Person:Benjamin Houghton (7)

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Benjamin Houghton
b.Abt 1691
d.28 Feb 1764 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 15 Feb 1681
  1. Jonas Houghton1682 - 1739
  2. Sarah HoughtonAbt 1686 - 1776
  3. Benjamin HoughtonAbt 1691 - 1764
  4. Jemima HoughtonBef 1705 - 1779
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Benjamin HoughtonAbt 1691 - 1764
  • W.  Zerviah MooreAbt 1696 -
m. 28 Jul 1720
  1. Zerviah Houghton1721 -
  2. Mindwell Houghton1722/23 - 1806
  3. Michal Houghton1725 - 1816
  4. Dinah Houghton1727 -
  5. Keziah Houghton1729 -
  6. Benjamin Houghton1732 -
  7. Abigail Houghton1735 -
  8. Joel Houghton1737 -
  9. Eunice Houghton1739 -
  10. Silas Houghton1742 -
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Facts and Events
Name[2] Benjamin Houghton
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1691
Marriage 28 Jul 1720 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesto Zerviah Moore
Death[1][3] 28 Feb 1764 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Chocksett Burial Ground", in Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W.J. Coulter, 1890)
    p. 417.

    HEAR LIES BURIED THE
    BODY OF MR. BENIAMIN
    HOUGHTON WHO
    DEPARTED THIS
    LIFE FEBRUARY Ye 28
    1764 IN Ye 74
    YEAR OF HIS AGE.
    [Age 73, so born about 1691.]

  2. ↑ Burr, Annie Lane and Thomas Hovey Gage. "John Houghton of Lancaster, Mass., and Some of His Descendants", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    79:399.

    Children of Jonas Houghton and Mary Berbeane: 4) Benjamin, b. 1691 [per gravestone], d. 28 Feb 1764, m. 28 Jul 1720 Zerviah Moore. Lived in West Precinct, now Sterling.

  3. ↑ Massachusetts. Probate Court (Worcester County). Probate files, 1731–1881. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 2012)
    Case 30911: Houghton Benjamin Lancsater 1764.

    16 Mar 1764: Zerviah Houghton declines administration, requesting eldest son Joel be appointed. Bond given by Joel Houghton Husbandman of Lancaster the same date.
    24 Apr 1764: Inventory of Benjamin Houghton yemon Late of Lancaster: £2680.13.8.2, by David Osgood, Asa Whetcomb, Oliver Moor.
    1 Jul 1765: division of real estate of Benj'a Houghton Late of Lancaster, noting advances to Benjamin Houghton the third Dec'd the eldest son of Benjamin Houghton Dec's, and Silas Houghton youngest son of ye Dec'd, Zeruiah ye Widdow and Relict of ye Dec'd hath Resigned her Right of Dower, set off to Joel Houghton eldest surviving son [he paying his sister Dina Houghton and his sister Mindwell Crosby]; to Silas Houghton Youngest son; to Zeruiah eldest Daughter and wife of Jonathan Wilder; to Mindwell ye second daughter fn wife to John Crosby; to Michael the third daughter and wife of Ephraim Roper; to Dinah the fourth Daughter and wife of Ezra Houghton; to Keziah fifth daughter and wife of Ebenezer Bass; to Abigail ye sixth daughter and wife of Ephraim Osgood; to Eunice ye youngest daughter and wife of Jonathan Baily [also Bayley, they to pay sister Dainh Houghton]; to Seth Herrington and Pricella his wife heirs to two thirds of Benjamin Houghton ye 3d Dec'd; to Abigail Harrington daughter of Seth Harrington and heir to one third of Benj'a Houghton ye 3'd Dec'd.
    8 Jul 1765: Account of John Houghton adm'r of his late Father Benjamin Houghton Late of Lancaster Dec'd, allowed.

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