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About Benjamin Eyre
Children of Dr. Simon Eyre and Dorothy Paine, who emigrated 1635 on the Increase:
vii BENJAMIN, b. about 1632 (aged 3 in 1635 [Hotten 66]); living 2 October 1660, when mentioned in will of uncle William Paine [SPR 1:346]; no further record.
Source: http://www.greatmigration.org/sample_sketch_simon_eyre.html sketch of Simon Eyre
Married Hannah Knowles.
From Savage:
Hannah, by her petit. aft. com. back hither in 1681. calls hers. his ch. represent. injury by desert. of her and her ch. by h. Benjamin Eyre, and pray. for divorce, 17 Nov. 1685.
William Paine of Boston in The Great Migration Begins link, 1660 will, leaves "to the children of Symond Eyers Sr deceased, viz Benjamin, Mary, Rebeckah, Christian, An and Dorithy, the sum of five pounds each ..."
Source: page 172 of Suffolk County Wills: Abstracts of the Earliest Wills Upon Record in the ... By The New England Historical and Gen
Savage's _Genealogical Dictionary_ says the following about Rev. Knowles:
[KNOWLES,] JOHN, Watertown, the sec. min. of that town, was b. in Lincolnsh. bred at Magdalen Coll. Cambridge, where he was matric. a pensioner July 1620, sign. without final s. had his B. A. Jan. 1623, O. S. and M. A. 1627, with last letter, and was chos. a fellow of Catharine Hall, 9 July 1627, tho. Mather says, of Emanuel in his common heedless way. He was not prob. a sett. min. bef. com. over to us in Aug. 1638; he join. with the ch. at Boston 15 Aug. of next yr. hav. m. prob. in Eng. the wid. of Ephraim Davis; in Mar. foll. was dism. to go to aid Phillips at W. and there was ord. 9 Dec. 1640 as pastor, went on a mission, 1642, to Virginia, back next yr. was freem. 1650, and next yr. went home, and for some time preach. at Bristol, was silenc. by the act of 1662, and dur. the plague of London, 1665, was there with w. Elizabeth. On the d. of Presid. Chauncey, 1672, he was propos. to succeed him as head of Harv. Coll. tho. in Mather's Hist. we should not look to discov. any thing like it, for that writer is very sparing of his facts in the chap. devot. to this life, III. 216, and in the first classis insert. him without bapt. name. He had at W. by w. Elizabeth Mary, b. 9 Apr. 1641; Elizabeth 16 May 1643; and Hannah, wh. are found to be his ch. the first two by a gift in will of Edward How to ea. and Hannah, by her petit. aft. com. back hither in 1681. calls hers. his ch. represent. injury by desert. of her and her ch. by h. Benjamin Eyre, and pray. for divorce, 17 Nov. 1685. He d. 10 Nov. 1685, at gr. age.
- Name: Benjamin Eyre
- Gender: Male
- Marriage Date: 5 Jan 1674
- Marriage Place: Bull Lane Independent,Stepney,London,England
- Spouse: Ann Knowls
- FHL Film Number: 0596969 (RG4 4414)
Source Information
- Ancestry.com. England, Select Marriages, 1538 to 1973 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
- https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lorenfam...
- page 153 of The Pioneers of Massachusetts: A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the ... By Charles Henry Pope
- page 275 of The Pioneers of Massachusetts: A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the ... By Charles Henry Pope
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Benjamin Eyre's Timeline
| 1632 |
1632
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Lavenham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
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| 1714 |
November 14, 1714
Age 82
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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