Joseph Benjamin

Abt 1634 - 1704  (~ 70 years)

• Name	Joseph Benjamin  [1]
  Alternate birth	15 Sep 1633  [2]
  Alternate birth	16 Sep 1633	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Birth	Abt 1634	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	Bef 27 Apr 1704	Preston, New London, Connecticut   [3]
  Death	27 Apr 1704	Preston, New London, Connecticut   [5]
  Person ID	I17915	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	9 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	John Benjamin,   b. Abt 1595   d. 14 Jun 1645, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 50 years)
  Mother	Abigail Eddy,   b. Abt Oct 1601, Cranbrook, Kent, England d. 20 May 1687, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets (Age ~ 85 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1620  [4]
  Family ID	F10998	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah   d. Aft 1715
  Marriage	Bef 7 Dec 1668  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Jemima Benjamin   d. Aft Nov 1732 + 2. John Benjamin,   b. Abt 1682, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 2 Aug 1716, Preston, New London, Connecticut (Age ~ 34 years)
  Family ID	F10995	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Nov 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He was a watchman at Charlestown in 1665. He lived in Barnstable and removed to Yarmouth before 1668. In Yarmouth, his farm was near the Meadows. He moved to Preston, Connecticut in 1696, ten years after it was established. In Preston, his land bordered that of Thomas Parke, whose granddaughter Phebe Larabee married his son John Benjamin.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1933] Clarence Almon Torrey, "Stephen Gates of Hingham, Lancaster, and Cambridge, Mass., and Some of His Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 120:161; 120:260, 1966; 121:45; 121:217, 1967. [S2355] The Eddy Family in America by Ruth Story Devereux Eddy. Boston, 1930. [S2348] The Benjamin Family in America by Gloria Wall Bicha and Helen Benjamin Brown. 1977. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S2350] Donald Lines Jacobus, "New London (Conn.) Probate Records." The American Genealogist 10:35, 1933.