4/7/2024 0 Comments Salisbury high school daymap![]() ![]() John Benjamin was one of the original proprietors of the Freeman of Boston. The principal qualifications of this privilege seem to have been Church membership. A Freeman had the right of sufferage, enjoyed advantages in the division of land and, before the representative system started, Freemen were members of the General Court. On November 6, 1632, he became a Freeman. Newtowne is the original name of the present day Cambridge. The Benjamins soon settled in Newtowne, Massachusetts. On the following November, while returning to England, it was wrecked on a shoal a few miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake River. The “Lyon” carried 123 passengers, with 50 being children. They brought with them their children John, Abigail, Samuel and Mary. After being at sea for 12 weeks, they landed in Boston Harbor on Sunday evening, September 16, 1632. This group of Puritans were members of Thomas Hooker’s “Braintree Company”. ![]() John took the oath of allegiance to the King and government of England before he embarked. John and Abigail sailed from Plymouth, England on Jaboard the ship “ Lyon”, captained by Captain William Pierce. Duntan’s Church in Cranbrook, and Mary Fosten. Also, two of his wife Abigail’s brothers had already come and settled in New England, and that may also have played a part in their decision.Ībigail Eddy was born on October 6, 1601, in Cranbrook, Kent Co., England. It is thought that his friendship with Winthrop played a big part in his decision to leave England and come to America. Benjamin met John Winthrop while they were at Cambridge University. He was a close friend of John Winthrop, the great Puritan leader who began the Great Migration with the Winthrop Fleet of English settlers to New England in 1630. John Benjamin was born about 1584 in Heathfield, Sussex, England. The Benjamin family, along with the Bradfords, Newcombs, Clevelands, Ormsbys, and many others, form my English ancestry, through my grandmother, on my dad’s side of the family. John and Abigail (Eddy) Benjamin are my 9th great grandparents. ![]()
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