Consider Benson Sr. (1730 - 1802)

Born 16 Apr 1730 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Washburn) Benson — married 3 Aug 1751 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 16 Jan 1802 at age 71 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Biography

Lieutenant Consider Benson Sr. served with 4th Regiment, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

Consider Benson Sr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A009353.

Name

Name: Consider Benson Sr.

Birth

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Born April 16, 1730 in Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Plymouth Colony

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Elizabeth Washburn, second daughter of Ephraim Washburn, b. 1732, married Lt. Consider Benson, son of Samuel and Kezia (Barrows) Benson, of Middleborough^[1], on 3 Dec. 1751 in Plympton^[2], and they lived in Middleborough.

Consider Benson was commissioned First Lieutenant in Capt. Perez Churchill’s 9th Company of Plymouth County’s 4th Regiment of Massachusetts Militia from Middleborough in the Revolutionary War, on 9 May 1776, and was discharged on 13 Sept. 1778.^[3] They were living in Middleborough, MA, in the 1790 federal census, next door to their son, Consider Benson, Jr.,^[4] but he wasn’t listed as a head of household in Plymouth Co., MA, in the 1800 federal census. He died on 16 Jan. 1802 in Middleborough, aged 71 years,^[5] and Elizabeth (Washburn) Benson died on 10 Oct. 1810 in Middleborough, aged 78 years,^[6] but no probate records were found for either of them.

Marriage

Husband: Consider Benson

Wife: Elizabeth Washburn

Marriage:

Date: 03 AUG 1751

Place: Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Child: Molly Benson

Child: Peleg Benson

Child: Patience Benson

Child: Consider Benson

Child: William Benson

Child: Samuel Benson

Child: Asa Benson

Sources

1. ↑ Merritt, Grace Hufford and Thomas H. Roderick, “Samuel and Keziah (Barrows) Benson of Middleborough, Mass.,” The American Genealogist, Vol. 51, No. 4, [Oct. 1975], p. 216.
2. ↑ Plympton VRs, p. 418, under “Warshborn.”
3. ↑ Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Volumes, Boston, 1896, Vol. 1, p. 969.
4. ↑ Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 172, Middleborough Town, Plymouth County, the Consider Benson household had 2 free white males aged 16 or older, 1 free white male under 16, and 2 free white females.
5. ↑ Middleborough VRs, Vol. 2, p. 9; Wood, Deacon Alfred, Record of Deaths, Middleboro, Massachusetts, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Boston, 1947, [hereinafter Wood, Middleboro Deaths], p. 19.
6. ↑ Wood, Middleboro Deaths, p. 19.

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