Woodruff-Stone History - Person Sheet
Woodruff-Stone History - Person Sheet
NameJoseph BENTLEY 
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1Birth1725
Death1778, Pennsylvania, Chester, Fallowfield Township
OccupationFarmer
ReligionBaptist
FatherJeffery BENTLEY (ca1700-ca1779)
MotherEleanor BANNER (-?)
Spouses
Marriage1746/47, Pennsylvania, Chester County, Concord
Notes for Joseph BENTLEY
Other entries by HNS indicate a birth date ca. 1727 and death ca. 1799 both in Chester, Pennsylvania.
Caleb & Jane were twins who died the same day of smallpox. Caleb #2 and Jane #2 couldn’t have been 4 months apart. Obviously a typo somewhere.
Caleb & Jane were twins who died the same day of smallpox. Caleb #2 and Jane #2 couldn’t have been 4 months apart. Obviously a typo somewhere.
Note by HNS notes for Joseph BENTLEY
HNS, Jan 3, 1982: Compiled family information from Chester Co., Penn Wills # 3156, 4679, and 2951. Also informants R. C. Bentley, San Diego, California; Mrs. L:ora May Ray, Sullivan, Illinois; Bill Bentley, Chanute, Kansas. Bentley Lineage of the LDS. The infants Caleb and Jane were twins who died the same day of smallpox.
HNS Narrative notes for Joseph BENTLEY
BENTLEY, JOSEPH, born about 1727 In Chester County, Pennsylvania. He wrote his will 6-Sep-17?4 and speaks of himself as a YEOMAN. (according to the dictionary "one belonging to a class of English Freeholders below the Gentry"). His will was proven In 1778 He married MARY THATCHER in 1746/47. MARY was disowned by the Concord Quaker Church on 4-May-1748 for having married a non-Quaker. She was the daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Wyeth) Thatcher, who had been married at Concord on 10-Max-1727. The Thatcher Family were devoted Quakers. MARY THATCHER BENTLEY was reinstated into the Quaker Belief on 7-Dec-1785 and granted a certificate in 1786 to move her membership from Concord to Bradford. MARY BENTLEY wrote her will on 6-Sep1796 and It was proven on 8-Feb-1799.
A portion of the Will of JOSEPH BENTLEY follows:
"IMPRIMIS; I give unto my Dear and Loving wife, MARY BENTLEY, the home. I likewise constitute and ordain her my only and sole Executrix of this my last will. After all Is paid She is to have all my lands and tenements to her ...
ITEM;...my Loving son, JEFFERY BENTLEY...Twenty shillings
ITEM;...my Loving son, ELLIS BENTLEY...Twenty Shillings
ITEM;...my Loving son, ELI BENTLEY ...Twenty shillings
ITEM;...my Loving son BANNER BENTLEY...Twenty shilling's
ITEM; I give...the remainder of my Estate to my Lovingwife, MARY BENTLEY to dispose of between my other children, that is--CALEB BENTLEY, GE0RGE BENTLEY, JOSEPH BENTLEY and my daughter, JANE BENTLEY."
A portion of the Will of JOSEPH BENTLEY follows:
"IMPRIMIS; I give unto my Dear and Loving wife, MARY BENTLEY, the home. I likewise constitute and ordain her my only and sole Executrix of this my last will. After all Is paid She is to have all my lands and tenements to her ...
ITEM;...my Loving son, JEFFERY BENTLEY...Twenty shillings
ITEM;...my Loving son, ELLIS BENTLEY...Twenty Shillings
ITEM;...my Loving son, ELI BENTLEY ...Twenty shillings
ITEM;...my Loving son BANNER BENTLEY...Twenty shilling's
ITEM; I give...the remainder of my Estate to my Lovingwife, MARY BENTLEY to dispose of between my other children, that is--CALEB BENTLEY, GE0RGE BENTLEY, JOSEPH BENTLEY and my daughter, JANE BENTLEY."