Person:Benjamin Gerrish (6)
Hon. Benjamin Gerrish
b.19 Oct 1717 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.6 May 1772 Southampton, Hampshire, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 28 Apr 1699
  1. Anna Gerrish1700 - 1736
  2. Richard Gerrish1702 - 1718
  3. Sarah Gerrish1704 -
  4. Margaret Gerrish1705 -
  5. William Gerrish1707 -
  6. Hon. Joseph Gerrish1709 - 1774
  7. Sarah Gerrish1713 - 1798
  8. Nathaniel Gerrish1714 -
  9. William Gerrish1714 - 1724
  10. Hon. Benjamin Gerrish1717 - 1772
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m. 10 May 1744
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Hon. Benjamin Gerrish
Gender Male
Birth[1] 19 Oct 1717 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Baptism[1] 20 Oct 1717 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage License 19 Apr 1744 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Rebecca Dudley
Marriage 10 May 1744 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Rebecca Dudley
Residence[1] Bef Jul 1752 Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Residence[1] 24 Oct 1765 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Will[1] 1772 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1] 6 May 1772 Southampton, Hampshire, England
Probate[1] 7 Aug 1773 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number Q4888704 (Wikidata)


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Benjamin Gerrish (October 19, 1717 – May 6, 1772) was a merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia. He was a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1759 to 1768.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of John Gerrish and Sarah Hobbes. Binney married Rebecca Dudley in 1744 and they moved to Halifax around 1751, shortly after his brother Joseph had moved there. Gerrish set up in business with Joseph Gray, his brother Joseph's son-in-law. With others, he lobbied for representative government in the province. He and his brother were elected to the first assembly, but Benjamin was apparently out of the province and did not serve. He did serve in the second to fourth assemblies. In 1760, he was named justice of the peace for Halifax County, a captain in the militia and Indian commissary. When Jonathan Belcher became lieutenant governor, he removed Gerrish from the commissary contract. When Belcher allowed the province's debtor's act to lapse in 1761, Gerrish helped lead a boycott of the assembly which eventually led to Belcher's removal. In 1768, Gerrish was named to the province's Council, resigning his assembly seat on June 27, 1768.[1] He died in Southampton in England at the age of 54.

Rebecca, his widow, married John Burbidge, another member of the province's assembly. She is buried, under her married name Gerrish, at the King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 3. Hon. Benjamin4 Gerrish, in Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton. The Gerrish Family: Family of Capt. John Gerrish. (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1913)
    pp. 9-10.

    ...born in Boston 19 Oct. 1717 and baptized the next day (records of the Old South Church)... He was settled at Halifax, N. S., before July 1752, for the census of that date gives him as a resident of the town... He was appointed, 31 May 1760, captain of a company of Halifax Militia.

    ...in Boston Town Records, Miscellaneous Papers, it is stated that Benjamin Gerrish his wife and daughter, and a servant, arrived 24 Oct. 1765 from Halifax.

    Hon. Benjamin Gerrish died at Southampton, England, 6 May 1772, and was probably buried in England.

    Mr. Gerrish's will was made in Boston, 1772, and proved in Boston 7 Aug. 1773. The witnesses were Samuel Quincy, Samuel Clap, and Increase Sumner, Jr.

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