Gooch Baronets

Jesse Benton married Anne Gooch who allegedly kin to Baron William Gooch, via his brother Rev. Thomas Gooch, who was Queen Anne’s personal minister. William had many military credentials including fighting under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough in his campaigns in the Low Countries. Anne and John Churchill are kindred of William and Harry Windsor via the Stewart Spencer family. The Gooch family are in the Peerage, a Gooch Barony established with William Gooch the Governor of Virginia.

Genealogists are confused about these links to the Gooch Baronets. I believe this is because Jesse Benton, and John Hart were straddling the fence between the Loyalists and the Rebels. The Hart family married a Gooch as well. The Hart-Bentons were close to Lord Tryon, and it is not clear whose side they were on in the Regulators War. I would suspect they sided with Lord Tryon and thus they were…