Elizabeth Fielder

dau of William Terrell Lewis & Sarah "Sall" Martin

• m1. John Benge
• m2. John Felder
  

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John Benge was an Indian trader with the Cherokee in northern GA. He had two wives, one was Elizabeth Lewis and his second was Wurteh, a Cherokee, and he had children from both marriages at about the same time.

Married 1) Elizabeth Lewis Born: about 1740, and was the, first wife of John Benge. She was a white woman, and the daughter of William Terrell Lewis and Sally Martin Lewis 2) Wurteh Second wife of John Benge and the sister of Old Tassel. Probably born in Toqua, in the Cherokee Overhills Probably met John Benge before 1761. She was a Cherokee woman.

The estate records of William Ridge of Surry Co., NC, had died in 1780 at battle of Hanging Rock on the side of the Tory Militia. William Terrell Lewis Jr was a guardian to his orphans, and later a defendent in lawsuits- accused of defrauding the orphans.John Fielder was accused of forging a bill of sale to William T Lewis for two slaves of William Ridge.

Several deponents stated that William Ridge had two older children, namely a Godfrey Ridge who died c1781 leaving a wife and family, and Nancy Ridge, now the wife of Capt. John Fielder. William T. Lewis filed notices with the court that he would travel to Georgia (Baldwin, Greene and Oglethorpe Counties) to take the depositions of Capt. John Fielder and his wife Nancy Fielder, James Fielder and Micajah L. Benge.

Other deponents in this case were John Fielder Sr and his wife Elizabeth Lewis Benge Fielder, Obadiah Martin Benge, Col. Joel Lewis, James Martin Lewis, John P. and Ann Lewis McConnell, to name but a few.

dau of William Terrell Lewis & Sarah "Sall" Martin

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: May 8 2020, 22:12:28 UTC