Benjamin Bellows Jr. (1712 - 1777)

Born 26 May 1712 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Stearns) Bellows — married 7 Oct 1735 (to 8 Nov 1757) in Lunenburg, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 10 Jul 1777 at age 65 in Walpole, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States

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Biography

Benjamin became a colonel in the New Hampshire regulars. On December 6, 1736, at the Watertown Church of Christ he and his entire family were baptized. He was the founder of Walpole, New Hampshire where a fine sized monument was erected in his honor.

120 Abigail Stearns, b., June 3, 1708; md., Oct. 7, 1735, in Lunenburg, Mass., by her brother, Rev. David Stearns. Col. Benjamin Bellows, afterwards of Walpole, N. H. "Bellows Falls" was named for him. "He possessed wonderful energy and decision with a great capacity for business, and was remarkable for almost gigantic form and strength, as some of his descendants have also been." She was the mother of seven children and d., Nov. 8, 1757, in Walpole, N. H. "She was the first tenant of Walpole burying-ground, had an excellent repute for energy, piety and motherly love, and her dust sweetly consecrated the spot wherein her race was afterwards to repose."

He is mentioned in 1728 and 1735 in Lunenburg. He was Record Keeper of the town of Lunenburg.

He was Grantee of land with 65 other people to the township of Walpole, NH

In 1752, he was living in the town of Walpole.

On May 2, 1753, he was Moderator at first town meeting of Keene, NH

In 1767, he was appointed Lieut. Col. of the 6th Regiment under Col. Josiah Willard for New Hampshire.

Colonel Benjamin Bellows Jr. was a Civil Servant in the American Revolution.

Benjamin Bellows Jr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A008867.

During the American Revolution he was moderator 1775-6 and treasurer, 1776, Walpole.

Buried

Walpole Village Cemetery, Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA, Inscription: "In Memory of Col. Benjamin Bellows who died July 10th 1777 in ye 66th Year of his Age. Let Not ye dead Forgotten Lye; Least Men Forget that they Must Die."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 08 January 2022), memorial page for Col Benjamin Bellows (26 May 1712–10 Jul 1777), Find A Grave: Memorial #21722920, citing Walpole Village Cemetery, Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA ; Maintained by the moo (contributor 46834101) .

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• Walpole As It Was and As It Is.
• Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire - Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, Lewis Publishing Company, 1908.
• Chandler, Charles H.,The History of New Ipswich, New Hampshire, 1735-1914 and The History of New Ipswich, New Hampshire, 1735-1914, Sentinel Print. Co., New Ipswich, N.H., 1914, p. 229.
• Validated by the genealogists from the Daughters of the American Revolution.
• Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and his Descendants by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen. Published 1901 by Courier Printing Co. in Syracuse, N.Y. https://archive.org/stream/genealogymemoirs, pp. 42-3