Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Benjamin Armstrong
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Name Benjamin Armstrong [1, 2] Birth of Norwich, New London, Connecticut [3]
Gender Male Death Between 5 Nov 1717 and 10 Jan 1718 [4, 5, 6] Alternate death 10 Jan 1718 [6] Alternate death 10 Jan 1719 Norwich, New London, Connecticut [7]
Person ID I3001 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH Last Modified 6 Nov 2021
Father Jonathan Armstrong, b. of Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island d. Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Mother Martha d. 15 Dec 1709, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Marriage Abt 1669 Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island [8]
Family ID F144 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Rachael Marriage Bef 1674 Norwich, New London, Connecticut [9]
Children + 1. John Armstrong, b. 5 Dec 1678, Norwichtown, New London, Connecticut d. 21 Mar 1749, Norwich, New London, Connecticut
(Age 70 years)
+ 2. Joseph Armstrong, b. 10 Dec 1684, Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. 21 Mar 1749, Norwich, New London, Connecticut
(Age 64 years)
Family ID F5818 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 6 Nov 2021
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Notes - One of the first planters of Windham, Connecticut, and also a patentee of Mansfield in 1703.
Common ancestors of TNH and of PNH's sister-in-law Laura (Wightman) Hayden:
Benjamin Armstrong (d. ~1717) = Rachael
John Armstrong (1678-1749) = Ann Worth (1791-1757)
Anna Armstrong (1717-1782) = Noah Woodard (1718-1792)
Noah Woodard (1744-1834) = Nancy Torrance (1747-1806)
Abiram Woodard (1766-1866) = Dinah Green (1783-1850)
Martha Woodard (1806-1878) = William Wightman (1796-1877)
Monroe Alphonso Wightman (1848-1910) = Sarah S. Chisman (1848-1918)
Frank Logan Wightman (1887-1959) = Iva Faye Covington (1894-1985)
John Stephen Wightman (1918-1990) = Alise Emma Evans (1918-1995)
Robert Alan Wightman (1941-2007) = Joyce Ann Marie Dixon (1941-1997)
Laura Marie Wightman (1962- ) = Benjamin Titus Hayden (1962- )
- One of the first planters of Windham, Connecticut, and also a patentee of Mansfield in 1703.
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Sources - [S166] Vital Records of Norwich, Connecticut, 1659-1848, database at AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007.
- [S180] Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, on familysearch.org., record of the birth of his son John.
- [S765] Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America by Henry Whittemore. New York: 1898.
- [S4164] Woolson-Fenno Ancestry and Allied Lines by Lula May (Febbo) Woolson and Charles Amasa Woolson. Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1907.
- [S6065] Chronicles of the Armstrongs by James Lewis Armstrong. Jamaica, Queens, New York: Marion Press, 1902.
- [S468] A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage. Boston: Little, Brown, 1860-64.
- [S719] Hyde Genealogy; or the Descendants, in the Female as Well as in the Male Lines, from William Hyde of Norwich by Rueben H. Walworth. Albany, New York: J. Munsell, 1864.
- [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015., no name given for Jonathan Armstrong's wife.
- [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.
- [S166] Vital Records of Norwich, Connecticut, 1659-1848, database at AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007.