Benjamin Franklin Becraft
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1778-1779
Christening:
Death: 27 Jun 1833 - Bath Co, KY
Burial:
Cause of Death: cholera
AFN :
Events
• Event, 1791
Later in the same account, it states: "At Wayne's Treaty, they had to go and get him--Ben Becraft--and give him up. He came back with no Indian paint and he was nicely dressed, but soon got back to being a Becraft again.• Pension Application, 25 Jul 1871 in Bath Co, KY
PENSION APPLICATION FOR WAR OF 1812 SERVICE
BECROFT, BENJAMIN - MARY: WC 6008; BLWt. (?) 95235-160-50.
Private in Captain I. Gray’s Company, Kentucky Militia.
Englisted March 29, 1813; discharged October 29, 1813.
Lenth of Service: 215 days. Residence of widow 1859, 1860 Bath County, Kentucky, 1871 Owingsville, Bath County, Kentucky. Maid name of Mary Fowler. Date of marriage September or November 1808 at Vincennes, Indiana.
Death of soldier: June 27, 1833 Bath County, Kentucky >BR>
David Norris and Albert Norris testified to continued widowhood. Marriage to Benjamin Becroft prior to February 17, 1815, was established by affidavit of Fields Becroft, who testifies that he is sixty-one years of age having been born in the year 1811 as he has always now resides in said county and state (Bath County, Kentucky) and has for more than fifty years last past, that he is the third child of the family of children of the marriage of Benjamin and Mary Becroft. Claimant in her application for Bounty Land alleges marriage in September 1808.
Admitted to pension of $8.00 per month from February 14, 1871 on March 15, 1874.
25 July 1871 Mary Becroft, aged ninety, a resident of Bath County, Kentucky, being duly sworn, declares she is the widow of Benjamin Becroft, who served the full period of six days in the military in Cat. Isaac Gray’s Company, Col. Boswell’s Regiment, drafted at Jones Springs, Bath County, Kentucky on 29 March 1813 and discharged at Fort Winchester about 20 September 1813. That she was married under the name of Mary Foulger in November 1808 near Vincennes, Indiana; said husband died in Bath County 27 June 1833. Her Post Office: Owingsville Kentucky.
State of Kentucky, County of Bath. Fields Becroft being duly sworn, declares that he is sixty-one years of age.... that Benjamin and Mary Becroft had a family of nine children, seven of them still living. That his father died in Bath County, Kentucky, in the year 1833 of the cholera; that he was living with them - his father and mother - at the time of his death, that his mother .... is still living, resides with one of her sons Robert Becroft in the said county and state. That her son James Becroft is older than the affiant and resides in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Her other children including affiant, reside in this county and are named Sally Becroft, Nellie Blevins, wife of Danl. Blevins, Betsey Shuttey, wife of O. P. Shuttey, Polly Shuttey, wife of Saml. Shuttey. That he never heard the fact of the marriage of his parents questioned. That he has no interest in this claim other than he would like for his mother to get her pension.
State of Kentucky, County of Bath. 11 June 1872.
Asa Maxey, being duly sworn, says that he was resided in Bath County, that he is now in his 81st year and has been a minister of the Gospel for fifty years; that he was well acquainted with Benjamin Becroft and his widow Mary Becroft, that he has known each since and during the War of 1812, that they lived together as man and wife and reared a family of children, that they were reputed to have been married in the State of Indiana.
Parents
Father: Abraham Becraft
Mother: Abigail Rachel Shipley
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Polly Fowler
Marriage: 18 Nov 1808 - Ft. Vincennes, Knox Co, IN 1
Status:
Children:
1. Harriet "Hetty" Becraft 2
2. John James Becraft
3. Abram Fields Becraft
4. Sarah\Sally Becraft
5. Benjamin Franklin Becraft Jr
6. Mary Polly Becraft
7. Thomas Becraft
8. Elleanor "Millie" Becraft
9. Sarah Elizabeth Becraft
10. Robert Becraft
Notes
Marriage Notes (Mary Polly Fowler)
by justice of peace
Sources
1. Ancestry.com (Dodd, Jordan. Indiana Marriages to 1850.)
2. Amy Rummelhart (azureami@hotmail.com), "Amy's Tree" (http://www.gencircles.com/users/daygirl/5/data/4565).