Benjamin Pinkham (1772 - abt. 1842)

Born 18 Jan 1772 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy (Davis) Pinkham — married [date unknown] in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States

Descendants

Died about 22 Aug 1842 at about age 70 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA

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Biography

Birth & death dates and spouse in Sinnett ^[1]

Death date and age at death and location<rev>Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 08 January 2019), memorial page for Benjamin Pinkham (unknown–22 Aug 1812), Find A Grave Memorial no. 129144500, citing Pinkham Cemetery, Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA; Maintained by briscocounty13 (contributor 48186538).

Parents and birth date and location, and "twin" in Hollick.^[2]

Parents, birth date and location, spouse and marriage location, death date and location, and “buried opposite to the oldest burying ground in Dover"^[3] and "Benjamin and Joseph Pinkham of Dover, husbandmen, for £30 sold to Mark Foss, Jr. of Barrington, husbandman, eighty-four acres in Barrington in the third range of lots in a deed dated 19 May 1794.^[4] Then on 22 August 1800, Joseph Pinkham of Tuftonborugh, yeoman, for $500 to Benjamin Pinkham of Tuftonborough, yeoman, quitclaimed a tract of land in said Tuftonborough one half of lot no. eleven containing fifty acres more or less.^[5] Joseph and Benjamin Pinkham, of Tuftonborough, for $10 paid by William Horn Copp of Tuftonborough, yeoman, sold land on 1 March 1804.^[6] Benjamin Pinkham of Tuftonborough sold to Joseph Pinkham of Tuftonborough, both yeoman, for $500 half of lot no. eleven, containing fifty acres in Tuftonborough on 22 August 1808. No wife released dower on that deed.^[7]

Benjamin Pinkham also sold to William H. Copp, fifty acres in Tuftonborough for $500 on 1 March 1804. On 10 January 1805, Nancy Pinkham by mark released her dower. ^[8] Then on 9 September 1805, Benjamin Pinkham of Tuftonborough for $350 to Benjamin Hodgdon of Tuftonborough, husbandman, sold about 100 acres that he purchased of John Wiggin by deed dated October 5th, 1804.^[9]

He was enumerated in 1810 in Dover with a male 10 to 15 and one 26 to 44, one female 10 to 15 and one 26 to 44.^[10] Neither Benjamin nor Nancy leaves any probate records." in Hollick.^[11]

Research Notes

Sinnett has birth year as 1772 but his brother, Joseph was also born in 1772, on a different date. I moved Benjamin's birth year to 1773. More research needed. This issue was resolved by Hollick's research, which shows Joseph and Benjamin to be twins.

Find a Grave record shows birth place as Tuftonborough without citing source, but supports birth year of 1772.

Sources

1. ↑ Sinnett, Charles Nelson, Rev, 1908. Richard Pinkham of Old Dover New Hampshire, and His Descendants, East and West, Rumford Printing Company, Concord, NH, 334 pp. p34. https://archive.org/details/richardpinkhamof00sinn/page/n333
2. ↑ Hollick, Martin E., 2005, "The Pinkhams of Strafford County, New Hampshire (continued), The New Hampshire Genealogical Record, Number 89-90, Vol 23, Nos. 1-2, 37.
3. ↑ Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections at www.newenglandancestors.org. Chipman, Exeter News-Letter 1841-1846, 50 states he drowned in the river, aged 70 years.
4. ↑ Strafford Co. N.H., Deeds, 45:286.
5. ↑ Strafford Co. N.H., Deeds, 45:98-99.
6. ↑ Strafford Co. N.H., Deeds, 46:504.
7. ↑ Strafford Co. N.H., Deeds, 58:549.
8. ↑ Strafford Co. N.H., Deeds, 46:506. Witnesses Joseph Pinkham and Wiliam Willey
9. ↑ Strafford Co. N.H., Deeds, 48:501. Nancy released dower by mark and witnesses were Jeremy Wingate, Josiah Folsom, Hannah Pinkham, and Thomas Hoyt.
10. ↑ 1810 U.S. Federal Census, Dover, Strafford Co., N.H., 825.
11. ↑ Hollick, Martin E., 2005, "The Pinkhams of Strafford County, New Hampshire (continued), The New Hampshire Genealogical Record, Number 89-90, Vol 23, Nos. 1-2, pp 68-69.