Note:
The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert
Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998.
Subject numbers are HAP's originals.
HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete
document page numbers in brackets and issue dates.
The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation
numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject
are "1/--".


                            Subject 732.  (397)

                             JOHN BENJAMIN.

         The following is from the "Genealogies or Watertown", by Henry
Bond, page 26: also from "The Eddy Family in America", by Ruth Story
Devereux Eddy. Boston (1930): also from "The Genealogy of Lieut Samuel
Benjamin", by Mary Louise Benjamin, (1900).
         John Benjamin was born about 1598, probably in Herefordshire,
where his family had a Coat-of-Arms. It is claimed that John, after
graduating at Cambridge University in England, became intimate with
John Winthrop, later Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and that
this friendship led to John coming to America. He came in the ship
"Lion", which arrived in Boston September 16/1632, with his wife and
several children. He was made a freeman of Watertown on November
6/1632. He had brought from England a fine library. He was a proprietor
in Cambridge Mass, and perhaps first settled there: if so, for only a
short time as his goods and house to the value of ś100, were burned in
Watertown on April 7/1636. In 1635 he was made one of the Surveyors of
the Lands.  In 1637 he bought 60 acres of land and built a fine house,
which was unsurpassed in elegance and comfort. He died June 14/1645 and
left an estate of ś297.3.2.
         He married, probably in 1619 in England, Abigail Eddy of
Cranbrooke, Kent, daughter of the Rev William and Mary (Fosten) Eddye,
baptized October 1601, died May 20/1687 at Charlestown, Mass. His Will
mentions his eldest son John and seven other children. His widow
Abigail went with her son-in-law Joshua Stubbs to Charlestown in 1654,
where she died at the age of 87 years.
Issue:-
1. John Benjamin. Born in England, bapt 1620, died December 22/1706,
  aged 86 years. He married Lydia Allen who died in 1709: they had
  eight children and remained near Boston all their lives.
2. Abigail Benjamin. Born in England about 1624. She married, 1st,
  about 1640, Joshua Stubbs of Watertown and had three children, and
  moved to Charlestown in 1654 where Joshua died: she married, 2nd,
  John Woodward.
3. Samuel Benjamin. Born in England 1628, died 1669 in Hartford, Conn.
  His wife was named Mary and he had a daughter Mary born May 12/1666,
  and a daughter Abigail.
4. Mary Benjamin. Born in England in 1630, died April or May 10/1646.
5. Joseph Benjamin. Born in Watertown September 15/1633, died at New
  London in 1704. He married, 1st, at Barnstable on June 10/1661,
  Jemima Lambert who died before March 23/1662: he married, 2nd, at
  Yarmouth, Sarah Clark and had nine children by her. He had one
  child by Jemima Lambert.
6. Joshua Benjamin. Born about 1642, died May 6/1684 at Charlestown,
  leaving a widow named Thankful.
7. Caleb Benjamin. Settled at Wethersfield, Conn, and died May 8/1684,
  leaving his wife Mary or Dorothy Hale and six children.
8. Abel Benjamin. Of Charlestown. He married on November 6/1671, Amithy
  (Amathea) Myrick (Merrick), who died May 10/1713, who came from
  Windsor, Conn.  See subject 366 for issue and further particulars.   