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Facts and Events
| Name[2] |
John Benjamin |
| Gender |
Male |
| Christening[3] |
12 Mar 1585 |
Chalvington, Sussex, England |
| Marriage |
1619 |
Cranbrook, Kent, Englandto Abigail Eddy |
| Immigration? |
16 Sep 1632 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesCame to Boston in "Lion" Sept. 16, 1632 with wife & 2 children. |
| Other |
16 Sep 1632 |
Boston, Suffolk County, MassachusettsMigration
with Abigail Eddy |
| Residence? |
1636 |
Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesRemoved to Watertown in 1636 |
| Emigration? |
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London, EnglandJohn with his wife and several children sailed from London in the ship "Lion" from Bristol under Captain Mason. |
| Death? |
14 Jun 1645 |
Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Probate? |
1646 |
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John belonged to the family who lived in Lower Hereford. John with his wife and several children sailed from London in the ship "Lion" from Bristol under Captain Mason, arriving Sept. 16, 1632. Removed to Watertown in 1636.
In his will, undated but proved on 3 July 1645, John Benjamin bequeathed to "my son John a double portion of my estate & my beloved wife two cows, forty bushels of corn out of all my lands to be allowed her towards the bringing up of my small children yearly such as grows upon the ground, one part of four of all my household stuff, all the rest of my lands, goods & chattels I will shall be equally divided between seven other of my children, provided that out of all my former estate my will is that my wife during her life shall enjoy the dwelling house I live in & three acres of the broken up ground next the house, & two acres of the meadow nearhand belonging to the house"; in swearing to this will John Eddy said that John Benjamin "did further declare (as an addition to this his will) that his wife should have liberty to take wood for her use upon any of his lands during her life" [ SPR 1:40-41].
Disputed Lineages
Anderson considers the kinship between the immigrants John and Richard Benjamin unproven, since their origin is unknown.
References
- Will of John Benjamin, in Probate records?
12 Jun 1646.
WILL:
Dated April/June 12, 1646 To son John a double portion .. to wife ... towards bringing up smale children ... Rest to be divided equally between 7 other of my children. Appoint brother John Eddie of Watertown & Thomas Marret of Cambridge to do inventory. Witness: George Muning.
[Suffolk Deeds; NEHGR 1984, p. 25]
- ↑ John Benjamin entry, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 16 September 1632 on Lyon [Hotten 150] FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge REMOVES: Watertown about 1643
BIRTH: By about 1595 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Watertown 14 June 1645 [ WaVR 12].
- ↑ Great Migration cites this date, found in The Benjamin Family in America (n.p. 1977), pp. vii-viii, but considers it probably a decade too early.
| Lyon (1632)
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| There is some confusion as to the passengers on the Lyon in 1632. Banks listed about 120 passengers. Another list prepared by John Corley in 1984 lists some 350 passengers. [1]
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| Sailed: | 22 Jun 1632 from London, England under Master William Peirce
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| Arrived: | 16 Sep 1632 at Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| Founders of Watertown, MA
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| Located along the Charles River, Watertown was one of the first settlements in Massachusetts Bay Colony. After a brief stay by Roger Clapp and others who then went on to settle Dorchester. In late July 1630, Sir Richard Saltonstall led a group of about 115 households to settle at Watertown, which at the time included parts of present-day Cambridge and much of the surrounding area; the population approached Boston's in the mid 17th century. In 1632 the residents of Watertown protested against being compelled to pay a tax for the erection of a stockade fort at Cambridge; leading to the establishment of representative government in the colony.
Full list of original heads of households
See also: History of Watertown - Wikipedia entry - Richard Saltonstall on Wikipedia
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| Watertown Founders' Monument
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Current Location: Middlesex County, Massachusetts Parent Towns: None Daughter Towns: Cambridge, Weston, Waltham, Belmont, Lincoln
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