Benjamin Ivey, of Randolph County

Benjamin Ivey, son of John Ivey & Mary Adams, married Sally Reese in late 1782.

Their children:

• 1. Kincheon (26 September 1784). Wife unknown.
• 2. Rebecca (1 January 1786), who married Thomas Kearns,
• 3. Elizabeth (8 March 1787) who married Marshall Nance by bond of 10 February 1801,
• 4. Priscilla (c1790) who married Thomas Nance,
• 5. Sallie (c1794), who married Rev. Levi Shankle,
• 6. Sukey(c1796), who married Eli Shankle Swaringen,
• 7. Isaac, and
• 8. Benjamin (3 May 1800 - 1858) who married Mary Shankle.

The widow Sally remarried to Zedekiah Ledbetter, and evidently bound out her five youngest children in 1804: Benjamin, Priscilla, Isaac, Sally, and Susannah (evidently “Sukey”).

ancestry

Benjamin Ivey of Randolph County, NC (c 1760 - 1802) was the son of John Ivey (c 1725 ? - 1789) & Mary, daughter of David Adams. John Ivey was the son of Henry Ivey (1695 - 1774) & Rebecca Sledge. Henry was the son of George Ivey (1670 - after 1737) & Ruth. George was the son of Adam Ivey ( 1640s - bef 1710) & Elizabeth.

comments

On http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/ivey/2470/

"Mr. Ivey’s book identifies him as the son of Adam Ivey of Edgecombe County, a supposition we can prove to be false.It also gives Benjamin a first wife named Celia Forrest and a second wife named Sallie Kincheon, neither of which is proven......"

notes

"The Line of Adam Ivey of Charles City County" by Robert W. Baird (Revised February 2005):

"Benjamin Ivey (c1760 – 1802) There are two entries in the parish register for a son of John and Mary Ivey named Benjamin, both carrying the same date (24 May) but one in 1760 and the other in 1761. His godparents were Benjamin and Elizabeth Adams and Joseph Prince. He is apparently the Benjamin Ivey who married Sally Reese by bond dated 17 October 1782 in Southampton County. On 19 January 1790, barely a month after his father’s will was proved, he and his wife Sally sold his interest in the inherited plantation to his brother Phillips Ivey. (He must have left the area almost immediately, for Benjamin does not appear in the 1790 tax list, compiled mainly in March and April that year. He and his wife are, however, named in the will of his father in law, John Reese, dated 1 December 1792 and proved on 9 October 1794.The will distributed the estate equally among ten of the Reese children, and gave five shillings each to three other daughters: “my beloved daughter Sally Ivy, wife of Benjamin Ivy”, Sucky Ivy wife of Philip (sic) Ivy, and Lucy Johnson.) Since he was apparently gone from Virginia by early 1790, he seems likely to be the same Benjamin Ivey who appears in the 1790 census of Randolph County, North Carolina. The 1800 census shows him with a household of eight.(This Benjamin Ivey left a will dated 17 October 1801 and proved in August 1802, naming his wife Sally, daughters Rebecca Kearns, Betsy Nance, “Prisey”, Sally, and Sukey (under 18), and sons Kinchen, Isaac, and Benjamin (under 21).(Kinchen was left 200 acres, and the home plantation of 190 acres was given to Sally until her death or remarriage, when it was to fall to Isaac). Further indication that he may have been the same Benjamin Ivey from Southampton is that his son Benjamin Ivey named his own eldest son John Reese Ivey. Mention of the son Benjamin Ivey Jr. is made in Men of the Burning Heart.I would note that this is the line from which George Franks Ivey descended. Mr. Ivey’s book identifies him as the son of Adam Ivey of Edgecombe County, a supposition we can prove to be false. ....

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