Ancestry of Sir
Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Benjamin Buffington

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Winston Churchill — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 250 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Buffington (Bovanton) 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Southwick   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Jul 1675 
  • Birth Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 07 JUL 1733 to 14 JAN 1739/1740 
  • Death Location:
  • Bristol County, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Southwick
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 4 May 1699 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Benjamin Buffington

  Benjamin Buffington

  William Buffington

  Joseph Buffington

  Elizabeth Buffington (Ahnentafel No:125 )

  Jonathan Buffington

  Esther Buffington

  Hannah Buffington

  Sarah Buffington

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources claim that Benjamin Buffington married Hannah Buffam, but Hannah married John Osborn and not Benjamin (The American Genealogist, Vol. 62, pp. 182-184).

• Sources for Benjamin Buffington

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 2, pp. 841-842.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 1, p. 134, Birth record for Benjamin Buffington.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 1, p. 134, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Buffington.
  • ⁴ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1997, Vol. 14, p. 68.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1933, Vol. 87, pp. 134-135.
  • ⁶ The American Genealogist, 1987, Vol. 62, pp. 182-184.
  • ⁷ Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 124, 126.