Person:John Benham (2)

Name^[1]	John Benham
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Est 1605	England
Marriage	Bef 1630	to Unknown Unknown
Emigration^[1]	1630
Residence^[1]	1630	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Other^[1]	18 May 1631	Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Residence^[1]	1638	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Residence^[3]	1639	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Marriage	16 Nov 1660	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Margery Unknown
Occupation^[1]		Brickmaker
Death^[1]	Bef 3 Jan 1661/62	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (probably)Before date of inventory.
Estate Inventory^[1]	3 Jan 1661/62	£80 18s., of which £33 was real estate.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 ^1.8 John Benham, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
1:156-60.

"ORIGIN: Unknown …
OCCUPATION: Brickmaker [NHCR 1:367; NHTR 1:79, 160].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: No evidence of membership in first church at Dorchester; did not join second church at Dorchester. Admitted early to New Haven church [NHCR 1:139].
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR:80, 366]. In undated lists of freemen at New Haven [NHCR 1:9, 17]; took oath of fidelity 5 August 1644 [NHCR 1:139]. …
BIRTH: Perhaps about 1605, based on approximated ages of children."
Wattles, Lucille Rogers. Benham Family including the Nutt and Miller Families. Cooper City, Florida. 2007.
↑ Hanks, Patrick (editor). Dictionary of American family names. (New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

Benham - English habitational name from a place in Berkshire named with the Old English personal name Benna + Old English hamm 'river meadow'. FOREBEARS John Benham was one of the free planters who assented to the Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.