Benjamin Dane

Biography

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Benjamin Dane was married to Sarah Coleburn in Concord, Massachusetts, on 11 June 1707. Both were "of Concord" at the time of the marriage.[1]

Benjamin Dean's daughter Elizabeth was born on 2 September 1708.[2]

In 1737 the town of Bedford, Massachusetts, made a determination that Benjamin Dean was "non compos" and petitioned the judge of probate to appoint a guardian, recommending William Marshall of Billerica and Samuel Fitch of Bedford. The appointment was made as requested. [Source: Middlesex County Probate, First Series, Docket 6116.] William Marshall's relationship to Benjamin Dean as the husband on Benjamin's daughter was clarified in a deed dated 9 December 1756, in which William Marshall of Concord, housewright, sold 24 acres of land at Bedford that belonged to Benjamin Dean "in the capacity of a guardian for my father-in-law, Benjamin Dean." [Source: Middlesex County Deeds 56:185] Benjamin Dean could not have been the stepfather of William Marshall, so the reference to him as father-in-law must have been a reference to William's wife's father. (Samuel Fitch was the second husband of William Marshall's mother Eunice, married before 9 May 1720, so William Marshall's mother was married to Samuel Fitch, not Benjamin Dean.)[3]

Benjamin Dean died at Bedford, Massachusetts, on 22 March 1767.[4]

Sources

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dean-717 cites

1. Vital Records of Concord, Massachusetts, vol. II, page 70: Benjamin Dane & Sarah Coleburn both of Concord were married Justice Minott June ye 11th 1707.
2. Vital Records of Concord Massachusetts. Accessed at AmericanAncestors.org. Concord Registers, Book II, page 71: Elizabeth Dane, ye daughter of Benjamin Dane and Sarah his wife, was born September ye 2nd, 1708.
3. Chase and Johnson, page2 185-186.
4. Vital Records of Bedford, Massachusetts, page 118
5. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Image Benjamin Dane Marriage Date: 11 Jun 1707 Marriage Place: Concord, Massachusetts Father Name: Dane Spouse Name: Sarah Coleburn #Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 [1] Benjamin Dean Death Event Date: 22 Mar 1767 Event Place: Bedford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States