James BENEDICT

1685 - 1762  (77 years)

• Name	James BENEDICT  [1]
  Birth	5 Jan 1685  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Note	30 Sep 1708  [1]
  	In 1708 James and other inhabitants of Norwalk purchased a large tract of land between that town and Danbury. The purchase was made of Catoonah the chief sachem, and other Indians, whowere the proprietors of that part of the country. At a Norwalk town session, 1709, it was ordained that is should be a distinct township by the name of Ridgefield. James was also one of the original settlers of this township. Fence-viewer in 1715, called Ensign, 1719, afterwards Captain, and 1737, Esquire. He was appointed justice of the peace for Fairfield County, CT, May 1732 and was reappointed annually until 1733. He was representative from Ridgefield, from May 1740-45 and 1748-1752. He was the first to write the genealogy of the Benedict family. In his youth he lived with his grandmother, Mary Bridgum, wife of Thomas, and she delivered to him, from her own mouth, the genealogy down to his own memory, and he reduced it to writing. His "Genealogy of the Family of the Benedicts," dated March 14, 1755 has been the foundation of all the subsequent ones. His grandson, Abner Benedict, a member of the junior class in Yale College made an exact copy of it June 23, 1768. James was the second Deacon of the church in Ridgefield, till old age and its attendants rendered him unable to serve.
  Death	25 Nov 1762	Ridgefield, Fairfield, CT   [1]
  Person ID	I8958	MM
  Last Modified	19 Jan 2004

  
  

  Father	John BENEDICT,   b. 6 Feb 1649, Southhold, Long Island, NY d. 11 Nov 1729, Norwalk, Fairfield, CT (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Phoebe GREGORY,   b. 1649, New Haven, New Haven, CT d. Abt 1748, Norwalk, Fairfield, CT (Age 99 years)
  Family ID	F2419	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah HYATT,   b. Dec 1686   d. 9 Feb 1767, Ridgefield, Fairfield, CT (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	1709  [1]
  Children	1. Sarah BENEDICT,   b. 23 May 1709/10   2. Ruth BENEDICT,   b. 3 Dec 1711   3. Peter BENEDICT,   b. 20 Mar 1714   4. Hannah BENEDICT,   b. 25 Jan 1715/16   d. 12 Mar 1737 (Age 21 years)   5. Phoebe BENEDICT,   b. 14 Mar 1717/18   6. James BENEDICT,   b. 19 Feb 1719/20   7. Martha BENEDICT,   b. 15 Apr 1722   8. John BENEDICT,   b. 3 Oct 1726   d. 9 Jul 1814 (Age 87 years)   9. Thomas BENEDICT,   b. 3 Oct 1726
  Family ID	F2423	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jul 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 25 Nov 1762 - Ridgefield, Fairfield, CT  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S199] Benedict, Henry Marvin, Benedict Genealogy, (Joel Munsell, Albany, 1870), 199.