Anne Spicer

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-507429

She passed away in Virginia about 1760.

Please note that the only document ever found where she SIGNED her name is in 1731, It reads: " ANNA BENTLEY "!

This is "Ann" / "Anne" / "Anna" m Bentley and is my GGGGGgm, the proved wife of the Daniel Bentley who dies c1723 Richmond Co VA - SEE: Bentley-778. I have no idea of the source of an "ANNE" - sometime listed as Jr's wife.... I have seen the last name "Miller" posted around the Daniel Sr and Jr Family (Never a source), as well as a possible last name for my GGGGGgm here (who may be a "Nash" because: 1 In 1723, Thomas Nash Sr purchased land in " the tenour and occupation of [New "widow"] Anne Bentley". and 2 In 1731, "before matrimony" to James Spicer, she gives her property to her 3 sons and signs "Anna Bentley" - witnessed by Thomas Nash SR and JR). George F. Bentley

Family

• Daniel Bentley
• Born about 1685 in Gloucester, Virginia
• Died before Jun 1723 before about age 38 in Richmond County, Virginia
• Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
• [sibling unknown]
• Husband of Ann (Unknown) Bentley — married about 1713 (to before 4 Jun 1723) in Richmond County, Virginiamap [uncertain]
• Father of John Bentley, Ann Bentley, Samuel Bentley Sr and William Bentley

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Bentley Origins

There is an unknown Bentley progenitor of this well established 1600s Virginia family that includes the following four identifiable (proved by DNA) branches:

1. Daniel Sr born c1675 with a 1721 will in Richmond Co. and married to Elizabeth
2. The other Daniel born c1685 Richmond Co. and died there c1723 married to Ann with three children baptized in North Farnham Parish
3. John born c1705 who married Mary Ellis 1727 in Christ Church Middlesex Co. and was living in Amelia Co. by c1735
4. Samuel born c1710 (NOT 1719) and living in Amelia Co. by c1734 with a 1784 will and a son Efford

One of the two Daniels is 1704 "Dan of Glouster" and the two remaining patriarchs may be brothers. I know of no proved ancestor of any of these four. Regards, George F. Bentley