Benjamin Earle

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Biography

Benjamin Earl was born on 14 Mar 1711/12 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America. [1][2]

He married Abigail Newhall in Dec 1734. [3]

He passed in 1760. [4]

Born: 14 Mar 1711, Freetown, Middlesex County, Mass.,USA

Marriage (1): Abigail NEWHALL on 1 Dec 1734 in Leicester, Worcester County, Mass.
Marriage (2): Deborah BUFFUM
Died: 18 Dec 1760, age 49 - Cause of his death was Smallpox.

Benjamin was the youngest of eleven children and appears to have lived with his father during his life. January 18, 1753, his father "in consideration of L100 lawful money and love and affection" conveyed to him the homestead, consisting of the buildings and 140 acres of land. He afterward built a grist-mill upon the stream running through the westerly part of the farm. Traces of the dam are still visible, thirty or forty rods below the remains of another dam, a short distance south of the Friends' cemetery, where his brother Robert's grandson Timothy erected a saw and grist-mill in 1815. He was chairman of the Board of Selectman in 1757. According to the town records, he "Declared himself a Quaker and Desired his name to be entered as such." August 13, 1739, he and Nathaniel Potter deeded to Samuel Thayer of Mendon, the lot upon which the Friends erected their meeting-house. Much the larger part of the lot was taken from Benjamin's farm, which was a part of the original farm of his father Ralph. December 27, 1739, Thayer conveyed it to Benjamin Earle, Nathaniel Potter, Thomas Smith and John Wells, with the condition that is should never be subdivied, but held in common, and each one's share at his decease should go to the survivors and their heirs or assigns forever. Benjamin's son John enlisted in the army of the United States. In 1760, while posted at a southern station he was attacked with the small-pox. His father went for him, brought him home, tooke the desease and both father and son died of it. In his will, executed in 1759, he gave his son Antipas "that farm that I bought of John Hasey, being fifty acres with the Building and improvements, and ten acres of my homestead." This farm is on Fowler street, at the head of Lynde Reservoir, and the modern house is on the site of the original and much larger one. To his son John he gave 120 acres "in the Northeasterly part of Leicester"' to his son Gardiner, "all my homestead" excep the ten acres to ANtipas, "with all my buildings, mills and improvements thereon, also all my farming tools and one half of my stock of creatures of all kinds the other half to be equally divided among all four of my sons." Gardiner was to pay Antipas twenty-five pounds, thirteen shillings and fourpense. Antipas was made the executor and residuary legatee of real estate. He afterward married his second wife and, as has been seen in the later part of 1760, was removed by a somewhat sudden and unexpected death. He had made no change in his will and consequently his widow was unprovided for. Under these circumstances the action of the sons was highly commended is worthy of commemoration. They appended to the will the following declartion: "We, Newell Earl and Antipas Earle for our Sleves and Thomas Wheeler in Behalf of and with the free Consent of Gardiner Earl to whom he is Guardian Notwithstanding what is Contained in the foregoing Will in Consideration that since the foregoing will was made ye Deceased married and hath now left a Widow We Do therefor give our full and free Consent & agree that our Honored Mother-in Law Deborah Earl Shall have hold & Enjoy one part of the whol of sd Deceased's personal Estate and given & not given away in this Will after the just Debts &c. are paid as Witness our hands Feb'y 5th 1761. Newell Earl. Antipass Earl. Gardinier Earl. Thos Wheeler Guardn. Test Timo Paine "I Newell Earl Eldest Son of Sd Deceased agree that the Two Thirds of our Decd Fathers personall Estate shall be Divided Equally between me & my Two Brothers -- in Case our Sd mother Enjoys ye Other Third. Feby 5th 1761. Test Timo Paine Newell Earl." Newhall Earle had received nearly all his share of the estate before the will was made.

Burial:
Place: Leicester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States[5]

Benjamin Earle (1712 - 1760)

Benjamin Earle aka Earl=== Erleigh

Born 14 Mar 1712 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Son of Ralph Earle and Mary (Carr) Earle

Brother of William Earle II, Mary (Earle) Sheffield, John Earle, Elizabeth (Earle) Lawton, Sarah Earle, Martha Earle, Patience (Earle) Richardson, Ralph Earle III, Robert Earle and Mercy (Earl) Rice

Husband of Abigail (Newhall) Earle — married Dec 1734 in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
Husband of Deborah (Buffam) Earle — married 4 Oct 1759 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Father of Newhall Earle and Antipas Earle

Died 18 Dec 1760 at age 48 in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Sources

↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ6V-NRX : 15 January 2020), Benjamin Earl, 1711.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G979-M986-8?cc=2061550... : 20 May 2014), Bristol > Freetown > Town records 1686-1795 vol 1-2 > image 19 of 569; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHW6-D45 : 10 November 2020), Benjamin Earll, Dec 1734; citing Marriage, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009441.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHFN-MJY : 10 November 2020), Benjamin Earl, 18 Dec 1760; citing Death, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009441.
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 07 March 2021), memorial page for Benjamin Earle (14 Mar 1711–18 Dec 1760), Find A Grave: Memorial #95140984, citing Quaker Cemetery, Leicester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Emlen (contributor 47897802) .
See also:

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZ2G-1CY
Newhall, Charles L. The Record of my Ancestry. Southbridge, MA: Herald Power Print, 1899. Page 17.
Places to Look

Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850
Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899
Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988