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Benjamin Barnes

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Facts and Events

Name^[1]	Benjamin Barnes
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]	Sep 1684	Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Death^[1]^[2]	May 1709	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial^[3]^[4]		Library Park Cemetery, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Ward, Anna L. (Anna Lydia); Joseph Anderson; and Sarah J. (Sarah Johnson) Prichard. The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, from the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five. (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Company, 1896)
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"Ye record of Benjamin Barnes, Sen., … first Benjamin was born ye beginning Sept: 1684. … The first born son Benjamin Barns deyed in May. 1709."
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Waterbury Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
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"Barnes, … Benjamin, s. [Benjamin & Sarah], b. Sept. beginning, 1684; d. May [__], 1709 in Hartford [1:117]"
↑ Benjamin Barnes, Jr, in Find A Grave.

Since, according to the Waterbury vital records, he died at Hartford, this may have been only a cenotaph.
↑ Prichard, Katharine A. Ancient Burying-Grounds of the Town of Waterbury, Connecticut: Together with Other Records of Church and Town. (New Haven, Connecticut: Mattatuck Historical Society, 1917)
117.

"Benjamin Barnes, eldest son of Benjamin Barnes, died in May, 1709, in the 25th year of his age. This stone was unearthed in October, 1889, and is seventeen years older than any other known stone in the burying-yard."