Benjamin Pitman Trefry 1st (1780 - 1862)

Born 3 Nov 1780 in Chebogue, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Faulkner) Trefry — married about 1800 in Yarmouth,N.S.,Can.

Husband of Rebecca (Trask) Terfry — married before 1806 in Yarmouth,N.S.,Can.

Descendants

Died 3 Sep 1862 at age 81 in Lockhartville, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Benjamin Trefry was born November 3, 1780, the son of Joshua Pitman Trefry and Mary Allen of Chebogue, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia^[1]

Note he used an alternate spelling of his surname, Terfry, as did some of his children.

In 1806, he married Rebecca Trask, daughter of Thomas Trask of Yarmouth, and they had children^[2], including:

1. Rebecca Trefrey, born 1806 who married Benjamin Shaw
2. Mary Trefrey, born 1808 who married William Bacon
3. Melinda Trefrey, born 1810
4. Hannah Trefrey, born 1812, who married Joseph Lockhart
5. Sophia Trefrey, born 1814, who married Oliver Lockhart
6. Mark Trefrey, born 1818 who married Olivia Kelley
7. Joshua Pitman Terfrey, born 1820 who married Amanda Fielding
8. Lavinia Trefrey, born 1822, who married Freeman Mackenzie
9. Abigail Trefrey, born 1824, who married John Coffin
10. Thomas Elkanah Trask Trefrey, born 1828, who married Elizabeth Earl

Benjamin died 3 September 1862, and is buried in the Riverbank Cemetery in Hantsport, Nova Scotia along with his wife ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Genealogies : Transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald, by George S. Brown; prepared for publication by Martha & William Reamy, assisted by John McDonald Hilton ... et al.; published in Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., c1993. ISBN: 0806313722; page 589, 605
2. ↑ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:9WBZ-KY2 : accessed 2017-03-09), entry for Rebecca Trask, submitted by apedersen2714324.
3. ↑ Findagrave Memorial #117346066

See also:

• Riverbank Cemetery, Hantsport, NS, Ca.
• The Trefry Family by George S. Brown...April 30 1901, Yarmouth, NS, Canada