"Benjamin2 Towner, son of Richard1 and probably 'Sarai' (_____) Towner, … first marriage to Jerusha Shaler is well documented. They married probably at Haddam in 1719, as on 14 March 1727/8, Benjamin Towner stated that he and his wife had received £7 13s. of foods as part of her share of her father's estate in that year."