Ancestry of
Rosa Mae Murphy

(1904–1985)

John Benton

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Rosa Mae Murphy — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 42 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Benton 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy Cook   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Mar 1746 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Feb 1808 
  • Death Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Blin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 May 1764 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Rebecca Benton (Ahnentafel No:21 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Benton may have been the son of Nathaniel Benton and Dorothy Cook.

• Sources for John Benton

  • ¹ Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934, Death record for John Benton.
  • ² Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Marriage record for John Benton and Mary Blin.
  • ³ Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Baptism records for children of John Benton.
  • ⁴ Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934, Death record for John Benton.
  • ⁵ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 26, Birth record for John Benton.
  • ⁶ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A009481.
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1862, Vol. 16, p. 18.
  • ⁸ Hinman, Royal R., A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company (1852), 202-203.