Born: 09 JUL 1801 in New York
Married: to Jane Yaw
1830 Census: Found a Benjamin Brand in Rensselaerville, Albany Co, New York. Too old to be this Benjamin, but could be his father?
Birth of Son: 12 NOV 1831
Name: Scott Brand
Place: New York
Moved to: MAR 1836
Place: Orange Twp, Ionia Co, MI
Details: In March of 1836, Philo Bates and William Babcock came to the western town line of Ionia, south of the Grand River, to begin the improvement of a large tract of land they had purchased in 1835. This tract, which Bates and Babcock bought in common, comprised fully four thousand acres, and lay in the townships of Ionia, Berlin, and Orange. When they came, they brought the families of Moses Marsh and Benjamin D. Brand to assist them. By the fall of 1836, Bates and Babcock having got up their cabins and made a fair start, brought out their own families.
Benjamin Brand then became the second settler in Orange Township. His farm was located on Section 8, in the northwest corner of the town. He was the first person to build a house in Orange. His house was constructed entirely of wood and bark and was put together without the use of nails. At this time the present town contained no roads except for an Indian trail. It was densely timbered in every part and was, in short a wide wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and resounding with the cries of wolves by night and by day. This was by no means an inviting prospect to the hardy settler who counted upon making a home there, but was a prospect common enough in Michigan at that time.
Land Record: 02 NOV 1837
Note: 160 acres in Ionia County, MI
Land Record: 02 NOV 1837
Note: 80 acres in Ionia County, MI
Birth of Daughter: ABT 1840
Name: Mary Brand
Place: Orange Twp, Ionia Co, Michigan
1840 Census: Orange Twp, Ionia Co, Michigan
Note: Served as a juror in 1840.
Birth of Son: 1842
Name: John Brand
Place: Orange Twp, Ionia Co, Michigan
Note: 1842 – Benjamin lived in District 10 and was assessed 3 1/2 days of highway labor.
Birth of Daughter: 1843
Name: Jane Brand
Place: Orange Twp, Ionia Co, Michigan
Office: 1845
Note: Was elected highway commissioner.
1850 Census: 21 AUG 1850
Place: Orange Twp, Ionia Co, Michigan
1860 Census: Orange Twp, Ionia Co, Michigan
Note: Benjamin and his wife are living in their son Scott’s household.
1870 Census: 04 JUN 1870
Place: Orange Twp, Ionia Co, Michigan
Note: Benjamin is living in his son Scott’s household.
Died: 19 AUG 1871
Place: Orange Twp, Ionia Co, Michigan
Note: Died of Dropsey of the Chest
Burial: Steel Cemetery, Ionia Co, Michigan
Parents are Benjamin Brand and Lucinda ?
Died: 10 MAY 1870 Orange, Ionia Co, Michigan
Note: No death record on file at Ionia Co Courthouse. According to U.S. Mortality schedule, she died of dropsey of the chest.
Burial: Steel Cemetery, Ionia Co, Michigan
Click here to see parents: Philip Yaw Jr. and Mary ?
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