Benjamin Lanier

"He was baptized May 31, 1744, Albermarle Parish, Surry Co., Virginia, 

d. in Jackson Co., Mississippi. Married first in Screven Co., Georgia to Ealiff ??
who died in MS about 1802; she was one of two women at the Organization of the
Baptist Church in Jefferson Co., Mississippi Territory 1791. He married second
in Mississippi Elizabeth Wilson, a widow. He was a Revolutionary soldier in Georgia
and received Bounty land in 1784, Certificate #155. Shortly after this, he and his family
left for Mississippi Territory where he is listed in the Colonial Census of 1792, District
of Natchez under the Dominion of Spain, District of Sandy and Second Creek. In March
of 1795 he petitioned the Spanish Governor for land on the waters of Second Creek. He
was a resident with a family of nine persons. In August, 1813, he was appointed a Justice
of Jackson Co., Mississippi; at the same time, a cousin-in-law, George Davis, recently from
Bulloch Co., Georgia, received a similar appointment."
~Ingersoll

GEDCOM Source

@R703410431@ Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,60541::0 1,60541::148953236

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@R703410431@ Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,60541::0 1,60541::148953236

GEDCOM Source

@R703410431@ U.S., Indexed Early Land Ownership and Township Plats, 1785-1898 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,2179::0 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Township Plats of Selected States; Series #: T1234; Roll: 35 1,2179::64758