20 Deacon Joseph Bingham, 8th and youngest child of (2) Thomas. b. June 4, 1709, at Norwich, Conn. He and his wife, Ruth, were admitted to the 2nd church at Norwich-West Farms or Franklin, 'by profession,' Jan. 4, 1736. He was 2nd Lieut, 8th Co., 2nd Reg't, in the French War, 1758, under Capt. John Durkee and Col. Nathan Whiting. Also 1st Lieut., 3rd Co., 4th Reg't, under Major John Durkee, 1759. d. Nov. 4, 1787, at Bennington, Vt.
m. Ruth Post of Norwich, Conn., Nov. 25, 1731. She was b. Oct 15, 1711, at Norwich, and was the second dau. of Samuel and Ruth (Lathrop) Post of Norwich, and gr. dau. of John Post, first, and Hester (Hyde), of Norwich. She d. Aug. 11, 1796; buried at Bennington.
They lived at Norwich, where all his children were born, until shortly after the dose of the French War, when they removed with their family to Charlemont, Mass., a mountainous
town among the spurs of the Green Mts., some 30 miles southeast of Bennington, Vt. About 1773 his youngest sons, Jeremiah and Calvin, went to Bennington and purchased a farm, partly cleared, on which the frame of a house had been erected and partly finished, and they, soon after, with their aged parents, removed thither."
