Banfield Capron

From the Find A Grave page for Banfield Capron Jr.:

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Birth: Jul. 16, 1683 - Barrington, Bristol County, Rhode Island, USA

Death: Aug. 16, 1758 - Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA

His first wife was Hannah Jencks Capron, married about 1709 or 1710. She was the daughter of Nathaniel Jencks and Hannah Bosworth Jencks.

His second wife was Sarah_______Brown Capron, widow of Benjamin Brown.

He was the son of Banfield Capron and Elizabeth Callandar Capron.

Children(by first marriage):

• 1. Nathaniel Capron,
• 2. Betsey Capron,
• 3. Hannah Capron,
• 4. Charles Capron,
• 5. Philip Capron,
• 6. Leah Capron Scott,
• 7. Benjamin Capron,
• 8. Jonathan Capron,
• 9. Lydia Capron,
• 10. Sarah Capron Scott,
• 11. Elizabeth Capron Spear Hall, and
• 12. Oliver Capron.

Family links:

Parents:

• Banfield Capron (1660 - 1752)
• Elizabeth Callender Capron (1663 - 1733)

Children:

• Charles Capron (1716 - 1789)
• Oliver Capron (1736 - 1816)

Note: Rick Whitesell reports that, looking in the state historical cemetery commission list of who is buried here, Banfield is not one of them. He also does not appear in the RI Cemeteries Database.

Burial: Capron Cemetery, Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA, GPS (lat/lon): 41.99362, -71.48419

Created by: Kevin Avery Record added: Nov 30, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 31831982

Banfield Capron, Jr. was a Mason and Weaver and Farmer. He left a will on 3/10/1755 at Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island.

Biographical Notes for Banfield Capron, Jr.: Banfield Capron, 2d, was born in the year 1682-3 , and died August 16, 1758, being about 70 years old. Some time before his death, a violent cancer broke out on his upper lip, which ate off a part of his face, and was the cause of his death.

Before that time he was a capable man, and did an abundance of hard labor for a man of his age. He was of large stature, well built, very stout, bold, resolute, and persevering in all his business ; of light complexion, blue eyes, and reddish hair. He was a mason by trade, did much work at building chimneys in the neighboring towns in Providence, and was considered in his days to be one of the best of workmen.

He was a weaver, also, and did considerable at that when was not employed in other business. In those days men did the greatest part of the weaving.

He married Hannah Jencks, of Pawtucket, and was the granddaughter of Joseph Jencks, who was the first settler in that place. They had 12 children, - six sons and six daughters.

Philip was informed by a number of old people, who were near neighbors to his grandfather (Banfield Jr.) and his family, that they were very smart, active and handsome, while living, but a great part of them, like the flowers of a garden, young, lovely, beautiful and gay in the morning, and before noon, wither, drop and die, Nathaniel Capron, when about 20 years old, went to sea, and has not been heard of since. About four years after, as I have been informed, which would be in the year 1738, the lung fever got into the family, and were all sick with it, excepting Charles, my father and Leah, and Oliver, who was about two years old ; he was taken from the family during the sickness, and taken care of by one of his aunts. In a short time, not more than two or three months after, six children, with their mother, were dead, viz, : Philip, Benjamin, Jonathan, Betsey, and Lydia. The fever was very violent, and seemed to sweep everything before it.

I have been informed by a number of old people, who were neighbors and gave their assistance during the sickness, that the distresses of the family were very great indeed, and that 'my grandfather's fatigue and troubles were so great that he could scarcely retain his senses at times. At one time when the doctor came to see them , two of the family lay dead in the house, and he told the doctor that he 'did not know but he would kill all his family,' The physician was 'so grieved at being implicated as the means of their death, that he wept like a child. It was thought, however, that he used every means in his power to save their lives, according to his best skill and judgment. His name was Thayer, and he was called a very skillful physician.

At a Town Meeting Banfield was chosen Grand Juror to attend at next Inferior Court to be holden at Providence on 3rd Tue this June From the Book Banfield Capron.

His first wife was Hannah Jencks Capron, married about 1709 or 1710. She was the daughter of Nathaniel Jencks and Hannah Bosworth Jencks.

His second wife was Sarah_______Brown Capron, widow of Benjamin Brown.

He was the son of Banfield Capron and Elizabeth Callandar Capron.

Children(by first marriage): Nathaniel Capron, Betsey Capron, Hannah Capron, Charles Capron, Philip Capron, Leah Capron Scott, Benjamin Capron, Jonathan Capron, Lydia Capron, Sarah Capron Scott, Elizabeth Capron Spear Hall, and Oliver Capron.

At a Town Council meeting held at Cumberland in the county of Providence by adjoinment on Tuesday the 29th day of August A.D. 1758.

Sarah Capron widow and Charles Capron, Yeoman, who are joynt Executors to the last will and testament of Mr. Banfield Capron, late of said Cumberland, Deceased. Exhibited to said Council the will of the said deceased which is as followeth.

In the name of God amen, the Tenth day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Five, I, Banfield Capron of Cumberland in the county of Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island in the New England domain. Being very weak in body but of a perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God therefore calling to mind the morality of my body that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my Last Will and testament (that is to say) principally and first I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and my Body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent Christian Burial at the discrition of my executor and touching such worldly estate wherewith it please God to Bless me in this life. I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.

Item I give and bequeath to Sarah my will beloved wife whom I likewise constitute make and Ordain my Executrix together with my beloved son Charles Capron of Cumberland aforesaid, they to sole executors of this my last will and testament. I give to my said wife the third part of my real estate that is the thirds of the income of my lands and buildings the term of her natural life together with the third part of my stock, chattels, and sheep and my moveable goods as aforesaid furthermore I freely give to my dear wife all the right, title, estate interest and demand I have or ought to have in all the movable estate that she brought with her to me that was her former husbands Benjamin Brown to be at her disposal forever.

Item I give to my son Charles the aforsaid Executor in the following manner. Forty Pounds old tenor money to be paid after the following manner in the next particular.

Item I give to my Beloved son Oliver Capron [ ] about nineteen years old next july when he shall become twenty one years old and to his heirs and assigns forever all my lands and buildings together with his mother's thirds after her decease with eight cow common rights in the imindid land belonging to the ellingham property together with all my [armor?] and husbandry tools and implements, viz cart and wheels, plows, chanse, narrows, axes and all other [ ] belonging to husbandry and also one mair colt commin three years old, and also my wearing appareil all these said perticulars I give to the said Oliver [ ] that the said Oliver is or his heirs to pay the aforementioned legacy to his aforesaid Brother of Charles when he, the said Oliver shall become Twenty Two years of age.

Item As to my other moveable or personal estate, stock in chattels, sheep and every other moveable after my just debts and funneral charges are paid to be diveded equally between my two daughters Sarah and Elizabeth and aforesaid son Oliver [ ] that Elizabeth and my grand daughter Leah Scott have one silver spoon apiece Sarah having had one already more that the rest and if the said lives to be 18 years old to have out of the aforesaid shares Ten pounds old tenor money.

Item I give to my wifes daughter Mary Brown one bed, it being the bed that she lieth on and the furniture thereunto belonging which said is not to be reckoned with the rest of the movables. And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke etc etc Ralph Freeman.

signed

Banfield Capron.6

Biographical Notes for Banfield Capron, Jr.: Banfield Capron, 2d, was born in the year 1682-3 , and died August 16, 1758, being about seventy years old. Some time before his death, a violent cancer broke out on his upper lip, which ate off a part of his face, and was the cause of his death. Before that time he was a capable man, and did an abundance of hard labor for a man of his age. He was of large stature, well built, very stout, bold, resolute, and persevering in all his business ; of light complexion, blue eyes, and reddish hair. He was a mason by trade, didmuch work at building chimneys in the neighboring towns in Providence, and was considered in his days to be one of the best of workmen. He was a weaver, also, and did considerable at that when was not employed in other business. In those days men did the greatest part of the weaving. He married Hannah Jencks, of Pawtucket, and was the granddaughter of Joseph Jencks, who was the first settler in that place. They had twelve children, - six sons and six daughters. Philip was informed by a number of old people, who were near neighbors to his grandfather (Banfield Jr.) and his family, that they were very smart, active and handsome, while living, but a great part of them, like the flowers of a garden, young, lovely, beautiful and gay in the morning, and before noon, wither, drop and die, Nathaniel Capron, when about twenty years old, went to sea, and has not been heard of since. About four years after, as I have been informed, which would be in the year 1738, the lung fever got into the family, and were all sick with it, excepting Charles, my father and Leah, and Oliver, who was about two years old ; he was taken from the family during the sickness, and taken care of by one of his aunts. In a short time, not more than two or three months after, six children, with their mother, were dead, viz, : Philip, Benjamin, Jonathan, Betsey, and Lydia. The fever was very violent, and seemed to sweep everything before it. I have been informed by a number of old people, who were neighbors and gave their assistance during the sickness, that the distresses of the family were very great indeed, and that 'my grandfather's fatigue and troubles were so great that he could scarcely retain his senses at times. At one time when the doctor came to see them , two of the family lay dead in the house, and he told the doctor that he 'did not know but he would kill all his family,' The physician was 'so grieved at being implicated as the means of their death, that he wept like a child. It was thought, however, that he used every means in his power to save their lives, according to his best skill and judgment. His name was Thayer, and he was called a very skillful physician. At a Town Meeting Banfield was chosen Grand Juror to attend at next Inferior Court to be holden at Providence on 3rd Tue this June From the Book Banfield Capron. Children of Banfield Capron, Jr. and Hannah Jenks ?Nathaniel Capron b. 5 Apr 1711, d. 1734 ?Betsey Capron7 b. 22 Jan 1711/12, d. c 1738 ?Hannah Capron b. 23 Aug 1715, d. c 1738 ?Charles Capron+4 b. Oct 1716, d. 9 May 1789 ?Philip Capron b. 1 Feb 1719, d. c 1738 ?Leah Capron+ b. 10 Mar 1721/22, d. 24 Jun 1752 ?Benjamin Capron b. 20 Jun 1724 ?Jonathan Capron b. c 1726 ?Lydia Capron b. c 1729 ?Sarah Capron+ b. 1732, d. 1774 ?Elizabeth Capron+ b. 1733, d. Jun 1798 ?Oliver Capron+ b. 1 Jul 1736, d. 1 Aug 1816 Citations 1.[S84] Frederic A. Holden, Descendants of Banfield Capron, p. 1 Person 1. 2.[S62] Vital Records of Attleboro, MA to the end of the year 1949. 3.[S7] Titus, 1046. 4.[S84] Frederic A. Holden, Descendants of Banfield Capron, page 26. 5.[S939] Research of others found on the internet GedCom of Lewis Hoff from Internet 20 Mar 2004. 6.[S12] Cumberland Probate, Vol 4 page 169. 7.[S62] Vital Records of Attleboro, MA to the end of the year 1949,56

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   Suffix  	Jr. 

   Birth  	16 Jul 1683  	Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 

   Gender  	Male 

   Died  	16 Aug 1758  	Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 

   Person ID  	I105100  	Whipple

   Last Modified  	14 Dec 2006 

   Father  	Banfield Capron,   b. Abt 1660, , Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Aug 1752, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 

   Mother  	Elizabeth Callender,   b. Abt 1662, , Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 May 1732, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 

   Married  	Dec 1680 

   Family ID  	F3169  	Group Sheet

   Family  	Hannah Jenks,   b. 8 Oct 1690,   d. 1738 

   Married  	Abt 1718  	, Bristol, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 

   Children  	

    	1. Charles Capron,   b. Oct 1716, Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 May 1789, prob, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location

   Family ID  	F30299  	Group Sheet

   Notes  	

       !SOURCE: GEDCOM file from Phil DeSilva (desilva at comcast dot net) to Weldon Whipple, 20 Jul 2006.

Banfield Capron was born 16 Jul 1683 in Attleboro (Bristol) Massachusetts, and died 16 Aug 1758 in Cumberland (Providence) Rhode Island. He married Hannah Jenks, daughter of Nathaniel Jenks (1662 RI - ) and Hannah Bosworth (1663 MA - ). Hannah was born about 1685 in Providence Co, Rhode Island, and died 1738. Banfield was a mason and a weaver. Banfield and Hannah settled Cumberland, in what was at that time Massachusetts. The town was later made part of Rhode Island in a 1746 borders settlement. Hannah and six children died in a 1738 epidemic. Banfield and Hannah had twelve children (first cousins to us), most of them unknown:

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