Nancy BENEDICT

1756 - Abt 1848  (92 years)

• Name	Nancy BENEDICT  [1]
  Birth	1756  [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Abt 1848  [1, 2]
  Notes	"The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America": It is said of her that "she was superior in education to those around her, and that she was constantly teaching her neighbors to read and write." In 1776, when Gen. Howe advanced northward from New York, she mounted her horse, and with other heroic women, followed the army and witnessed the battle of White Plains.. Joseph lived near the "neutral ground," and had in his employ one David Williams, who, when not engaged in military service (the whigs who encountered the "Cowboys" in their excursions into the country were generally in the mlitia service on short enlistments), made the house of his employer his welcome home. Thus it happened that Williams was enjoying an agreeable "tete-a-tete" with Nancy Benedict, in the fall of 1780, when she pointed out to him a small company of armed men approaching their village. the entered an inn near by, and Williams, having recognized Isaac Van War John Paulding and others, they set out together for Tarrytown; the especial object of Williams being to reclaim the property of a neighbor, the widow Pelham, or aenge the death of her husband, killed the night before by a party of Cow-boys. At Tarrytown, Williams, Paulding and his cousin Van Wart separated from their companions, taking the east road, at an angle of which they concealed themselves, obtaining a north and west view of it for some distance. The approach of Major Andre, his arrest, etc., followed. Congress having granted Williams, Nov. 3, 1780, a medal, a yearly annuity of $200, in specie, or an equivalent in current money, during life; also, the privilege of locating any confiscated lands in the county of Westchester, to the value of $1,250, or of receiving the said sum in cash, he married nancy Benedict, and with the $1,250 bought a part of the farm owned by his father-in-law and settled upon it, erecting a log cabin to live in"......."In the fall of 1830, he visited the city of New York on the invitation of the corporatio, to be present as a guest at the celebration of the French revolution. Here he received all manner of attentions, and was presented with a silver cup, a silver-headed cane, an elegant horse, carriage and harness. He died at Broome, Schoharie Co., Aug. 2, 1831. After her husband had been dead ten years, Mrs. Williams obtained a continuance of his pension, which had been stopped at his death, receiving $2,000 at once." She died about 1848, in her 92nd year...
  Person ID	I05437	Main Tree

  
  

  Father	Joseph BENEDICT,   b. 29 Jul 1708, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 17 Jul 1793, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 84 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Susannah ?
  Relationship	Natural
  Marriage	18 May 1732	Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Family ID	F09398	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	David WILLIAMS   d. 02 Aug 1831, Broome, Schoharie, New York, USA
  Family ID	F24376	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S03449] The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America by Henry Marvin Benedict. [S03884] Genealowiki.com: Benedict - Thomas Benedict 1617, Benedict Generations. [S03423] The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Portland, Prospect, Redding and Ridgefield. [S03882] The History of Ridgefield Connecticut - Marriages & Deaths, by George L. Rockwell.