- 1860 Jan. 20 Tennessee Baptist obit of Cassandra Wormack Page 4 http://media2.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/tbarchive/1860/TB_1860_Jan_28.pdf
- Mordecai Benton (1762-1810) on Find A Grave: Memorial #131490395 retrieved 16 August 2018. Body lost or destroyed; no burial location is given.
- James Donald Benton, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by James Donald and others.
- Repository: R750445548 Ancestry.com
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James Donald Benton
Mordeai was the first of his lineage to move from the Maryland area to Georgia. According to the book "The Georgians: Geneology of Pioneer Settlers" by Jeannette Holland Austin, page 28 states: On 3/5/1789 Mordecai Benton in Jackson County, Georgia sells to William George 575 acres on Turkey Creek on the north side of the Oconee River, formerly in Franklin County. He was one of the first pioneers to settle in Georgia since Georgia became a state one year earlier in 1788.
posted 14 Dec 2011 by James Donald Benton
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mordecai by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mordecai:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mordecai by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mordecai:
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Stark (Brumley) Martin 
:
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Dorothy (Johnson) Krahwinkel :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Joseph (Dowdy) Benton :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch TR1712270 [compare], yourDNAportal JOS7406c8d1, Ancestry member electronicwordofmouth
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~0.78%
Nancy (Morton) Ross :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T806206 [compare], FTDNA kit #508858
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