Benjamin Armstrong

- 1718

• 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
  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. 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

  
  

• 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- )

  
  

• 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.