Ancestry of
John Simmons

Founder of Simmons University`

Benoni Simmons

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• • Father of John Simmons — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • John Simmons 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Grinnell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Aug 1755 
  • Birth Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Jun 1835 
  • Death Location:
  • Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Commons Burial Ground, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nancy Bailey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Dec 1784 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Simmons (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Valentine Simmons

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Benoni Simmons

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No, 18607, Membership application for Alfred Huntington Burnham.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/03/2025).
  • ³ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, Newport Co., Vol. 4, p. 6-166, Birth record for son John Simmons.
  • ⁴ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, Newport Co., Vol. 4, p. 6-166, Death record for Bononi Simmons.
  • ⁵ Rowe, Henry S., The Ancestry of John Simmons: Founder of Simmons College, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press (1933), 31, 41-42.