Benjamin Poe of Culpeper County, Va, Wake Co, NC, Randolph Co, NC and Allen Co. KY

I have been taking another look at the early groups out of Essex / Caroline / Culpeper / Spotsylvania Virginia -- who was who and where groups migrated. Benjamin Poe is a name that, well, make me nuts. I'd really appreciate some help -- another set of eyes -- on data that just does not fit what anyone has come up with -- including me.

Especially this fellow -- the Benjamin Poe who is recognized as a Rev. War veteran. Most of what we really know comes from the pension record below -- but either some of it is inaccurate or there were two or three Benjamin Poe fellows shadowing him. Here are my guestions.

1. The Pension papaer is dated 1833 (as this transcription sates). It says that Benjamin is 94 years old. That would make him born in 1739 (unless my arithmatic is flawed as ever). The same document states he was born in 1749 in Culpeper County. Anyone have more data or thoughts on this? The difference may be significant as the first person we know of that ended up in what called Culpeper County is William Poe of wife Lydia who went there in 1737. It has been my suspicion that this Benjamin is William's son but with little to go on except the other Benjamin contemporary of William seems to have been in Spotsylvania, and later Amherst Co. VA and then the group went on the Franklin Co, KY. 

2. Following the dates in this file --- it makes sense that Ben was in Chatham Co first as the 1771 Muster Roll of Joab Brooks (Siler City area) lists him with other that seem to come from Culpeper Co and not to be of the Simon Poe SR family.

3. Ben was in Randolph for sure from 1779 - 1782.
http://www.mindspring.com/~poefamily5/PoeNorthCarolinaRandolphCo.htm
He states that his Randolph prop was destroyed. Seems he went to Wake Co and was below the radar until 1790 when he appears in Wake records.
http://www.mindspring.com/~poefamily5/PoeNorthCarolinaWakeCo.htm

There continues to be a Benjamin Poe in Wake County. And there is a marriage of what appears to be a daughter to Lovel Stinson, who Ben cites in the persion file and who can be found later in Kentucky. So, what is going on? Ben cannot be in two places at once.

http://www.mindspring.com/~poefamily/PoeRevolutionaryWar.htm

BENJAMIN POE
From Record of Pension Papers Granted to Revolutionary War Soldier Who Settled in Allen County in the State of Kentucky 
Compiled by Annie Walker Burns Bell ) 1935 pg27-28

POE, Benjamin North Carolina S 31307
Allen County, 9 Oct. 1833, in open court, BENJAMIN POE, aged 94 deposes that he entered service Dec. 1775 in N.C. and then moved to Randolph County N.C. In Sept. 1781 served again in the company of horsemen under CAPTAIN T. MARSH (or MASH). In Dec. 1781 again entered service in the company of mounted infantry under CAPTAIN CHARLES GOULDSTON. "Having served this tour he returned to Randolph County, N.C. and found his dwelling house reduced to ashes. His property was destroyed, his wife and children driven away by the Tories and cast upon the charity of the world for support."
Again entered service March 1782 in the company of mounted infantry under CAPT. JOSEPH ROSSER. Total service one year. Was born 14 Aug. 1749 (old Stile)* in Culpeper County, Va. When he entered the service he lived in Chalham, or Chatham and Wake Counties N.C. and in Barren, Monroe and Allen Counties, Ky. He was in no general battle, but in many skirmishes. Cites JOHN DYSON, LEVI ROARK, clergyman, ROBERT F. PULLIAM, JOHNSON J. COCERILLE, ROBT. H. PARIS, WALTER THOMAS, ISAAC TRACY, LOVEL STINSON (STENSON) as neighborhood witnesses.
Covering Jacket: Kentucky--------25, 348 Benjamin Poe, Allen County, Pvt. N.C. line for 3 months. Pvt. of infantry, 9 months Pvt. of Cavalry. Inscribed on Ky. Roll at $47.50 per year to begin 4 March 1831. Certificate of pension issued 28 Dec. 1833.
*Note: (Old Stile) refers to the Julian Calendar used by the English at that time. The calendar was converted to Georgian about 1752 and there is about a 5 month difference. The Julian Calendar began with March as it's first month. The Georgian Calendar uses January as the first month.