Ancestry of
Benajah Douglass

(1760–1829)

Benajah Douglass

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Asa Douglas 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Wheeler   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Dec 1760 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Oct 1829 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Congregational Church Cemetery, Brandon, Rutland, Vermont 
  • Notes: 

  • Benajah Douglass's surname is spelled “ss” on his tombstone.

• Marriages for Benajah Douglass

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  • Spouse:
  • Martha "Patty" Arnold

• Sources for Benajah Douglass

  • ¹ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, Birth record for Benjamin Douglass.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canaan, Page 24, Birth record for Benjamin Douglass.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/30/2013).
  • ⁴ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, Birth record for son Stephen Douglas.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1877, Vol. 31, p. 166.
  • ⁶ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #60943, Membership application for Martin Francis Douglas.
  • ⁷ Illinois State Historical Society, Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year, 1901 (Publication No. 6), Springfield, Illinois: Phillips Bros., State Printers (1901), 115.
  • ⁸ Johnson, Allen, Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics, New York: The Macmillan Company (1908), 4-5.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 208.
  • ¹⁰ Robinson, Caroline E. and Daniel Goodwin, ed., The Gardiners of Narragansett: Being a Genealogy of the Descendants of George Gardiner The Colonist, 1638, Providence: Printed by the Editor (1919), 103.