Benjamin Weeks

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Name: Benjamin WEEKS

Sex: M Birth: 1 JUN 1771 in Danbury,, CT

Event: move 1 Quality: 0 ABT 1778 Wyoming,, PA

Note:

   In 1807, Benjamin Weeks settled with his family about two miles

   northeast of the village [Penfield], on the farm now owned by his son,

   Ard Weeks. His family has been among the most active and prominent in

   the settlement and development of the town.

   Reminiscence of Ard Weeks

   "Benjamin Weeks was born in Washington county, New York, June 1, 1771.

   At seven years of age his father [Jonathan] removed to Wyoming, PA.

   Soon after the place was invaded and the people massacred by the

   Indians, at which time his father and two brothers were killed. His

   grandfather [Jonathan Sr.], being on friendly terms with the Indians,

   was allowed by the chief to select a cart and a yoke of oxen from the

   immense herd of cattle which they had driven in from the surrounding

   country, and load up his grandchildren, with what effects he could

   carry, and leave the country. He took them to Danbury, CT, driving

   for more than two miles through two files of savages, fresh from the

   slaughter of his neighbors. In CT he [Benjamin] learned the tanner's

   and currier's trade, and in 1794 married. In the spring of 1796, with

   four other families, he started for the Genesee country. At Troy they

   loaded their goods on boats, came up the Mohawk, and, carrying their

   boats and freight around the falls of that river, wound their way into

   Lake Ontario, up which they made their way by day, camping on shore at

   night , until they finally landed at Braddock's bay where they

   settled. They bought a farm, cleared a portion of it, and put in some

   seed; but the ague was so severe there were not well ones enough to

   take care of the sick. They were finally obliged to leave, and moved

   up to Hanford's Landing, where Mr. Weeks lost part of his family. In

   1802 he removed to what has since been called the "Old Landing", on

   Irondequoit creek, three miles above the bay, in the present town of

   Brighton, where Tryon & Adams had erected a lartge storehouse five

   stories high, and where a considerable commerce was carried on with

   Canada. Here he kept one of the first public-houses west of

   Canadaigua and north of Bloomfield for a short time, and then moved to

   what is now the town of Pittsford, at that time called "Stone's town".

   Here he erected a tannery, which he managed until 1807, when he sold

   out to Stephen Lusk, and, moving up into Penfield, purchased a farm of

   wild land on lot No. --. This he cleared up and improved, suffering

   all the hardships and privations incident to pioneer life, and raising

   a family of seven childre, --five sons and two daughters,--all of whom

   reached the age of maturity, and some to a good old age. Two only

   survive this centennial year of 1876."

   source: History of Monroe County, New York, Everts, Ensign & Everts,

   Philadelphia, 1877, (republishers: W. E. Morrison & Co.,

   Republishers, Ovid, New York, page 217.

   An excellent source for Wyoming Massacre information including links

   to the monument inscripton and photo, etc. is:

   http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/reader/wyoming.htm by Pat Krivak

Change Date: 17 NOV 2000 Death: 1840 in Penfield/Webster,, NY Change Date: 15 NOV 2000 Note:

   Issue of Benjamin Weeks and Ruth Smith were born Danbury, CT,

   Braddock's Bay, Rochester, NY, Brighton, Pittsford, and Penfield, NY.

   Source: Hamblin, John H. Weeks Family Genealogy in America,

   1616-1937. Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of

   Utah, 1977. (LDS microfilm # 1036602)

Father: Jonathan WEEKS b: 1736 in Fairfield,, CT Mother: Jerusha

Marriage 1 Ruth SMITH b: 5 JUL 1774 in Ridgefield,, CT

   Married: 1794 in Danbury,, CT

Children

   Has Children Benjamin B. WEEKS b: 20 AUG 1807 in ,, NY

   Has Children John R. WEEKS b: 16 NOV 1802

   Has No Children George W. B. WEEKS b: 18 SEP 1804

   Has No Children Ard David WEEKS b: 23 JUL 1808 in Penfield,, NY

   Has No Children David WEEKS b: 3 AUG 1818 in Penfield,, NY

   Has Children Jane WEEKS b: 20 JUL 1815 in Penfield,, NY

   Has No Children Huldah WEEKS b: 16 DEC 1813

   Has No Children Hiram WEEKS b: 14 OCT 1795

   Has No Children Betsey WEEKS b: 24 JUN 1797

   Has No Children Sally WEEKS b: 4 OCT 1798

   Has No Children Oliver WEEKS b: 24 DEC 1800

   Has No Children Hannah WEEKS b: 18 SEP 1804

Sources:

   Author: Penrfield chapter, page 217 section "Reminiscence of A. Weeks"

   Abbrev: History of Monroe Co, NY

   Type: Book, Simple

   Date: 17 NOV 2000