Benjamin Plummer (1717 - abt. 1778)

Born 20 Oct 1717 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Province

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Woodman) Plumer — married 17 Feb 1737 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about 1778 at about age 60 in Nobleboro, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Benjamin and Sarah were in Rowley/Byfield after their marriage and Benjamin relocated to Lincoln County, Maine. Benjamin purchased 100 acres in Lincoln County from Mr. Hussey in 1756. In a deposition made in 1811, his son Benjamin aged 66 years reported that his father died during the Revolution.^[1]

On 28 March 1759 (recorded 22 March 1763), Benjamin Plummer, gentleman, then of Walpole, York County, Massachusetts (current Maine), in consideration of £166.6.8, sold 26 acres with dwelling house and barn in Byfield parish of Rowley to Parker Mooers.^[2]

On 25 March 1779 (verified by Benjamin Plumer 17 August 1784), what appears to be son Benjamin sold a tract of land in Damariscotta to Nathaniel Chapman and Joseph Chapman for £100, part of the deed being “the said Benjamin Plumer do warrant to defend the same from my father’s Plumers heirs and assigns.”^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Dodge, Vital Records of Old Bristol, p 777
2. ↑ Massachusetts Land Records, Essex County, 112:94
3. ↑ Maine Land Records, Lincoln County, Book 17, p 72

• George Brained Blodgette and Amos Everett Jewett. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts. 1933. Reprinted by the New England History Press, Somersworth, New Hampshire. 1981. Page 312. Also available at: [1]

• Dodge, Christine Huston (Ed.). 1951. Vital Records of Old Bristol and Nobleboro in the County of Lincoln, Maine Including the Present Towns of Bremen, Damariscotta, South Bristol and the Plantation of Monhegan . Maine Historical Society.