Benjamin Abbeville Maddox, I

As of 22 February, 2023: the Last Will and Testament lists 13 children with a "Mary Anne and Anna", no mention of a second "Mary".
Our tree here has 15 children.

I have made adjustments to Benjamin Abbeville Maddox's heirs based on his will of 1770. If you find a reason this is incorrect, please let me know. - J. Morgan Maddox 5/27/2020

1. Mary Posey - One English Schilling
2. Elizabeth Evans - One English Schilling
3. Ignatius Maddox - One English Schilling
4. Phoebe Evans - One English Schilling
5. Benjamin Maddox - two tracts of land: Stamfair and Posey´s Chance, both in Durham Parish and one gray mare and saddle.
6. Thomas Maddox- a tract of land: Horn Fairs, in Durham Parish.
7. Cornelius Maddox- c/o Thomas Maddox above: to my loving wife, Frances Maddox, the use of one negro man named Bosson and one negro man named Will, and one third of my estate.
8. George Maddox - after the death or remarriage of Frances, the negro man, Will. The remaining part of the estate is to be divided equally between: Benjamin,
9. Richard, Thomas (No. 6 above), Cornelius (No. 7 above),
10. Leonard,
11. Lydia, George (No. 8 above),
12. Walter,
13. Anna, and Mary Anne. (Ignatius is omitted from this portion and did not attend the probate hearing. )

23 August 1770. Witnesses: John Posey, Sr., [Pryor Posey], William Posey, and John Elgin.
19 September 1770. Probated.

Benjamin Maddocks was the fourth child of Cornelius Maddocks and his spouse, Mary Smallwood Maddocks. His father had arrived in the British colony of Maryland as a young man, his ship docking at Port Tobacco, Charles Colony, on the Potomac River where he became a merchant and land holder. When Benjamin was about seven years old, his father died. His mother remarried and Benjamin and siblings were raised by their stepfather, John Taylor. Benjamin married Frances Wheeler in Charles County, Maryland and they were the parents of twelve known children. They lived to see children reach adulthood and were aware of the unrest among the colonists with the mother country, England. Both Benjamin and his spouse, Frances, died in 1770. Several of their children were among the citizens of the new nation after the Revolution War. Among these descendants, the spelling of the surname Maddocks changed to Maddox.

Children:
1. Mary Ann Maddox Posey 1726-
2. Thomas John Maddox 1727-af1770
3. Elizabeth Maddox Evans 1728-1776
4. Cornelius Maddock(II) 1730-1797
5. Ignatius Maddox 1731-1777
6. Phoebe Maddox 1732-
7. Walter Maddox 1733-1778
8. Benjamin Maddox (II) 1735-1811
9. Richard Maddox 1737-1872
10. Leonard Maddox 1738-1872
11. Lydia Maddox 1740-
12. George Maddox 1742-1802

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