Rev. Benjamin Tappan

1721 - 1790  (69 years)

• Name	Benjamin Tappan
  Prefix	Rev.
  Alternate birth	28 Feb 1720	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Birth	28 Feb 1721	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 May 1790	Manchester-by-the-Sea, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 5, 6, 7]
  Burial	Old Burial Ground, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Essex, Massachusetts   [6]
  Person ID	I21036	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Samuel Toppan,   b. 5 Jun 1670, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 30 Oct 1750, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Abigail Wigglesworth,   b. 20 Mar 1681, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 28 Jan 1771, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	23 Dec 1700	Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [8]
  Family ID	F12510	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Marsh,   b. 29 Jun 1723, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts d. 24 Sep 1807, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	5 Oct 1746  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Benjamin Tappan,   b. 21 Oct 1747, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 29 Jan 1831, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F12509	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Jan 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Also spelled Toppan. Graduated Harvard in 1742, taught school in Haverhill, and was ordained and installed as pastor over the Congregational Church in Manchester in December of 1745, a position he held until his death forty-five years later.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2662] Tappan-Toppan Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Abraham Toppan of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1606-1672 by Daniel Langdon Tappan. Arlington, Massachusetts, 1915. [S2657] Genealogy of the Family of George Marsh, Who Came from England in 1635 and Settled in Hingham, Mass. by E. J. Marsh. Leominster, Massachusetts: F. N. Boutwell, 1887. [S2214] Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, Volume I, Births. Salem: The Essex Institute, 1911. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897. [S2662] Tappan-Toppan Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Abraham Toppan of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1606-1672 by Daniel Langdon Tappan. Arlington, Massachusetts, 1915., date only. [S2656] Find a Grave page for the Rev. Benjamin Tappan. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897., date only. [S1726] Maxine Stansell, "The Middlebrook Sisters: Mother and Mother-in-Law of Michael Wigglesworth." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 156:309, 2002.