Benjamin Newberry

(1692/93-1718)
FatherCapt Benjamin Newberry II (1669-1709)
MotherHannah Sacket (1668/69-1749)
Benjamin Newberry, son of Capt Benjamin Newberry II and Hannah Sacket, was born in Windsor, Hartford County, ConnecticutG, on 31 January 1692/93.1 He died aged 25 on 11 September 1718.1,2 He married in WindsorG on 24 April 1717, Ruth Porter, daughter of Sergeant James Porter and Sarah Tudor.

Child of Benjamin Newberry and Ruth Porter


Children of Capt. Benjamin and Hannah (Sackett-Dewey) Newberry of Windsor, Conn.:
i. Benjamin, b. 31 Jan. 1692/3, lived on his father's homestead in Windsor and d. 11 Sept. 1718, aged only twenty-five years. On 3 Feb. 1718/19, administration on his estate was granted to his widow Ruth Newberry and [her father] James Porter of Windsor. Inventory totalled £123–5–7. (Hartford Probate Records, printed vol. 2, p. 416.)
     He m. at Windsor, 24 Apr. 1717, Ruth Porter, b. there about 1690, daughter of Sergt. James and Sarah (Tudor) Porter; on 5 Dec. 1727, administration on the estate of James Porter late of Windsor, deceased, was given to "Ruth Newbery, daughter of said deceased" (Hartford Probate Records, printed vol. 2, p. 562); she m. (2), as his second wife, 9 Mar. 1740/1, Sergt. Nathaniel Loomis of Bolton, Conn.
     Child of Benjamin and Ruth (Porter) Newberry:
1. Benjamin, was b. in Windsor, Conn, 22 Aug. 1718, but three weeks before the death of his father, and inherited the latter's rights in the estate of his grandfather Capt. Benjamin Newberry, of which interests his mother Ruth Newberry and his grandfather James Porter were in charge as his guardians during his minority. He d. unmarried 2 May 1739, in his twenty-first year; and on 25 June 1739, administration on his estate was granted to [his uncle] Roger Newberry, and [his aunt's husband] Roger Wolcott, jun. (Hartford Probate Records, printed vol. 3, p. 311.)

—J Gardner Bartlett, The Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Newberry of Dorchester, Mass., 1634, Boston, Mass (1914)

 Notes & Citations

  1. Charles Weygant, The Sacketts of America, "49. Benjamin Newbury, b. Jan. 31, 1693, d. Sept. 24, 1709."
  2. J Gardner Bartlett, The Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Newberry of Dorchester, Mass., 1634, Boston, Mass (1914), digital image, Ancestry.com.
Sackett line3rd great-grandson of Thomas Sackett the elder of St Peter in Thanet
ChartsLine 3a (American)
Generation.Tree4L.3
Last Edited17 Jun 2023
 

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