Person:Benjamin Farnsworth (3)

Name^[4]	Benjamin Farnsworth
Gender	Male
Birth^[2]^[1]	16 Jan 1699/00	Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	Bef 1727	Based on birth of eldest known child to Patience Davis
Marriage	19 May 1736	Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Rebecca Harnden
Death^[3]	18 Sep 1757	Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Butler, Caleb. History of the town of Groton, including Pepperell and Shirley, from the first grant of Groton plantation in 1655: with appendices, containing family registers, town and state officers, population, and other statistics. (Boston, 1848)
396.

Benjamin Farnsworth and Mary Prescott [parents]
[FARNSWORTH], Benjamin, born, Jan. 16, 1699. [Groton]
↑ Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1926-1927)
Vol. 1, p. 78.

FARNSWORTH, Benjamin, s. Benjamin and Mary, [born] Jan. 16, 1699.
↑ Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1926-1927)
Vol. 2, p. 219.

FARNSWORTH, Benjamin, small-pox, [died] Sept. 18, 1757. [a. 58 y. 7 m. 22 d. GR2]
↑ There is a death record on 16 Jan 1699 in the Groton VRs, p. 2:220, for Benjamin, but it must be a mis-recording of the birth, as Benjamin is called the eldest son in his father's probate in the division of real estate in 1734, i.e., older than Isaac born 1701.