Ancestry of Admiral
Richard Worsam Meade III

Union Navy - U.S. Civil War

Lucretia Backus

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Richard Worsam Meade III — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 27 
  • Father:
  • John Backus 
  • Mother:
  • Sybil Whiting   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Feb 1733/1734 
  • Birth Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 24 Mar 1734 
  • Christening Location:
  • Congregational Church, Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • 22 Mar 1803 
  • Death Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Benjamin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 May 1753 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Clarissa Benjamin (Ahnentafel No:13 )

  • Notes: 

  • The face of Lucretia's gravestone has fallen off rendering much of it unreadable, including the month and year of her death. Some published sources give the date as 22 MAR 1803.

• Sources for Lucretia Backus

  • ¹ Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, Birth record for Lucretia Backus.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stratford, p. 14, Marriage record for John Benjamin Jr and Lucretia Backus.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 16, Birth record for Lucretia Backus.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/30/2024).
  • ⁵ Bicha, Gloria Wall and Helen Benjamin Brown, The Benjamin Family in America, Racine, Wisconsin: Typed manuscript (1977), 125-127.
  • ⁶ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 10.
  • ⁷ Lainhart, Ann Smith and Robert S. Wakefield, ""Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 22, William Bradford, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2004), 209.
  • ⁸ Orcutt, Rev. Samuel, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Part II, New Haven, Connecticut: Press of Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor (1886), 456-457.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 71.