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- His birthdate is gotten from the pension roll, or census of pensions,
at Raleigh, NC.
(From Peggy Bruckner - 09-02-09)
I may have already related my recent day trip to Oglethorpe County, GA (45 minutes from my home...) where I found 11 years of Benjamin Knox's untranscribed Estate papers (May 1805- Jan 1816) in the Court House "vault. " These, plus deeds/court minutes/marriage bond, provide proof that this Benjamin Knox was married twice (1) Jemima and (2) Winifried (not Rebecca) Simmons -- and produced 11 children! Winnie, his widow, subsequently married Andrew Bell (of Rowan), left Georgia and took Benjamin's minor children to Hopkins Co, KY, where they are found in court minutes in 1807...
There are also many records for Absalom Knox Sr in Oglethorpe. It appears he died 1787 in Wilkes Co (part that became Oglethorpe in 1793), but his estate was not settled until after 1803...when deeds in both Oglethorpe and Iredell document the partition of his land among his surviving heirs.
So, I can now produce hard evidence that William, Absalom Sr, Benjamin, Samuel, Joseph were brothers. Jeane's LWT also shows that "a" James Knox was also her son (but he was older than Benjamin b. NLT 1751, and therefore cannot be Captain James Knox b 1752, the grandfather of Polk).
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