Benjamin Van Cleve b. 24 Feb 1773 New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, British Colonial America d. 29 Nov 1821 Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States: Tangled Roots

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Name	Benjamin Van Cleve
Born	24 Feb 1773	New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, British Colonial America [1]
Gender	Male
Died	29 Nov 1821	Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States [2]
Person ID	I2425	TangledRoots
Last Modified	22 Oct 2021

Father	John Van Cleve, b. 16 May 1749, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, British Colonial America , d. 1 Jun 1791, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Northwest Territory, United States (Age 42 years)
Mother	Catherine Benham, b. 11 Oct 1756, Huntington, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British Colonial America , d. 6 Aug 1837, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States (Age 80 years)
Married	1 Aug 1771	Monmouth County, New Jersey, British Colonial America
Family ID	F1244	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

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Benjamin Van Cleve was the son of John Van Cleve, who was the son of Benjamin and Rachel Van Cleve. John Van Cleve was born at New Brunswick, N. J., May 16, 1749; was a soldier in the revolution, serving in his father's company. He married Catharine Benham, and, in 1785, settled in Washington County, Penn. In December, 1789, he, with his family, started, for the Northwest Territory, and landed at Losanteville, January 3, 1790. June 1, 1791, he was stabbed in five places, killed and scalped by the Indians, in an outlot at Cincinnati. John and Catharine Van Cleve had six children. Benjamin was born in Monmouth County, N.J., February 24, 1773; Ann was born at the same place, July 30, 1775, married Col. Jerome Holt, at Cincinnati, and in 1797, settled with him in Van Buren Township, in this county, and died in March,1858; William was born in Monmouth County, N. J., in 1777; Margaret, born at the home place, in Monmouth County, in February, 1779, married______Reeder, at Cincinnati, and died, in September, 1858; Mary, born in Washington County, Penn., February 10, 1787; Amy, born in Washington County, Penn., in July, 1789, married Isaac Shields, and died in Preble County, Ohio. Catharine, the mother of these children, married Samuel Thompson, at Cincinnati, by whom she had two children, Sarah and Matthew, before they moved to Dayton. Benjamin Van Cleve, the subject of this sketch, was an upright and worthy man; when his father was killed by the Indians, in 1791, although but eighteen years old, he took upon himself the care and support of his mother and family. He served in the campaigns of St. Clair, Wilkinson and Wayne---was a bearer of important dispatches to Washington, New York and return; was in Dunlap's surveying party in this Mad River country, immediately after Wayne's treaty with the Indians; was here again, with Col. Ludlow, to lay out Dayton, and came as a settler with the first colony, in the spring of 1796. He taught the first school, in the Dayton block-house, in 1799; he served as Clerk of the Court from the organization fo the county until his death, in 1821, and was the first Postmaster appointed in Dayton, serving in that capacity from 1804 until the date of his death. In the language of his friend and associate, Bol. John Johnson, "God never made a better man than was Benjamin Van Cleve." August 28, 1800, he married Mary Whitten, daughter of John and Phoebe Whitten; they had five children. John Whitten Van Cleve, born in Dayton June 27, 1801, died September 6, 1858; Wiliam James, born October 10, 1803, died October 30, 1808; Henrietta Maria, born November 16, 1805, married Samuel B. Dover, September 21, 1824; surviving him, she married Joseph Bond, November 4, 1858, and died, May 18, 1879; Mary Cornelia, born December 2, 1807, married James Andrews, November 20, 1827, and died February 19, 1878; Sarah Sophia, born November 24, 1809, married David C. Baker, February 11, 1830, died October 18, 1839. Mary Van Cleve, the mother of these children, was born February 17, 1782, and died December 28, 1810. March 10, 1812, Benjamin Van Cleve married Mary Tamplin, an English lady, but at that time living in Champaign County, Ohio. Benjamin Van Cleve died November 29, 1821; his second wife, Mary, by whom he had no children, died December 19, 1825. (Source: Evansville, Indiana: Unigraphic, Inc., 1973, a reproduction of, "History of Montgomery County, Ohio", (original published - Chicago, Illinois: W. H. Beers & County, 1882), pg. 272, 273)