Amy (Wentworth) Kennedy (1732 - 1802)

Born 26 Feb 1732 in Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Andrew Kennedy Jr. — married 1 Mar 1753 in Milton, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 26 Feb 1802 at age 70 in Lebanon, Madison, New York, United States

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Biography

Children listed in Husband's DAR record

1. AMY m. JOSEPH BLOSS
2. LEMUEL m. REBECCA POPE
3. HANNAH m. AMOS GRAVES
4. BENJAMIN m. ABIGAIL BABCOCK

Children of Shubael and Damaris (Hawes) Wentworth

1. 128. David, born 13 January, 1717. He was a blacksmith. His inventory was taken 27 December, 1759, -- Samuel Wentworth one of the appraisers; estate valued at £139 15s 5d. His widow Abigail, and Edward jr. yeoman, both of Stoughton, administer, 14 December, 1759, -- John Wentworth Jr, one of the sureties. The widow, Abigail Andross, was alive 25 September, 1770.
2. 129. Hannah, born 12 August 1719; married, 22 June, 1742, George Talbot, Jr. and died in Stoughton.
3. 130. Catherine, born 18 May 1721; married, 6 August, 1745, John Nixon, an Englishman, They had a daughter who married ----- Grout and lived in Springfield, Conn.
4. 131. Ezekiel, born 26 May, 1723
5. 132. Sion, born 31 March, 1725
6. 133. James, born 13 April, 1727
7. 134 Bathsheba, married 4 June 1752. Francis Moore, of Dochester, Mass. She was a widow 1 May, 1859, and of Stoughton, when she released her right in her father's property to her brother David.
8. 135. Amy, born 26 February, 1732; married Andrew Kennedy of Milton, Mass.
9. 136. Lemuel, born 20 February, 173-. He sold to Philip Liscomb, Jr., one-eleventh of his father's estate, (save right of dower of his mother-in-law). Nothing else in known of him.
10. 137. Benjamin, died at Stoughton, about 1760. He was a blacksmith.

The army records show that there was a Benjamin Wentworth in Gov. Winslow's expedition, in the army of 1755, against Annapolis Royal, a blacksmith, native of Uxbridge, Mass., aged 21. He was a private in Capt. Nathaniel Perry's company, and his last residence was Norwich Conn. This makes him born about 1734 and his birth in Uxbridge explains why there is no record of him on the Stoughton books.

1. 138. Sylvanus, born 8 November 1737, died single. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ "The Wentworth Genealogy comprising The Origin of the name, the Family in England and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth, the Emigrant and of his descendants". By John Wentworth, LL.D., of Chicago, Ill. In Two Volumes, Volume 1. 1870 Press of Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, Mass. p. 110-112

• Husband's DAR record https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A064672
• https://www.geni.com/people/Amy-Kennedy/6000000025456812969
• Source: S2 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=16979204&pid=437