Benjamin Pendleton (1751 - 1835)

Born 3 Aug 1751 in Orange, Buckingham County, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Carter) Pendleton — married before 23 Aug 1791 (to 23 Aug 1791) in , Amherst County, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 12 Sep 1835 at age 84 in Warren County, Kentucky

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Biography

Benjamin (1749) was born in Culpeper County, Virginia; son of Wm. Pendleton & Elizabeth Tinsley. He was the husband of Frances Ball Carter and spent his later years in Russell (now Scott) County, Virginia.

Benjamin (1751), a distant cousin, was born in Buckingham,Co, VA; s/o Phillip Pendleton & Spice Freeland. He was h/o a Coleman and spent his later years in Warren Co, KY.

N.B. There were two Benjamin Pendletons in colonial Virginia that resulted in numerous unsourced trees citing the wrong one as Frances's spouse. One born c1749 in Culpeper County, Virginia) and the second born c1751 in Buckingham County, Virginia), They had a common g[reat?] grandfather, Phillip I (b. 1654). Benj. (1749) has been documented as Frances's spouse.

Note: Benjamin's wife, Frances and a young son were kidnapped by Benge and Shawnee Indian raiders and never heard from again. His daughter was killed during that raid.

Biography

Benjamin was born about 1749 in Culpeper County, Virginia, the oldest of thirteen children and eight sons of William and Elizabeth Tinsley Pendleton.

At an unknown date and place, he married Frances Ball Carter.

Note: 1775 Growth of the Colonies: 6 Sons of Wm. Pendleton were ordered into Military Service

In 1792 he married Sarah Carter in Amherst County, Virginia.

The two wives bore him the following eight children, five sons and three daughters:

1. Elizabeth (Pendleton) Swanson
2. Frances Pendleton
3. John Pendleton Sr,
4. Reuben Pendleton
5. James A. Pendleton
6. John Pendleton
7. Boy Pendleton
8. Mary Pendleton

Family

William Pendleton married Elizabeth Tinsley c1748 in Orange County, Virginia.

Children:

1. Benjamin Pendleton
2. James Pendleton
3. Edmund Pendleton
4. Reuben Pendleton
5. John Pendleton
6. Richard Pendleton
7. William Pendleton
8. Isaac Pendleton

After 1815 when he was in his mid-sixties, Benjamin died of unknown causes in Scott County, Virginia.

Citations

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Pendleton-260 was created through the import of GedTem12:18.ged on Dec 19, 2011 by Jack Templeton.

Benjamin was born in 1751. He passed away in 1833.

Sources

• "Descendants of Phillip Pendleton, VA Colonist" by David Ellis Pendleton; Published 2007 by Heritage Books, Westminster, MD 21157-5026

• Title: Documented "Templeton, Pendleton & Assoc. Families" Ancestry Family Tree.

• Numerous undocumented Ancestry trees have been adopted that only have one Benj. born 1749 or 1751 with spouses & children mixed into "mongrel" Benj. families. Ancestry.com has many excellent data sources that document the existence of two different Benjamins. BOTTOM LINE - Don't blindly adopt undocumented trees as your own - DOCUMENT your tree using Ancestry.com's massive data base of valid source jacktempleton27atme.com

• “The Descendants of Phillip Pendleton A VA Colonist” by David Ellis Pendleton; Published 2007 byHeritage Books INC., Westminister, MD21157-5026; ISBN # 978-0-7884-4457-9.

• Haywood's History of Tennessee (1826).

• Goodpasture's History of the Indian Wars.

• “The Descendants of Phillip Pendleton A VA Colonist” by David Ellis Pendleton; Published 2007 byHeritage Books INC., Westminister, MD21157-5026; ISBN # 978-0-7884-4457-9.

• American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. 1, page 331.

• Prayer Book of Frances' dad-VA Hist.Society,Richmond, VA.

• Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953, Revolutionary War Pension + Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900