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- H. Benjamin SmithAbt 1655 - 1730
- W. Hannah Lane1671 - 1734
m. 25 Jul 1704
Facts and Events
| Name[1][2] |
Benjamin Smith |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][3][4] |
Abt 1655 |
New London, New London, Connecticut, United States (probably) |
| Marriage |
Bef 1703 |
Estimate based on calculated date of birth of only known child (Dorothy).
to Unknown Unknown |
| Marriage |
25 Jul 1704 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesAlso recorded at Wethersfield.
to Hannah Lane |
| Will[5] |
May 1727 |
Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Death[3][4] |
20 Jan 1730 |
Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Burial[3][4] |
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Green Cemetery, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Estate Inventory[5] |
17 Feb 1730/31 |
£953-03-06. Taken by Samuel Gains and David Hubbard. |
| Probate[5] |
4 May 1731 |
Will and inventory exhibited. |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 2. Richard2 Smith, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Smith Number - Richard Smith of Wethersfield. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr 1949)
25:127.
"6 Benjamin (Smith), b. ca. 1655; d. 20 Jan. 1730/1 ae. abt. 78 (g. s.). Winthrop calls him aged 6 in 1660 and aged 13 in 1669; the gravestone statement of age is too high."
- ↑ Adams, Sherman W. (Sherman Wolcott), and Henry R. (Henry Reed) Stiles. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Early Families. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904)
2:651.
"There was also (in Glastonbury portion of Weth.) another Benjamin (Smith), of Glastonbury, m. Hannah (dau. Isaac) Lane, of Midd., 25 July, 1704; was grand-juror, 1715; her will dated 17 Sept., 1731, exhib. to Prob. Ct. 3 Dec., 1734, ment. son Rich, and Jeduthan (but no Manoah) [Manoah is mentioned both in the 1727 will of his father and in his mother's] and dau.-in-law Dorothy Boardman.—Htfd. Co. Prob. Rec. … This is prob. the Benjamin, of whom Chapin (Glast. Centenial, p. 192) speaks—and says that he may have been bro. of Joseph and Samuel, of Glast., and intimates that he may have been a s. of Richard, Jr."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Benjamin Smith, in Find A Grave.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol 16 112-1 Green Cemetery, Glastonbury, in Hale, Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. (Connecticut, United States: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1934)
32.
"Smith, Benjamin, died Jan.20, 1730,or '31, age 78 yrs."
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Smith, Benjamin, Glastonbury, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
3:110-11.
"Probate Records. Vol. XI, 1729 to 1732. Page 107-8-9-10.
Smith, Benjamin, Glastonbury. Invt. £953-03-06. Taken 17 February, 1730-31, by Samuel Gains and David Hubbard. Will dated May, 1727.
I, Benjamin Smith of Glastonbury, husbandman, do make this my last will and testament: I give to Hannah, my wife, two cows for her use, all the moveable estate which she brought with her that is now in being, my bay ambling horse, the bed I lodge on with its furniture, my biggest brass kettle and least brass kettle, my warming pan and porridge pot and pot hooks, two iron kettles, a paire of cob irons, two trammells, a slice and a paire of tongs, as also the chaires belonging to the house, all the meat that is in the house, all my hoggs, all the corne and grain that is in the house, two cow calves, and all the syder and beere barrels. I give unto my son Richard Smith my yoke of oxen, trammel, bedd he lodges on, and its furniture, a horse and cowe and farming tools, and the plow chain that belonged to his uncle Joseph. And after my two sons Jeduthan and Manoah and my daughter Dorothy have had each of them 150 acres of land out of my right of land in the Five-Mile Purchase of Glastonbury, I give and devise the remainder of the sd. right to my sd. son Richard. I give to my son, Jeduthan Smith, cattle and farming tooles, tackling for a cart that belonged to his uncle Joseph, and 150 acres of land to be laid out to him out of my right of land in that part of Glastonbury called the Five-Mile Purchase. I give unto my son, Manoah Smith, cattle and farming tooles, a bedd that formerly belonged to his aunt Bethiah, and 150 acres of land laid out to him out of my right of land in that part of Glastonbury called the Five-Mile Purchase. I give unto my daughter, Dinah Smith, a wainscott cupbard outstanding in my new house, and the sum of 5 shillings in money. And the reason that my sd. daughter Dinah hath no more by this my will is because I have lately given her by deed the homelott of 22 acres of land at the Town Street of Colchester, and have delivered to her as gifts several other things. I give unto my daughter Dorothy 150 acres of land laid out to her out of my right of land in that part of Glastonbury called the Five-Mile Purchase, a wainscott chest, and £16 in money or money's worth. As to the remainder of my land at the Wigwam Hill in Glastonbury which I have not given by deed to my son Manoah, which remainder goes from the east bound of my sd. son Manoah's land (so given by deed) to the end of the Three Miles eastward into the woods, to be reckoned from the Great River, I give the sd. remainder to my three sons, Richard, Jeduthan and Manoah, equally to be divided among them. As to the rest and residue of my moveable estate not hereinbefore given, I give and devise it unto Hannah, my beloved wife. I appoint my son Richard to be executor.
BENJAMIN SMITH, LS.
Witness: John Sparks, Samuel Gains, John Lynn.
Court Record, Page 45—4 May, 1731: Will and inventory exhibited."
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