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Benjamin Gillam (1704 - bef. 1738)

Benjamin Gillam aka Gillum, Gillom
Born in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, British North Americamap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and
Brother of [half], [half], [half], [half], [half] and [half]
Husband of — married 20 Mar 1728 in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticutmap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , and
Died before before age 33 in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, British North Americamap
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Biography

Susannah Wilson, widow, relict of Nathaniel Wilson, late of Hartford, deceased, charged Carteret Gillam, mariner, with being the father of a child, the connection occurring in August 1703. Gillam denied the charge but the court found him to be the “reputed father”.( Hartford County Court Records, Vol. 6, p. 250)

On 27 May 1705 Benjamin, son of Mrs. Susannah Wilson, was baptized in the First Church, Middletown, CT. (Mother was a member of Christ Church, New Haven). From Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 at Ancestry.com

Name

Name: Benjamin /Gillum/[1]

Benjamin passed away before July 2, 1738, when his youngest child, Phebe, was baptized. Phebe's baptismal record lists her as the daughter of Benjamin Gillam's widow.


Marriage

Husband: Benjamin Gillum
Wife: Sarah Andrews
Child: Phoebe Gillam
Marriage:
Date: 20 Mar 1727
Place: Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States[2]

Sources

  1. ↑ Source: #S165 Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=17838154&pid=606324802
  2. ↑ Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection): Middletown Vital Records 1651-1854, p. 15. Original record Vol. 1. p. 37 (Ancestry.com).
  • The American Genealogist, Donald Lines Jacobus, Volumes 23-24 - Page 236
  • Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Middletown, p. 186. (Americanancestry.org)
  • Source: S165 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;; NOTEThis information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.

Acknowledgements

  • Gillum-12 created through the import of Lent_Vise_2011-05-11aa.ged on May 26, 2011 by Bryan Sypniewski
  • Gillam-244 was created by Peter Ranger through the import of Frank Fall.ged on Oct 15, 2014.




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X-4925 Anne X
Benjamin was the son of Carteret Gillam, a married man, and a mrs. Nathaniel wilson.
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J. Wesley Cleveland
Gillam-244 and Gillam-326 appear to represent the same person because: Same wife, same child, same death. Note: likely not the son of Nathaniel Wilson though mother Susanna Jones was married to him at the time. See TAG, v 14, p 46.
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