1. Benjamin¹ Vansant was born in Maryland July 1843.⁽¹⁰⁹⁾ Benjamin died Bef 1910 in Kent County, DE.⁽¹¹⁰⁾ His wife Sinah VanSant is listed as widowed in the 1910 Census. Their youngest child Nettie was born about 1905, so he died between 1905 and 1910.

He married Sinnah Wyatt in Kent County, DE, 6 May 1886.⁽¹¹¹⁾ Sinnah was born in Masten's Corner, Kent County, DE 22 September 1864.⁽¹¹²⁾ Sinnah was the daughter of John Wyatt and Angeline Minner. Sinnah died 25 October 1929 in Delaware, at 65 years of age.⁽¹¹³⁾ Her body was interred Aft 25 October 1929 in Masten's Corner, Kent County, DE, Wyatt Cemetery. Sinnah was listed as the head of a family on the 1910 Census in Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, DE.⁽¹¹⁴⁾

Benjamin was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census in Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, DE.⁽¹¹⁵⁾ He and his wife Sinah Wyatt are enumerated just after her sister Louise Wyatt Bernard and family and just before his brother John VanSant and her sister Margaret Wyatt VanSant and their family.

Benjamin's occupation: Blacksmith in Kent County, DE, 1900.⁽¹¹⁶⁾

Benjamin Vansant and Sinnah Wyatt had the following children:

2 i. Angelina² Vansant was born in Delaware January 1886.⁽¹¹⁷⁾

3 ii. Rosetta Vansant was born in Kent County, DE June 1887.⁽¹¹⁸⁾

4 iii. Louisa Vansant was born in Maryland January 1890.

5 iv. Mary C. Vansant was born in Delaware February 1891.⁽¹¹⁹⁾ A census listed Mary as head of household in Kent County, DE, April 1910.⁽¹²⁰⁾ She is enumerated as Katie in the 1910 Census.

+ 6 v. Henry M. Vansant was born September 1892.⁽¹²¹⁾

7 vi. Erma M. Vansant was born in Delaware November 1895.⁽¹²²⁾

8 vii. Emily A. Vansant was born in Delaware November 1897.⁽¹²³⁾

9 viii. Nettie Vansant was born in Delaware Abt 1905.⁽¹²⁴⁾

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