Display Patriot - P-286637 - Benjamin SEATON

Benjamin SEATON

SAR Patriot #: P-286637

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: VA Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service

DAR #: A101146

Birth: abt 1760 / Stafford / VA
Death: Sep 1859 / Greene / TN

Qualifying Service Description:

Served as a Pvt, in Samuel Shannon's Co of Ranger on the PA Frontier in 1778

Additional References:

Pennsylvania Archives, Vol 23, pg 287, 318

Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Bird
Children: Sarah/Sally; Solomon

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child
2005-05-04	OR	18455	John Michel Cox (153592)	Sarah/Sally
2005-05-04	OR	18456	John Jay Cox (155103)	Sarah/Sally
2009-05-27	OK	35178	Glenn Kelvin Fast (137081)	Sarah/Sally

Burial:

Seaton Farm Cemetery_(C-0223172)

Location:

/ Greene / TN / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

2435834

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

36.037626 / -82.891734

Find A Grave Memorial #:

84325518

Marker Type:

SAR Granite

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

03 Sep 2023

Comments:

Image taken and provided with permission of compatriot Joel Davenport (TN) member 209958.

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

240 Little Brook Lane, Greeneville, TN
1.6 miles further up highway from Solomon Lutheran Church, on Right, in field. Access requires contacting landowner and obtaining a lock code to enter the property.

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: L. Hendryx

Benjamin was the son of James Seaton and ____________. Benjamin and his wife Mary Elizabeth Bird Seaton are said to be buried on their farm, in Greene County, TN.

Some have his death date as Sept 3, 1858, I have found a 1860 U.S. Mortality Census birth 1789, VA, death as Sept 1859, cause of death; old age, 91 yrs old, Greene County, TN.

Benjamin served in the Revolutionary War as a private in the Rangers on the frontier at Fort Ligonier, Westmoreland County, PA, between 1778 and 1783. (PA Archives, 3rd Series, Vol. 23, p. 213, 318). He served under Captain Samuel Shannon. (Military Records of Benjamin Seaton, State of Pennsylvania Archives.) (PA Archives, 5th Series, Vol. 4, p., 454, 755.)

Filled under: (DAR Application of Helen Seaton Labry, DAR Nat No 533650.) *spelling of the name Seton*

1783 Age: 15 Military PA

MILITARY: Rev. War, Pvt, PS, PA. DAR application #561983, submitted by Deborah Diane Burnham

Marriage: 1785, Richmond, Henrico Co., VA.

Their known children:

John Seaton (1788-1858)

James Seaton (1791-1858)

Jacob Seaton (1794-1873)

David Seaton (1799-1859)

Phillip Seaton (1800-1875)

Sarah "Sally" Seaton (1802-1871)

Moses Anderson Seaton (1804-1876)

Solomon Seaton (1806-1890)

Ira Benjamin Seaton (1808-1860)

Elizabeth Seaton (1813-1891)*not listed below* (she was 16 yrs old when she married Mathias Barnhart)

George Washington Seaton (1813-1895)

Andrew "Jackson" Seaton (1816-1873)

Female Seaton

Their children's names and dates are to the best of my ability correct.

They had ten boys and two girls, as follows:

1. John

2. James

3. Solomon

4. Moses

5. Ira

6. George Washington

7. Philip

8. Jacob;

9. David

10. Sally

11. Jackson

12. a girl, name not given.

He married 2nd Mary Polly Johnson Bird, Sept 15, 1846, widow of John Bird, Sr.

Source: The Seaton Family, with Genealogy and Biographies (1906) Digitizing sponsor: Google. Author: Seaton, Oren Andrew, 1847.

*DAR has his military records flagged; stating his was too young to serve and the family didn't supply adequate birth records.

Approximate age at time of death: 91

Research by L Hendryx

References: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 26 August 2019), memorial page for Benjamin Seaton (1768–8 Sep 1859), Find A Grave Memorial no. 84325518, citing Seaton Farm Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA ; Maintained by "Families Are Forever!" (contributor 47208863) .

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