Ancestry of
John Benjamin

(1731–1796)

John Benjamin

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Benjamin 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Aug 1731 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Sep 1796 
  • Death Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 

• Marriages for John Benjamin

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  • Spouse:
  • Lucretia Backus
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 May 1753
  • Marriage Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut

• Sources for John Benjamin

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stratford, p. 14, Marriage record for John Benjamin Jr and Lucretia Backus.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/30/2024).
  • ³ Bicha, Gloria Wall and Helen Benjamin Brown, The Benjamin Family in America, Racine, Wisconsin: Typed manuscript (1977), 63, 125-127.
  • ⁴ 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.
  • ⁵ Meigs, Henry B., Record of the Descendants of Vincent Meigs, Who Came From Dorsetshire, England, to America About 1635, Baltimore, Maryland: John S. Bridges and Co. (1901), 38.
  • ⁶ 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.
  • ⁷ 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.