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This may help those researching the Leonard family found on the Bentley forum:
Bentleys of Chester Co., PA migrated to Fredrick Co., MD
Posted by: Allan Bentley (ID *****0484) Date: November 23, 2007 at 02:59:13
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The following is my notes on Joseph Bentley and his two (maybe more) sons that moved to Frederick County, Maryland:
Joseph Bentley, the father:
THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM:
Chester County, Pennsylvania wills - #3156 - #4679 - #2951
Bentley Lineage LDS.
Family Records
Quaker Books
He wrote his will 6 Sep 1774 and speaks of himself as a yeoman. His will was
proven 1778.
Chester County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1713-1825
Record about Joseph Bentley
Name: Joseph Bentley
Description: Decedent
Residence: Uwchlan
Date:06 Sep 1774
Prove Date: 25 Sep 1778
Remarks: Joseph Bentley. Uwchlan. Sept. 6, 1774. Sept. 25, 1778. To sons Jeffrey, Ellis, Eli and Banner 20 shillings each. All remainder of estate real and personal to wife Mary to dispose of among my other children as she shall see proper, sons Caleb, George and Joseph and daughter Jane Bentley. Executrix: Wife Mary.
From the Manuscript of Helen Stone Woodruff:
"V. BENTLEY, JOSEPH, born about 1727 In Chester County, Pennsylvania. He wrote his will 6-Sep-17?4 and speaks of himself as a YEOMAN. (according to the dictionary "one belonging to a class of English Freeholders below the Gentry"). His will was proven In 1778 He married MARY THATCHER in 1746/47. MARY was disowned by the Concord Quaker Church on 4-May-1748 for having married a non-Quaker. She was the daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Wyeth) Thatcher, who had been married at Concord on 10-Max-1727. The Thatcher Family were devoted Quakers. MARY THATCHER BENTLEY was reinstated into the Quaker Belief on 7-Dec-1785 and granted a certificate in 1786 to move her membership from Concord to Bradford. MARY BENTLEY wrote her will on 6-Sep1796 and It was proven on 8-Feb-1799.
A portion of the Will of JOSEPH BENTLEY follows:
"IMPRIMIS; I give unto my Dear and Loving wife, MARY BENTLEY, the home. I likewise constitute and ordain her my only and sole Executrix of this my last will. After all Is paid She is to have all my lands and tenements to her ...
ITEM;...my Loving son, JEFFERY BENTLEY...Twenty shillings
ITEM;...my Loving son, ELLIS BENTLEY...Twenty Shillings
ITEM;...my Loving son, ELI BENTLEY ...Twenty shillings
ITEM;...my Loving son BANNER BENTLEY...Twenty shilling's
ITEM; I give...the remainder of my Estate to my Loving wife, MARY BENTLEY to dispose of between my other children, that is--CALEB BENTLEY, GE0RGE BENTLEY, JOSEPH BENTLEY and my daughter, JANE BENTLEY."
A portion of the Will of MARY BENTLEY follows :
"It Is my desire my Body be decently intered in FRIENDS BURYING GROUND .........
ITEM; my wearing apparel to be equally divided between my two sisters, HANNAH TAYLOR and JANE MILLER
ITEM; to MARY, the widow of my son, JEFFERY BENTLEY, and his three children, JOSEPH, ELEANOR and JONATHAN BENTLEY..ten pounds apiece.
ITEM; to ELLIS BENTLEY, one silver dollar.
ITEM; to ELI BENTLEY, one silver dollar.
ITEM; to BANNER BENTLEY, or hie heirs, fifteen pounds apiece.
ITEM: to CALEB BENTLEY, and to his heirs thirty five pounds.
ITEM;..to GEORGE BENTLEY, my clock and case, also forty pounds
ITEM; to JOSEH BENTLEY, my Big Bible and thirty five pounds
ITEM: to my Grandson, REUBON AGNEW my bed and bedding, my case of drawers, drying box, coffee mill, pewter and small particles of house furniture, now in possession of his father, THOMAS AGNEW. also thirth pounds to be put out to interest and he to receive that and the Increase when he arrives at the age of twenty one.
LASTLY: I nominate my well beloved son, CALEB BENTLEY and my Trusty son-in-law, THOMAS AGNEW to be my sole Executors."
ISSUE
1. JEFFERY, born 21-Sept-1747. Married MARY LEONARD. His will dated 10-Aug-1775, made in Uwchain Township, Chester County, Penn. said he was a YEOMAN from Guilford County, North Carolina. He appointed his wife, MARY and his brother, BANNER BENTLEY as administratorix and administrator of his estate, He also asked that PETER D....., JOHN BEAL and JOSEPH LEONARD of Guilford, North Carolina be appointed guardians of his children, namely; JOSEPH, ELEANOR and JONATHAN. His will was proven 31-Aug-1775 and filed 21-Sept-1775.
ISSUE
a. JOSEPH, lived in Fayette County, Ohio
b. ELEANOR, may have married the father of Berryman Jennings.
c. JONATHAN, born in 1775. Married SARAH BEDSAW of Grayson County, Virginia and died In Moultrie County, Illinois. He served in the war of 1812
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