Some Benjamin Deen family researchers list Benjamin’s sons as Samuel, James, Enos, Enoch and John.

Enos, James, John and Samuel are listed among the early Deen surname settlers of Coshocton County .

Official records reveal only Enos, Samuel, James and Enoch, and of those sons only Samuel and Enos has been positively connected to Benjamin. There is an adult son is listed as living with Benjamin in the 1820 US census, but this is most likely the youngest son Enoch not John.

There are records on a John Deen beginning in 1830 who lived in Perry County.

There is a John Dean listed as being born in Mercer County, Kentucky in 1793.

There is a John N. Deen listed as marrying Mary Encel in Knox, Ohio on October 12, 1823/24.

MARY ENCELL, b. October 25, 1802; d. November 1826; m. JOHN DEEN, August 12, 1823, Knox County, Ohio.

Land Patents in Ohio
Names
Patentee: JOHN M DEEN
Survey
State: OHIO
Acres: 40
Metes/Bounds: No
Title Transfer
Issue Date: 11/1/1846
Land Office: Chillicothe
Cancelled: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry
Document Numbers
Document Nr.: 14009
Accession/Serial Nr.: OH1350__.450
BLM Serial Nr.: OH NO S/N