Jacob Benson (1743 - 1825)

Born 1743 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Son of Job Benson and Mary Miriam (Richardson) Benson

Husband of Mary (Meech) Benson — married before 1764 in Gloucester, Providence, Rhode Island

Descendants

Died 1825 at about age 82 in Easton, Washington County, New York, United States

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BIOGRAPHY

Jacob Benson served with 13th Regiment, Albany County Militia, New York Militia during the American Revolution.

Jacob Benson is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A009367.

Jacob Benson served as a soldier with the 13th Regiment, Albany County, New York militia during the American Revolution. His spouses: 1) Mary Meach, 2) Jane Morrell. Numerous children with their spouses are listed. ^[1]

SOURCES

1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Sep 19, 2021), "Record of Jacob Benson", Ancestor # A009367.

• Massachusetts. 1896. Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the revolutionary war. A compilation from the archives. Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Co., State Printers. https://archive.org/details/massachusettssol00mass/page/970/mode/2up.
• New York (State), James A. Roberts, and Frederic Gregory Mather. 1898. New York in the Revolution as colony and state. Albany, N.Y.: Press of Brandow Print. Co. https://archive.org/details/newyorkinrevolut00newy
• Rhode Island, and John Russell Bartlett. 1968. Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England. New York: AMS Press.
• Remington, Gordon Lewis. 2002. New York state towns, villages, and cities: a guide to genealogical sources. Boston, Mass: New England Historic Genealogical Society. https://archive.org/details/newyorkstatetown00remi.
• Stone, William L., and A. Dallas Wait. 1901. Washington county, New York; its history to the close of the nineteenth century. [New York]: New York history Co.https://archive.org/details/washingtoncounty00ston/page/410/mode/2up?q=Jacob+Benson
• Christensen, Grace Hildy Croft. 1973. The Benson family: descendants of Isaac Benson and Mary Bumpas, and allied families: Archer, Bumpas, Howard, Knapp, Lewis, Luce, Meech, Milks, Potter, Reynolds, Waite, Whipple, Williams, et al. https://archive.org/details/bensonfamilydesc00chri/page/18/mode/2up
• Garrison, Wendell Phillips. 1872. The Benson family of Newport, Rhode Island.: Together with an appendix concerning the Benson families in American of English descent. Privately printed. New York: Nation Press. https://archive.org/details/bensonfamilyofne1872garr/page/57/mode/2up
• Benson, Richard H. 2003. The Benson family of colonial Massachusetts. Boston, Mass: Newbury Street Press. https://archive.org/details/bensonfamilyofco00bens/page/4/mode/2up

DNA

• Paternal relationships are confirmed by a GEDmatch test match between Dorothy (Driscoll) Douglas ZV8912759, Emily (Harris) Margaretten H601051, Sol Senrick A303637, and Nancy (O'Connor) Bandeen M215042, who share a DNA segment on GedMatch of 9.7 cM on Chromosome 4. The most-recent common ancestors shared by all four are John (Bumpas) Bump Sr. and Sarah (Unknown) Bumpas.