"Benoni Stebbins, of Northampton, Massachusetts, was born about 1669; died 'November 14, 1758, in the 70th year of his age'? at New Milford, Connecticut. … removed from Northampton, Massachusetts, in the spring or summer of 1713, to New Milford, Connecticut, for in October of that year he purchased a Right of land there and is said in the deed, to be of New Milford. He became an influential man in that town, and held a number of minor offices …"