BENJAMIN COLTON ...
He married, December 3, 1713, Ruth, eldest daughter of the Rev. Edward Taylor (Harv. Coll. 1671), of Westfield, Massachusetts. She was born 1693 and died May 30, 1725.
He was again married, in 1726, to Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. William Pitkin, Jr., of Hartford. She was born August 18, 1689, and died October 11, 1760.
He had two sons and two daughters by the first marriage, and three daughters and two sons by the second. His eldest son, Eli, graduated at this College in 1737, and his youngest, George, in 1756. One daughter married the Rev. Adonijah Bidwell (Y. C. 1740).
Of his children, all except the eldest son and one daughter survived him. ...