Benjamin Borden Genealogy
Record modified: 2018-11-03
This is my ancestor 9 generations back.
Born: 1675-04-06 Middletown, New Jersey USA
Died: 1743-12-09 nr Winchester, Frederick, Virginia USA
Marriages:
1. 1710-00-00 Zeruiah Winter
Children of Benjamin Borden and Zeruiah Winter:
Notes:
parents from this page
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born 1692?
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married in Middletown, Monmouth Co NJ
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He was appointed one of the justices of Orange Co VA on 1734-01-21.
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He was granted 92,100 acres in VA by King George II on 1739-11-06. This area later became
Rockbridge Co VA.
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"History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson, and Clarke : their early settlement and progress to the present time, geological features, a description of their historic and interesting localities, cities, towns and villages, portraits of some of the prominent men, and biographies of many of the representative citizens"
Chapter V Organization of Frederick County
[from county records, apparently late 1743]
Benjamin Borden, Sr, sold to his son Benjamin a tract of land, a portion of a grant obtained in 1734 by Borden, Andrew Hampton, and David Griffith. The tract was called "Bullskin" and was located "on the west side of the Sheando River, commencing at a sycamore tree on the Bullskin Run". Borden Jr paid for his land L50.
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"Frederick County, Virginia, Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants"
pp 20-21
At the December Term of this court, held on
"Fryday the ixth day of December MDCCXLIII",
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the last will and testament of Benjamin Borden
was presented by his widow, Zeruiah, and Ben-
jamin Borden -- his son -- who it will be seen was
then, in 1743, of lawful age. The father without
doubt being the Benjamin Borden who followed
the Hite Colony. This will should have been
read and studied by historians of Augusta Coun-
ty. The celebrated Burden Grant located on
the "upper" James River, is disposed of by the
testator, and settles many errors in relation to
this grant.
p411 [Biographical Sketches]
Benjamin Borden -- Some mystery is attached
to this old settler. He first appears at the Jan
court, 1734, Orange County, with a commission
as Justice of the Peace. At the Oct Term,
1740, same court, Benjamin Borden, the justice,
answered a summons to court. 1743 he was
living on his Spout Run Plantation, North of
Winchester. Executed a deed to his son Ben-
jamin for tract of land on the Bullskin, being
part of his grant of Oct 1, 1734. This grant
embraced several thousand acres of land on the
James River in Orange County (later Augusta)
and other tracts, from the Potomac Sourthward.
In 1744, his widow, Zeuriah, was living in N
Jersey; -- executed a power of attorney to her son
Benjamin to sell any lands of the estate except
the 5,000 acres on James River, and mentions
him as residing in Augusta County. Benjamin
shortly thereafter made deed to Arthur Barrett
for a plantation on lower Opecquon Creek. The
will gives names of widow and sons: Benjamin,
John, Joseph, and daughters.
He also says: "This plantation where I live,
on Spought Run on Opeckon may be sold, etc".
The widow says in the power of attorney,
that she is in New Jersey, and her age and
sickness prevents her leaving N Jersey. Ben-
jamin, Jr, located on the Burden (Borden) grant
on the James; and proceeded to execute title
to land to the settlers as they appeared. His
brother Joseph joined him, and did much to at-
tract the Scotch-Irish settlers. Benjamin died
1753. Joseph and John have descendants through-
out the Valley."
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Virginia Will Records extracts
2-156
1796: Benjamin Borden will (dated 1742)
Wife, three sons, and six daughters. One of his daughters married first, Worthington, and secondly, Pritchard. One of his sons, Benjamin, had daughter who married Harvey and has issue. Lands in NJ, on Bullskin, Smith's Creek, North Shenando, and 92,000 acres on the James and Catawba Rivers.
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 1730
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