[Ancestral Link: Lura Minnie Parker (Stagge), daughter of Minnie May Elmer (Parker), daughter of Mark Alfred Elmer, son of Hannah Polina Child (Elmer), daughter of Alfred Bosworth Child, son of Hannah Benedict (Child), daughter of Hannah Carter (Benedict), daughter of Hannah Benedict (Carter), daughter of Thomas Benedict, son of Thomas Benedict, son of Thomas Benedict, son of Mary Bridgum (Benedict).]
East Norwalk Historical Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield County, ConnecticutMary Bridgham Benedict
Birth: 1617, Retford, England
Death: 1717, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Mary Brigham was a fellow passenger on the ship that brought her future husband, THOMAS BENEDICT, from England to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. They were married shortly after they arrived.
She was the daughter of her husband's father's second wife (Mary was Thomas Benedict's step-sister), twenty-one years of age when they immigrated, and she lived to be 100 -- according to the "The Genealogy of the Bendicts of America" by Henry Marvin Benedict, 1870.
Her memories were told to her grandson, Deacon James Benedict of Ridgefield, who lived with Thomas and Mary Benedict. He put her memories into writing in the first history of the Benedict family in 1755.
From Thomas Benedict's will: "I do will and bequeath to my loueing wife Mary Bennidick my whole Estate, house and household, Lands, Cattle -- to use and despose according to ye controll and advise she, with my overseers afterwards mentioned, shall judge most during ye Time of her naturall Life...."
"Mary Benedict, ye Relickt of Thos Benedick Senr, late of Norwalk deceased, appeared before me, the 5th of November 1690, and attented upon oath yt according to ye best of her knowledge, ye above sd Inventory is a true Inventory. Signed Thomas Fitch, Comiss." Their sons, John & Samuel were named administrators of his estate along with their mother.
Information posted on findagrave.com by Nareen on 6 February 2009 #33581171
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Mary and Thomas
Mary's mother, a widow, became the second wife of Thomas' father, William in Nottinghamshire, England. She and Thomas immigrated on the same ship to Massachusetts and soon after arrival, were married.
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