Capt. Benjamin Richardson

See Avatar: Capt Benjamin Richardson was listing as FPOC from Halifax District on Warren Co line with his pay voucher. DAR #600067 Vetted by Taos, NM and Montrose, CO DAR Chapters --.Marion's Raiders serving under Swamp Fox, Francis Marion, and helped Munitions Supplier son-in-law, Choctaw Bill, in War of 1812. He had went out of Halifax and Warren Counties where he was head of household of ten "free other" in 1800 and received his bounty lands in Ga where he held civil offices as a Surveyor or Roads, Justice of the Peace, & 3 year Tax Collector all in Effingham County, later Bulloch Co, Ga.

Children of Capt. Benjamin Richardson and Lucy Jones.

• i. Hardy1 Richardson, b. Abt. 1764 Warren Co, NC; d. Abt. 1809, Bulloch County, GA.
• ii. William Richardson, b. Abt. 1765 Warren Co, NC; d. December 1817, Bulloch County, GA.
• iii. Amos Richardson, b. Bef. 1781 Warren Co, NO; d. Abt. 1799, Bulloch County, GA.

Capt. Benjamin as a widower, married again to Sarah Mizell in 1767 in Bulloch Co, Ga formerly living in Tyrell Co, NC in 1770. Children of Benjamin Richardson and Sarah Mizell are:

• iv. Nancy2 Richardson, b. Warren Co, NC ; d. Bef 1799, Bulloch County, GA.
• v. John Richardson, b. March 1767, Warren Co NC; d. March 1850, Buna, Jasper County, TX.
• vi. Benjamin Richardson, b. Abt. 1775, Bullock County, GA; d. Bet. 1846–1847, Jasper County, TX.
• vii. Penelope Richardson, b. 1775, GA; d. 1841, Bogalusa, Washington Par., LA.
• viii. Frances Richardson, b. Abt. 1774.Warren Co, NC, d. Whitesand, MS or Jasper Co, TX
• ix. Jane Richardson, b. 1780 Warren Co, NC, d. Whitesand, MS
• x. James Richardson, b. Abt. 1784.Warren Co, NC, d. Whitesand, MS or Jasper Co, TX

xi  Winny Amanda (Richardson) Glover  b. Warren Co, NC; d.  Whitesand, MS

Ethnicity and War Service: Captain Benjamin Richardson is mentioned on Line 44 in the NC Session of the 2013 General Assembly's commemoration of Free People of Color's contributions to the Rev. War. https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H113v1.pdf General Assembly of North Carolina Session 2013 Page 2 H113 [Edition 1] and was guided to St Tammany Parish by his son-in-law, Fed Pre BIA Indian Agent and Munitions Supplier of War of 1812, "Choctaw Bill Williams" of the Nottoway Planter whose forebear 3 generations back was listed as tithable (tax on being native) in the Lancaster Parish Tax Roll.
[http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full... Helped in the War of 1812 and then the rest of Florida was gained in 1813. Benjamin was father in law to William WIlliams. aka Choctaw Bill, War of 1812 Federal Passport Agent and Munitions Supplier War. They, along with the First Circuit Preacher to the Florida Parishes, Rev Isom Pounds, whose name appeared on the 1855 Cooper Rolls, were of Old Cheraw from Oropeake Reservation of Coropeake, Va, of the Chief Parker lines and of the Nottoway Old Cheraw at the Williams Plantation where is currently located the Battle Beach Park, at the Men of the Nottoway lands called Hogg's Neck and now is Battle Beach, Newsom Co, Va. This transfer group went from Virginia to help Col Eaton in Fishing Creek and received bounty lands from the in-law of the daughter of Benjamin Richardson, the SC Assemblyman Captain Keder Keaton, SC Legislator initiating the 1767 vote that began Old Cheraw's District. On the same commemoration list are the neighbors of the same area: https://www.geni.com/people/William-Sweat-Pamunkey-and-Cheraw/6000000006341103222 and https://www.geni.com/people/Exum-Scott-FPOC-Patriot/6000000066661979993?through=6000000002957977011 The Old Cheraw were called "Chief Men of the Nottoway" at the time of their Kingston Co Court Petition for a more fair court in 1809. By 1810, they has received passport to go to Ft Adams in MS., then Indian Territory, by passport of Fed Jackson Papers' authority; later receiving lands which they flipped an Rev Pounds named his lands from 2 Presidents in a land flip from the checkerboard properties to the place where he preferred, naming it Cheraw in the county of Marion named by Capt John Lott and founder of the county, for Marion's Raider of which Capt Benjamin Richardson was one, serving under Francis Marion as did the father of Choctaw Bill.

Indenture made 8 Jan 1776; recorded 5 March 1799, between William Kearsey /Coursey, Sheriff of Screven County for the year 1795 and Hardy Richardson of Bulloch County, 350 acres taken by virtue of execution of the property of Benjamin Richardson, Esq. including the plantation whereon he now resides and sold to Hardy Richardson for $53 as highest bidder.

Marriage bond: The dates in the 1700's bonds required three notices prior to marriage. The bondsman, William Mizell granted the bond in the county where the bride-to-be resided.

Historical Marker in Sylvania, St Philip Parish/Effingham/ Screven/Bulloch Co, Ga

Taos, NM and Montrose, CO DAR Chapter Researched. Enrollee DAR - rachelleroby@outlook.com

Jttp://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I017286&tree=tree1 1710 John Richardson, son of Thomas Richardson and Mary Harris, grand son of John Richardson of New Kent.

Deed Book A, p. 59, Bulloch County deed records

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