Person:Benjamin Wadsworth (4)
President Benjamin Wadsworth
b.28 Feb 1669/70 Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.16 Mar 1736/37 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1660
  1. Recompence WadsworthAbt 1658 - 1679
  2. Deacon Ebenezer WadsworthAbt 1661 - 1717
  3. Christopher WadsworthAbt 1663 - 1687
  4. Timothy Wadsworth1665/66 -
  5. Joseph Wadsworth1667/68 -
  6. President Benjamin Wadsworth1669/70 - 1736/37
  7. Abigail Wadsworth1672 - Bef 1715
  8. Deacon John Wadsworth1674 - 1733/34
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  President Benjamin Wadsworth1669/70 - 1736/37
  • W.  Ruth Bordman (add)
m. 30 Dec 1696
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Facts and Events
Name[5] President Benjamin Wadsworth
Alt Name Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth
Gender Male
Birth[1] 28 Feb 1669/70 Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Degree[5] 1690 Harvard College
Marriage 30 Dec 1696 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Ruth Bordman (add)
Will[4] 15 Feb 1736/37
Death[2][3][4] 16 Mar 1736/37 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[3] Old Burying Ground Harvard Square, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[4] 11 Apr 1737 Witnesses sworn.
Probate[4] 23 May 1737 Will proved.
Reference Number[6] Q4889349 (Wikidata)
References
  1. ↑ Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Milton Records, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1662-1843: alphabetically and chronologically arranged. (Boston)
    p. 73.

    WADSWORTH, Benjamin, Son of Samuell, [born] Feb. 28, (1670).
    [Note: assumed to be 1669/70] based on spacing of sibling births.]

  2. ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
    Vol. 2, p. 774.

    WADSWORTH, Benjamin, president of Harvard College, [died] Mar. 16, 1737, a. 68 y.

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Find A Grave
    Rev Benjamin Wadsworth.

    [The memorial page gives the wrong death date, 12 Mar 1737. The tablet pictured says (in Latin) "obiit in Domino die Martii decimo sexto, Anno MDCCXXXVII", 16 Mar 1737.]

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. (American Ancestors, 2014).

    Will of "Benjamin Wadsworth President of Harvard College in Cambridge", dated 15 Feb 1736/37, witnesses sworn 11 Apr 1737, proved 23 May 1737, bequeaths to the poor of the old Church in Boston and Harvard College and money in charity bag disposed of to charitable uses; brother Timothy Wadsworth; brother Joseph Wadsworth; brother Andrew Boardman; neice Ruth Parrot wife to Mr Bryant Parrot; widows of my brother [hard to read, Ebenezer] and brother John; my Honoured Father's Immediate Grand Children viz. three of my Brother Ebenezers, one of Timothy's, three of [Josephs?], one of John's children; children of my kinsman Recompence Wadsworth of Milton deceased; Capt. Higginson's children by his first wife Ruth Bordman; brother Bordman's son Andrew; wife Ruth Wadsworth. At wife's decease to be distributed among next of kin as law directs considering brother Bordman as a natural brethren. Wife Ruth Wadsworth, brother Andrew Bordman of Cambridge, kinsman Bryant Parrot of Boston to be executors.

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Benjamin Wadsworth, in Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence. (Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society & New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005)
    Harvard:1101-04.
  6. ↑ Wikidata.
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