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Benjamin Wilkes
Male 1762 - 1809

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  • Birth  1762  , Loudoun, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  1809  , Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I3295  Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri
    Last Modified  21 Aug 2005 
     
    Father  John Wilkes, Sr,   b. Abt 1736, , , Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1795 
    Mother  Elizabeth Mead,   b. Abt 1740, , , Pennsylvania Or Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married  Apr 1758  , Loudoun, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F1319  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Sarah Osborn,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married  23 Dec 1783 
    Last Modified  21 Aug 2005 
    Family ID  F1327  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • Two parcels of land were deeded to Banjamin by his parents in Bedford County. The first of these was for 78 acres on March 3, 1784 on both sides of Orchard Creek. This gift deed read in part "for love, good will and affection they do bear their well beloved son." BRE 1 The second grant was 60 acres to Benjamin on Goose Creek in 1788, from his father, John Wilkes, Sr.
      In 1790 the June Court of Bedford, Virginia issued a permit for Samuel and Benjamin to build amill, which read "on the motion of Samuel and Benjamin Wilks leave is granted to them to build a grist mill on Crab Orchard Creek on their own land, it appearing to the court that no other person will be affectred thereby."
      During 1791 Benjamin and Sarah Wilkes sold 175 acres of land on Goose Creek to Thomas Leftwich. This appears to be the last record found for Benjamin Wilkes in Virginia BRE 2 He appears to have joined his parents and other family members in their journey to Georgia.
      On August 4, 1792 a deed was made from James Buford of Wilkes County, Georgia on January 7, 1794 it was recorded, conveying 287 1/2 acres to Benjamin Qilkes in consideration of 100 pounds, located on North Fork of Oconee River adjoining Hezekiah Hendricks, granted to Benjamin Jones 8 December 1784. Witness James McLean, J.P. In the 1803-1806 Land Lottery of Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Benjamin received two draws. He was listed in Capt. Thomas' District as were John and Jesse Wilkes in the census of 1800. Benjamin recieved other land there in 1806 GOC 1 and on Jan. 17, 1808 he bought land from Thomas Calley. When Wilkes County was divided the Wilkes were then in Oglethorpe County. WFR 3
      Benjamin and Sarah Wilkes are shown on the 1800 census with 10 children. Benjamin died in Oglethorpe County in 1809.
      In 1809 Jesse Wilkes, in an unusual procedure, purchased 200 acres of and from the administrator of Benjamin's estate as the highest bidder, then sold htis land to Aaron Wilkes, Benjamin's son, for $10. This Jesse Wilkes was obviously of great good heart and by this act helped this family at a very trying time. I believe that he was Benjamin's brother, althought I cannot prove it [Lillian Jones Crews]
      Oglethorpe County Georgia Deeds:
      This indenture made this thirtieth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and nine, between Sarah Wilkes, Moses Wilkes and Aron Wilkes, Administrators of Benjamin Wilkes decd. of the one part and Jesse Wilkes of the other part, Witnesseth that the aforesaid for and in consideration of the sum of the sum of four hundred dollars [$400] to them in hand paid by the said Jesse Wilkes, the receipt is hereby acknowledged, hath sold on the 5th day of September last agreeable to an order of the honorable the Inferior Court of the aforesaid county, obtained at June term eighteen hundred and nine, and by these presents doth sell unto the said Jesse Wilkes his heirs and assigns / he being the highest bidder, all that tract of land containing two hundred acres be the same more or less, and being in the County aforesaid on the Troublesome Creek a fork of Long Creek .. We have set our hands and seals as administrators of the said Benjamin Wilks decd. the day and year aforesaid signed sealed and delivered in the presence of
      Alexander Hopkins J.P, Sarah Wilkes seal
      S.A. Hopkins J. P. Moses Wilkes seal Aaron Wilkes seal
      Recorded 18th August 1810 Admr.

      Georgia ]
      Ogletorpe County ] This indenture made this thirteenth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen and nine, between Jesse Wilkes of the County of Oglethorpe of the one part and Aaron Wilks of said County on the other part Witnesseth that the said Jesse Wilkes for and in consideration of the sum of ten dollars [$10] to him in hand paid by the said Aaron Wilks .... sell unto the said Aaron Wilks his heirs and assigns, all that tract of land lying and being in the aforesaid County, on the waters of Troublesome Creek, a fork of Long Creek, containing two hundred acres.
      Jesse Wilks
      seal
      Recorded the 18th August 1810
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      The settling of Benjamin's estate began in 1816 following this Georgia record:
      Wilkes, Benjamin, dec. agreement to Division signaled by heirs: The widow, Sarah Wilkes, Moses, Osborn, Joel Wilkes, Polly, Benjah and Sarah Wilkes. Dec. 22, 1815
      Thirty to thirty-five deeds were recorded between 1816 and 1836 for this family in Odletorpe County: sales and land division on Troublesome Creek, Indian Creek, Long Creek and on the Lexington/Augusta Road were made for the children of this family, thus it appears that many of them continued to live on land acquired by their father, Benjamin Wilkes.
      The sequence of the children is unknown except for Aaron.
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      Someone said there was another son, John, who mmarried Barbary Newman