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Benjamin Rockwell (1761 - 1849)

Benjamin Rockwell
Born in Cornwallis Kings, Nova Scotia, Canadamap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married about 1785 in Burton, Sunbury, New Brunswickmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 88 in Jacksonville, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canadamap
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Biography

Benjamin was born in 1761. Benjamin Rockwell ... He passed away in 1849.[1]

Benjamin Rockwell,6 was son of Jonathan, b. 1765; m. Susan Tapley in 1785. She died in 1840, and he died in 1848, age 84. Children: Hannah, Joseph, Samuel, Polly, Susan, Sarah, Benjamin, b. 1792; Elijah, b. 1800; Lot, Polly, 2d, and Eliza. There are none of these living except Polly, 2d. All of the children of Benjamin but one married, and had large families in and near Waterville, New Brunswick.

Research Notes

  • X-7764 16:15, 15 May 2017 (EDT) not in Family Search
  • X-7764 16:15, 15 May 2017 (EDT) Google search found:
SUSAN ANN TAPLEY b. ca. 1765, m. Maugerville, Sunbury Co., NB 1JAN1829 SILVANUS [N?.] CORY (b. Westchester Co., NY SEP1764), s/o Griffin and Sarah Cory of Hempstead, Long Island, NY and of Courtland Manor, Westchester Co., NY, and lastly of Gagetown, NB. (A Susan Tapley, b. ca. 1764, d. 1840 is also said to have m. Burton, Sunbury Co., NB 1785 Benjamin Rockwell (b. Cornwallis (or Kentville), Kings Co., NS 17JAN1761 (or 1765), d. Carleton (Co.? or City of Saint John?), NB 19MAR1849), s/o Jonathan and Margaret (Bush) Rockwell of Windsor, Hartford Co., CT, and of Cornwallis, Kings Co., NS. Their eldest child, Samuel, was b. 1786, and the youngest, Elizabeth was b. 1809.) [2]
"Scudder Family Tree" Benjamin Rockwell - Susan Tapley [2]

Sources

  • "The Rockwell family in America, a genealogical record" by Henry Ensign Rockwell, published by Rockwell & Churchill, publishers 1878 - Historypage 126. [3] [4]
  • Children are from 1851 New Brunswick census: Wakefield Parish, Carleton county, page 3
  1. A source for this information is needed.
  2. Re: Tapleys of Blaine ME, and N.B. Canada By Thomas Murray June 08, 2002 at 09:44:20 [1]




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Rockwell-2032 and Rockwell-436 appear to represent the same person because: Same wives
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