Benjamin Wentworth

William Wentworth and his first and/or second wife had eleven children, birth dates of the children not known, but estimated by assuming they were at least 21 years old when recorded as taxed:

Benjamin, b. ca. 1670; Drowned (with his horse) in Cochecho River. Probate 10 Sep 1728 Administration granted.

Married: Sarah Allen, daughter of Edward Allen (bef 1645 - aft 1703/04) and Sarah.

ch: William, Sarah, Tamsen, Benjamin, Ebenezer, Susannah, Joseph, Elizabeth, Dorothy, Martha, Abra, Mark Wentworth

supporting data

• The Wentworth genealogy, comprising the origin of the name, the family in England, and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth, the emigrant, and of his descendants (1870)
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n125/mo...
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n138/mo...
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n208/mo...
• XX. William Wentworth, who was baptized at St. Peter at Gowts, in the City of Lincoln (where his parents were married the preceding year), on the 8th of June, 1584, and who was mentioned as such, and still living, in his father's will, in 1628.
• Down to this point, every step in the descent from the first Saxon Wentworth is abundantly substantiated, and we have as positively traced the last representative named, Christopher Wentworth, till his death at or near Alford. Feeling confident that there must have been some special reason for ending his days in that neighborhood, the writer set earnestly about the task of discovering it; and to that end spent several weeks in a close examination of the Parish registers of that place and of the towns immediately adjacent, as well as of the Transcripts in the Bishop's Registry at Lincoln, whenever the originals were defective; and although, perhaps, unable to adduce what would be required at evidence in a court of law, believes that a chain of circumstances so strong and clear can be presented that there need be little hesitation in adopting his conclusions.
• The Alford parish registers show that a William Wentworth was living there certainly from 1614 to 1620, and those of Rigsby that he was of that parish in the following year; and the object is now to show that he was identical with this William, eldest son of Christopher Wentworth and Catharine Marbury.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n210/mo...
• The first mention of him in the Alford register is in the record of his marriage, which took place the 28th of November, 1614, when, if our theory be correct, he would have been about thirty years of age. The name of his wife is given as Susanna Fleming. She was, however, a widow; and an examination of the register, confirmed by various wills, reveals the following facts: Her maiden name was Carter, and so far as can be ascertained, she was the daughter of Edward Carter, of Well, a small village two miles southwest from Alford, who was probably a small farmer. On the 1st of July, 1613, she was married at Alford to Uther Fleming, son of Robert Fleming, of Alford, and his wife Jane. This Robert Fleming, who died in 1599, calls himself, in his will, a shoemaker. From the character and extent of his bequests, it is evident that he was what would be called in England, a "well-to-do tradesman." Uther Fleming lived but little more than six months after his marriage, as he was buried at Alford on the 22d of January, 1613-14; and on the 29th of May following, their only child, a posthumous daughter named Anne, was baptized. (This child was buried at Alford, the 27th of November 1619.) Six month later, the young widow married William Wentworth.
• According to the Alford registers, their eldest child was baptized on the 15th of March, 1615-16, and was named William, after his father. On the 18 of January, 1617-18, another son was baptized, named Edward, doubtless after his maternal grandfather. A third son was baptized at Alford, on the 4th of June, 1620, and was named Christopher, in all probability after his father's father.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n214/mo...
  • XXI. William Wentworth, who it is believed, was identical with the New England emigrant, afterwards known as Elder Wentworth. As has been seen, he was baptized at Alford on the 15th of March, 1615-16, and, assuming the identity, it is a curious fact that he died on the eighty-first anniversary of his baptism, viz: the 15th March, 1696-7.
  • The circumstantial evidence touching the iedentity mentioned may be summed up as follows: ....
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n244/mo...
  • Dr. Belknap describes him thus:
  • William Wentworth was one of the first settlers at Exeter; and after the breaking up of their "Combination" for a government he removed to Dover, and became a ruling Elder in the church there.
  • In 1689, he was remarkably instramental of saving Heard's garrison. After this, he officiated several years as a preacher, at Exeter and other places, and died at a very advanced age, at Dover, in 1697, leaving a numerous posterity. From him the several sovernors of that name are descended. He was a very useful and good man.
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  • If there were two wives and the name of one was not Elizabeth, the first must have died prior to 18 November, 1666-7. There is a family tradition that when he was quite advanced in years he married a second wife, who was very young even to be married, and that he had children by both wives.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n254/mo...
  • She was certain of hearing the family talk over about the second wife's youth, her inexperience, and her making no preparation for the birth of her first child, and that her own ancestor Timothy, was a child of the first wife. She thought Mrs. Elizabeth Tozer ws one of the children of the last wife. This Mary married Samuel Bracket, of limington, Me., and had a daughter Phebe Bracket, who assured the author, during the lifetime of her mother, as follows:
  • From the first time I consulted mother about the daughter of Ezekiel Knight, of Wells she thought she was the second wife of Elder William, and the more she has thought of it the more she has thought that she was a Knight; but she will not allow me to say for a certainty. Yet she is certain that Elder William had a second wife.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n256/mo...
  • We first find Elder William with a wife Elizabeth in 1666-7. The same tradition that gives Elder Wentworth a second wife also gives Elizabeth as her first child, and Timothy as the last child of the previous wife; and also that he had children after he had had grandchildren. The first grandchild whose birth has been found recorded was born 1666; so it may be inferred that if he had a second wife he married her between 1660 and 1665, and that Mrs. Elizabeth Tozer and sons Ephraim and Benjamin were her children.
  • The order of the birth of the prior chldren would seem to be as follows: Samuel, John, Gershom, Ezekiel, Paul, Sylvanus, and Timothy. We know he had a child in 1640; and there is every probability that Ephraim and Benjamin were born after 1670, making a difference of over thirty years in the births of children, and creating a probability that there were two wives. And there may have been other children. Indeed under the head of the "Daughters of Elder William," the claims of Sarah, wife of Benjamin Barnard, to be his daughter, upon the ground that her children, left fatherless, call Paul Wentworth their uncle, are canvassed.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n258/mo...
  • Paul Wentworth's wife was Catherine __; nothing else in known. If the following account of the Barnard family is correct, she could not have been a sister of Benjamin Barnard, who was son of John Barnard, of Watertown, Mass.:
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  • Children of Elder William Wentworth
    • 2. I. Samuel, born in 1640.
    • 3. II. John.
    • 4. III. Gershom.
    • 5. IV. Ezekiel.
    • 6. V. Paul.
    • 7. VI. Sylvanus.
    • 8. VII. Timothy.
    • 9. VIII. Elizabeth, married Richard Tozer, jr. (54 after Timothy.)
    • 10. IX. Ephraim.
    • 11. X. Benjamin.
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n322/mo...
    • Benjamin (11. X.), son of Elder William Wentworth, was probably the youngest child, and, according to tradition, was son of a second wife.
    • In a case regarding land title, 29 January, 1756, his wife deposed that she was 76 years old, and that she came to live at Cochecho [Dover], fifty-nine years before; this would place her coming in 1697, and her age at that time to be 17 years. Her descendants give her name as Sarah Allen,* from what place does not appear, but tradition says, from Salisbury, Mass. She died at the house of her grandson Bartholomew, 12 July, 1770, aged 91 years.
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n324/mo...
    • The following, from the New England Journal, of 5 August, 1728, gives the only account known of his death:
    • We are informed that some days ago, Mr. Benjamin Wentworth riding over a bridge (otherwise called the boom) in the river in Cochecho, N. H., fell into the said river, where both he and his horse were drowned.
    • Benjamin and Sarah (Allen) Wentworth had children:
      • 64. I. William, born 14 August, 1698. [284]
      • 65. II. Sarah, born 16 April, 1700; married, in Newington, N. H., (by Rev. Joseph Adams), 28 January, 1720, Deacon Daniel Plumer, of Dover, N. H. They deeded to brother Benjamin, 22 June, 1737, her right in her father's estate and reversion of mother's dower. They had:
        • Deacon John Plummer, of South Berwick, Me., is a descendant of Sarah.
      • 66. III. Tamsen, born 4 January, 1701; married, 18 July, 1724, Aaron Riggs, of Gloucester, Mass. [296]
      • 67. IV. Benjamin, born 5 December, 1703. [307]
      • 68. V. Ebenezer, born 9 September, 1705. [315]
      • 69. VI. Susannah, born 9 December, 1707; married Stephen Hartford, of Rochester, N. H., "cordwainer." They had several children.
      • 70. VII. Joseph, born 22 December, 1709. [324]
      • 71. VIII. Elizabeth, born 8 June, 1712; married John Yeaton, jr., of Newcastle, N. H. They had:
      • 72. IX. Dorothy, born 26 July, 1714; married her cousin Ezekiel (57) Wentworth, son of her uncle Ephraim; for children, see her husband's family.
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      • 73. X. Martha, born 25 July, 1716; married John Hayes. John Hayes, of Lebanon, Me., deeds land, 1 April, 1793, as one of the heirs of Benjamin Wentworth, to Stephen Hartford.
      • 74. XI. Abra, born 14 February, 1718; married William Chadwick, of Somersworth, N. H. [325]
      • 75. XII. Mark, born 30 May 1720. [330]
      • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n400/mo...
      • *There was a Samuel Twombly, jr., who died 12 March, 1794, and whose wife was Sarah, (316) born 6th of February, 1729, daughter of Ebenezer (68), and grand-daughter of Benjamin Wentworth. Tobias (857), son of this Samuel Twombly, jr. married Lois (562) Wentworth, daughter of Benjamin (165). __________________
• A genealogical and biographical account of the descendants of Elder William Wentworth : one of the first settlers of Dover, in the state of New Hampshire (1850)
• http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalbiog00went#page/n20/mode/1up
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• ELDER WILLIAM WENTWORTH had at least eight sons, and perhaps more. I know nothing of his having daughters. His sone were Samuel, Paul, John, Gershom, 'Benjamin', Sylvester, Ezekiel and Ephraim.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalbiog00went#page/n24/mode/...
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  • BENJAMIN. Died in the year 1728, and his wife Sarah administered ______________
• Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of ..., Volume 1 By William Richard Cutter
• http://books.google.com/books?id=OU0k2d8nl3IC&pg=PA493&lpg=PA493&dq...
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• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Benjamin_Wentworth_%283%29
• http://kielle.ancestryregister.com/00005Kielley_web/KIELLE00005Bio3...