Richard
Bonfoey
Jr.
Born in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America
Son of Richard Bonfoey
and Hannah (Carey) Bonfoey
Husband of
Anne (Bailey) Bonfoey
— married
28 Sep 1749 [location unknown]
Husband of
Rebeckah (Edminster) Bonfoey
— married
21 Dec 1775 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Henry (Bonfoey) Bonfoy
Died after
after age 45
in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut Colony, British America
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Aug 2014
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Biography
Richard Bonfoy was born December 22, 1729 in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts. He was the son of Richard and Hannah Bonfoey. [1] Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1713-1790. Film #883790.
Richard married Anne Bailey on September 28, 1749 in Haddam. His brother Benanuel married Anne’s sister Rachel. Richard and Anne Bonfoey had two children: Sarah, born October 8, 1750, and Henry born August 26, 1754. [2]
Bates, Albert C., compiler, Rolls of Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War, 1755-1762 (Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1903), pages 59 and 197.
The Barbour Collection, Haddam 1668-1852 , Connecticut Vital Records, ( Genealogical Publishing Co.) Baltimore, Maryland, 1999., 14.
Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 2013.
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Sources
- Nan Bonfoey Hallman (Bonfoey-31)
- ↑ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915; database, FamilySearch Richard Bonfoy; citing: FHL microfilm 905,533.
- ↑ The Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America, 1649-1908, Lucy Abigail Brainard, Vol. II, Hartford Press, 1908, page 44.
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