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DAVID
BENTLEY - CORNWALLIS GRANTEE |
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THE
FAMILY OF David Bentley, son of William and Mary (Eliot) Bentley, was bapt. June 21, 1724 in the First Church of Lebanaon, CT and married December 1, 1748, in Lebanon, Ann Baldwin, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Bingham) Baldwin. Ann was born February 3, 1730/1. In May of 1754, David purchased land in Norwich, CT, where he remained until 1760 when he sold his land to his father-in-law, Thomas Baldwin, and emigrated to Nova Scotia. David, like so many other younger sons of large families, saw the advertisment from Nova Scotia that settlers were wanted to settle in part of Nova Scotia from which the Acadians had been expelled. They would receive land grants from the government if they would pledge allegiance to the crown. In 1761, David came to Kings County, with his wife, Ann and four children and a number of other families to settle the fertile valley. David was one of those assigned to assess the land granted to many of the New England Planters and his signature appears on many of the grants. He received a grant of 1 share of 666 2/3 acres in the first division. The main part of his shares were at Sheffield Mills and north of Billtown, but he did have a piece of land at Town Plot. David signed many of the grants "Bentlee".
David died June 13, 1792 and his wife Ann was living at the time was administrix of his extate. Their place of burial is unknown and may have been on their farm but no markings remain. In his will (copy in PANS), dated May 1, 1790, he leaves "to Ann my beloved wife, my house and furniture together with the improvement and profits of the third part of all my lands, buildings, and stock; horn cattle, horses, sheep, and swine during her life; to my four sons, Asahel, David, John and Eliot, the whole of my landed estate together with all my buildings and farming utensils, also that tools and utensils I make use of for Currying, shoe making, carpenters and joiners work to be equally divided in quantity and quality; that Eliot shall have 200 acres of unimproved lands to him before the division above making him equal to what each of the other brothers has received; that the sons shall bear equal expense towards the maintenance of Hannah their sister in decent and comfortable manner through sickness and burial; to my 3 daughters, Eunice, Pheby, Prudy, and to the children of my deceased daughter Ann, the whole of my stock as above named with all my movable estate to be equally divided in such a manner as to each have an equal part". The will was probated July 10, 1792. (01) Eunice Bentley - see Chapter on Eunice (Bentley) Pineo (email brenan@mts.net ) (02) Anna (called Ann in her father's will) Bentley was born in Norwich CT in Oct 13, 1752 and came to Cornwallis with her parents. She married Oct 21, 1773 by Rev. Benajah Phelps, to Daniel Pineo, son of Peter and Elizabeth (Sampson) Pineo and brother of Peter who married her sister. Their children(surnamed) Pineo were:
Anna died Dec 5, 1777. She was mentioned in her father's will of 1790 as being deceased. Her children were noted in her father's will but not by name or the number. Daniel married(2) to Keiza____, and had 2 more children. (03) Asael - see Chapter on Asael Bentley (04) Phebe - see Chapter on Phebe (Bentley) Pineo (email brenan@mts.net ) (05) David - see Chapter on David Bentley (email brenan@mts.net ) (06) James Bentley, son of David and Ann (Baldwin), was born July 25, 1763 in Cornwallis and died there 3 days later on July 28, 1763. (07) John Bentley, son of David and Ann (Baldwin), was born Oct 6, 1764 in Corwallis. He married Nov 5, 1788 to Miriam Gillett, daughter of Caleb and Mary Gillet. Miriam was born Feb 4, 1771. Their children, all born in Cornwallis, were:
(08) Hannah Bentley, son of David and Ann (Baldwin), was born Nov 20, 1767 in Cornwallis and nothing is known of her except that in her father's will her care and maintenance is to be born by her brothers as she is refered to as sick. Since he mentions the expenses of her burial it might be assumed that she was not expected to live long. (09) Eliot Bentley, son of David and Ann (Baldwin), was born June 19, 1770 in Cornwallis. It is not known if he ever married by he did inherit on his father's death and, Keith Bentley (see The Family of Andrew Bentley, a descendant of David's, believe they are still living on land he received, which is north of Billtown. Eliot was living in Sept, 1795 when a poll tax was taken. (10) Prudence -see Chapter (Bentley) Webster (email brenan@mts.net )
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