John BENJAMIN
Abt 1620 - 1706 (~ 86 years)-
Name John BENJAMIN Birth Abt 1620 Heathfield, Sussex, England 
Gender Male Death 22 Dec 1706 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Person ID I13783 kirkpatrick Last Modified 4 Jul 2006
Father John BENJAMIN, b. Abt 1595, England d. 14 Jun 1645, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 50 years) Mother Abigail EDDYE, b. Oct 1601, Cranbrook, Kent, England d. 20 May 1687, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 85 years) Marriage Bef 1620 England Family ID F4323 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Lydia ALLEN, b. Abt 1625, England d. 10 Jan 1709, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 84 years) Marriage Abt 1650 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Children 1. Daniel BENJAMIN, b. 12 Jul 1660, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 13 Sep 1719, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 59 years)Family ID F4580 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 8 Apr 2007
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Notes - John Benjamin arrived to America in September 16, 1632 with his parentson the ship Lyon. They are listed "of Heathfield, Sussex", with no stateddestination.
John was a blacksmith. In 1664 he was in Hartford, Conn., but returned toWatertown. In 1666 he was made a Freeman of Watertown. On April 5, 1681he was exempted from military training. (He was 61 years of age at thattime.) John was a member of the train band or Colonial Militia.
John's signature is shown on page 27 of Bond's History of Watertown,Mass. On March 28, 1692 he sold his son Abel two parcels of upland inWatertown, 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 Dividendacreage containing 25 acres. On January 12, 1696 John sold to his sonsDaniel and Abel, sixty acres in Dorchester Field, bounded south byCharles River, east by land of William Bond and Dorchester Field, west byland of John Loveran, north by land of Robert and J. Goddard. His sonJohn was to receive a double portion of the estate.
He died December 22, 1706.
- John Benjamin arrived to America in September 16, 1632 with his parentson the ship Lyon. They are listed "of Heathfield, Sussex", with no stateddestination.