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Benjamin Hearnden
b.Est 1620
Facts and Events
"When he [Benjamin] was fifteen, he embraced the Baptist faith, then
under ban in Massachusetts. He was flogged by his uncle. As soon as
possible he escaped and he fell in with a family of Quakers named White,
traveling also to find religious freedom. He fell in love with their
oldest daughter and soon after their arrival in Providence, RI, he
married her and had nine children. He became a close and personal
friend of Roger Williams. His name is written in various places as
Herendeen, Hearndon and Herendell. He was given his first allotment of
land, in 1638, when he was admitted as a freeman. At least four time he
was chosen for jury service and many times he was a party to land
deeds."[7]
Benjamin Herendeen appeared on the earliest list of "25 acre men" recorded as inhabitants of Providence on 19 Jan 1645/6.
“He was in Providence, RI, in 1646, Lynn, MA, in 1647 and removed to Providence shortly afterwards. ... He owned a house and farm of 25 acres in Providence, RI, located near the corner of North Main St. and what was then called Harrington Lane, now Rochambeau Ave. Part of his farm is now part of the North Burying Ground. His will was presented for probate April 4, 1688.” [8]
Benjamin had several brushes with the law. In Dec 1647, he was cited in Lynn for beating his wife. He was cited in Providence on 17 February 1659, for "breach of peace and fright, Comitted [sic] on the family of william white, of this Towne." [9]
He is tied to his wife’s family through a deed Oct 16, 1662, when he bought of William and Elizabeth White of Boston 25 acres and a house (described above) for £20. The money was paid by his wife.[10]
Will proved 1694, A58, NEHR, Providence, RI
Text References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. (Orig. 1887; Reprinted 1969 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing).
- Ruth Story Devereux Eddy, and Ruth Story Devereux Eddy. The Ancestry and Descendants of John Hearndon of Scituate, Rhode Island: together with a supplement including some of the descendants of four of his brothers, Benjamin, Joseph, William and Thomas. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Microfilm of typescript (carbon copy; [5], 112, 27 leaves) at the at the Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, 1950)
p. 24.
- Rhode Island (Colony). General Court of Trials at Newport, and Jane Fletcher Fiske. Rhode Island General Court of Trials, 1671-1704. (Boxford, Massachusetts: J.F. Fiske, 1998, c1998)
p. 153.
- Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1963)
p. 362.
- Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
2:405.
BENJAMIN, Providence 1646, short time, perhaps, at Lynn, next yr. sw. alleg. May 1666, prob. had s. Benjamin, John, Joseph, Thomas, and William, or some of them, for the o. of alleg. was taken at P. by Joseph, and Benjamin, in May 1671; by the other three in May 1682. His d. Mary m. 14 Oct. 1675, Andrew Edmonds
- A story of Benjamin Harrington's parentage and arrival has been frequently told which involves a descent from the celebrated Elizabethan poet John Harrington and also from Thomas Clinton otherwise Fiennes, 3rd Earl of Lincoln. There were serious ojections to this descent raised as early as 1948 and Scherzinger in a recent compilation of colonial Americans of royal and noble descent notes politely "sufficient proof of alleged royal ancestory is lacking". See additional analysis.
- ↑ "Harrington, DeWolfe and Tremaine Families" by Charles Tremaine Harrington, published in 1938
- ↑ http://www.harringtons.org/Harrington/Gedcoms/Benjamin/D0010/I34.html, citing Representative Families of RI and Savage
- ↑ Essex Court Files, 1:133
- ↑ Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island
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