Benjamin Carman

Son of the second John Carman and Hannah. Married Deliverance Townsend.

Biography

4. Benjamin Carman. Born about 1662, died 1694. He married in 1684, Deliverance Townsend, daughter of Richard and his second wife Elizabeth (Wicks) Townsend, see subject 616, page 3. In 1670 he owned 170 acres of land at Hempstead. His will, dated 1694, says he was blind, see Hempstead Town Records, Vol 2, page 137.

After Benjamin's death Deliverance married, 2nd, as his second wife, Jonathan Lewis of Huntington, L.I., son of John Lewis of Westerly, R,I,, who had married, 1st, in 1683, Jemima Whitehead. Jonathan Lewis' will dated August 9/1708, proved August 11/1704 (?) left to his eldest son Jonathan œ400 and half his right of land in Huntington and his 33 acre home lot: to son John, œ400 and a right of land: to son Daniel œ400 and a right of land: and to his daughters, all under age in 1708, Sybil, Elizabeth, Jemima, Hannah and Sarah, and a child unborn, lands. Hempstead Town Records, Vol 2, states that Jonathan paid over to Benjamin's children, œ15 cash, from a trust fund left them by Robert After.

Benjamin's children must have moved away from Hempstead before 1698 as they were not mentioned in the census of that year.

Issue:- (from Benjamin's will)

• 2/1. Sarah Carman, born about 1685.
• 2/2. Benjamin Carman, born about 1687.
• 2/3. Mary Carman, born about 1689.
• 2/4. Dinah Carman, born about 1691.
• 2/5. John Carman, born about 1693. His father's will requested John to look after his older brother Benjamin, a deaf mute and blind from birth "if John had his senses when he grew up". John was only a year old when his father wrote his will.
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