Ruth (Keeler) Benedict (1703 - 1763)

Born 1703 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Matthew Benedict — married 8 Dec 1727 in Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 23 Sep 1763 at about age 60 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Notes

From the Barbour collection, we have her marriage date to Matthew Benedict and that her father's name was John.

Vol. for Ridgefield, p. 56, under the surname Keeler: "Ruth, d. John, late of Norwalk, m. Matthew Benedict, Dec. 8, 1727 LR1 228"

Note: "LR1 228" is a source reference to Land Records, vol. 1, p. 228. According to the introduction to this volume, and from other volumes, it appears the original sources were divided into the "Book of Distributions and Early Land Records" and, starting in 1786, "Vital Records." Prior to 1786, it seems vital records (births, marriages, deaths) were also included in the land records books.

From Benedict (1870), p. 57:

Capt. Matthew [Benedict], b. Oct. 2, 1703; m. Ruth, dau. John Keeler of Norwalk, Dec. 8, 1727 ; d. July 7, 1757, of small-pox, Ridgefield, Ct.

Ch.

Matthew, b. Oct. 28, 1728, Ridgefield.

Anna, b. Feb. 22, 1730; m. Wright Northrop of Newtown, Ct.

John, b. April 23, 1732; d. April 24, 1732.

Ruth, b. March 24, 1733; d. about 1774, unm.

Jesse, b. Feb. 2, 1735.

Elizabeth, b. Jan. 2, 1737; m. Oct. 27, 1758, Elijah Smith, (m. 2d, Thos. Hyatt?)

Phœbe, b. Aug. 2, 1739; m. Samuel Sturtevant of Danbury.

Ezra, b. Nov. 5, 1741 ; d. Sept. 15, 1745.

John, b. Sept. 3, 1743 ; d. about 1763, unm.

Burial

Titicus Cemetery; Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut (Find A Grave: Memorial #9080186)

Plot: "Old Settlers" part of cemetery off Main Street (Ridgefield) on Route 116

Sources

• S22 Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.
• S35 Henry Marvin Benedict. The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America. Albany, [New York] : Joel Munsell , 1870, p. 57. Note: This publication is out of copyright and available at Google Books for online reading. Volume 2 of an edition bound in two volumes (p. 239-475) is available for download in PDF and other formats at Archive.org
• Mindrum, Thomas L., Ralph Keeler of England and Hartford and Norwalk, Connecticut, his son John of Hartford and Norwalk, and grandson David Keeler of Norwalk and Wilton, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn., Feb 2021) Vol. 63, No. 3, Page 99.