Family:John Benedict and Mary Haite (2)

Possible confusion with another marriage

The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America^[2] suggests that John's wife was Mary Haite, but does not identify who she was. Later compilers have "identified her" as the daughter of John and Mary (Lindall) Hoyt, born 1 Sep 1677 - her age would have been 71 ("ae 72", or in her 72d year) on June 5, 1749, when John's wife Mary died, "aged 72 yrs"^[2]. Possibly this identification has been published, with appropriate evidence, but a cursory look at online sources has not located such a publication.

Since there was another Mary Haite/Hoyt who married a John Benedict (Mary born 9 Apr 1720, daughter of Daniel Hoyt), according to A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families, page 347, it is possible that this marriage has been confused with that one, and that this John Benedict's wife Mary was not a Haite/Hoyt at all.

1. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1963)
   page 61.

   'BEDICT, James (1676-1766) & 1/wf [Anna St.JOHN] (1674-) (?Mary HARTE, 2/wf); aft 1693, bef 1701; Norwalk, CT'

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Benedict, Henry Marvin. The genealogy of the Benedicts in America. (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1870)
   page 50.

   'John ([son of] John, [son of] Thomas), b. March 3, 1676; ... m. Mary (Haite?); d. Norwalk, Jan. 16, 1766. Wife d. June 5, 1749, aged 72 yrs.'

3. ↑ Marriage year estimated in order to have marriages display in correct order. There is little information that would indicate when this marriage took place, and which marriage(s) John's children belong to, other than an apparent gap in the births of the children between about 1711 and 1716, and the fact that John's first wife Anna would have been 41 or 42 when the last child was born in 1716.