An American Family History

Cave Family

Benjamin Cave was born about 1700. William Cave and Anna Stonehouse were not Benjamin's parents because Anna Stonehouse Cave died in 1691.

He married Hannah Bledsoe about 1720. She was the daughter of William Bledsoe and Anna Golsen.

Elizabeth Cave (1723, married William Johnson),
John Cave (1728),
Benjamin Cave, Jr. (1735, married Elizabeth Belfield)
William Cave (1738)
Nancy Ann Cave (1734, married William Strother and Philemon Kavanaugh, Jr.)
David Cave (1739)
Sarah (Sally) Cave (1745, married William Strother)
Hannah Cave (1748, married Uriel Mallory)
Richard Cave (1750)

Benjamin was a vestryman of St. Mark's Parish in Cuppeper County, Virginia from 1731 to 1740.

In 1734 he was on the Orange County, Virginia tithe list and was sheriff of Orange County.

He was also a vestryman in St. Thomas Parish in Orange County, Virginia from 1749-1762.

From 1753 to 1761, he represented Orange County in the House of Burgesses.

Benjamin wrote his will in 1762 in Orange County, Virginia. In his will he gave numerous people he had enslaved to his children.

The first European settlement in Orange County, Virginia was in 1714 and the county was officialy formed in 1734 with no western border. In 1738 the western part became Augusta County.

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