Individual Details
Benjamin Cave
(20 Dec 1735 - Abt Mar 1832)
Events
| Birth | 20 Dec 1735 | Orange County, Virginia | |||
| Military | 1759 | Orange County, Virginia |  |  | |
| Land | 1768 | Orange County, Virginia | | | |
| Marriage | Bef 1769 | Virginia - Elizabeth Belfield | | | |
| Residence | 1783 | Culpeper County, Virginia | | | |
| Marriage | 22 Jan 1794 | Orange, Virginia - Elizabeth White | |||
| Land | 1816 | Shanandoah County, Virginia, 16 Oct 1816 | | ||
| Death | Abt Mar 1832 | Orange County, Virginia | | |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth Belfield (1738 - 1810) |
| Child | Belfield Cave (1756 - 1811) |
| Child | Benjamin Cave (1760 - 1842) |
| Child | John Cave (1764 - ) |
| Child | William Cave ( - ) |
| Spouse | Elizabeth White ( - ) |
| Father | Benjamin Cave (1704 - 1762) |
| Mother | Hannah Bledsoe (1709 - 1769) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Cave (1728 - 1803) |
| Sibling | John Cave (1731 - 1810) |
| Sibling | Nancy Ann Cave (1734 - 1808) |
| Sibling | William Cave (1738 - 1804) |
| Sibling | Hannah Cave (1740 - 1817) |
| Sibling | David Cave (1742 - 1792) |
| Sibling | Sally Cave (1745 - 1821) |
| Sibling | Richard Cave (1750 - 1816) |
Notes
Military
William fought in the French and Indian WasLand
"acquired from Mayfield in 1767, and Benj. Cave (the later having sold the track to Abraham Mayfield in 1768 repossessed it and gave title to Samuel Brockman). The land was located by deed on the branches of Pamunkey River, which was in lower Orange probably part of Spotsylvania"Marriage
Benjamin Cave, planter, of Virginia, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Belfield) Cave, and grandson of Benjamin Cave, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Orange County, 1756.Residence
Three Cave ancestors were listed in the 1783 Property tax list. I have assumed they were siblings (may be in error) they were David with negros, Benjamin, and John with negros.Death
Benjamin CaveBirth 20 Nov 1735 Orange County, Virginia, USA
Death 29 Mar 1832 (aged 96) Orange County, Virginia, USA
Burial Montebello Cemetery Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia, USA
Memorial ID 77071355
Endnotes
1. W W Scott, A History of OrangebCounty, Virginia: from its formation 1734 to 1870 (N.p.: Everett Waddey, Co, 1907), image 68, page 61.
2. William Evertt Brockman, The Brockman Scrapbook: Bell, Bledsoe, Brockman,...and related families, (Minneapolis, MN: publisher not identified, 1952), page 46. Hereinafter cited as The Brockman Scrapbook:.
3. Familysearch.org, online \<[Url]\\><, [Cd]><. Hereinafter cited as [ShortTitle]>.
4. Raleigh Travers Green, Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virtginia: Embracing a Revised and Enlarged Edition of Dr. Philips Slaugher's History of St. Mark's Parish (Baltimore, Maryland: Regional Publishing Co., 1964), p.II 46.
5. , online \<[Url]\\><, [Cd]><. Hereinafter cited as [ShortTitle]>.
6. Virginia, "Land Records," image, Stste of Virginia, Library of Virginia (https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/land-grants : internet 30 January 2024), Benjamin Cave; familysearch.
7. Find A Grave, Findagrave.com, database and digital images (http//:www.findagrave.com : viewed 25 August 2018), Memorial 77071355 .