Benjamin Stickney (1673 - 1756)

Born 4 Apr 1673 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Palmer) Stickney — married 16 Jan 1701 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 6 Mar 1756 at age 82 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Benjamin Stickney, son of Amos Stickney and Sarah Morse was born on 4 April 1673 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Between 1699 to 1726, Benjamin purchased, of various owners, land at Long Hill, Byfield, and in 1700 he built a house on top of the hill, where all his children were born and where he lived for the remainder of his life.

He married Mary Palmer, daughter of Samuel Palmer and Mary Pearson on 16 January 1700/01 in Rowley, Massachusetts, ^{[4] [1] [2]} where they had 11 children.

After his marriage, he with his wife Mary, were admitted members of the First Church in Rowley, Sept. 2, 1701. After his settlement on Long Hill, he was of the second parish, but usually attended meetings at Byfield, it being nearer; there his children were baptized, and his death recorded. He brought up a large family of 11 enterprising children and divided among them a good estate.

As remembered by his grand-children, "he was a stout healthy man; he never experienced sickness till he was about 80 years old; he was a man of great courage and unbounded generosity, sincere and unaffected in his manner, even to bluntness. A bear took a pig from his pen in the night, he chased him with a whip-pole and rescued it. In the time of the great snow, Feb. 1717, he kept a path open by drawing a log every day. He had no near neighbor within half a mile before his fourth son settled at the foot of the hill. He was of a middling complexion, dark hair, and blue eyes."

His wife Mary, was a person of real piety and worth; she never enjoyed good health, had the palsy for a number of years before she died.

Mary (Palmer) passed away in 1747 and he married secondly, Widow Mary Morrison, Oct. 2, 1750, who survived him and remarried Nov 15, 1757, Samuel Duty of Rowley,

Benjamin died of the Typhus Fever on 5 March 1756, and was buried in Byfield burying ground (near the tomb of the Parsons family).

Burial: Rowley Burial Ground, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Stickney, Matthew Adams, The Stickney Family (Essex Institute Press, Salem, Massachusetts, 1869, 526 pages), p. 42. Cit. Date: 28 Jun 2021.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Compiled by George Brainard Blodgett, A. M.; revised, edited and published by Amos Everett Jewett, Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts (Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Massachusetts, 1933, 472 pages), p. 365. Cit. Date: 28 Jun 2021.
3. ↑ The Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, VOLUME I. - BIRTHS (Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, Salem, Massachusetts, 1911, 564 pages), p. 497. Cit. Date: 28 Jun 2021.
4. ↑ Palmer, Thomas, A Brief Genealogical History of the Ancestors and Descendants of Deacon Stephen Palmer (Jno. E. & Geo. H. Rowe, Typographers, Brooklyn, New York, 1886), p. 20. Cit. Date: 28 Jun 2021.
5. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 28 June 2021), memorial page for Benjamin Stickney (4 Apr 1673–5 Mar 1756), Find A Grave: Memorial #125853576, citing Rowley Burial Ground, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Stanley Shepard (contributor 47123608).

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