Benjamin Redman

Notes:

Our Redman family is associated with Richmond, Columbia and Butts Counties, Georgia. Richmond was one of the initial counties created in 1777, with Wilkes to the north. In 1790, Columbia was created from Wilkes and Richmond. Further changes shrank these counties. Butts County is considerably to the south; it wasn't created till 1825.

The marriage of Benjamin Redman and Elizabeth Morehead is recorded in the Redman Bible. It is said to have been in the possession of Cliett Redman, Jackson, GA, but I don't know when that was. My own source for what the bible says is Georgia DAR records, Vol. 43, pp. 866-867. The bible data is also given in Vol. 54, p. 32, but the two printed records don't agree in all the dates for the descendants of this couple.
However, there is another record, which I take to be a Columbia County record:
Georgia Marriages to 1850 at Ancestry.com
Name: Elizabeth Morehead
Spouse: Benjamin Redman
Marriage Date: 4 Nov 1797
Marriage County: Columbia
Marriage State: Georgia

Historical Collections of the Georgia Chapters Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume II (at Google Books)
Records of Richmond County, Georgia, formerly Saint Paul?s Parish
Abstracted and Compiled by Grace Gillam Davidson
Originally published Athens, Georgia, 1929; reprinted 1995
p. 5
REDMAN, WILLIAM---Page 33---Dec?d. Thomas Dobbins asks for a child?s part of the estate of William Redman, dec?d for himself and wife Mary Robbins, late Mary Redman, being my right of dower. Signed Sept. 9, 1793. Recorded Jan. 18, 1806. Wit: John Foster, J. P.
pp. 118-119 (I don't know to what book the page number 33 refers.)
REDMAN, WILLIAM, Dec?d. June 18, 1793---Benjamin Redman, Admr. Henry Evans, Thomas Hinson, John Williams, Reese Morris, app. Apprs.

The following link brings a Microsoft Word document.
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?Time Line Information of Persons Named Rowland Williams and Possible Relatives?
The following is a collection of Rowland, AKA. Roland, Rollen, Rollin, Roeland, Rowland Williams data culled from various sources.
There are also ties to Zachariah and Luke Williams, Robert Walton, William Redman families, are any of these names familiar.
Unfortunately, the unknown compiler of this file failed to mention the counties in these two references to Benjamin Redman.
1824
Oct xx, Wilkes Co., Gas. ? Daniel, Jane, Jesse, Robert, Rowland on tax list.
Apr 29, Bulloch Co., Ga. - Susannah Lewis, married Rowland Williams
1825
Jul 11, Roland, sells land to Benjamin Redman for William Redman.
1827
Feb 16, Deed - Rowland sold property to Benjamin Redman. (Note that Benjamin Redman died on 23 September of the next year.)

The 1820 Census for Richmond County, GA, p. 235, lists Benjamin Redman, but the enumeration leaves him out: -1-1- - - - -1- -2-
This means
one male 10-16
one male 16-26
1 female 26-45
2 persons probably in commerce
Five slaves are listed:
- -2- - -21

There exists a separate FTM file for all the descendants I know of of George W. Redman and his brother William.The descendants of Benjamin and Elizabeth Morehead Redman are in a separate Family Tree Maker file called "Redman."

At the time of this writing, the evidence for this Benjamin Redman consists of his marriage to Elizabeth Morehead and supposed entries in a Redman family bible. The great question, which might answer others, is how Elizabeth Morehead and Benjamin Redman came to marry. Her family was probably in Halifax County, Virginia, whence they removed to Richmond County, North Carolina. Unfortunately, the date of the removal isn't yet established. I have read that the earliest record of Elizabeth's father in Richmond County is about 1797. I think it is possible that some of Elizabeth's siblings moved on to Georgia about the time her parents went to North Carolina.

A note I made in 1963 at the library at Mississippi State University says a William Redman died in 1805 or 1806. He had a son Benjamin and a daughter May (or Mary), who married Thomas Dobbins. These people lived in Georgia. I don't know where I found that. It was in some genealogy magazine. I have never found any more about those people.

"The History of Butts County, Georgia," in a brief article by a Ms McMichaels, probably a descendant of Benjamin Redman, says that according to family tradition Benjamin Redman was originally from the area around Edgefield, South Carolina, where his family was active in the Revolution. Ms McMichaels reported a number of dates of birth and death and several marriages, all supposedly taken from the Redman family bible. I have seen this information presented in other places, where there are several differences.

The earliest record we have of Benjamin Redman is that he was listed in "GA Military Records 1794-1815" as a private in Regiment M of the first company (Capt. John Foster's company) on March 27, 1793. This company was from Columbia County.

The next record is his marriage in Columbia County on 05 November 1797.

There is an 1820 Census record (p. 235) for a Benjamin Redman in Richmond County, GA. If it is our Benjamin, it is garbled. It lists one male and one female 18-26 years old and one male 10-16. If we presume that Benjamin himself was left out, the two males would be right for William Redman and his brother George W., but the female is too young for their mother. This may be a different Benjamin Redman. Five slaves were enumerated.
Our Benjamin would have been 47, his wife Elizabeth 51, the boys 22 and 14.

An 1820 Census record for a William Redman in Columbia County, GA, shows
two m. 16-26
no f.
two slaves
one free colored m.

Why are there no more children? We know, though, from the will of Elizabeth's brother in NC, that she had only two.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gabutts/marg1/butts_marriages.pdf
Benjamin Redman Elizabeth Morehead November 05, 1797
Charles Lee Redman Leslie Moore October 09, 1939
Charles Lee Redman Leola Mae Shields October 11, 1891
Charles Lee Redman Mary Strickland
George W Redman Elizabeth ? August 12, 1827
Harry Redman Alma Rose Maynard June 02, 1927
John Arthur Redman Agnes Sue Autry August 22, 1942
John Crawford Redman Elizabeth E Curry December 22, 1898
Luther Franklin Redman Elizabeth Greer December 21, 1902
Max Redman Ruth Lane December 01, 1934
Melvin Wilson Redman Carolyn Ann Wells January 08, 1950
Sam Redman Ocie Miller June 27, 1943
Thomas Emory Redman Lucy Caroline Barnes December 24, 1885
William Redman Lurancy ? March 11, 1824
William Redman Mary Cliett January 03, 1826
William Cliett Redman Dorothy Mae Waits July 02, 1965
William Cliett Redman Maggie Ludy Yancey July 08, 1906
William Grady Redman Louise Lane November 01, 1934
William M Redman Vera Lillian Rooks
William Morris Redman Loma C Thomason December 15, 1920
William Thomas Carter Redman Sarah Elizabeth Maddux December 17, 1857
The Morehead family of North Carolina and Virginia

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Notes to Benjamin Redman (1773 - 1828)

Walter V. Turner originally shared this on 17 Mar 2014

Benjamin married Elizabeth Morehead. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Morehead and Elizabeth Turner) was born 30 Aug 1769, Halifax County, Virginia; died 8 Jul 1843, Butts Co., Georgia. [Group Sheet]

1. George W. Redman was born 9 May 1806, Lunenburg [later Halifax] Co., Virginia Colony; died 12 Feb 1842.