Ancestry of
Eleanor Barnum

(1905–1998)

Amzi Benedict

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Eleanor Barnum — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 30 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Benedict 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Raymond   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 May 1791 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Nov 1856 
  • Death Location:
  • Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Seymour Cowles
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Oct 1824 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Susan H. Benedict (Ahnentafel No:15 )

  • Notes: 

  • Rev. Amzi Benedict died from injuries he received from a railroad train at Stamford, Connecticut. He suffered for three weeks before dying in Brooklyn, New York.

• Sources for Amzi Benedict

  • ¹ Boston Recorder (Boston, Massachusetts), 01 JAN 1857, Obituary for Rev. Amzi Benedict.
  • ² Connecticut Herald (New Haven, Connecticut), 19 OCT 1824, Wedding notice for Rev. Amzi Benedict and Martha Cowles.
  • ³ Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Marriage record for Rev. Amzi Benedict and Martha Cowles.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Society of the Cincinnati, Vol. 1, p. 460.
  • ⁵ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Farmington, p. 13, Marriage record for Amzi Benedict and Martha Cowles.
  • ⁶ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/18/2019).
  • ⁷ New York Evening Post: Death Notices, 1801-1890, Vol. 33, p. 66, Death record for Rev. Amzi Benedict.
  • ⁸ New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, Death record for daughter Susan Benedict Hutchins.
  • ⁹ New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, Death record for daughter Susan Benedict Hutchison.
  • ¹⁰ Revolutionary War Pensions, Pension file for father-in-law Gen. Solomon Cowles.
  • ¹¹ Kelly, Howard A., M.D. and Walter L. Burrage, M.D., American Medical Biographies, Baltimore: The Norman Remington Company (1920), 586.