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Personal data Sr Benjamin Kimsey I 

• Alternative names: Benjamin Kimsey Sr., Benjamin Kimzey Sr., Benjamin McKimzey
• He was born about 1728 in England.Source 6
• Occupations:
• Baptist Minister.Source 7
• Farmer.Source 7
• Resident:
• in the year 1777: .Source 7
• (Alt. Birth) about 1720.Source 5
• (Alt. Birth) in the year 1725: Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.Source 4
• (Alt. Birth) about 1725: Scotland.Sources 2, 3, 8
• (Moved) about 1785: Burke County, North Carolina, USA.Source 7
• (Alt. Death) between 1805 and 1810: Buncombe, North Carolina, USA.Source 6
• (Alt. Death) between 1805 and 1815: Morgan, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA.Source 6
• (Alt. Death) in the year 1807: Cane Creek, Mitchell, North Carolina, USA.Source 2
• He died in the year 1807 in Buncombe, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten.Sources 3, 4, 7, 8

  near Cane Creek

• He is buried in the year 1807.Source 3
• A child of Thomas McKimzey and Elizabeth WifeofThomas McKimzey
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of Sr Benjamin Kimsey I

He is married to Margaret Gragg.

They got married in the year 1750 at Virginia, Verenigde Staten.Sources 2, 4

Child(ren):

1. James Kimsey  1757-1801 

Notes about Sr Benjamin Kimsey I

[Rose Smith.ged]

Name Suffix: Sr

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[Kistner.ged]

According to family tradition, which so far cannot be documented, Benjamin McKimzey was born in Scotland around 1725.  He is said to have fought in the Battle of Culloden Moor where Scotland lost it's independence.  To avoid the savagery with which the English were treating the defeated Scotts and their families, Benjamin McKimzey and some of his people fled to Ireland and walked across this island, a trip which took them six weeks and which was marked with great hardship.  On reaching the coast, they caught a ship to America and settled first in Lord Baltimore's colony (now Maryland) on the east side of the Potomac River.

Upon reaching America, they dropped the first syllable of their last name, leaving the name "Kimzey."  Some members of the family have further changed their name by substituting "s" for "z" and leaving the name as "Kimsey".

James Kimzey, who is thought to have been a brother of Benjamin, settled near him.  They soon moved southwestward, Benjamin settling in Augusta Co., Virginia, and James settling in Henrico Co., Virginia.

Around 1768, Benjamin Kimzey and his family moved to Henrico Co., Virginia, and settled near James Kimzey, where they lived during the American revolution.  For some unknown reason, Benjamin did not take the oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1777, but he and James each subscribed to this oath in 1778 while residing in Henry County.

About 1785 both Benjamin and James Kimzey moved.  James moved into Tennessee and settled on Duck River.  Benjamin moved into what was then Burke, later Buncombe Co., North Carolina, and settled near the mouth of Cane Creek.

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[Dawn Garrett.ged]

The following is copied from pgs 121-125 of "For We Cannot Tarry Here" by Kirke Wilson, San Francisco, 1990:
"The Kimsey family originated in Scotland where Benjamin McKimsey, an older brother of James born in 1725, fought at the Battle of Culloden and fled to safety, with his family to Ireland.  According to family legend, McKimsey and his party crossed Ireland on foot before catching a ship to Maryland where both Benjamin and his brother James, with their name simplified to Kimsey, settled.  Before 1750, the two brothers relocated to Virginia where Benjamin settled in Augusta County and James in Henry County.  About 1768, James moved to Augusta County near his brother where both lived during the Revolutionary War.  The brothers, after some delay, swore loyalty to Virginia in 1778. About 1785, the brothers moved again.  James Kimsey and his family settled on the Duck River in what is now Tennessee where two Kimsey daughters married Simpson sons.  Called "Polly" by the members of her family, Mary Kimsey married William Simpson and her older sister Elizabeth Kimsey married William's older brother James Simpson. ; James Kimsey was killed in the War of 1812, presumably in Tennessee.  Mary Kimsey, the daughter of James Croly, moved, with her daughter and her Simpson in-laws, to Missouri where she died in 1835."

In a letter from Robert Kimsey from Louisianna, to Kathy Shewmaker (Kimsey) it states...
"Benjamin I, the father of our ancestors, is listed on the 1800 census of North Carolina with his wife, the only two people in the household, both are over 45 years old. ; Benjamin II is also listed, he is over 45, his wife is between the age of 25 and 35."

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He is thought to have had a family of six sons and four daughters, but the names of his other children, if any, are not known.  He was living in Henrico Co., Virginia, in 1777, but around 1785 moved to what was then Burke Co., North Carolina.  He married Margaret, daughter of John Gregg, in Virginia, probably Augusta County.  Margaret's father came from Ireland to Pennsylvania.  In 1752 Mr. Gregg left Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania and moved to Augusta Co., Virginia, where he made his home until his death about 1760.  Benjamin and Margaret Gregg Kimzey made their home near Sandy Mush, in Buncombe Co., North Carolina.  He was a Baptist minister and a farmer.  It is said that three of his sons were "Revivalists" or evangelistic Baptist preachers.

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