Ancestry of
Elizabeth Smart

Founder of Elizabeth Smart Foundation

John Benson III

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Elizabeth Smart — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1970 
  • Father:
  • John Benson Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Marsh   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1665 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1725 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Briggs
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  • Child:

  Martha Benson (Ahnentafel No:985 )

• Sources for John Benson III

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rochester, Vol. 1, p. 34, Birth record for daughter Martha Benson.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1988, Vol. 142, p. 270.
  • ³ Hannibal, Edna Anne, John Briggs of Sandwich, Massachusetts and His Descendants, Unknown: Typed manuscript (1962), 2.

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