Family of Benjamin YOUNG and Zipporah GIST

Husband:	Benjamin YOUNG (1733-1809)
Wife:	Zipporah GIST (1732- )
Children:	Rebecca YOUNG (1752?-1848)
	William YOUNG (1753-1844)
	Benjamin YOUNG (1755?-1818)
	Nathaniel YOUNG (1756- )
	George YOUNG (1759-1817)
	Samuel YOUNG (1760- )
	Joshua YOUNG (1762-1825)
Marriage	1751	Baltimore County, Maryland

Husband: Benjamin YOUNG

Name:	Benjamin YOUNG
Sex:	Male
Name Suffix:	Sr.
Father:	William YOUNG (1690-1746)
Mother:	Rebecca LEWIS (1695?-aft1746)
Birth	28 Apr 1733	St. Joseph Parish, Barbados
Death	14 Dec 1809 (age 76)	Stokes County, North Carolina

Wife: Zipporah GIST

Name:	Zipporah GIST
Sex:	Female
Father:	Nathaniel GIST (1707-1780)
Mother:	Mary HOWARD (1710-1755)
Birth	24 Dec 1732	St. Paul's Parish, Baltimore, Maryland
Death		Stokes County, North Carolina

Child 1: Rebecca YOUNG

Name:	Rebecca YOUNG
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Richard GOODE (1749-1801)
Birth	1752 (app)	Baltimore County, Maryland
Death	15 Sep 1848 (age 95-96)	Henry, Kentucky

Child 2: William YOUNG

Name:	William YOUNG
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Mary MAJORS (1760-1848)
Birth	1753	Rowan/Stokes, North Carolina
Death	1 Jun 1844 (age 90-91)	Stokes County, North Carolina

Child 3: Benjamin YOUNG

Name:	Benjamin YOUNG
Sex:	Male
Name Suffix:	Jr.
Spouse:	Jane ABBOT (1761?-1847?)
Birth	1755 (app)	Stokes County, North Carolina
Death	1818 (age 62-63)	Stokes County, North Carolina

Child 4: Nathaniel YOUNG

Name:	Nathaniel YOUNG
Sex:	Male
Birth	1756	Rowan/Stokes, North Carolina

Child 5: George YOUNG

Name:	George YOUNG
Sex:	Male
Birth	1759	Rowan/Stokes, North Carolina
Death	11 Mar 1817 (age 57-58)	Rowan/Stokes, North Carolina

Child 6: Samuel YOUNG

Name:	Samuel YOUNG
Sex:	Male
Birth	1760	Rowan/Stokes, North Carolina

Child 7: Joshua YOUNG

Name:	Joshua YOUNG
Sex:	Male
Birth	1762	Rowan/Stokes, North Carolina
Death	1825 (age 62-63)

Note on Marriage 1

Benjamin Young Homestead - Est. 1751.

http://johnsyoung.com/FT-Files/Benjamin-Young-Home-1751.pdf

Note on Marriage 2

The History of the Young and Gist Family and their Interactions with the Moravians at Bethabara.

http://johnsyoung.com/FT-Files/Young-Gist-and-the-Moravians-Web.pdf

Note on Husband: Benjamin YOUNG (1)

Benjamin came to Baltimore, MD at an early age, met and married Zipporah Gist in 1751. They came to the fork of Dan River and Town Fork Creek in Anson County, NC (later Rowan, then Surry , then Stokes) and settled.

 

They went back to Baltimore where first child Rebecca was born in 1752 and then came back to Stokes and got a Granville Land Grant of 699 acres on 8/10/1762 . (See The Granville District of NC 1748-1763, Vol 3, Hoffman, Page 114). The land was on the north side of the Town Fork Creek and Dan River. They were probably the first white residents in what is now Stokes County, NC.

 

They built a stockade against the Indians on their land and called the place "Old Town". Here he farmed, hunted, and fished.

 

One of the stories handed down through the years is that nearby Bull Creek got its name from one of his hunting escapades. The story goes that he went up the creek and stalked a large, ferocious buffalo, and attacked him with his flint rifle. The buffalo was wounded and terribly mad and charged him so that he lost his rifle and took to a tree, where the buffalo kept him treed until the next day.

 

Christopher Young, son of Rhoda, was apprenticed to Benjamin 9/8/1796 to learn the art of wagon making. Rhoda was probably a daughter inlaw.

 

Letters of administration of the estate were issued to son Benjamin Young, George Young, and Joseph Winston on 12/14/1809. There are many references to land transfer in Stokes County Deeds, Vol. I and II,

Note on Husband: Benjamin YOUNG (2)

Benjamin( Sr.) Young is listed in 1790 on the Stokes Co., NC census with 1 M - 16 and 1 M+ 16 and 3 females.

Also listed besides Benjamin Sr.'s sons is a James Young with 3 M +16, 3 M - 18 and 5 females. Who is he??

 

Benjamin is listed as a taxpayer in Surry County 1782 in NC Taxpayers 1679-1790.

 

Also listed are Frost Snow, Henry and Jacob Snow in Surry Co. 1782 from same source. Moses and William Gist are listed in Rowan Co. 1767.

In the book same name but 1701-1786 is listed Benjamin, Cecil, James and Henry Snow years given 1771-72.

 

Benjamin Young was one of the first if not first white man to settle in what is now Stokes County. It was still Anson County when he built a cabin surrounded by a stockade at the junction of Dan River and Town Fork Creek, which afterwards became the first white settlement in Stokes County, now known as Oldtown. Marriage records and other documents show that most Youngs of Stokes and bordering areas of Forsyth and Surry can trace their ancestry to this Benjamin. He married Zipporah Gist, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Howard Gist and her father Nathaniel and brother Christopher came with them to NC.

 

Volume 1 Records of the Moravian in NC mention contact with Captain "Guest" and his son in law Ben Young, of the Town Fork settlement. Benjamin went to the Moravian settlement at Bethabara to have grain ground and spent the night there. Nathaniel Gist was a Captain in the militia and referred to as a "beloved neighbor of Bethabara".

Nathaniel and Mary Howard Gist moved to the western part of NC in 1756, but the Youngs remained in the Stokes area.

 

The part beginning with data on Benjamin Young was taken from articles in Stokes County Heritage by Violet K. Young.

 

August 10 1762 Benjamin was granted 699 acres by the state of NC. It was lying on the north side of Town Fork of the Dan River in Rowan County, NC

In 1770 when Surry formed it was lying in that county. In 1789 it became a part of Stokes. Benjamin and his family are listed in the first US census of 1790 in Stokes County, NC.

 

A lot of the data on Zipporah's family came from Rev. Thomas Young of Sarasota, Fl. and James R. Terry of Miami, Fl. James mentions that he got much of his information on the Howard family from THE GIST FAMILY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND ITS MARYLAND ANTECEDENTS, by Wilson Gee in 1934 and the Gist data from BALTIMORE COUNTY FAMILIES 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes in 1889.

 

[The below notes were from Thomas Young of FL 2007 and he has abbreviated, sometimes Benjamin Young as B.Y. and the other Youngs with a Y]

 

Granville Dist. of NC 1748-1763 Vol. 3 Hoffman, pg 114 gives a land grant of 699 acres on August 10, 1762.

 

Letters of administration of the estate were issued to son Benjamin Young, Jr. on 12/14/1809. George Young and Joseph Winston are securities.

 

STOKES COUNTY MINUTE ABSTRACTS;

Dec. 1790 - B.Y. deeded land to B.Y., Jr.

Mar. 1791 - B.Y. deeded land to Joshua Y

1797 - B.Y., along with sons B.Y. Jr.,Nathaniel and George had road work jury Bull Run to B.Y.s, to Southernlands Mill to Dan River.

 

There are many references to land transfer from Benjamin to his family.

ROWAN COUNTY;

Jan 05, 1757.- DB 2. p. 210-212, B.Y. listed as witness to land transaction on Dan.

Aug. 8, 1762 - DB 5, p. 269-2230. Granville land grant to B.Y. for 10 shillings process money. 699 acres on both sides of Town Fork of Dan.

 

SURRY COUNTY

Feb. 17, 1786 - DB C p. 327. B.Y. to B.Y., Jr. for 1 shilling, 100 acres both sides Town Fork, a part of Granville Grant. Witness: Richard and Rebecca Goode

Feb. 11, 1788 - DB D, p.146-147. B.Y. to B.Y.. Jr. for 110 pounds, 100 acres on N. side Town Fork. Witness: Richard Goode and Samuel Young

 

STOKES COUNTY

 

Mar. 1, 1791 - BY to Joshua Y for 5 shillings, 100 acres - Town Fork- part of original grant. Witness: Richard Goode, Anna Goode

 

Mar 01,1794 - DB 2, p.108. BY to William Y. for 4 shillings 100 acres on both sides of Town Fork, adjacent to land of William Y and Joshua Y.

June 06, 1799 - DB 3, p.211. B.Y. to Christopher Y. for 50 pounds, 50 acres on Town Fork, adjacent George Y: Witness: George Y and BY, Jr.

June 06,1799 - DB 3, p. 211. B.Y. to George Y. 100 acres on Town Fork. Adjacent to . BY, Sr.

Witness: B.Y., Jr. and Christopher Y

Apr. 11, 1800 - DB 3, p. 314: B.Y. to B.Y., Jr. for 5 pounds, 5 acres on Town Fork.

and DB 2, p. 315: B.Y. to B.Y., Jr. for 10 pounds 10 acres on Town fork. Witness to both: George Y and Christopher Y.

Nov. 11,1803 - DB 4 p. 402, B.Y. to Nathaniel Y. for 20 pounds 50 acres on Town Fork. adjacent to William Y. on Indian Branch. Witnesses: Christopher Y. and George Y.

Feb. 26, 1806 - Nathaniel Y. sold above 50 acres to Christopher.

Feb. 9, 1804 - DB 4. p. 376 - BY to Joshua Y. for 20 pounds 8 and one half acres on Town Fork (part of land grant) Adjacent to . William and BY, Jr. Witness:Charles Banner and BY, Jr

.Nov. 7, 1806, DB 5, page 116 - BY, for love, gave to son in law James Carson, 37 acres where I now live. Adjacent to . George Y and Christopher Y.