Notes: The following information, complete with notes and sources, is excerpted from The Hawksbill Pence Families, a book I have been working on for over three years. Included are portions of Chapter 1 concerning the German origins of this family and the children of the four brothers - Lewis, Jacob, Adam and Henry Pence - who joined their father and perhaps other family members in immigrating to America in 1749. I anticipate that the finished volume will contain information on the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of these four brothers, with the names and birth/death dates only for great-great grandchildren. Note that a family is continued only for one generation for female descendants whose mother has the surname Pence (that is, if the information is known, the children and the names of their children). Additionally, there will be an added section more fully dealing with my direct line from Judge John Pence, son of the immigrant Henry Pence, and the families of my cousins down to the present. Reminder to cousins who may check in: Make sure you keep me updated. For general background information on these families, see Shenandoah Valley Pence Families.

Be aware that I have not completed all the documentation and some information will have no source presently indicated or the note itself may be lacking some information that I still must check or update. See the beginning of the notes section for additional information.

If you need help with your PENCE line, please send an e-mail to Richard A. Pence.

1. Johann Georg¹ Bentz (Johannes^A Bentz) was baptized 16 May 1697 in the Reformed Church at Iggelheim, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany, the son of Johannes and Susannah (_____) Bentz.¹ He married Anna Barbara Bullinger 29 Aug. 1719 at Iggelheim. She was baptized 27 Apr. 1698 in Iggelheim, the daughter of Jacob Bullinger and Anna Katherina Weber.² Johann Georg Bentz almost certainly was the Georg Bentz who came to Philadelphia on the ship Phoenix, arriving 15 Sep. 1749. Although his name is recorded among the passengers of that ship, no later record of him has been located. Perhaps he soon died or he lived unrecorded with one of his sons who also came on the Phoenix. Because the names of women passengers are not recorded, it is not known if his wife accompanied him. It is possible she died before the voyage but a study of the registers of the Reformed Church of Iggelheim did not locate a death or burial record for her.

The Children of Johann Georg and Anna Barbarba (Bullinger) Bentz

The Family of Lewis Pence (Johann Ludwig Bentz)

4. Lewis² Pence (Johann Georg¹ Bentz, Johannes^A Bentz) was baptized 31 Dec. 1724 in the Reformed Church at Iggelheim, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany, the son of Johann Georg Bentz and Anna Barbara Bullinger. He came to America with other members of his family on the ship Phoenix in 1749. He died before 25 May 1779 in Shenandoah County, Va., when his oldest son, John, sold some of his land.³ His wife is unknown, although she is identified on a deed record as Barbara in 1767 (see below). A 1794 Shenandoah County marriage bond gives the parents of a Susannah Pence as "Ludwig and Minerva" (see Susannah below), so it is possible he had a second wife. The earliest record found of him after his arrival in America is when he purchased 49 acres of land from Rudolph Mauck in Frederick County, Va., on 26 Aug. 1754.⁴He and his wife Barbara sold this tract to Caspar Taylor 2 June 1767,⁵ after having received a grant of 440 acres from Lord Fairfax on 7 Nov. 1757.⁶ Since no will or estate record can be found for Lewis or his wife or wives, and the church register which may have contained information on his family is lost, the names of his children may never be accurately identified. Only his oldest son John can be documented; all others attributed to him by some are speculative, as indicated below.

The Children of Lewis and Barbara (_____) Pence

The Family of Jacob Pence (Johann Jacob Bentz)

5. Jacob² Pence (Johann Georg¹ Bentz, Johannes^A Bentz) was baptized 14 Dec. 1727 in the Reformed Church at Iggelheim, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany, the son of Johann Georg Bentz and Anna Barbara Bullinger. He came with his father on the ship Phoenix to Pennsylvania 15 Sep. 1749. He died before 29 Oct. 1778 in Shenandoah County, Va., when his wife, Barbara, and Frederick Pence, who is called "oldest son and heir" of Jacob in later deeds, were named administrators of his estate.¹⁹ He married Barbara _____, who after Jacob's death married Henry Harshbarger 20 Dec. 1785 in Shenandoah County. Barbara left a will (written 4 Jan. 1794, filed 14 Mar. 1797) in Shenandoah County, describing herself as widow first of Jacob Pence and then of Henry Harshbarger.²⁰ Jacob received a grant of 262 acres from Lord Fairfax on 20 Aug. 1766. This land was on the Hawksbill Creek and adjoined that of his brother Lewis to the southeast and that of his brother Henry to the northeast; the lands of the latter two abutted each other along the Little Hawksbill Creek about a mile east of the present village of Marksville.²¹

The Children of Jacob and Barbara (_____) Pence²²

The Family of Adam Pence (Johann Adam Bentz)

7. Adam Pence (Johann Georg¹ Bentz, Johannes^A Bentz) was baptized 4 May 1735 in the Reformed Church at Iggelheim, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany, the son of Johann Georg Bentz and Anna Barbara Bullinger, and died between 2 Sep. 1814 (will date) and June 1816 (will probated) in Scott County, Ky.⁵⁸ He no doubt accompanied his father to Pennsylvania in 1749 on the shipPhoenix as a young man age 16 or under and thus does not appear on the list of the ship's passengers who took the oath of allegiance. He married, probably second, Nancy _____, who survived him; no further record can be found of her, however, except that she was living in Georgetown, the seat of Scott County, in 1820.⁵⁹ Census records and ages of his children suggest she was his second wife, since he had two children under the age of 10 in his household in 1810 and all of his other six children were married with families by then.⁶⁰ No deeds can be found in Frederick or Shenandoah counties, Va., for Adam Pence, but he appears there as early as 1762⁶¹ and is on tax lists for Shenandoah county in the 1770s and 1780s.⁶² He apparently went to Kentucky before 1800, when he apears on the tax list. He served in Jacob Holeman's company in Dunmore County in the Revolutionary War.⁶³ His will mentions his wife Nancy and children Adam, George, John, Mary, Elizabeth, Catherine, William and the youngest, probably Nancy but variously rendered as what looks to be Nanny or Narmy or Naoma in the will. His last two children were probably the only two children of Nancy.

The Children of Adam and _____ (_____) Pence

The Children of Adam and Nancy (_____) Pence

The Family of Henry Pence (Johann Heinrich Bentz)

8. Henry² Pence (Johann Georg¹ Bentz, Johannes^A Bentz) was born probably in late October, 1739, at Iggelheim, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany, and was baptized in the Reformed Church there in November of that year, the son of Johann Georg Bentz and Anna Barbara Bullinger. He died, probably on 1 March, in 1824 in Champaign County, Oh.⁷⁶ He wrote his will 10 Apr. 1820 and it was filed 1 Dec. 1824 in Champaign County. ⁷⁷ He married about 1765 Mary Magdalene Blimly, probably in Frederick County, Va. Her surname is known as Flowers among some descendants. The name Flowers is perhaps an English translation of "blumlein," the German word for flower. No record of this marriage has been found. The source of the surname Blimly is Beers' county history, where it is given in a quite accurate write-up on David Pence, son of Henry's son Abraham.⁷⁸ Among the descendants of Henry's son Benjamin Pence in Bartholomew County, Ind., her maiden name is believed to have been Flowers, and the author has received correspondence from descendants of Henry's daughter Anna (Norman), who settled in Montgomery County, Ind., in which it is stated that "the only thing I know about Anna Pence is that her mother was a 'Mrs. Flowers.'"⁷⁹ Descendants of Henry's daughter Mary (Runkle) also give Flowers as her name.⁸⁰ And John Pence, son of Henry, named a daughter Phoebe Flowers; however, John's grandson, Kingsley Adolphus Pence, accepted Blimly, probably from the Beers history, as the surname in his book on the descendants of one of Henry's sons.⁸¹ Mary was born in 1749 and died, probably on 20 Sep. 1829, in Champaign County. She is buried next to her husband in Nettle Creek Cemetery. A write-up on the centenial birthday of a granddaughter, Dicey (Runkle) Dunlap, said: "Her grandmother on the mother's side came as a child with her parents, and while the ship was making the journey both parents died. The little girl was later adopted by a family on board the ship. The family settled in Virginia and their descendants moved to Ohio."⁸² Henry is first identified as being in Frederick County (later Shenandoah County) in October of 1760, probably shortly after he reached the legal age of 21, when he and his brother Adam purchased a land warrant from John Walker. He later received a patent for this 474 acres on 30 Mar. 1770. This land is described as "on Rich Mountain at the head of the Hawksbill."⁸³ Henry moved to Mad River Twp. in 1805, along with many members of his family; others, including children and nieces and nephews, followed later. His descendants have been granted membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution on the basis of his service in Captain Michael Reader's company in the Revolutionary War.⁸⁴

The Children of Henry and Mary (Blimly) Pence⁸⁵

Notes and Sources

Note regarding Shenandoah County, Va., and Champaign County, Oh., marriage records in this compilation: Because a great many of the marriages herein took place in either Shenandoah County or Champaign County, individual citations to the marriage records are not given, but are as follows:

Shenandoah County: The county clerk's office in Woodstock has a compiled index to marriage bonds in the county from its inception in 1772 to 1850. The author has copied the Pence marriages from that index and verified them against other sources, including the original bonds. These are the source for all Shen. Co. marriages for which a full date is given in this compilation, unless it is otherwise stated. Records for this county are also available in two publications: Bernice M. Ashby, Shenandoah County, Va., Marriage Bonds, 1772-1850 (Berryville, Va.: Berryville Book Co., 1967); and John Vogt and T. William Keithly, Jr., Virginia Historic Marriage Register: Shenandoah County Marriage Bonds, 1772-1850 (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Publishing Co., n.d.).

Champaign County: Marriage Records, Probate Court, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio 1805 to 1865 In Volumes A, B, C, D, E, F & G, Compiled Under The Direction of The Urbana Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution in 1934 and 1935. Again, where doubts or conflicts arose, the original records were checked for the author by Pat Stickley of the Champaign County Genealogical Society.

As with all indexes, errors have been encountered. For example, the marriage bond for the author's third great grandfather's first marriage to Eve Piper in Shenandoah County is indexed under "John Poentz (Jr.)." The original bond clearly reads "John Pence," although he is joined in signing it by a John Pentz (probably his cousin). Other errors are noted elsewhere in the appropriate notes.

In addition to Pat Stickley, the author is greatly indebted to Denise K. Moore, Gautier, Miss., for her research, insight and knowledge of the many Champaign County families whose names appear herein.

1. Registers of the Reformed Church in Iggelheim, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany, Microfilm Rolls No. 0193910 and No. 0193911, Family History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (no pagination; entries can be found in chronological order). All birth, baptism, marriage and death dates for this family are taken from these registers. Birth, baptismal and marriage records in these registers were extracted for the International Genealogical Index of the LDS Church by the Genealogical Society of Utah. The registers begin in 1603 (baptisms), 1612 (marriages) and 1620 (burials), with many gaps in the years prior to 1700. The registers prior to 1798 are on the two cited rolls. These microfilmed registers have been carefully examined by Thomas Wolf Noy (whose wife is a descendant of Henry2 Pence's son Reuben), an experienced researcher and one familiar with 18th Century German script. He has verified the accuracy of the IGI extractions and uncovered a few additional details about earlier ancestors. Note that there are at least three gaps in the ages of the seven children given where one would normally expect to find other children, possibly daughters, but none have been located in the registers.

Known children of Johannes^A and Susannah Bentz (their parentage is unknown; also note the disparity of ages of these children, so possibly two couples with the same names are involved):

2. Iggelheim Registers. Known children of Jacob^A Bullinger and Anna Katherina Weber (their parents unknown):

3. Shenandoah Couty, Va., Deed Book C, 223.

4. Frederick County, Va., Deed Book 3, 363.

5. Fred. Co. DB 11, 437.

6. Photocopy of warrant and survey filed under Jacob Pence at the Library of Virginia. The original warrant is dated 20 Nov. 1749; no date on the survey. Pence is assignee of John Price and the grant is for the land where Price lives on the Hawksbill. Adjoining John Lyenberger [Lionberger].

7. Shenandoah County, Va., Deed Book C, 223.

8. Shen. Co. DB O, 26 Aug. 1805, 394: John Pence and Elizabeth his wife, of Shenandoah Co., sold the last of his land there. This deed lists how the entire 440 acres of Lewis' original grant were disposed of: 110 acres to Henry Pence, 110 acres to Michael Wise, 40 acres to Joseph Pence, 10 acres to Henry Pence and 6 acres to Rudolph Baker; the remaining 164 acres by this deed to George Rodecap and Joseph Spitler. In a deed dated the previous day, John and Elizabeth sold to Rodecap and Spitler two other tracts of land of 148 acres and 80 acres, these described as being patented to John from the Commonwealth in 1796 and 1799, respectively (DB O, 397). W. H. Beers & Company,The History of Clark County, Ohio (Chicago: 1882), 1002: A biographical sketch of John Kiblinger, a son of Jacob and Mary (Pence) Kiblinger says: "Jacob first visited this county in 1801, and between this date and the year 1805, made four trips from Virginia to this county, assisting in moving several of the Kiblinger and Pence families to their new home." Mary is a daughter of John Pence, son of Lewis².

9. 1820 United States Census of German Twp., Clark County, Oh., 18. Peter Pence and John Pence Sr. are listed on adjacent lines and Abraham is further down on this same page; it appears that Abraham was enumerated twice, for this name also is on the preceding page 17 with two slight variations in the number of people in each age group. John and his wife were both age 45 and older, with no others in the household.

10. Note that in 1830 a younger John Pence appears in German Twp. for the first time; this was the long-time Clark Co. minister who was a descendant of Valentine Pence of Augusta (Rockingham) Co., Va.

11. Champaign County, Oh., Deed Book A, 316.

12. Cham. Co. DB B, 98.

13. Clark Co. DB D, 454.

14. Clark Co. Tax Duplicates, 1826-1830, Microfilm Roll No. 1912, Library, Springfield, Oh.

15. The full muster roll of Michael Reader's Company appears in Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, Vol. I, Virginia (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967), 602-603; and Harry M. Strickler, A Short History of Page County, Va. (Richmond: The Dietz Press, Inc., 1952), 389-390. The author has a photocopy of the original, made from a copy in the Hadley Library in Winchester, Va.

16. Shenandoah County, Va., marriage records: The county clerk's office in Woodstock, Shenandoah Co., has a compiled index to marriage bonds in the county from its inception in 1772 to 1850. The author has copied the Pence marriages from that index and verified them against other sources, including the original bonds. These are the source for all Shenandoah Co. marriages for which a full date is given in this compilation, unless it is otherwise stated. Records for this county are also available in two publications: Bernice M. Ashby, Shenandoah County, Va., Marriage Bonds, 1772-1850 (Berryville, Va., Book Co.: 1967); and John Vogt and T. William Keithly, Virginia Historic Marriage Register: Shenandoah County Marriage Bonds, 1772-1850 (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Publishing Co., n.d.). As with all indexes, errors have been encountered. For example, the marriage bond for the author's third great grandfather's first marriage, to Eve Piper, is indexed under "John Poentz (Jr.)," while the original bond clearly reads "John Pence," although he is joined in signing it by a John Pentz (probably his cousin). Other errors are noted elsewhere in this compilation.

17. Beers' Clark Co. Hist., 1002.

18. The children of Jacob and Margaret (Pence) Kiblinger were Daniel, Jacob, Catherine, Eve and Adam. Daniel Kiblinger married Elizabeth Pence on 5 Nov. 1803 in Shenandoah Co.; Jacob Kiblinger married Mary (Polly) Pence on 10 Jan. 1811 in Champaign Co., Oh.; Eve Kiblinger married Peter Pence (from son's family Bible, see write-up on Samuel Pence, chapter 8) about 1819 probably in Clark Co. The three Pences are all believed to be children of John (son of Lewis²) and Elizabeth Pence.

19. Shen. Co. WB A, 198. Frederick and Barbara posted a bond of 3,000. Jacob's valuation was returned as 1,034, 3 shillings and 6 pence (p. 219).

20. Shen. Co. WB E, 65. The will of Barbara Hershberger calls her, first, the widow of Jacob Pence and, second, the widow of Henry Harshbarger, and names her Pence children as Frederick, Lewis, Daniel, Emanuel, Jacob, Barbary Rinker (Kibler?), Mary Hershberger, Susannah Nale, Eave Kevler and Elizabeth Frees.

21. Photocopy of original warrant and survey, filed under Jacob Pence at the Library of Virginia. Jacob was assignee of John Nicholson of Augusta Co., Va. The original warrant was dated 7 July 1749; survey dated 8 Dec. 1749; 262 acres whereon he (Jacob Pence) lives in the fork of the Hawksbill; adjoining John Price and Mungas his brother.

22. Shen. Co. WB E, 65.

23. Birth record from: John T. Humphrey, Birth Index: Southeastern Pensylvania, 1680-1800, Family Archives CD #196 (Fremont, Calif.: Broderbund, Inc., 1997). Death: Cham. Co. WB B, 145-146: Will of Frederick Pence, filed 8 Mar. 1832. Mentions wife and children, not named except for son Martin.

24. She apparently was the widow of Henry Venis, as Frederick Pence posted bond on 11 Apr. 1820 as guardian of Adam Venis, minor heir of Henry Venis, deceased (Cham. Co. Guardian Bonds, Vol 1, 108).

25. See, for example, Shen. Co. DB C, 498.

26. Beatrice Carson, Pence Family Genealogy, Descendants of Henry, Jacob and Lewis Pence, Shenandoah County, Va., and Champaign Co., Oh.(Washington, D.C.: unpublished manuscript, 1967) [hereinafter called: Carson, Pence Descendants, 59.

27. See note 15.

28. Cham. Co. Probate Records, Vol. 1, 1804-1849, 330: William Runkle gave bond as administrator of the estate of Lewis Pence on 22 Jan. 1833.

29. The index to the marriage bonds in the courthouse in Woodstock, Shenandoah Co., and the two publications based on this index are in error that her name was Kiblinger. See Shen. Co. DB M, 9 June 1800, 183, for one of a series of deeds involving the land and family of Henry Kibler. In this one, Mary, Henry's widow, and his children (Adam Kibler and Barbara [Pence] his wife, John Kibler and Eve [Pence] his wife, Martin Kibler and Molly his wife, John Baker and Molly his wife, Lewis Pence and Barbara his wife) conveyed land to Philip Kibler (also a son of Henry, as noted in the next deed the same day; his wife was Catherine). [Lewis Pence signed these deeds in German.]

30. Shen. Co. DB F, 26 Sep. 1787, 458. In a later deed, Lewis sold 129 acres of this land to Emanuel Pence, another son of Jacob², on 9 June 1800 (DB M, 196), and this deed says the land is "bounded according to division survey which was by the said Frederick Pence conveyed by deed as followeth to Lewis Pence...." A "division" usually signifies that the land was divided to effect the terms of a will or other agreement about the disposition of real estate, indicating a relationship such as being brothers. The grant to Jacob² was divided exactly in half, with the lower 131 acres of the original 262 being deeded to Lewis. [The remaining two-plus acres that Frederick conveyed to Lewis were sold to Henry²Pence, also on 9 June (Shen. Co. DB M, 197).]

31. Cham. Co. DB E, 366. John Pence to Lewis Pence. Lewis was still in Shenandoah Co. in 1819 (see next note) amd on 16 Apr. 1818 when John Pence and his wife Elizabeth, John Norman (Nowman) and his wife Nancy (a nickname for Ann) and William Runkle and his wife Mary sold the south half of Sec. 36, Twp. 3, Range 11 (Jackson Twp.) to Lewis Pence of "Shenando County," Va. (Cham. Co. DB D, 306) (John, Nancy [Anna] and Mary were all children of Henry² Pence). Beers' Cham. Co. Hist., 723: Lewis Pence came to the county in 1820. The Centennial History of Champaign County, Ohio (New York & Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1902), 72: In one of the rare mentions of relationships for early Pences in Cham. Co. literature, a write-up on Elijah Pence, grandson of Lewis, states Lewis was an early settler as was John Pence, "who was his cousin."

32. Shen. Co. DB Z, 345, 347, both recorded 22 Sep. 1819; Lewis is said to be of Shen. Co.

33. See note 15.

34. Cham. Co. Court of Common Pleas, Minute Book 16, 249.

35. She is called daughter of Philip in the marriage bond; Philip's will, dated 27 Dec. 1802 and proved 8 Apr. 1808, mentions, among others, his wife Elizabeth and his daughter Catherine. Shen. Co. WB F, 427, as given in Amelia C. Gilreath, Shenandoah County, Virginia, Abstract of Wills, 1772-1850 (Nokesville, Va.: published by the author, 1980), 175.

36. Shen. Co. DB H, 70.

37. John W. Wayland, A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969; reprint of the 1927 edition), 225-227. Wayland quotes from the 1783 and 1785 tax lists that substitute for the first census of the U.S. in 1790 for Shenandoah Co. and provides information on localities. The lists for both 1783 and 1785 also appear in Harry M. Strickler, Massanutten (no publisher given: 1924), 111-118 (Subtitled "Settled by the Pennsylvania Pilgrim, 1726, the first White Settlement in the Shenandoah Valley").

38. Shen. Co. DB O, 465.

39. Ellen T. and David A. Berry (compilers), Early Ohio Settlers, Purchasers of Land in Southwestern Ohio, 1800-1840 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986), 252-253, includes this purchase plus many other Pence purchases at the Cincinnati land office for land in Champaign County as well as in Clark and Shelby counties.

40. 1830 U.S. Cens. of Cham. Co., Mad River Twp., 34. In his household were one male 10-15, two females 10-15, one female 20-30 and one 40-50 (who could be either a daughter or a second wife). Pences listed on that same page in 1830 were Frederic, Adam, Daniel Jr., John, Martin (son of Lewis), Daniel Sen., Henry, Abram, Lewis, Martin and Joseph. On the next page are Elizabeth and David.

41. Cham. Co. DB A, 7 June 1813, 368. Martin Strickler and his wife Ann, of Rockingham Co., sold for $400 the northeast quarter of the west 1/2 of Sec. 23, Twp. 4, Range 11 in Greene Co., land patented to Strickler in 1812 and part of the Virginia Reserve, to Daniel Pence of Greene Co. Note from the description that this land is in Mad River Twp. and not in Greene Co. or the Virginia Reserve. Strickler is shown as holding pre-emption rights on the described half section in Mad River Twp. in 1803 (Denise K. Moore, The Northern Portion of the Proposed John Cleves Symmes "Miami Purchase" of 3 October 1787, Early Ohio Land Owners of Ranges VIII Through XIV, Townships I Through VII [Gautier, Miss.: published by the author, 1991], 30). This land was a part of Greene Co. in that year and apparently Strickler, from his vantage point in Virginia and relying on his original warrant, thought the land was still in Greene Co. when he conveyed it to Daniel; the clerk apparently entered the deed as presented to him.

42. James F. Southerland, Early Kentucky Householders, 1787-1811 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1986), 145, shows Emanuel (sometimes spelled Amanuel) on the tax lists of Lincoln County from 1802 through 1811, which is the last year included in this book. Emanuel appears in the 1810 U.S. Cens. of Lincoln Co. (p. 129), but his wife Catherine is the head of household in 1820 (p. 89); and in 1830 (p. 81).

43. Shen. Co. DB M, 196, purchase from Lewis. DB M, 480, sales to Adam Kibler and Jacob Pence. The fact that Jacob with wife Mary [Coffman} sold this land to Martin Kite on 10 June 1805 identifies him as the son of Henry². (DB O, 214). This land, part of the grant to Jacob², was located near the point where the grants to Lewis, Jacob and Henry met.

44. Lincoln Co., Ky., DB 2, 18.

45. 1810 U.S. Cens. of Lincoln Co., 129.

46. 1820 U.S. Cens. for Lincoln Co., 89; 1830 U.S. Cens. for Lincoln Co., 81.

47. The number in the family at each census: 1810--three males under 10, one male 10-16, one male 16-26, one male 45 and up; one female under 10, four females 10-16, one female 16-26, one female 45 and up; 1820--one male 10-16, one male 16-18, one male 16-26, two females under 10, one female 10-16, two females 16-26, one female 45 and up; 1830--one male 20-30, one male 30-40, one female 15-20, one female 70-80.

48. Denise K. Moore, Champaign County Records, Part 2, Mad River Township, Johnson Township (Gautier, Miss.: published by the author, 1982), 64.

49. The History of Champaign County, Ohio (Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882), 761. "Buckingham County" likely results from confusion with Rockingham Co., the adjoining county to the south of Shenandoah; perhaps some of the Printz side of the family came from there.

50. 1810 U.S. Cens. of Shen. Co., 15.

51. Wayland, Hist. of Shen. Co., 629. Eva Printz, daughter of Godlove, married Jacob Pence and they were Ohio pioneers of 1819. Shen. Co. DB S, 17 July 1811, 404: Jacob Pence and wife Eve sold an equal undivided sixth part of 280 acres and names her five brothers. The land was conveyed to the six by John Roller and Magdalene, his wife, widow of Godlove Prince (DB S, 7 June 1811, 182).

52. Shen. Co. DB T, 14 Dec. 1811, 408.

53. The recorded version of her mother's will is difficult to read. The name surely looks like Rinker, but it could possibly be Kibler. Remember that a clerk copied from the original into the will book and may have had difficulty reading the name. The author has a series of books by Amelia C. Gilreath which abstract the deeds of Shenandoah Co. and another book by her that abstracts the wills. Although Rinker is one of the most-mentioned names in these books, the indexes of them do not reveal a single Barbara Rinker (wills up through 1850 and deeds through 1820).

54. Amelia C. Gilreath, Shenandoah County, Virginia, Abstract of Wills, 1772-1850 (Nokesville, Va.: published by the author, 1980), 96: Will of Henry Hershberger, dated 1782, proved 28 Feb 1788, WB B, 348. Mentions wife, not named, and children Anna, John, Henry, Abraham, Christian, Samuel, Daniel, David; John and Henry to be bound out and then be put to a trade; Abraham and Christian to receive schooling; likewise David and Daniel to be sent to school. Martin Kauffman and John Hockman were named guardians. David Jordan swore to the translation.

55. 1820 U.S. Cens. of Shenandoah Co., 327.

56. However, Emanuel Pence sold land to Adam Kibler on 7 Sep. 1801 he had purchased from William Nail and Sally, a common diminutive for Sarah, but not Susannah, his wife, on 10 June 1801 (Shen. Co. DB M, 480). [The Nail to Emanuel Pence deed is not in the index to the Shenandoah Co. deeds, nor is it included in Amelia C. Gilreath's book of deed abstracts for that period.]

57. Duane Lyle Borden, Tombstone Inscriptions, Strasburg and Vicinity, Shenandoah County, Virginia, Vol. II (Ozark, Mo.: Yates Publishing Co., 1982), 139-140. Marker placed in the Martin Kibler Cemetery, Kimball, Page Co., Va.: "John Kibler, born ca. 1765, died ca. 1841. He married 30 May 1793 Eva Pence who was born 1770/1780 and died in 1845. Married by Rev. John Countz (Koontz). Eva d/o Jacob Pence & Barbara; with 9 children presumed to be buried here."

58. Scott Co., Ky., WB B, 321. The will book entry is a copy of the original entry, which was damaged in a court house fire and contins some skips and unreadable portions.

59. 1820 U.S. Cens. for Scott Co., 95.

60. 1810 U.S. Cens., Scott Co., Ky., 189. Adam appears with the following family: one male under ten, one over 45; one female under 10 and one over 45. His three older sons all appear in separate households. Adam Jr.'s family (p. 181) includes two males under ten, one over 45; three females under 10 and one 26-45. George's family (p. 191) has five males under ten, one over 45; one female 26-45. John's family (p. 173) has two males under ten, one 26-45; two females under 10, one 10-16, one 26-45. The two children under ten in Adam Sr.'s household were William and Nancy.

61. See note 83.

62. See note 37.

63. Harry M. Strickler, A Short History of Page County, Va. (Richmond: The Dietz Press, Inc., 1952), 389.

64. Scott Co. DB D, 29 Sep. 1831, 149. [The year in this date was difficult to read and may be in error.]

65. Boone Co., Ky., WB E, 513-514: will of John Shaver, written 16 June 1831, filed May term of court, 1851. He provided in his will that any child or grandchild who tried to contest it would receive only $1.00, so it appears the will was left unfiled until Elizabeth's death. A letter to the author from Gladys Boehmer, 8 June 1982, gives his possible place of birth and age, citing census records for the estimated age.

66. Boone Co. WB E, 601-604: List of the sale of John Shaver's personal propert held 21 May 1851, ordered recorded at the January, 1852, term of court; Boone Co. WB F, 211-212: accounting of the estate of John Shaver, as of 31 May 1853, valued at $7,562.85; although this is called a "settlement," there is no indication that anything was paid at this time to the heirs. No other records pertaining to the estate were located.

67. Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry (compiler), Will Records of Ralls County, Missouri. Vol. I, 1824-1872 (Chillicothe, Mo.: published by the author, n.d.) , 41, citing WB 1, 167: the will of Katy Utterback, written 16 Nov. 1855 and proved 8 Sep. 1858, mentions sons Joseph (deceased), Adam, Simeon, Harmon and Abram; daughters Elizabeth Norman, Rebecca Ely and Emily Stevens.

68. From correspondent; verification needed.

69. Goldena Roland Howard, Ralls County History (n.p.: 1980), 435.

70. Scott Co. WB K, 28: States he has previously given his children most of his property and that he has given his son Daniel all that he intends; the residual of his estate should be divided among his other sons.

71. W. M. Paxton, Annals of Platte County, Missouri (Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1897), 419-420. States George married a Brown and gives the children of his sons except for Daniel.

72. Richard H. Pence and Thomas R. Rule posted bond as administrators of the estate of John Pence 30 Apr. 1836. Papers filed with the bond state John Pence left a widow and seven children: Richard H. Pence, Evaline Campbell, Julian Campbell, Clarissa Rule, Emily Bergs, John T. Pence and Harriet L. Ward. Richard, Clarissa, John T. and Evaline are living in Clay Co.; in Jackson Co. are Julian and Emily C.; Harriet L. is in Kentucky. (Information taken from photocopies of original papers filed in Clay Co.)

73. Microfilm No. 971562, Family History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City: Letter dated 28 Mar. 1912 and signed "commissioner" cites "claim R. File No. 63," says (among other children) that Richard Lightburn (a lieutenant in the Virginia State Navy) had a daughter Sarah who married John Pense and that Richard died at Washington, Mason Co., Ky., in November of 1794; a handwritten addition to this typed letter says that the name of Richard's wife is not stated in the file. Dates for Sarah from correspondent, citing New Hope Cemetery records in the county library at Richmond, Ray Co., Mo.

74. James Wade Emison, The Emison Families (Vincennes, Ind.: J. W. Emison, Jr., 1954), 201.

75. The William who went from Kentucky to Orange Co. and Crawford Co., Ind., was born 1 Jan. 1801 in Kentucky and died - July 1849 in Crawford Co. (1850 Mortality Schedule). He married, first, Mary Crecelious on 6 Nov. 1828 in Crawford Co. and, second, Ellis Winter (Winetur) on 21 Oct. 1832 in Orange Co. Children: Adam (born 1830), Mary (born about 1832, died at birth with mother), Marthina (born 1833), Nancy Jane (born 1835), Thomas W. (born 1836), Barbara (born 1839), Jonathan Jones (born 1842), Mary Elizabeth (born 1844) and John Lawrence (born 1847). Information from a descendant, Max Goble, Port Heuneme, Calif.

76. Henry Pence and his wife, Mary Blimly, are buried in Nettle Creek Church Cemetery southwest of Urbana, Champaign Co., Oh. The author visited this cemetery on 31 May 1970 and copied the inscriptions of the members of the Pence family buried there. Henry�s tombstone at that time read, simply, �Henry Pence, 1740-1826.� That of his wife, a separate stone next to Henry�s, read �Mary Pence, 1749-1829.� These stones may have been replacements for earlier ones, for Kingsley Adolphus Pence, in his definitive book on the descendants of one of Henry�s sons (History of Judge John Pence and Descendants [Denver: 1912]), states on p. 12 that Henry�s tombstone says he died on 1 Mar. 1826, �Aged 86 Years.� Kingsley Pence surmises that this stone, too, may have been erected some years after Henry�s death because the death date is wrong; Henry�s will was proved in Champaign Co. court on 1 Dec. 1824. Kingsley Pence also says that the age at death may also be an error �as family tradition and county histories say he was born in 1740.� Henry�s wife�s inscription is given in this book as �Mary Pence, died Sep. 20, 1829, Aged 80 years,� also different from the inscription copied by the author in 1970. The History of Champaign County, Ohio (Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co, 1881), 724, gives her year of birth as 1746, which appears more in line with the fact that her first child was born in 1766 (although the last of the 17 who survived to adulthood was born in 1791). The author has relatively recent photographs of this couple�s tombstones and they show only the years of birth and death, as he had copied them.

77. Cham. Co. WB B, 47. The will of Henry Pence, dated 10 Apr. 1820, filed 1 Dec. 1824:

My beloved son-in-law John Norman all my land on which I now live containing one hundred and thirty-five acres; Norman to pay my son Benjamin Pence five hundred dollars, and six hundred and seventy-five dollars to my other children within five years after the death of my self and wife as follows, to Jacob Pence my eldest son, two dollars, to the heirs of my son Samuel Pence, dec'd, two dollars and the balance of the six hundred and seventy five dollars the said Norman is to pay in equal proportion to the other children Henry Pence, Abraham Pence, John Pence, David Pence, Joseph Pence, Isaac Pence, Rubin Pence, Susannah Jenkins, Anna Norman, Elizabeth Stoneberger, Mary Runkle and the two sons of Barbary Stewart dec'd, Joseph Rosenbarger and Henry Steward which two boys to have one equal share between them.

78. Beers' Cham. Co. Hist., 724.

79. Letter to the author from Jan Cutsinger, St. Charles, Mo., 7 Aug. 1978.

80. Family group sheet dated 5 Mar. 1984 prepared by Robert J. Runkle, Peoria, Ill., a copy of which he sent to the author.

81. K. A. Pence, Judge John Pence, 12.

82. ------, 99 (title sheet lost; seeking new one) This story is also repeated in Dicey's obituary, although this version does not say it was her maternal grandmother: "Her grandparents came from Germany. Her grandmother was but a child when the journey was made across the deep and her parents died on the voyage. She was then adopted by a family on the ship and went with them to Pennsylvania, their descendants moving to Virginia and finally to Ohio." (Jacksonville [Ill.] Daily Journal, 23 Jan. 1912.)

83. Photocopy of the original warrant and survey, filed under Henry Pence at the Library of Virginia. Henry Pence, in his own right and as assignee of Adam Pence, both assignees of John Walker of Augusta Co., Va. (in warrant of 4 Jan. 1749/50) and of Orange Co., Va. (in survey of 17 Mar. 1750); grant for 474 acres �at rich Mountain and the head of Hawksbill� adjoining John Price, John Nicholson, Jno. Baylis and Jacob Okerboker [Offenbacker]. In October of 1760 John Walker sold to Adam and Henry Pence and Adam relinquished his right to Henry. �Rich Mountain� has not been located on any map, giving rise to consideration that it may have been a corruption of �Ridge Mountain� and was intended to convey that the land was at the foot of a mountain of the Blue Ridge. Topographic maps show the foot of a mountain, unnamed, at the southeast corner of Henry�s grant.

84. The Ohio DAR News, Dec., 1971, "Henry Pence, Rev. Soldier," by Lucy Blose Lutz, 13-14. This is an article on the placing of a Revolutionary War veteran's plaque on Henry Pence's grave. See also note 15.

85. There are two old lists giving the births of the children of Henry Pence and Mary Blimly. The dates on both lists match quite accurately the dates of several of the children obtained from other sources.

The first list discovered was made early this century by Mary Catherine Pence, a granddaughter of Henry's son Benjamin, in Bartholomew Co., Ind. A copy of the list was placed in K. A. Pence's Judge John Pence in the Indiana State Library 15 Apr. 1933 by Charles Pence, a grandson of Henry's son Benjamin. Charles' son, Roger, sent a handwritten copy to the author in 1971 and in July of 1972 Roger accompanied the author to view the list, which had been copied into the back of an old ledger book by Mary C. Pence. Roger Pence wrote that it was copied from a record included in family papers given Mary C. by her grandfather. The ledger, which has the date 14 June 1910 along with Mary C. Pence's name and address at that time, was in the possession of her nephew, Frank (Benamin Franklin) Roupp, Rt. 2, Edinburg, German Twp., Bartholomew Co. At this writing (Nov. 1996), children of Frank Roupp seem not to know where the ledger might be.

Following the birth date of each child is inscribed a zodiac sign. The dates of birth do not correspond to the normal dates associated with these signs. It is believed that the signs are "moon signs" similiar to those still found on some calendars. The early German immigrants used these signs as a guide to when to plant certain crops. (Samples of these can be found in, for instance, The Farmers Almanac.) Comparision of the signs with the signs for the dates involved (calculated with a computer program) shows that at least 12 of them correlate to these signs. All of these children no doubt were born near the Little Hawksbill Creek just east of the present-day town of Stanley in Page Co., Va.; however, because of county boundary development, the first five were born in then-Frederick Co. and the rest in then-Shenandoah Co. Following is the family record sent to the author by Roger Pence, who copied it from his father's list. The author has verified it against the list Mary C. Pence placed in the ledger book.

Family Record of Henry Pence

154. See note 136.