Benajah Johnson (1704 - 1763)

Born 24 Jul 1704 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah Ludlow (Brewster) Johnson — married 10 Oct 1728 in Derby, New Haven, CT

Descendants

Died 13 Apr 1763 at age 58 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Benaja Johnson was born 24 Jul 1704 in Derby, Connecticut.

Benaja married Sarah Ludlow (Brewster) Hawkins on 10 Oct 1728 in Derby, New Haven, CT.

He died 13 Apr 1763 in Derby and was buried in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, Connectiut.

Sources

• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002) Vol. 1-55.

• http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?f=sse&db=ctvitalsbarbour&h=535982&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

• U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, Kentucky) Microfilm, 508 rolls.

• http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?f=sse&db=sarmemberapps&h=385190&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
• http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?f=sse&db=sarmemberapps&h=662008&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

• Orcutt, Samuel. The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (Springfield Printing Co., Springfield, Mass., 1880) Page 720, 726, Page 810. "In memory | of Mr Benaja Johnson | who departed this | life April 13 | 1763 in the 59th | year of his age."
• Anderson, Joseph. The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five (Price & Lee Co., New Haven, 1895) Ap69.
• Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts, The Hawkins Association, 1939, p. 245.
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven (Clarence D. Smith, Rome, New York, 1922-1932) Vol. 5, Page 1033.
• Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 257. http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan257.html.
• Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT. http://oxfordpast.net/cem279.html.