John BENJAMIN, Jr.

Abt 1620 - 1706  (~ 86 years)

• Name	John BENJAMIN
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	Abt 1620	England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	1632	Boston, Massachusetts   [1]
  	on the ship "Lion"
  Death	22 Dec 1706	Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  	Age 86
  Notes	"John was a blacksmith. In 1664 he was in Hartford, Conn., but returned to Watertown. In 1666 he was made a Freeman of Watertown. On April 5, 1681 he was exempted from military training. (He was 61 years of age at that time.) John was a member of the train band or [sic] Colonial Militia. John's signature is shown on page 27 of Bond's History of Watertown, Mass. On March 28, 1692 John sold his son Abel two parcels of upland in Watertown, one half of the homestead, 10 acres and one half of the barn, and one half of the house. The other parcel was one half of the Dividend acreage containing 25 acres. On January 12, 1696 he sold his sons, Daniel and Abel, 60 acres of land in Dorchester. His son John was to receive a double portion of the estate." In his will of 15 December 1674, William Allen bequeathed to "my daughter Lydyah Beniamine wife unto John Beniamine of Watertowne" [1, 2]
  Person ID	I10393	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2012

  
  

  Family ID

  F5963

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• Sources

  [S343] Gloria Wall Bicha and Helen Benjamin Brown, Benjamin Family in America, (Racine, Wisconsin: Self Published, 1977.), 1: 10., CS 71.B468. (Reliability: 3). [S54] Anderson, Robert Charles, Great Migration Begins, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995), p. 162 (Reliability: 3).