Person:Benjamin Medbury (5)

m. 27 Mar 1718
  1. Mary Medbury1720 -
  2. Nathaniel Medbury1722 -
  3. Isaac Medbury1724 -
  4. Benjamin Medbury1727 - 1796
  5. Ann Medbury1729 -
  6. Sarah Medbury1731/32 -
  • HBenjamin Medbury1727 - 1796
  • W.  Sarah (add)
  1. David Medbury
  2. Ruth Medbury
  3. Isaac B. Medbury
Facts and Events
Name Benjamin Medbury
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 31 Mar 1727 Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States
Marriage 8 Dec 1748 Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USAto Elizabeth Darling
Marriage to Sarah (add)
Will[4] 7 Sep 1794 Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Death[2] 10 Jan 1796 Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
References
  1. Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
    1:1:189 Warwick Births and Deaths.

    1-37 Medbury Benjamin, of Nathaniel and Dorothy, [born] Mar. 31 1727.
    Medbury, Benjamin, of Nathaniel and Dorothy, died May 29, 1727. (Other researchers dispute this death date)

  2. 2.0 2.1 Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008)
    1:299, 302.

    'Children with first wife, surname DARLING: ...
    ELIZABETH, born Mendon, MA 11 April 1729 (MVR, 64); died 23 March 1778 (Medbury genealogy, 5); marriage intention to David Burten of Uxbridge, MA on 24 August 1746, but the banns were forbidden by her father, Benjamin Darling (MVR, 283); married Mendon 8 December 1748 (MVR, 284) as his first wife BENJAMIN MEDBURY, born Warwick, RI 31 March 1727 (Arnold WVR 1:189), died Smithfield, RI 10 January 1796 (Medbury genealogy, 5), son of Nathaniel ... and Dorothy (Brown) Medbury (Worcester Probate 12:110-113).'

  3.   Clemens, William M. (William Montgomery). The Darling family in America; early settlers prior to 1800. (New York, New York: William M. Clemens, 1913)
    pages 9-10.

    'Following is a record of the children of Benjamin Darling and his two wives, as found in the Mendon Vital Records:
    ... Elizabeth Darling, born April 11, 1729; married in Mendon, December 8, 1748, Benjmin Meadberry of Smithfield, R. I.'

  4. Rhode Island, Wills and Probate Records
    [1].

    Benjamin Medbery of Smithfield.
    Wife Sarah
    8 sons: Edward, Nathan, Benjamin, Darling, Nathaniel, Joseph, David, Isaac B.
    Daughters: Mary Angell, Ruth Medbury
    3 youngest children: David, Ruth, Isaac B. 2 youngest sons need to have trades.