Pence Families from Virginia
in Clark and Champaign Counties, Ohio
also spelled Pense and Pentz
In 1831 Page County, Virginia was
created from
Rockingham
and
Shenandoah
Counties. Originally it was part of Frederick County.
Lewis Pence was born about 1720 in Germany. He was the son of Johann Georg Bentz and Anna Barbara Bullinger.
In 1749, he came to America with his family on the ship Phoenix .
His wife was named Barbara.
Barbara and Lewis' children are difficult to distinguish from the other Pence children of that generation. They may have included:
John Pence (1755, married Elizabeth),
Lewis Pence
Susannah Pence (did not marry Benjamin Maggart),
Barbara Pence (did not marry Adam Kibler),
Margaret Pence
On August 26, 1754, Lewis bought 49 acres in what was then, Frederick County, Virginia from Rudolph Mauck
On November 7, 1757 he was granted a patent for 440 acres
Frederick County, Virginia was formed in 1743 from Orange County. Old Frederick County included all or part of four counties in present-day Virginia: Shenandoah, Clarke, Warren, and Frederick, as well as five in present-day West Virginia: Hardy, Hampshire, Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan.
Many settlers in the Shenandoah Valley were Germans from Pennsylvania called the "Shenandoah Deitsch."
John Pence was born about 1755 on Hawksbill Creek in what is now Page County, Virginia. He was the son of Lewis Pence.
His wife was named Elizabeth.
Abraham Pence (1777),
Sarah (Sallie) Pence (married John Rector),
Elizabeth Pence (1786, married Daniel Kiblinger),
Jacob Pence (1788, married Rebecca Davis)
Peter Pence (1789, married Eve Kiblinger),
Mary (Polly) Pence (1795, married Jacob Kiblinger, Jr.).
In 1792 John and Elizabeth sold land in what was then Shenandoah County to Rudolph Baker.
John and Elizabeth moved to Clark County, Ohio about 1805.
Abraham Pence was born about 1777 in Virginia. He was the son of John Pence.
He married Jemima Robinson on May 5, 1800 in Madison County, Virginia.
Nancy Pence (1802, married Andrew Blue and Jacob Shaffer)
Samuel Pence (1803, married Phebe Glass),
William Pence (1807, married Delilah Colbert and Mrs. Phebe Scott)
Mary Pence (1809, married Henry Brunstetter),
Susannah Pence (1810, probably married John Swearingen),
Elizabeth Pence (1813 married Richard Hesselgesser)
Rhoda Pence (1815, married Isaac Thomas),
Anna Pence (1817, married Joseph Underwood)
Jesse G. Pence (1820, married Elizabeth Bare),
Sarah Pence (1820, married William Fenton).
Jacob Pence was born on December 14, 1727 in Germany.
His wife was named Barbara.
Jacob and Barbara's children included:
Frederick Pence (1752), Lewis Pence (1754, married Barbara Kibler),
Susannah Pence (1760),
Mary Pence (1760),
Emanuel Pence (1762),
Daniel Pence (1764),
Barbara Pence (1770, married Adam Kibler),
Jacob Pence (1771, married Eve Printz),
Eve Pence (1773, married John Kibler),
and Elizabeth Pence (1773).
Jacob received a grant for 262 acres on the branches of the Hawksbill Creek in Frederick County on August 30, 1766. It later was in Shenandoah County and is now in Page County.
Jacob, Lewis, and Frederick, served in Captain Michael Reader's company in the Revolutionary War.
Henry Pence (Johann Heinrich Bentz) was born about 1740 in Germany.
He married Mary Blimley.
Rhoda Pence
George Pence (1766, married Mary Mauck)
Jacob Pence (1767, married Mary Coffman),
Henry Pence (1768, married Elizabeth Koontz and Eve Snider)
Abraham Pence (1769, married Elizabeth Mauck)
Magdaline Pence
Susannah Pence
John Pence
Barbara Pence
David Pence
Joseph Pence
Samuel Pence (1790, married Elizabeth Cowhick)
Anna Pence
Isaac Pence
Elizabeth Pence
Benjamin Pence
Mary Pence
Reuben Pence
Henry was granted 474 acres at the head of the Hawksbill in Frederick (later Shenandoah County, now Page) County on March 30, 1770.
He bought land in Mad River Township, Champaign County on December 31, 1805. Jacob and John Pence, Henry's sons, bought land in the county on November 4, 1805 and March 25, 1806.
Henry and Mary Pence settled in the township [Mad River] about 1805. Members of the Pence family who settled in Mad River Twp. were Benjamin, Isaac, Henry, Abram, John, Samuel and Reuben. . . The daughters were all settled in Mad River Twp. - Susannah, Annie, Elizabeth, Mary, Magdeline and Barbara. The parents of all these children were among the first families that settled here. Henry was born in 1740 and Mary Blimly, his wife, in 1746. They emigrated from Germany to America in their youth. Two of their children died in infancy and were not named. Consequently they were the parents of 19 children.
In 1806, some of the members of the King's Creek Baptist Church organized a new church at Henry Pence's home.
Henry died in 1824 in Champaign County, Ohio.
The will of Henry Pence, Book B, p 47, Champaign County:
My beloved soninlaw John Norman all my land on which I now live containing one hundred and thirtyfive acres;
Norman to pay my son Benjamin Pence five hundred dollars, and six hundred and seventyfive dollars to my other children within five years after the death of my self and wife as follows, to Jacob Pence my eldest son, two dollars, to the heirs of my son Samuel Pence, decd, two dollars and the balance of the six hundred and seventy five dollars the said Norman is to pay in equal proportion to to the other children Henry Pence, Abraham Pence, John Pence, David Pence, Joseph Pence, Isaac Pence, Rubin Pence, Susanah Jenkins, Anna Norman, Elizabeth Stoneberger, Mary Runkle and the two sons of Barbary Stewart dec'd, Joseph Rosenbarger and Henry Steward, which two boys to have one equal share between them. William Runcle and John Norman, executives, dated 10 Apr 1820, filed 1 Dec 1824.
Abraham Pence was born September 7, 1769 in Frederick County, Virginia. He was the son of Henry Pence.
He married Elizabeth Mauck on February 11, 1791 in Shenandoah County, Virginia.
Mary Pence (1791, married Daniel Loudenback),
Abraham Pence (1794),
Elizabeth Pence
(1800), and
David Pence
(1807).
In 1811, Abraham and Elizabeth sold land in what was then Shenandoah County, Virginia to Rudolph Baker.
Abraham died in 1838 in Mad River Township, Champaign County and was buried in Nettle Creek Cemetery.
