More Questions About Benjamin Albertson 1739 - 1800

Yesterday I wrote about my 5th great-grandfather, Benjamin Albertson and his date of birth. He has seemed to give me more problems about his records.

I noted that the records at the Quaker Suttons Creek Monthly Meeting include this section about Benjamin and his wife's birth and death.

You will notice that his wife's name was shown as Mary Albertson. Now I need to find out what her maiden name was. So I should be able to check the marriage records and find the answer to this question. But Benjamin didn't want to cooperate with me.

In Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, in the section for Perquimans Monthly Meeting, pg 34, I found the following entries in the Albertson section:

1760, 2, 6. Benjamin rmt Mary Small.

1769, 3, 1. Benjamin rmt Mary Wyatt.

Going to the section for neighboring Pasquotank Monthly Meeting, pg 127, I found this:

1766, 11,19. Benjamin, of Peruqimans MM, rmt Sarah Nixon.

Well, how many Benjamin Albertsons were there in that area in that time period? Checking the families I discovered that Aaron and Ann (Gilbert) Albertson had a son named Benjamin (my ancestor) and William and Sarah (Pritchard) Albertson had a son named Benjamin. Aaron and William were brothers and these 2 Benjamins were cousins. I could find just the 2 men named Benjamin.

We can see from the Sutton Creek record that our Benjamin's wife was a Mary. His will probated in Nov 1800 lists his wife as Mary. His cousin's will was probated in May 1802 with no wife named. But Sutton Creek records show that Sarah the wife of Benjamin died in the 8th month of 1801.

The will of Jacob Wyatt of Perquimans County was probated July 1788 and he names a daughter as Mary, wife of Benjamin Albertson. Since this was after the marriage of 1769 it seems evident to me that my Benjamin first married Mary Small in 1760 and she probably died and he married second to Mary Wyatt in 1769 and she is the one who is shown in the above record from Suttons Creek.

Now the question is, when was my ancestor, Benjamin's son Benjamin, born? I need to try to find the answer to this so I can see which Mary was my ancestor. I will try to give an answer to that question tomorrow.