Benjamin
F
Gilbert
Born about in Baltimore, Maryland
Ancestors 
Son of Samuel Gilbert
and Martha McDaniel (Webster) Gilbert
Brother of
Mary Webster (Gilbert) Welch, Samuel Gilbert, John Webster Gilbert, Michael W Gilbert, William Gilbert, Aley Hannah (Gilbert) Clements and Martha (Gilbert) Moon
Husband of
Hannah (Butler) Gilbert
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Nancy (McKenzie) Gilbert
— married
20 Sep 1791 in Greene, Georgia, United States
Descendants 
Died
at about age 88
in Putnam, Georgia, United States
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Biography
This profile is part of the Gilbert Name Study.
On 20 April 1854 Aley H. Donnelie assigned power of attorney to obtain any benefits due to her parents, Benjamin and Nancy Gilbert.
On 31 May 1854 Martha H. Bowman, 65, wife of John Bowman of Bibb County GA and formerly Martha H. Gilbert, stated that she was well acquainted with Benjamin Gilbert and his wife, the former Nancy McKinsey. She stated that Nancy McKinsey Gilbert died at her house on or about 1 March 1851 leaving the following children:
- Aly H. Gilbert widow of Thomas Donnelly, living in Mobile AL;
- Sophia Gilbert wife of Zachariah Roughten, living in Putnam County;
- Robert R. Gilbert of Wilkes County.
Children Benjamin Gilbert and Washington Gilbert died during the lifetime of Nancy Gilbert.
Edmund Gilbert, 72, a planter living in Bibb County, made a similar statement.
Private Benjamin Gilbert served with 14th Virginia Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Military
Pension Application (May 26th, 1846) of Nancy Gilbert, aged seventy-three years past [widow of] Benjamin Gilbert R4013 Nancy Gilbert VA Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris.
"Putnam County, GA. Pension application in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820 :
... she married ... previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety-four... Benjamin Gilbert on the twentieth day of September in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, by a Methodist Clergyman by the name of Harriss who then resided in the County of Washington State aforesaid Georgia that they were married in the County of then Green, now Hancock, at the House of Edmund Butler State aforesaid Georgia:...was at the time of the War a resident of Bedford County State of Virginia.
... Benjamin Gilbert died on the twenty-fifth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, in the County of Putnam State aforesaid Georgia
…Gilbert "enlisted for the term of three years on the 17th of March 1777 in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Captain George Lambert in the [14th Virginia] Regiment commanded by Colonel [Charles] Lewis in the State of Virginia on the Continental Line, establishment that he continued to serve in said corps for three years & a half when he was discharged at Kingston in the State of Delaware.
That he was in the battles of Germantown [4 Oct 1777], Monmouth [28 Jun 1778] Brandywine [11 Sep. 1777] & Gilfert [sic: Guilford] Courthouse, [15 Mar 1781]
. . . I am a carpenter but am from old age unable to practice my trade – the members of my family residing with me are my wife aged 56 years who is very sickly & infirm my daughter aged 26 years who has been abandoned by her husband & with her two children (the eldest not three years old) left destitute & dependant on me, & one son ten years old. [1]
- He was also likely at Valley Forge
Sources
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199692886/benjamin-f_-gilbert
- http://www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com/McKenziesOfEarlyMaryland.pdf pg. 129
- http://www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com/getperson.php?personID=I14397&tree=McKenzie1
- http://www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com/McKenziesOfEarlyMaryland.pdf
- Confederate Memoirs ©1958 Constance Pendleton (Editor) p. 174
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Benjamin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Benjamin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- William Gilbert
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 67 markers, haplogroup R1b1a2, FTDNA kit #117915
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~3.12%
Alan Pendleton :
23andMe, GEDmatch NX2704402 [compare]
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~3.12%
Lois (Oliver) Carter :
MyHeritage DNA
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~1.56%
Gigi (Ward) Tanksley :
23andMe, GEDmatch FY2160713 [compare]
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~1.56%
David Stanford :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Prestonewds
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Kenneth Brown :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A526585 [compare], yourDNAportal KEN3b66f12f, Ancestry member Kennethbrown1955
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Rejected matches › Emilly (McKenzie) Gilbert (1763-abt.1845)
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Categories: 14th Virginia Regiment (1777), Continental Army, American Revolution | Gilberts descended from Reverend Michael Gilbert Vicar of Aldborough in Yorkshire, England, Gilbert Name Study | Y-DNA Haplogroup R-M269, GROUP 02 - Harford Co., MD and Yorkshire, England Line - A, Gilbert Name Study
Coleman Pendleton was born Aug 04, 1780, in Culpeper Co., Va., and died May 31, 1862 in Tallapoosa Co., AL. He married MARTHA GILBERT Jun 06, 1808, in Putnam Co., GA, daughter of BENJAMIN GILBERT and HANNAH BUTLER. She was born May 31, 1789, in Hancock Co., GA, and died Aug 06, 1874, in Tallapoosa Co., AL. Coleman Pendleton is listed in the 1824 Putnam Co., GA Tax List and the 1850 Harris Co.., GA, Dowdell's District, census, as well as the 1860 census, Chambers Co., AL. A biographical sketch (Ref. 115) of Coleman is included in the Virginia Historical Society Catalog.
The children of COLEMAN PENDLETON and MARTHA GILBERT are: i. LOUISA EMILY PENDLETON, b. 1809, GA; d. May 10, 1881, Chambers Co., AL. ii. WILLIAM ROBERT PENDLETON, b. Mar 09, 1811, Putnam Co., GA; d. Jul 07, 1841, Baker Co., GA. iii. PHILIP COLEMAN PENDLETON, b. Nov 17. 1812, Eatonville, GA; d. Jun 19, 1869, Valdosta, GA. GA·d J iv. EDMUND MONROE PENDLETON, b. Mar 19, 1815, Eatonton, GA., died Jan. 26, 1884, Atlanta, GA.
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