Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

BENJAMIN,
JOSEPH BENJAMIN.
Joseph Benjamin, son of John, of Watertown, married
10th June, 1661, Jemimah, daughter of Thomas Lumbert
of Barnstable. He settled in Yarmouth before 1670, on a
farm near the meadows, on the north of the Miller farm.
He owned an estate in Cambridge, which he sold 30th Oct.
1686. In 1680, he exchanged his farm in Yarmouth for
that of Joseph Gorham in Barnstable, now owned by Naihan
Edson. He removed to New London, Conn., where he died
in 1704, leaving a widow, Sarah, and seven children. The
births of his children were recorded in Yarmouth, but the
record is torn and imperfect. He had Abigail ; Joseph,
1666; Hannah, Feb. 1668, not living in 1704; Mary, born
April, 1670, married John Clark, 16th Nov. 1697, who was
a schoolmaster; Mercy, born March 12th, 1674; Elizabeth,
born Jan'y 14th, 1679-80, not living in 1704; John, born
1682, and Jemimah, Sarah and Kezia named in the settlement
of his estate.
"The admirable, accurate and precise," record of the
sattlement of his estate, dated in 1704, says his son Joseph
was aged 30 ; John, 22 ; and Abigail, Jemima, Sarah,
Kezia, Mary and Mercy were all aged tv)enty years. Six at
one birth if the New London record is deserving of credit.