Benois Brasseur, 16201662 (aged 42 years)

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Benois /Brasseur/
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December 1662 (aged 42 years)
Family with parents
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3 years
younger sister
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7 years
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Birth: September 1642 42 Virginia
Death: December 7, 1706Virginia
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Family with Mary ?Richford
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Birth: 1650 30 Nansemond Co. VA
Death: 1692Anne Arundel Co. MD
5 years
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Birth: about 1654 34 Nansemond Co. VA
Death: 1707Baltimore City, MD
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Birth: about 1660 40 Calvert Co. MD
Death: January 23, 1702Prince George's Co. MD
Thomas Sterling + Mary ?Richford
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Marriage Marriageabout August 1, 1663
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Benois Brasseur/Benjamin Brashear, American

Benois Brasseur (Brashieur, Brashears, Brashear), the man with so many different spellings to his name, was born in France, probably about 1620, and was transported (apparently as a teenager) to Virginia. He is first mentioned in the records of Virginia, 12 April 1653, when he appears as a headright on a land grant to Robert and, at the same time, received a grant of 300 acres on Indian Creek for transporting six persons. If born in 1620, he was about 33 years old.

In 1658, Benjamin (Benois) contracted to buy a large tract of land (1150 acres) from Richard Bennett, moved his family from Virginia to Calvert County, Maryland and settled on land called "Upper Bennett", which overlooks Chesapeake Bay, in an area known as "The Cliffs", just south of present-day Chesapeake Beach.

On 4 Dec 1662, Benjamin and his family were naturalized in Maryland, by Charles Calvert.

Benjamin died (suddenly?) soon after his Naturalization, at about the age of 43, if we take 1620 as his birth date. We have found no will. In the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland, is "An Inventory of the goods and chattalls of Benjamin Brassear, gent., late of Calvert County, and appraised by us James Thomas and John Cobreath, this 24th day of February, 1663/4". (Inventories Book 1E, p. 92)

  • A Brashear(s) Family History, Descendants of Robert and Benois Brasseur: Vol. 2:
    Robert C. Brashear of North Carolina and Some Descendants in TN, KY, MO, TX, etc.,
    by Charles Brashear