Benjamin Franklin Jr. Gilbert

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Benjamin Gilbert is listed on the Georgia Tax Index 1789-1799 in Hancock County, Georgia. Emilly McKenzie Gilbert's father, Aaron McKenzie was living in Hancock County, Georgia in 1794. He left a Will dated 28 Dec 1796, a copy of which is on the McKenzies of Early Maryland web site tagged to Aaron McKenzie, Emilly's father.

Subject: Benjamin Gilbert affidavit
War, Rev, Pension, JOHN MCKENZIE W1049
12th of January 1832
State Tennessee
County of Carroll
Personally came Capt. BENJAMIN GILBERT of Weakley County and State aforesaid & being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and saith that he, this deponent, was at a general muster in Campbell County in the State of Virginia some time in the old Revolutionary War and then and there saw Col. JOHN MCKENZIE, whom I had no acquaintance with nor had ever seen him before. I understood he was a recruiting officer from the South and on the recruiting service and appeared very [illegible] on that subject and was dressed in a military uniform and wore a sword, I recollect, and bore the title of Capt. There he met with some gentlemen of his acquaintance that was from Portsmouth, or some place in that quarter where our Army lay, and they appeared to meet with great satisfaction and had formerly been in the Army together and report said that MCKENZIE been in the service of his
country most all the Revolutionary War. I heard my brother Capt. MICHAEL GILBERT say after the Battle at Guilford that he saw Capt. MCKENZIE in that Battle And that he had got badly [illegible] there in the battle and lost his Negro boy and portmanteau and all his clothes & horse worth thousand dollars, he said. Then I recollect when the war was over this deponent removed to the state of Georgia and resided in the same County where Col. MCKENZIE lived, who was a member to the General Assembly and acted in the Commission of the peace and as Col. of a regiment of militia, and then a judge of a County Court, and a man of worth and of good property, and of late, it is said, by his being security he has got nearly broke but, the great length of time and not ever expecting to be called on in a case where I am in no wise interested has obliterated from my recollection a number of circumstances that might be more pertinent to the case. And this Deponent further saith not.
Sworn to before me the day and date above.
BENJAMIN GILBERT EDMUND W. GEE, JP


Notes for BENJAMIN GILBERT:
BENJAMIN GILBERT, JR
By: M.K. Gilbert Jr.
Benjamin Gilbert was a Revolutionary War soldier from Bedford County, Virginia, who served in the Southern theater of the war. From his sworn declaration, which is in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and a copy of which is in the library of the Carroll County Historical Society, in McKenzie, Tennessee, we know that he was at a general muster in Campbell County, Virginia and that he was at the Battle of Guilford County House, North Carolina, as also were his brother, Michael Gilbert, and Benjamin's future brother-in-law John McKenzie.
At the close of the war Benjamin married Emilly McKenzie in Campbell County, Virginia in 1783, and they moved to the State of Georgia, near the present town of Sparta. Emilly's brother, John McKenzie, also a Virginian, also settled in the same locality in Georgia and there in 1792 he married Martha (Patsy)Bonner who was also from Virginia.
Benjamin and Emilly Gilbert resided in Georgia for nearly thirty years and raised a family of five sons and six daughters. Then about the year 1815 they took up residence in Kentucky near the present town of Mattoon in Crittenden County. In the 1820's some of them, including Benjamin and Emilly, moved southward and were among the earliest settlers of present Weakley and Carroll counties, Tennessee. John and Patsy McKenzie also left Georgia, in 1816 or 1817, and after residing in Maury County, Tennessee for about eleven years, they also moved to the Weakley - Carroll area of Tennessee, arriving there in 1828. Later the town of McKenzie was named for a member of their family.
Benjamin and Emilly Glbert lived out their lives in Weakley and Carroll Counties. He died about 1832 and she died about 1845. Some of their sons and daughters married and raised families in the area, and some present-day residents may recognize themselves or their neighbors as descendants.
The sons of Benjamin and Emilly Gilbert married as follows; Robert married Matilda Fowler, Jonathan married Frances Busey, Molton married Nancy Cain, Martin married Elizabeth Boyd, Randle returned to Georgia, and we do not know his wife's name.
The daughters of Benjamin and Emilly Gilbert married as follows; Betty married Barney C. Kyle, Sally married Byas Hogard, Annie married Ryland Heath, Nancy married Harrison Ezzell, Jemima Exa married William H. McLeskey, Martha married Mr. Bomar.
Through the marriages of their daughters and granddaughters, Benjamin and Emilly Gilbert have had descendants who family names included the following: Abernathy, Allen, Bomar, Bowman, Brantley, Bristow, Brooks, Brown, Burnett, Carnahan, Collier, Cooper, Costen, Covington, Cowan, Cox, Crider, Davis, Duvall, Everett, Ezzell, Fisk, Forbis, Ford, Fritts, Gilkey, Grady, Granade, Halliburton, Harris, Haynes, Heath, Henderson, Hendrix, Herron, Hobbs, Hogard, Holland, Hughes, Hunter, Holloman, Howerton, Ikard, Kneiss, Kyle, Lowery, Maxwell, May, McChesney, McClanahan, McDonald, McLeskey, McNelley, McRae, Meade, Munday, Peebles, Perdue, Phillips, Quaid, Randle, Rosenkranz, Ross, Seele, Shannon, Simonton, Slayton, Smith, Snead, Stolts, Stroish, Thomas, Truitt, Vaughan, Weldon, Wilborn, Wiley, William, Yarno, and others.

Benjamin married Emilly (Milly) McKenzie on 20 Oct 1783 in Campbell County, Virginia. Emilly (daughter of Aaron McKenzie and Jemimah Something) was born about 1765 in Virginia; died about 1845 in Weakley County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Samuel Gilbert was born about 1778 in Georgia; died in 1836 in Franklin County, Mississippi.
2. Anna Marie Gilbert was born on 25 Mar 1788 in Hancock County, Georgia; died on 25 Jun 1873 in Marion, Crittenden County, Kentucky.
3. Benjamin Molton Gilbert was born about 1791 in Hancock County, Georgia; died on 6 Mar 1844 in Crittenden County, Kentucky.
4. Robert Reece Gilbert was born on 12 Mar 1795 in Hancock County, Georgia; died on 12 Jun 1864 in McKenzie, Carroll County, Tennessee.
5. Betty Gilbert was born on 12 Mar 1795; died in 1860 in Sardis, Panola County, Mississippi.
6. Jonathan Moore Sr. Gilbert was born on 17 Jun 1800 in Hancock County, Georgia; died in 1889 in McKenzie, Carroll County, Tennessee.
7. Nancy McKenzie Gilbert was born about 1801; died in 1857 in Weakley County, Tennessee.
8. Sarah Sally Gilbert was born about 1803; died before 1857.
9. Jemima Exa Gilbert was born on 30 Dec 1808 in Georgia; died in 1867 in New Bern, Weakley County, Tennessee.
10. Randolph Gilbert was born in UNKNOWN; died in 1857 in Georgia.
11. Martha Gilbert was born in UNKNOWN; died in UNKNOWN.
12. Martin Gilbert was born in UNKNOWN; died in UNKNOWN.

Notes:

His Will is located in Wills A&B, Inventory and Estates of Greene County, Georgia.

Benjamin + Elizabeth Something. Elizabeth died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]