Ann Combs (1742/3 - 18??) w/o Benjamin STACY, Sr. d/o Mason & Sarah Combs, Sr.

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As is the case with all Combs Research Family Reports, when a source is not specifically referenced herein, it will be found via a "hot link" to the applicable Combs County of Record, Revolutionary War Pension Files, Bible Records, etc.

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Ann Combs (Mason, Sr., John, Archdale), born 18 Mar 1742/3, Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co, VA; d aft 1801; m ca 1763(?), probably in Frederick Co, VA; Benjamin STACY, Sr. (s/o Simon & Judith TOLSON Stacy (Pettit), Sr.), b 7 Apr 1744, Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co, VA; d aft 1815(?)

Ann is documented as a daughter of Mason Combs, Sr. by (a) the Overwharton Parish Register of Stafford Co, VA, which lists her 18 Mar 1742/3 birth as: "Anne Combs, daughter of Mason and Sarah Combs;" and (b) Combs-Stacy Oral Family History. Her father moved his family to Frederick Co, VA shortly after 1751, and it may have been in this county ca 1763, that Ann and Benjamin STACY, Sr., married.

In 1768 Benjamin is listed on the Rowan Co, NC Tax List of Gideon WRIGHT with his father-in-law, Mason Combs, Sr., brothers-in-law, William Combs, Sr. (m Seth STACY), William CODY (m Sinai STACY); and William RIDGE (m Winnifred Combs).

In 1771 and 1772, Benjamin is listed on a Surry Co, NC tax list, again with Mason, Sr. and William Combs, William and Godfrey CODY, and William RIDGE, plus his step-father, Thomas PETTIT (2nd husband of his mother, Judith TOLSON Stacy).

Benjamin seems to disappear from the records for a number of years, and it is not certain (partially due to spotty tax lists) whether he was still in Surry Co, NC or if he had moved on. During the Revolutionary War, although his Cody, Combs, and Ridge in-laws, and John STACY are mentioned frequently in the Estate file of William RIDGE, Benjamin himself is not specifically noted.

In 1781, Benjamin appears on the Montgomery Co, VA Militia List of Daniel Trigg's Company with his brothers-in-law, the above William Combs and William CODY plus brother-in-law, Mason Combs, Jr., as well as John STACY (his brother?), and Henry SKAGGS, Sr. (see below). In 1782 Benjamin is listed on the Montgomery Co, VA Tax List with 1 tithable and 1 horse. Also on both the tax list and militia company list, are the above noted relatives and in-laws, and numerous others who are found by 1789 (and in some instances much earlier) in Russell Co, VA.

In 1789 and 1790, Benjamin is listed on Russell Co, VA Tax Lists, but by the fall of 1792 may have lived in or near Wilkes Co, NC when their son, Simon, m Elizabeth HULME.

By Dec 1798, they may have been residing in Lincoln Co, KY when their son, Benjamin, Jr. m Barbara Combs, d/o Ann's nephew, RW John “8” Combs (s/o her brother, John Combs, Sr. and his wife, Nancy HARDING).

By 21 Feb 1800, they were apparently residing in Green Co, KY, when their daughter, Winny STACY, m John JACKSON (consent of her parents, Benjamin and Ann).

That year (1800), the Green Co, KY Tax List included Benjamin STACY, John STACY, William Combs* and Henry SKAGGS, Sr., whose daughter, Lucy SKAGGS had married John STACY, and whose daughter, Polly SKAGGS, had m a Combs, possibly the above William (See 1810 Green Co, KY). Henry SKAGGS, Sr. was also in Russell Co, VA, and in 1781 was on the same Militia List with Benjamin, William CODY and William and Mason Combs.

*William Combs of Green Co, KY may have been s/o William and Seth STACY Combs, Sr., and may have been h/o Polly SKAGGS (research in progress).

Neither Benjamin, Sr., nor Benjamin, Jr., have been located on the 1810 census, possibly indicating that they were either on the move, "hiding" in another household, or possibly down in Tennessee (no extant 1810 census), since sons, Biram and John were on the 1820 Jackson Co, TN census (as was an Ann STACY, but b 1795-1804.

(Incomplete - To Be Continued another day)