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I believe many researchers have been misled in the past as it pertains to the Benjamin Ivey family of Randolph County, NC. A book written several years ago listed Benjamin's wife as Sarah Kinchen. This Benjamin lived in the eastern part of North Carolina (Edgecombe County), not in Randolph County and accounts for the confusion.
My information comes from the following source which seems correct from what I know of the family:
"The Line of Adam Ivey of Charles City County" by Robert W. Baird (Revised February 2005):
"Benjamin Ivey (c1760 – 1802) There are two entries in the parish register for a son of John and Mary Ivey named Benjamin, both carrying the same date (24 May) but one in 1760 and the other in 1761. His godparents were Benjamin and Elizabeth Adams and Joseph Prince. He is apparently the Benjamin Ivey who married Sally Reese by bond dated 17 October 1782 in Southampton County. On 19 January 1790, barely a month after his father’s will was proved, he and his wife Sally sold his interest in the inherited plantation to his brother Phillips Ivey. (He must have left the area almost immediately, for Benjamin does not appear in the 1790 tax list, compiled mainly in March and April that year. He and his wife are, however, named in the will of his father in law, John Reese, dated 1 December 1792 and proved on 9 October 1794. The will distributed the estate equally among ten of the Reese children, and gave five shillings each to three other daughters: “my beloved daughter Sally Ivy, wife of Benjamin Ivy”, Sucky Ivy wife of Philip (sic) Ivy, and Lucy Johnson.) Since he was apparently gone from Virginia by early 1790, he seems likely to be the same Benjamin Ivey who appears in the 1790 census of Randolph County, North Carolina. The 1800 census shows him with a household of eight. (This Benjamin Ivey left a will dated 17 October 1801 and proved in August 1802, naming his wife Sally, daughters Rebecca Kearns, Betsy Nance, “Prisey”, Sally, and Sukey (under 18), and sons Kinchen, Isaac, and Benjamin (under 21). (Kinchen was left 200 acres, and the home plantation of 190 acres was given to Sally until her death or remarriage, when it was to fall to Isaac). Further indication that he may have been the same Benjamin Ivey from Southampton is that his son Benjamin Ivey named his own eldest son John Reese Ivey. Mention of the son Benjamin Ivey Jr. is made in Men of the Burning Heart. I would note that this is the line from which George Franks Ivey descended. Mr. Ivey’s book identifies him as the son of Adam Ivey of Edgecombe County, a supposition we can prove to be false. It also gives Benjamin a first wife named Celia Forrest and a second
wife named Sallie Kincheon, neither of which is proven. Mr. Ivey and other sources give us birth dates of some of the children which
are consistent with a marriage to Sally Reese in late 1782, and implies the following birth order: Kincheon (26 September 1784), Rebecca
(1 January 1786), who married Thomas Kearns, Elizabeth (8 March 1787) who married Marshall Nance by bond of 10 February 1801, Priscilla (c1790) who married Thomas Nance, Sallie (c1794), Sukey(c1796) Isaac, and Benjamin (3 May 1800 - 1858) who married Mary Shankle. The widow Sally remarried to Zedekiah Ledbetter, and evidently bound out her five youngest children in 1804: Benjamin, Priscilla, Isaac, Sally, and Susannah (evidently “Sukey”), all five years old or younger. The son Benjamin Ivey Jr. left a family Bible which is available at the N. C. Archives, giving his date of birth, marriage to Mary Shankle, and a list of children. It also gives the death of his brother Isaac in 1840. Kinchen Ivey is in the 1810 census of Randolph County, aged 26-45, and in 1830, aged 40-50."
I descend from two of Benjamin Ivey's children. His daughter Elizabeth "Betsy" Ivey who married Marshall Nance was my 4th great grandmother. I also probably descend from his son Kinchen Ivey whose wife's name is unknown but had a daughter Rebecca Ivey who married my 3rd great grandfather Hudson Nance Jr. Hudson Nance Jr. was a nephew of Marshall Nance.
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