Benjamin Aldrich

Abel married Elizabeth Aldrich about 1735. Elizabeth (daughter of David* Aldrich, Sr and Hannah* Capron) was born on 16 Jun 1715 in Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts; died on 19 Nov 1737. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Probably married a cousin, but undetermined.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 26 Sep 1737, Uxbridge, Worcester Co, Massachusetts

Notes:

according to his will and probates and guardianships, birth dates seem to not be consistent.

Agreement dated 9 Nov 1737, laid out that Seth's widow, Mary, was appointed guardian of the youngest two: Samuel and Elizabeth

Son-in-law Edward Aldrich (husband of Susana), was appointed guardian of the other minor children Jonathan, Abigail, and Deborah.




Will:
Mary,Seth's 2nd wife is mentioned in his will. The estate was settled by agreement signed in 1737 by the heirs,12 of the 15 children being represented,5 being minors. The mother Mary was guardian for the youngest two. Edward for the other 3 minor children.
The children were:
Abel,William,Seth,Jacob,Sarah,Edward,Jonathan, Abigail, Deborah, Samuel,Susannah, and Elizabeth.

Worcester Co., Massachusetts Probate Records Vol. 1 page 285

Seth ALDRICH
will dated 26 Sept 1737
probated 1 Nov 1737

The twenty sixth Day of September in the Year 1737. I, Seth Aldrich Senr. of Uxbridge in the County of Worcester and province of ye. Massachusetts Bay in new England. A Farmer being sick and weak but of a sound and perfect mind & Memory. Thanks be Given to the Lord therefor Calling to mind the Uncertinty of Humane Life and that it is appointed for all men once to Dye do make & ordain this my Last will and Testament Principally & first of all I Recomend my soul in ye Hands of God that Gave it and my Body I recommend to ye Earth to be Buryed in Decent Christian Buryall att ye Discretion of my Executors & at Touching Such Worldly Estate as the Lord in mercy hath Lent me in this Life after my Just Debts & funerall Charges paid I do Bistow & Disposs of ye same in ye following manner & form.

Item. To Mary my Beloved wife I Give one third part of my moveable Estate & ye one Half of ye Income of my Homestead until my son Samuel Aldrich shall ariveto ye age of one & twenty years and afterward ye one third of ye Income During Life if She Remins a widdow but if She shall selauss for to marry after marriage but of one Quarter of ye Income.

Item to My Beloved son William Aldrich I give ye sum of one Hundred pounds in mony to be paid to him by my Exr. Hereafter named.

Item to my Beloved son Jonathan Aldrich to his Heirs of his Body Lawfully Begotten I give all that Land I purchased of Edwd. Bosworth & all of Land that I have Adjoyning to the same. Likewise ten acres of Comon and Undivided Land for to lay out and my Young mare Colt.

Item to my Beloved Son Samuel Aldrich I give all my Homestead on which I Dwell and all of Land Laid out by me for a Wood Lott adjoyning to ye Land of William Robinson, and that ye one Half of ye Income of ye Said Homestead to match of it as is necessary my will is that it shall be Improved in Instructing turn in Reading & Wrighting & Cyphering & when he is well Learnt in said arts the Lest to Remain his he paying his sister Elizabeth Aldrich ye sum of fifty pounds. Likewise all my Ceder Swamp. I Give unto my son Samuel Aldrich.

Item unto my four Daughters vizt Sarah Richardson & Susanna Willy & Dinah Aldrich and Abigail Aldrich to them I give all my Land which Lyeth adjoyning to ye Lands of Woodland Thompson & Joseph Thompson Known by ye name of Great Chestnut. Each of them to have their Equal Proportion of said Land. Likewise my will is that all my Debts and Charges shall be paid out of my mony which I have by me or Due unto me by bonds ant what is over plus I Give it unot my four Daughters Last mentioned to be Equally Divided to them by my Exr.

Item unto my Beloved Daughter Deborah Aldrich I give a Certain peice of Land Lying by a Hill Called Rattle Snake Hill & all ye over plus mony which my Exr. Can Raise by ye sale of my Farm Known by ye name of Bailing Pond Farm after they have paid to my son William Aldrich that Hundred pound which I have in the will Given to him which said Farm my will is should be Sold for to Defray said Hundred pound withal & Likewise I Give her all my Undivided Land to Layout not Heretofore Disposed of.

Item I Give ye two thirds of my moveable Estate not Heretofore Disposed of to all & Each of my children both Sons & Daughters to be by my Exr. to be Equally Divided to them Excepting my son William.

Lastly, I Constitute & ordain my Beloved Son Abel Aldrich and my Beloved friend Moses Farnum to be ye sole Exrs. of this my Last will & Testament. Requesting & Impowering them by these presents to Execute each & every Clause in this my Last will and Testament and my will is that they make Sale of my Bailing Pond Farm & Dispos of ye mony as aforesaid and that if my son Jonathan Aldrich Aldrich shall carry himself well to take of ye Entailment Land on ye Estate I have Given to him & Likewise my will is that they do not put above if one Half of my Daughter Dinah's portion into her hands at first & if other Half or ye Interest of it to pay it to her as she shall have need thereof & I do hereby utterly disallow revoke & disannull all & every other former Will Testament & Legaces Bequests & Exd. by me in my ways before this time named Willed & Bequested Ratifying & Confirming this - and no other to be my Last will & Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal ye Day and Year above written. Seth Aldrich wa Seal

Signed Sealed Published prounced & Declared by said Seth Aldrich as his Last Will and Testament in ye presence of ye subscribers vizt John Spring, Joseph Aldrich, Edmund Rawson

Worcester Novr. 1 1737 in the Registers Office of ye Court of Probate & personally appeared John Spring & Edmund Rawson and made oath that they saw Seth Aldrich ye Susbcriber to this Instrument Signa nd Seal and heard him Publish prounce and Declare ye ssame to be his Last will and Testament and that when he so did he was of sound disposing mind & memory according to these Deponants Best Discerning and that they Together with Joseph Aldrich ye others witness set to their names as Witnesses thereof at ye same time and ye Testator's Presence.

Attr. John Chandler Junr. Just. Pac & Regr. Probate.

Seth married Deborah Hayward on 3 Sep 1700 in Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts. Deborah (daughter of Samuel Hayward and Mehitabel Thompson) was born on 9 Nov 1682 in Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts; died before 1715 in Uxbridge, Worcester Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vital Records of Rhode Island 1636-1850, Vol VII Friend and Ministers Narragansett Record of Friends:

Aldrich, Seth, son of Seth of Mendon and Deborah b. 19d 7m 1701
Aldrich, Deborah, dau of Seth of Mendon and Deborah b. 25d 2m 1703
Aldrich, Abel, son of Seth of Mendon and Deborah b. 15d 11m 1704
Aldrich, William, son of Seth of Mendon and Deborah b. 5d 9m 1706
Aldrich, Sarah, dau of Seth of Mendon and Deborah b. 12d 12m 1707
Aldrich, Samuel, son of Seth of Mendon and Deborah b. 4d 4m 1712
Aldrich, Seth Sr. b. 6d 5m 1679

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 18 Mar 1758, Worcester Co, Massachusetts

Notes:

He settled in that part of Mendon known as Blackstone. David was a blacksmith, but he also probably farmed. He was a major landholder in Mendon. He and his wife were apparently Anabaptist. David and both of his wives are buried in the old graveyard in what is known as South Bellingham about a mile from Crook's Corner. His stone is the oldest one there.


Will:
In the name of God Amen the Eighteenth Day of March 1758 I David Aldrich of Mendon, in the County of Worcester in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Blacksmith being grone old and weak in Body But of a Perfect mind and memory, Thanks be given unto God Therefore calling to mind the Mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die do make and Ordain this my Last will and Testament (that is to say) Principally and first of all I Recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it and my Body I Recommend to the Earth to be Buried in a Decent Christian Burial at the Direction of my Executor nothing Doughting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the Mighty power of God And as touching such Worldly Estate that I have Left wherewith it has pleased God to Bless me at present with it being some small matter of moveable or personal Estate my reall Estate I have near all given to my sons hereafter mentioned by Respective Deed which may make it fully app___. Said Personal Estate after my just Debt, and funeral charges and Probate Charges are paid I Give Devise and Dispose of in the following manner and form.

In primas I Give and Bequeath to Mehetabel my Dearly Beloved wife Twenty Spanish mil'd Silver Dollors to be raised and Levied out of my Said Estate to geather with one Third part of my Houshold Good Debts and moveable Effects as the Law Directs.

Item--I Give and Bequeath to David Aldrich my Eldest Son to be raised out of my Estate on cow one Silver Spoone, one Spanish mil'd Dollor Silver.

Item--I Give and Bequeath to Edward Aldrich my Second Con on Dollor as aforesd.

Item--I Give and Bequeath to Benjamin Aldrich Son of my Eldest Daughter Elizabeth Deceased wife of Abel Aldrich on Dollor aforesd.

Item--I Give and Bequeath to the Children of my 3rd Son Peter Aldrich Deceased on Shilling Lawful money apiece to be paid to them out of my sd Estate by my Executor as they shall come of age.

Item--I Give and Bequeath to my fourth Son Jonathan Aldrich on stake anvil on vice for the Black Smith and one Spanish mil'd Dollar as aforesd -- the anvill and vice is in his hand already.

Item--I Give and Bequeath to my Second Daughter Margaret Smith wife of George Smith one of my Best feather Beds and all the Beding and furniture thereunto belonging She Paying to my Executor Thirty Six Shillings Lawful money.

Item--I Give and Bequeath to my two younger Sons Abner and Levi Aldrich to them their Heirs and asigns forever as it was and is the intent of all the foregoing Legacy The Remainder part of all my Estate Either reall or personal that is not Disposed on by Deed or Deeds under my hand and Seal already or any Estate that Shall or might by Right become to be mine I Give to them aforesd to be Equally Divided betweend them or their Heirs all the aforesd Legacies Excepting Peters Children is to be paid out by my Executor one year after my Death.

Witnesses: Ralph Freeman, William Cook and Paul Cook.
Sole Executor: Abner Aldrich

http://www.wellswooster.com/tree/getperson.php?personID=I26628&tree=bryant#sthash.QaFI3W8K.dpuf

David* married Hannah* Capron in 1710 in Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts. Hannah* (daughter of Banfield* Capron, Sr (immigrant stowaway) and Elizabeth* "Betsy" Callendar, (immigrant)) was born on 2 Jul 1689 in Attleboro, Bristol Co, Massachusetts; died on 17 Feb 1732 in Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts; was buried in South Bellingham, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Possibly born in Swansea, MA (per Lori London plondon@bellsouth.net)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: American Revolution

Notes:

They were living in Mendon at the time of their marriage, but it was recorded in Milford, performed by a Justice of the Peace. They may have been evacuating the town at the time, as it was burned by Indians a few days later (King Phillip?s War). Their first three children were born during their ?exile? in Braintree. They moved back to Mendon by 1680. After Jacob died, Huldah married Ebenezer Staples. Thayer {a} has Huldah married 13 Apr 1697 to Samuel Wilkerson, but that marriage should be her daughter Huldah [3712.4].

Jacob and Huldah are Congregational. Jacob died without a will, leaving an estate of 267 pounds (about $30,000 today). They had difficulty dividing the estate, so the farm was sold to oldest son Jacob for 183 pounds.
http://www.stupakgen.net/Genealogy/Beahm/03712_aldr.htm

Jacob* married Huldah* Thayer on 3 Nov 1675 in Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts. Huldah* (daughter of Ferdinando* Thayer and Huldah* Hayward) was born on 16 Jun 1657 in Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts; died after 1707 in Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Name: Huldah Thayer
Gender: Female
Birth Place: MA
Birth Year: 1657
Spouse Name: Jacob Aldrich
Marriage
Year: 1675
Number Pages: 1

Samuel married Mehitabel Thompson on 28 Nov 1666 in Medfield, Massachusetts. Mehitabel was born in 1644 in Massachusetts; died on 12 Jan 1700 in Rehoboth, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1674, Devonshire (probably), England
• Immigration: 1674, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts

Notes:

m (2) Elizabeth Blackington Abt. 1733
May 20, 1735 Elizabeth died.
December 16, 1735 m (3) Sarah Daggett. nee Norton widow of Deacon John Daggett
January 20, 1706/07 death of John Callendar

FIRST GENERATION:--- BANFIELD CAPRON, a stowaway from England, supposedly from Chester. but no Caprons have been found there. There are numerous Caprons in Devon and several in Somerset. There are several Callenders in Devon, including an Elizabeth born 1661, daughter of John. Have not made positive ID on this Elizabeth. Believe the Holden book to be wrong in assuming Banfield to have been from Chester. (From DE SILVA)

"NEW HAMPSHIRE" by Ezra Stone, 974.2 S799 Vol. 3, pages 1219-1220 in the Los Angeles Library:--No information has thus far been gathered relative to the origin and history of the Capron Family prior to its establishment in America. The numerous families of this name in New England are all descendants from one common ancestor, and the story of his secret flight across the ocean, briefly narrated in the succeeding paragraph, will serve to show that the stowaway passenger on the trans-Atlantic steamships of the present day is not entirely a modern innovation.
In 1674, Banfield Capron, born in Chester, England in 1660, conceived an ardent desire to seek his fortune in America, but the funds with which to pay his passage, as well as the necessary permit to leave the country, were beyond the reach ofe venturesome youth. He was determined, however, to cross the sea, and, in company with three other impecunious youths secreted himself in the hold of an emigrant ship about to sail for New England. When the vessel was well out to sea, the quartette of adventurers discovered themselves to the astonished captain and crew, but the master was unwilling to disobey the stringent law against transporting passengers who had failed to procure the required license, and would have turned back had not the mate and crew interceded in behalf of the stowaways with such earnestness as to cause him to relent and proceed westward. Soon after young Capron reached Boston, a family named Callender, whom he had known in England, arrived there, and going with them to Rehoboth, MA, remained in their family for a number of years, eventually marrying one of the daughters. He subsequently removed to Attleboro, where his first wife, whose parents, the Callenders, were in affluent circumstances, made him wealthy. He resided in Attleboro for the remainder of his life, which terminated August 20, 1752, at the advanced age of ninety-two years. His second wife was Elizabeth Blackington, of Attleboro, who died May 20, 1735, and his third wife, whom he married December 16 of the latter year, was Mrs. Sarah Daggett, (nee Norton) widow of Deacon John Daggett, of Attleboro. To each of his surviving children he gave a farm of about two hundred acres.

His 12 children, all of whom were of his first union, were all born in Bristol, MA.

The following items are from Philip De Silva, 802 Enderby Drive, Alexandria, VA, 22302: "ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF PAWTUCKET" by GRIEVE describes him as "being of medium height, strongly built, of light complexion with blue eyes and light hair with a reddish tinge."

"BRISTOL CO., MA WILLS, Vol. 13, p 258: Will of Banfield Capron of Attleboro Co., Bristol, Provience MA. Bay in N.E. "To Sarah well-beloved wife one fireroom in dwelling home; brass kettle and irons during her natural life and the reason y I give my wife no more is because we did agree ( ) before marriage. Son of Jonathan Capron who is also executor, real estate in Attleboro, land and tenement where ( ) dwells etc, etc, Son Banfield Capron; Son Joseph Capron; Dau Elizabeth Brown; Dau Rebeeka wife of son Jonathan; son John Capron's children 20 pounds each.; son Edward Capron; Dau Hannah Aldrich; Children of dau Margaret Arnold; g.s. Benjamin Capron son of son Jonathan.
Signed by Banfield Capron . Probated 13-Oct-1752. Witnessed by Thomas Wilmarth, Eliphalet Wilmarth, Rebecca Wilmarth.

Found in the PROPIETORS' RECORDS OF BRISTOL CO.:-- The Bounds of the Lands of Jn Calender and Banfield Capron. Impr. fourty five acres of land Be it more Lest. Being their first and part of their second Lotts Lying by Ould Thomas Coopers Land Beyond Jn Lanes the first corner is a black oake in said Coopers Line thence North one Hundred Rod to a White Oake markt thence North Nor West Eighty Rod to a Toa (sic) black oake markt for a Corner thence West fourty rod to a white oake markt for a corner thence South South East Eighty Rod to a white oake markt thence South a hundred Rod to White oake markt for a Corner thence East to said Coopers corner being an ash tree then by said Coopers Line to the first corner. Impr Likewise the Remaining part of theire Second Lotts being five acres be it more or less four acres whereof Lyeth by Jn Calenders ould Lott Bounded South theire own Land East the Bay Rhoad North Jn Martains Land thence South from the South West corner of said Martains Land to there own Land. Impr. Likewise one acre lying on the East sid of the bay Rhoad over against the sd Calender ould house for Conveniency of Building a house.

BRISTOL COUNTY DEED BOOK 4:508---- Bristol Mar. 3rd 1697/8. John Callender of Attleborough, Bristol County. Mass., for the Sum of forty six Pounds currt silver - - payd by Banfield Capron of the town - - - aforesaid - - - sell- - - the one half of a whole share of upland Swamp & Medow ground in the lands called Rehoboth north Purchase Lands on the Bungee river and also other piece of land.
22-Nov-1706 Winesses, Nicholas Ide, Daniel Smith

ATTLEBORO, MA VITAL RECORDS-----Death of Elizabeth Callendar Capron

5466 Descendants as of 27-Jan-901

John Callendar, father of Elizabeth, d 20-Jan-1706/7 in MA
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Archive Record (Family Group Sheet) Salt Lake City, Utah

Genealogy of the Descendants of Banfield Capron, from A.D. 1660 to
A.D. 1859 by Frederic A. Holden Boston: Printed by Geo. C. Rand & Avery 1859

Buried: Pecks Burying Ground, Attleboro, Bristol, Mass.

Banfield* married Elizabeth* "Betsy" Callendar, (immigrant) in Dec 1680 in Rehoboth, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. Elizabeth* (daughter of John* Callendar, (immigrant)) was born in 1661 in Devonshire (probably), England; died on 10 May 1732 in Attleboro, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: Aft 1674, Devonshire, England
• Immigration: Aft 1674, Massachusetts