John Benjamin

Abt 1595 - 1645  (~ 50 years)

• Name	John Benjamin  [1]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1594  [2]
  Birth	Abt 1595  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Jun 1645	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I17920	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	22 May 2024

  
  

  Family	Abigail Eddy,   b. Abt Oct 1601, Cranbrook, Kent, England d. 20 May 1687, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets (Age ~ 85 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1620  [3]
  Children	+ 1. John Benjamin,   b. Abt 1620   d. 22 Dec 1706, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 86 years) + 2. Joseph Benjamin,   b. Abt 1634, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 27 Apr 1704, Preston, New London, Connecticut (Age ~ 70 years)
  Family ID	F10998	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived 16 Sep 1632 on the Lyon. He was literate; his inventory included many books of a legal and ecclesiastical nature. In a letter, Bay Colony governor John Winthrop said "Mr. Benjamin's mansion was unsurpassed in elegance and comfort by any in the vicinity." It seems likely that he was of gentry origins, but nothing has been discovered to indicate the identity of his parents.

  
  

• 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. [S7723] The Ancestry of Helen Marion (Locke) Wright by Helen Marion (Locke) Wright, edited and updated by Aaron Goodwin, Patricia Law Hatcher, and Michael J. Leclerc. Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2011. [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.