Nancy (Huckston) Bennett (abt. 1748 - abt. 1773)

Born about 1748 in Providence, Province of Maryland [uncertain]

Wife of William Bennett — married 1769 in Province of Maryland

Descendants

Died about 1773 at about age 25 in Providence, Province of Maryland [uncertain]

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Biography

Name

Name: Nancy /Huckston/^[1]

Birth

1748 Maryland^[1][2]

Death

1773 or 1775 Providence, Maryland^[1]

Research Notes

William Bennett, ancestor of a family of that name, came originally from Maryland to Anson County, N. C. where he was living during the Revolution. He was a Baptist preacher, yet spent some time with the patriot army. He seems to have made himself especially obnoxious to the torries, who fired a volley into his dwelling in Anson. Whether it was the prayers or ... William Bennett, as already stated, married about 1769 in Maryland, Nancy Huckston (1748-1773). His wife died and the same year he moved to Anson, N.C., with his two small children, Elizabeth and William. He lived in Anson County and married Olivia Chears. Near the close of the revolution he moved to Marlboro County, S.C., near what is now Bennettsville. William . ^[2]

Before leaving Maryland, William Bennett married Nancy Huckston and she bore him a daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1770 or 71, and a son, William, born in 1773. A few weeks after the birth of her son, she winged her flight to paradise and her husband, disconsolate in his old home, winged his flight to the wilds of North Carolina. His land... ...William Bennett No. 2. (1717-1815) married Nancy Huckston (1748-1773) of Maryland in 1769. To them were born Elizabeth, 1771, who married Covington of Anson County, N.C. When William Bennett No. 3 was only a few months old, his father left Maryland and moved to Anson County, N.C. William Bennett (1773-1840) in 1798 married .. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Source: #S1 Page: SAR Membership Number: 96054 U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls;
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "olivia+chears"+"william+bennett" Tillman & Hamilton family records: with their many ancestral lineages, Volume 1 by James David Tillman; Year: 1959; Page: 195
3. ↑ Family tree book, genealogical and biographical, listing the relatives of General William Alexander Smith and of W. Thomas Smith; by William Thomas Smith, William Alexander Smith, Osmer D. Flake; Publisher: W. T. Smith - Anson County (N.C.); Page 122-3; .

• "Family Tree Book - Genealogical and Biographical, Listing of the relatives of General William Alexander Smith and of W. Thomas Smith" compiled by William A. and W. Thomas Smith (1922), privately published