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             Husband: Elihu BENHAM (1 2 3 4 5 6)
                Born: l 1777 in Naugatuck, New Haven, CT
             Married:
                Died: 19 FEB 1862 in Naugatuck, New Haven, CT
              Father: Elihu BENHAM
              Mother: Mehitable SMITH
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Esther GRIFFIN
                Born: l 1781
                Died: 30 JUN 1841 in Waterbury, New Haven, CT
              Father: 
              Mother: 
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Burr BENHAM (7)
                Born: l 1807 (8)
                Died: 19 NOV 1862
             Spouses: Jane S. BEEBE
02               (M): Jay BENHAM (9 10 11 12 13)
                Born: 1808 (14)
                Died: 11 DEC 1870 (15)
             Spouses: Salina
03               (F): Maria BENHAM
                Born: l 1810
                Died:
             Spouses: Stephen BATEMAN
04               (M): Charles BENHAM
                Born: l 1814 (16)
                Died: 08 DEC 1888 in Naugatuck, New Haven, CT
             Spouses: 
05               (M): Washington BENHAM (17 18 19 20 21 22)
                Born: 1812 (23)
                Died: 1889 (24)
             Spouses: Adeline A. JUDD; Elizabeth L. MILLER; Sarah M. FAIRCHILD
06               (M): Lewis BENHAM (25)
                Born: l 1817
                Died: NOV 1872 in Naugatuck, New Haven, CT
             Spouses: 
07               (M): Edwin BENHAM (26)
                Born: 1821 (27)
                Died: 08 SEP 1892
             Spouses: Patty Ann HOTCHKISS

Footnotes

  1. 1810 Waterbury.
  2. 1820 Waterbury Census.
  3. 1830 Waterbury Salem Society Census.
  4. 1840 Waterbury Census.
  5. Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 50 - Waterbury (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002), 26.
  6. Ibid., 34.
    ... of Waterbury ...
  7. Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five. (New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896), Ap16.
  8. 1850 Naugatuck Census.
  9. 1840 Waterbury Census.
  10. 1850 Bethany Census.
    Farmer.
  11. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Carrier.
  12. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Retired Invalid.
  13. F. W. Beers, 1868 map (Reproduced for the Oxford Historical Society, Inc. 1977).
    [Excerpt from1868 map, Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm
    Living in Pines Bridge area when it was still part of Oxford. J. Benham, at the southern end of Toby's Mountain.
    http://oxfordpast.net/1868Toby'sMtn.jpg.]
  14. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #15.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  15. Ibid., #15.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  16. 1850 Naugatuck Census.
  17. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 12.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan12.html.]
  18. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 9.
    A little further on the left we come to a very old house known as the Washington Benham homestead. It is located on the corner of the Chestnut Tree Hill road and the Woodbury turnpike and was built about the beginning of the 18th century. It is a house that would attract attention from a stranger, being of the gambrel roof style of architecture that was little known a century ago. Mr. Benham lived in this many years. He was married three times. My memory does not serve me in regard to the names of his wives. He had three children, two sons, and one daughter, John, who married Jessie Perry of Oxford and now lives in Beacon Falls, on the farm formerly owned by Stiles Fairchild. Geo. Benham lives in Seymour, and the daughter Hattie married Wm. O. Davis and lives in Seymour. Mr. Benham moved to Beacon Falls.
    The place then passed into the hands of Orrin Tucker and soon he commenced to make the famous Oxford doughnuts and established a very profitable business in this line and the sale of the Tucker Doughnuts extended from Danbury to New Haven. He carried on this business for many years until from old age and infirmities he retired and moved to Milford where he died several years ago.
    (NOTE: The Washington Benham Homestead is house #81 in the EARLY HOUSES OF OXFORD, CONNECTICUT book, published 1976, Historic House Committee of Oxford's Bicentennial Commission).
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-09.html.]
  19. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  20. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Carpenter.
  21. 1880 Beacon Falls Census.
    Farmer.
  22. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford, CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), 84.
    1884 Annual Report ...
    Abatements - Washington Benham, overpaid taxes list of 1882 ... $5.46.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/p84.html.]
  23. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #15.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  24. Ibid., #15.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  25. 1850 Naugatuck Census.
  26. Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 50 - Waterbury (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002), 183.

    ... of Naugatuc ...
  27. 1850 Naugatuck Census.

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