The Quest for Benajah Fall
Question: Are the Benajah Falls listed below the same person, father and son, cousins or completely unrelated?
Benajah Slack wrote a will and died in 1818. He left property in the town of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, NY, now the town of Perth, Fulton County. One third was left to his son William, one third to grandsons Nathan and Roswell Slack, and one third to his daughter Elizabeth-“I do also give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth one undivided third of all my real estate during her natural life, then to be my grand son Beneagah Fauls; and he is to pay his sisters Mary and Ann each fifty dollars out of the same.” The only trace I have found NY is in an 1826 deed in which his cousins sold their share of the property left to Roswell Slack Jr. It lists the property of Benajah Fall as a boundary. This is probably his portion of the Benajah Slack farm.
I believe the Amsterdam Benajah was the son of Henry Fall. A Henry Fall is enumerated with the Slack’s in the 1790 census of Kinderhook, Columbia County, NY. In 1810 Elizabeth Fall was the head of a household in Amsterdam, NY.
The IGI shows a Benajah Fall born in 1805 in Amsterdam NY. He moved to Michigan and died 1879.
The 1840 census of Superior Township, Washtenaw County, MI shows a Bennajah Fall as the head of a family with one male 5 - 10, one male 10-15, one male 30-40, one male 60 - 70, two females under 5, two females 5 - 10, one female 30 - 40. Is Bennajah the male between 30 and 40, or the male 60 - 70. If he was age 30 to 40 he was born between 1800 and 1810. If he was age 60 - 70, he was born between 1770 and 1780. Since his mother was age 45 and up in 1810, my guess would be that the male age 60 - 70 was a father-in-law. Or he may have been unrelated and boarding at the house.
The 1845 census of Superior Township, Washtenaw County, MI lists a B. F. Fall and a Benager Fall. Were they father and son?
The 1860 census of Hamburg, Livingston County, MI shows B. F. Fall age 50, born NY, Ann Maria 47, born NY, Charles F 18, born IN, Dewitt and Delos, both 12, born MI. In 1870 Ann M was the head of the household.
Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies Forgotten Settlers shows Bennajah and Messila Fall as early pioneers.
One researcher found a gravestone for Benjamin Franklin Fall, Pioneer, born 1810 Monroe County, NY and died 1869 Ann Arbor, MI. His gravestone shows that he was a patriot in the Canadian Rebellion of 1837.
I welcome any input.
Benajah Slack wrote a will and died in 1818. He left property in the town of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, NY, now the town of Perth, Fulton County. One third was left to his son William, one third to grandsons Nathan and Roswell Slack, and one third to his daughter Elizabeth-“I do also give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth one undivided third of all my real estate during her natural life, then to be my grand son Beneagah Fauls; and he is to pay his sisters Mary and Ann each fifty dollars out of the same.” The only trace I have found NY is in an 1826 deed in which his cousins sold their share of the property left to Roswell Slack Jr. It lists the property of Benajah Fall as a boundary. This is probably his portion of the Benajah Slack farm.
I believe the Amsterdam Benajah was the son of Henry Fall. A Henry Fall is enumerated with the Slack’s in the 1790 census of Kinderhook, Columbia County, NY. In 1810 Elizabeth Fall was the head of a household in Amsterdam, NY.
The IGI shows a Benajah Fall born in 1805 in Amsterdam NY. He moved to Michigan and died 1879.
The 1840 census of Superior Township, Washtenaw County, MI shows a Bennajah Fall as the head of a family with one male 5 - 10, one male 10-15, one male 30-40, one male 60 - 70, two females under 5, two females 5 - 10, one female 30 - 40. Is Bennajah the male between 30 and 40, or the male 60 - 70. If he was age 30 to 40 he was born between 1800 and 1810. If he was age 60 - 70, he was born between 1770 and 1780. Since his mother was age 45 and up in 1810, my guess would be that the male age 60 - 70 was a father-in-law. Or he may have been unrelated and boarding at the house.
The 1845 census of Superior Township, Washtenaw County, MI lists a B. F. Fall and a Benager Fall. Were they father and son?
The 1860 census of Hamburg, Livingston County, MI shows B. F. Fall age 50, born NY, Ann Maria 47, born NY, Charles F 18, born IN, Dewitt and Delos, both 12, born MI. In 1870 Ann M was the head of the household.
Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies Forgotten Settlers shows Bennajah and Messila Fall as early pioneers.
One researcher found a gravestone for Benjamin Franklin Fall, Pioneer, born 1810 Monroe County, NY and died 1869 Ann Arbor, MI. His gravestone shows that he was a patriot in the Canadian Rebellion of 1837.
I welcome any input.