Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Rev. Benjamin Tappan

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Name Benjamin Tappan Prefix Rev. Alternate birth 28 Feb 1720 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts [1]
Birth 28 Feb 1721 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts [2, 3, 4]
Gender Male Death 6 May 1790 Manchester-by-the-Sea, Essex, Massachusetts [2, 5, 6, 7]
Burial Old Burial Ground, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Essex, Massachusetts [6]
Person ID I21036 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 22 Nov 2020
Father Samuel Toppan, b. 5 Jun 1670, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 30 Oct 1750, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
(Age 80 years)
Mother Abigail Wigglesworth, b. 20 Mar 1681, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 28 Jan 1771, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
(Age 89 years)
Marriage 23 Dec 1700 Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts [8]
Family ID F12510 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth Marsh, b. 29 Jun 1723, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts d. 24 Sep 1807, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts
(Age 84 years)
Marriage 5 Oct 1746 [1] Children + 1. Benjamin Tappan, b. 21 Oct 1747, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 29 Jan 1831, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts
(Age 83 years)
Family ID F12509 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 25 Jan 2019
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Notes - Also spelled Toppan. Graduated Harvard in 1742, taught school in Haverhill, and was ordained and installed as pastor over the Congregational Church in Manchester in December of 1745, a position he held until his death forty-five years later.
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Sources - [S2662] Tappan-Toppan Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Abraham Toppan of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1606-1672 by Daniel Langdon Tappan. Arlington, Massachusetts, 1915.
- [S2657] Genealogy of the Family of George Marsh, Who Came from England in 1635 and Settled in Hingham, Mass. by E. J. Marsh. Leominster, Massachusetts: F. N. Boutwell, 1887.
- [S2214] Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, Volume I, Births. Salem: The Essex Institute, 1911.
- [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897.
- [S2662] Tappan-Toppan Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Abraham Toppan of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1606-1672 by Daniel Langdon Tappan. Arlington, Massachusetts, 1915., date only.
- [S2656] Find a Grave page for the Rev. Benjamin Tappan.
- [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897., date only.
- [S1726] Maxine Stansell, "The Middlebrook Sisters: Mother and Mother-in-Law of Michael Wigglesworth." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 156:309, 2002.
- [S2662] Tappan-Toppan Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Abraham Toppan of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1606-1672 by Daniel Langdon Tappan. Arlington, Massachusetts, 1915.