Benjamin Cantrell (abt. 1768 - abt. 1846)

Born about 10 May 1768 in Rockingham, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Charity (Legate) Cantrell — married 1788 in 96th District, SC

Husband of Mary (Durham) Cantrell — married 1828 in Warren, Tennessee, United States

Husband of Hannah (Powell) Cantrell — married about 1836 in Warren County, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died about 1846 at about age 77 in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States

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Note: There is a question as to who the parents of Benjamin were. He is currently listed as son of Isaac Cantrell and Elizabeth Cantrell. They did have a son named Benjamin. However, Christie in The Cantrill-Cantrell genealogy states that this Benjamin is the son of John Cantrell and his wife Rachel Brittain. There is some evidence for this. Both Benjamin and John settled in the 96 District, Spartanburg, South Carolina not long after the end of the Revolutionary War (about 1780) and can be found living near each other. Isaac Cantrell did not move to South Carolina until 1795.

Biography

Benjamin was probably born about 1768 in Rockingham County, North Carolina. We sometimes find a date of 10 May 1768, but this is totally unconfirmed. It is difficult to be certain exactly who his mother was because we do not have exact death date for Isaac's first wife or date of marriage to his second wife. It is however, pretty well assumed that Benjamin was the son of Isaac's second wife, Elizabeth.

He grew to adulthood in Orange County, North Carolina. As a young man he and a brother made the move to the old 96th district of South Carolina. The section where he settled would later become Spartanburg County.

He married Charity Legate in 1788 and on the 1790 census were living near his brother, James and his family.

In 1805 he moved his young family to White county, Tennessee. He settled on the banks of Sink Creek and when Warren County was formed his land was in the new county.

Ben was an herb doctor and a farmer. It is mentioned that a daughter, Mary, was the first white child born on Sink Creek. He was a faithful member of the Bildad Baptist Church. He laid Charity to rest in the churchyard here in 1835.

According to records for his father, the family moved to South Carolina about 1795. But it appears as if Benjamin may have gone there sooner. He married his wife Charity Legate about 1788 in Spartanburg County. Benjamin is listed on the 1790 census in 96 District, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. In his household are 1 male age 16 or over, 1 male under 16 and 1 female. Also listed on this census record are James Cantrell, Abraham Cantrell, John Cantrell, and Samson Bethel (his sister Mary's husband).^[1][2]

In 1800 Benjamin is still living in Spartanburg County. In his household on the 1800 census are:

• 2 males age 0-9
• 1 male age 10-15
• 1 male age 26-44 [Benjamin]
• 2 females age 0-9
• 1 female age 16-25 [Charity, although may be in the wrong age bracket]^[3]

Shortly after 1810 Benjamin moved his family to Tennessee, near the present site of Smithville. A 50 acre tract surveyed on 21 March 1812 was officially granted to Benjamin on 23 October 1814. This tract was on the south side of Sink Creek in Warren County, Tennessee^[4]

Benjamin married Mary "Polly" (Durham) Magness about 1828 in Warren County, Tennessee. They had no children.

Benjamin last appears in records on the 1830 census in Warren County, Tennessee. His death is usually listed as occurring in 1843 or 1846, but there is no documentation for either date. In 1840 his son James Cantrell is living in DeKalb County, Tennessee. In James's household in addition to his wife, is a female age 50-59 who might be Benjamin's widow, Hannah Powell. James was appointed executor of Hannah's estate in November 1848 so it appears possible that the older woman in his household in 1840 was Hannah. If she is Hannah, then Benjamin must have died before 1840.^[5]

Name

Benjamin Cantrell

Parents

Rev. Isaac Thornton Cantrell (1729-) & Talitha Cloud (1729-1768)

Rev. Isaac Thornton Rev Cantrell (1725-1805) & Elizabeth Cantrell (1729-1772)

John Cantrell (1724-1803) & Hannah Brittian (1725-1769)

Birth

10 May 1768 Wolf Island Creek, Rockingham Co, North Carolina

1768 Wolf Island Creek, Rockingham County, North Carolina, USA

1768 Rockingham, NC

1768 NC now, Rockingham, North Carolina, USA

10 May 1768 Western Orange, Rockingham, North Carolina, USA

1768 Orange, NC., USA

Marriage

1788 96th District, SC

Death

1843 Warren Co., TN

1843 Sink Creek, Warren, Tennessee, USA

1843 Warren, De Kalb County, Tennessee, USA

1846 Sink Creek, Warren, TN., USA

1846 Warren, De Kalb, Tennessee, United States

1846 De Kalb, Warren, Tennessee, United States of America

1846 Sink Creek, Warren County, Tennessee, United States

1846 Sink Creek, De Kalb, Tennessee, United States

Burial

Old Bildad Cemetery, Keltonburg, DeKalb Co., TN

Notes

Note N00087BENJAMIN4 CANTRELL, (John3, Joseph2, Richard1), b ca 1768. Wolf Island Creek, Rockingham Co., NC d ca 1846, Sink Creek, DeKalb Co., TN m1st Charity Legat m2nd Polly Magness m3rd Hannah Powell. Benjamin was a small boy when his parents moved to Spartanburg Co., SC. At the time of the fighting in Ninety-Six District during the Revolution, he was about 12 years old; and it is said that while he was ploughing in the fields, that by lying with his ear to the ground he could distinctly hear the roar of the cannon. He appears in the census of 1790 in Spartanburg Co., NC as the head of household, and moved to Warren (now DeKalb) Co., Tennessee, by 1809. They were probably charter members of Bildad Baptist Church when it was organizaed in June 1809. benjamin was a deacon, church treasurer, delegate to the association in 1815 and 1820, and he remained active in the church until his death in 1846. By 1814, or earllier, he lived on what is now Sink Creek, DeKalb Co., TN. After Charity's death, Benjamin married second about 1828, Polly Durham Magness, who died by 1840; he then married third Hannah Powell. He probably had thirteen children, all by the frirst wife. Benjamin Cantrell's family is listed on pages 115, 116, and 117 of the 1908 Cantrell genealogy. Benjamin in that book was assigned as a son of John Cantrell, but the South Carolina court records show that to be in erro, as benjamin was actually a son of Isaac Cantrell. At least three of Benjamin Cantrell's daughters married Cantrells. Some of his descenants moved to Missouri and other states, but a large number of them remained in DeKalb and Warren Counties in Tennessee. Children of Benjamin Cantrell and Charity Legat:

+ 33. i. Peter5 Cantrell m Elizabeth Davis.

+ 34. ii. James5 Cantrell m Kizzie Cantrell.

+ 35.iii. Rayburn5 Cantrell b SC m Nellie _______.

+ 36. iv. Benjamin5 Cantrell b Spartanburg Co., SC m Frances Fowler.

+ 37. v. Elizabeth5 Cantrell b SC m Daniel Thomas.

+ 38. vi. Nancy5 Cantrell

+ 39. vii. Sarah5 Cantrell m Elijah Cantrell son of Thomas Cantrell.

+ 40. viii. Mary5 Cantrell m Green Cantrell son of Isaac Cantrell.

+ 41. ix. Matilda 5Cantrell b TN m John Cantrell son of Abraham Cantrell.

+ 42. x. Martha5 Cantrell b TN m Jackson Forrester.

From Find A Grave: He was the son of Rev. Isaac & Elizabeth Cantrell. He grew to adulthood in Orange County, North Carolina. As a young man he and a brother made the move to the old 96th district of South Carolina. The section where he settled would later become Spartanburg County. He married Charity Legate in 1788 and on the 1790 census were living near his brother, James and his family. In 1805 he moved his young family to White county, Tennessee. He settled on the banks of Sink Creek and when Warren County was formed his land was in the new county. Ben was an herb doctor and a farmer. It is mentioned that a daughter, Mary, was the first white child born on Sink Creek. He was a faithful member of the Bildad Baptist Church. He laid Charity to rest in the churchyard here in 1835. He married 2nd widow Mary "Polly" (Durham) Magness. He married 3rd Hannah Matilda Powell.

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKN-MP5 : accessed 7 January 2017), Benjn Cantrel, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 32, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 11; FHL microfilm 568,151.
2. ↑ Heads of Families 1790, p 89
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRC-4DQ : accessed 7 January 2017), Benjn Cantrell, Spartanburg District, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 175, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 50; FHL microfilm 181,425.
4. ↑ North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Tennessee. Division of Archives, Land Office, and Museum. Early Tennessee/North Carolina Land Records, 1783–1927, Record Group 50. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tenn. Warrant number 6174
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHTK-S3W : 24 August 2015), James Cantrel, DeKalb, Tennessee, United States; citing p. 249, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 520; FHL microfilm 24,543.

See also:

• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHP4-YLZ : 18 August 2015), Benjamin Cantrell, Warren, Tennessee, United States; citing 307, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 181; FHL microfilm 24,539.

• Christie, Susan Cantrill. The Cantrill-Cantrell Genealogy: A Record of the Descendants of Richard Cantrill, who was a Resident of Philadelphia Prior to 1689, and of Earlier Cantrills in England and America. New York: The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers, 1908. p 115-116

• Research of Mildred Butts, Jul 8, 2002.

• Ancestry Family Trees (for all the different birth & death dates/places)

• WFT Vol. 73 Tree 0179.

• Research by Mildred Butts, Jul 8, 2002.

• Ancestry Family Trees; http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=23138780&pid=828

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Author: Yates Publishing Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 07 October 2018), memorial page for Benjamin Cantrell (10 May 1768–1846), Find A Grave: Memorial #31252281, citing Old Bildad Cemetery, Keltonburg, DeKalb County, Tennessee, USA ; Maintained by Lela Parris Koch (contributor 47311410) .

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