Person:Mary Benjamin (21)

Name^[1]	Mary Benjamin
Married Name	Mary Welles
Married Name	Mary Fairchild
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]^[3]	Abt 1724	Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Marriage	Bef 1740	Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (probably)Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (William). to William Welles
Marriage	Apr 1753	Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United Statesto Curtis Fairchild
Death^[2]	Nov 1816	Huntington, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Mary² Hale, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
10.

"Mary⁵ (Benjamin) b. abt. 1724; m. (1) William Welles, … son of John and Mary (Judson) Welles; m. (2) Apr. 1753, Curtis Fairchild of Durham, Conn., son of Samuel and Mary (Lewis) Fairchild."
↑ Volume 102 Shelton, in Connecticut, United States. Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. (Ancestry.com (database on-line), 2013)
59.

"Fairchild, … Mary, wid., d. Nov. [ ], [1816], Æ 89 [3:26]"
↑ Recorded age at death would indicate that Mary was born c. 1727. Since her eldest known child was born 1740, it would seem that she was probably born somewhat earlier than the c. 1724 assigned by Jacobus.