Ann Arnold

1.2.5 Ann Hendrick (c1725? – aft1796) A great-grandson of Benjamin Arnold, William D. Sullivan, wrote a book about 1913 stating that Benjamin Arnold married “Ann Hendrick of Va.”501 This Benjamin Arnold died in Greenville County, South Carolina leaving a will dated 1796 naming “my dearly beloved wife” Ann and a deceased son Hendrick Arnold among several other children.502 A purported family Bible gives Benjamin Arnold’s date of birth as 1719 in Bedford County, Virginia and his wife’s name as “Ann Hendricks
Arnold”, but this record is clearly not authentic.

Nevertheless, it seems there was an Ann Hendrick married to Benjamin Arnold. Not only was there a son Hendrick Arnold, but one of their daughters, Temperance, named her own daughter “Ann Hendrick”. From their
children’s presumed birth dates they seem to have been married sometime in the 1740s, with children born over a span of 25-30 years beginning in the early 1740s through at least 1770.504

That places her squarely among the third generation of Hendricks. Only Hance Hendrick Jr. and William Hendrick are candidates to be her father and, by association, the most likely candidate is William Hendrick of Hanover. [She would evidently have been younger than his sons William and John Hendrick, but perhaps older than Benjamin and Gustavus.]

further reading at https://www.genfiles.com/hendrick-files/William_Hendrick.pdf

GEDCOM Note

ARNOLD, ANNE HENDRICKS (Also see Arnold, Benjamin). Anne was born circa 1719, King William County, Virginia. At the age of seventeen she married Benjamin Arnold, a planter of tobacco, who owned thousands of acres of land, had a saw mill, a grain mill, a tan yard, and a powder mill. During their marriage they moved twelve times with eight children. During the American Revolution Anne helped Benjamin make rifles for the soldiers in Virginia. In South Carolina she helped make gunpowder. Six of Anne's sons served in this great war. Anne died in 1806 and is buried next to her beloved Benjamin.

Service - Patriotic Service, South Carolina. Made gun power, helped Benjamin make rifles, and nursed wounded soldiers back to health, fed them and comforted them with prayers.

Benjamin at same site http://www.geocities.com/waterforddar/patriots.html#Arnold,%20Anne%...