Benedict Lucas (1735 - 1826)

Born 1735 in Tralee, Kerry, Ireland

Husband of Mary A. (McKibben) Lucus — married 1756 in , , , Ireland

Descendants

Died 5 Jun 1826 at about age 91 in Howard, Centre, Pennsylvania, USA

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Benedict Lucas migrated from Ireland to USA in 1640's.

Biography - Benedict Lucas 1735

Private Benedict Lucas served with Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.

Benedict Lucas is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A072191.

Note After the merge, Benedict has two wives called Mary McKibben Mary McKibben and Mary McKibben. However, one was born in Scotland, one in Ireland so not the same woman. Some more research needed I'm afraid, I didn't realise their profiles were so different until after the merge of Benedict.

Birth 1735 in Tralee, Kerry City, Ireland

Death 21 JUN 1826 in Centre County, Pennsylvania, uSA.

Sold 200 acres of land in Howard Township, Centre County, PA, to Roland Curtin, owner of the Eagle Ironworks of Curtin, PA. Served in the Revolutionary War as a Private in Captain Noah Abraham's Company of the Pennsylvania Militia. Benedict settled in Fannett Township sometime before 1779. He was assessed for 2 horses and 2 cows according to the tax records for that year. He settled in Howard Township in 1786 on a Wallis tract approximately a mile west of Mountain Eagle. In the 1790 assessment, he was listed as owning 400 acres, 1 horse and 2 cows. He was the 3rd largest landowner in what was then Centre Township. Later, in 1798 he was assessed for a portion of this land which he had improved--20 cleared acres--along with a cabin, a still, 2 horses and 5 cows in Centre Township, in what had been a part of Mifflin County. In 1811 Benedict sold approximately 200 acres of his creek bottomland to Roland Curtin for $1000.00. this tract of land remained in the Curtin family until the 1930s when H. C. Curtin sold it to Milford Lucas (a descendant of Nicholas Lucas, who is mentioned later). This land was later taken as part of the flood plain for the Sayers Dam. Benedict and his family lived on his land at the head of Bullet's Run near the Fairview Church. A road from Milesburg to Benedict's property was laid out in 1806 after the April sessions of the grand jury (Linn, 46). A few years later, in 1811, a road from Antes Mill (now Curtin) to Marsh Creek near Benjamin Lucas' mill dam was recommended for repairs in the August sessions of the grand jury. Benedict's will was drawn up June 5, 1826. He died before the end of the month. In the will, Benedict left the upper half of his land to his son, William, and William's 3 sons. Benedict's son, John, received the lower half of the land, portions of which were taken by the Pennsylvania Game Commission in the early 1940s for a game preserve. William and his sons also received all of Benedict's movable property "for their support," as well as "all the grain in the ground now growing." The other children, except Joseph, who is not mentioned, received $1.00 a year after Benedict's death. Benedict has appointed his friends, Thomas Watson (as mentioned above) and Robert Lipton to be the trustees of his will. These men were listed on the tax assessment roles of Spring Township in 1802. Robert Lipton's occupation was weaver and Thomas Watson was a collier. Source: Gloria Kerns

BENEDICT LUCAS, Howard twp., 6/5/1826-6/20/1826.

Other Event(s):
Immigration: abt 1760 Place: Milesburg, Boggs, Centre, Pennsylvania

Children:
Benjamin Lucas in Centre Co. Pennsylvania
John Lucas
William R Lucas m: Mary Ann Johnson
Joseph Lucas b: 1763 m: Rebecca Askey He was not mention in the Will.
Stachee (Stecein) Ann Lucas b: 1765 d: 13 June 1838 m: Lt. Richard Gunsallus, who served in the Revolutionary War
Charles Lucas b: 1768 d: 5 May 1854 m: Nancy Jane Shirk
Lila Lucas b: Abt. 1769
Baptist Lucas b: 1771 m: Annie Askey Rachel Lucas b: Abt. 1773 m: John Watkins
Benedict Lucas b: 1774 James Merland Lucas b: Abt. 1780 m: Caroline Stine During the rebellion, the Indians (who sided with the British) had driven all the white settlers out of Centre County back accross the Susquehanna River to Fort Augusta at Sunbury, one of the rebel forts, where they make their stand.

Ex: Thos. Watson, Robt. Lipton, both friends. Witness: James Foster, Thos. Watson.

Sources

Wills of Centre County, Pa., 1800-1853, Page 210

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• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 5 Mar 2022), "Record of Benedict Lucas", Ancestor # A072191.

Acknowledgments

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