Jonathan Bingham

Family/Spouse: Sarah Upton. Sarah (daughter of John Upton and Tabitha) was born about 1710 in Charlton, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 5 Mar 1803 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut; was buried in Windham Center Cemetery, Windham, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elisha Bingham was born on 13 Jul 1740 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut; died on 21 Dec 1821 in Wheatland, Monroe, New York; was buried in Wheatland Baptist Cemetery, Belcoda, Monroe, New York.

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First at Stratfield, Fairfield county, in or near what is now Bridgeport. Removed to Windham in 1707. Deacon of the first church there in 1729. Selectman and other town offices. Several times a delegate to the Connecticut general court.

Abel married (Unknown) Odell on 16 May 1694 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut. (Unknown) died before 25 Mar 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth or Mary.

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Came to Saybrook in 1658 with his mother and her second husband, William Backus. The family moved on to Norwich, Connecticut with that latter town's first settlers, and Thomas Bingham became an original proprietor despite still being a minor.

Removed to Windham, Connecticut in 1693, "where he became prominent in civil and church affairs; selectman, deacon of the church and sergeant of the military company." [Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography, citation details below.]

Deacon married Mary Rudd on 12 Dec 1666 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Lt. Jonathan Rudd and (Unknown wife of Jonathan Rudd)) was born about 1648; died on 5 Aug 1726 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1649, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut

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• Baptised: 4 Aug 1588, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

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He was a cutler in Sheffield.

Thomas married Anne Fenton on 6 Jul 1631. Anne (daughter of Robert Fenton and Alice Hancock) was born about 1606 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England; died in May 1670 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Mary Fenton, Anne Stenton.

Editor's note, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 143:23, January 1989:

In the article, "Origins of William Backus of Sheffield, England, and Norwich, Connecticut," which appeared in the Register, 142 [1988]: 253-254, the maiden name of Anna, widow of Thomas Bingham and second wife of William Backus, was incorrectly given. The editor acknowledges full responsibility. In preparing any article for publication we routinely check for previously published material on the subject in question, and in this case discovered that Donald Lines Jacobus in Hale, House and Related Families (1952; reprint ed. Baltimore, 1978, p. 452) had stated Anna's maiden name to be Stenton. Mr. Bingham had left Anna's maiden name blank, and we never thought twice about adding information from a source as reliable as the late Mr. Jacobus. Unfortunately, even the most reliable genealogists are not immune to copying errors that have appeared earlier in print.

Mr. [Everett F.] Bingham has now obtained copies of the original Sheffield parish register and the Bishop's Transcript of that register, both of which clearly show the marriage of Thomas Bingham to Anna ffenton on 5 July 1631, Clearly, it was an early misinterpretation of the English double f as st which led to the original error.

From the Bingham Association site:

Evidence independently corroborated by two Bingham researchers strongly suggests that Anne was the oldest daughter of Robert Fenton and Alice Hancock Fenton. The will of Alice Fenton, made on the 23rd of March 1642/43 and probated in September 1644/45, names her eldest daughter, Anne, as wife of Thomas Bingham.

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Emigrated 1639; first at Hartford, then New Haven, then Saybrook.

From The Granberry Family, citation details below:

Jonathan Rudd first appears at Hartford, Conn., 2 Apr. 1640, when with other youths he was before the Court for being too intimate with Mary Bronson. He came to New Haven, where he was one of several fined for defective arms, 4 Jan. 1643/4. Three months later, he was fined with others for attending a drinking party; and he took the Oath of Fidelity, 1 July 1644. [...]

His title of lieutenant, which appears in the records of his estate, may have come from his being one of the two men appointed to assist Captain Mason at Saybrook Fort, but unlike his co-assistant, Thomas Tracy, he does not seem to have been formally commissioned. [...]

Jonathan Rudd is chiefly remembered for the romance of his marriage, as told by Gov. John Winthrop in a deposition relating to the boundary between New London and Saybrook. "It fell out, the first winter of our setling there [at New London, 1646-7], that Jonathan Rudd being to be maried at Saybrooke, there falling out at that time a great snow, the magistrate intended to goe downe thither was hindred by the depth of the snow; whereupon they desired me to assist them there in yt businesse. But I saw it necessary to denye them in that way, but told them that for an expedient of their accommodation, if they come to the plantation [New London] it might be done: but that being too difficult for them, it was agreed they should come to the place wch is now called Bride brooke; and accordingly I mett them there, at the tyme appointed (others of our plantation being wth me, knowing the place) and there those persons were then maried, as being a place wthn the bounds of the authority wherby I then acted; otherwise I had exceeded the limits of my commission." Mr. Winthrop was then acting under a commission issued by Massachusetts Bay, before New London joined Connecticut Colony, hence had no authority to perform marriages in Saybrook in the latter colony. By meeting the wedding party at "Bride Brook," on the boundary between New London and Saybrook, he did not exceed his authority.

Jonathan married (Unknown wife of Jonathan Rudd) about 1646 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1555-1557, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

Thomas married Maria Longley on 26 Jan 1578 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Maria was born about 1560 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England; died before 1 Aug 1593 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 1 Aug 1593 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Alice Hancock on 23 Sep 1605 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Alice died between 23 Mar 1643 and Sep 1645. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef Sep 1644

Robert married Elizabeth Bray on 30 Jul 1576 in Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Elizabeth died before 3 Nov 1599; was buried on 3 Nov 1599 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]