Person:John Benedict (15)

Mother Uncertain

It is not known which of his father's wives was his mother. However, one of the citations on his father's first marriage suggests that his first wife may have been alive in 1705.

Notes

• founding member of the Congregational Church of Canaan Parish, and one of its first deacons

1. ↑ Benedict, Henry Marvin. The genealogy of the Benedicts in America. (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1870)
   page 50.

   'John [son of John Benedict], b. 1701; d. 1770.'

2. ↑ Boughton, James, and Willis A. (Willis Arnold) Boughton. Bouton-Boughton family: descendants of John Bouton, a native of France, who embarked from Gravesend, England and landed at Boston in December 1635 and settled at Norwalk, Connecticut. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972)
   11.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Ullmann, Helen S. (Helen Frances Schatvet). A Line from John Bouton of Connecticut: a thoroughly documented account. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 2001)
   13.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 44044359, in Find A Grave
   includes headstone photo, last accessed Jul 2025.

   Inscription
   SACRED to the Memory of Deacon John Benedict (the 3rd of Norwalk) who departed this life Feb 27th 1770 in the 69th year of his age