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This genealogy of Fanny Buckingham, wife of Jonas Benedict, is an excerpt from the transcription of a handwritten notebook I discovered in my grandmother’s papers. The family history in this notebook was the work of two women, Agnes Caroline Wickham and her daughter, Harriott Benedict Wickham Barton (my grandmother), who separately researched and made entries in it over a period of seventy years.  Agnes Wickham wrote roughly half of the entries in the notebook from 1909 to 1915.  In 1915, she gave handwritten copies of her work to each of her five children: Eleanor, William, Lucy, David and Harriott.  Harriott continued her mother’s work off and on for the next sixty years, adding entries as late as 1977.

Dave Barton
December 14, 2008

Buckingham Genealogy

Buckingham 1637

Thomas, sailed from England on the Hector, arrived at Boston, June 26, 1637; removed to Milford 1639;  married (1) Hannah – died June 28, 1646 (2) Ann – died 1657 in Boston.
1.  Hannah, born 1632; married Thomas Welsh.
(1) 2.  Daniel, born 1636; married (1) Hannah Fowler (2) Hens Newton.
3.  Samuel; married Sarah Baldwin.
4.  Mary; married John Parker.
5.  Thomas, born 1646; married (1) Hester Hosmer (2) Hens Hooker.

Thomas, baptized Nov. 8, 1646 at Hilford.  He was a minister and preached in Wethersfield when but 18 years of age, and the records of the town state that the town voted to pay him “20 shillings a week” for a quarter of a year to come.  (2) Commenced preaching in Saybrook when 19.  He was one of the legatees of Altawanhood, 3rd son of Uncas named in his will signed March 10, 1676 in Lyne, near Eight Mile Island in Connecticut River. (3) Was one of the founders and fellows of Yale College from 1700 to his decease.  Was one of the moderators of the famous synod which convened at Saybrook in 1708.  Married (1) Hester, daughter of Thomas Hosmer of Hartford, September 20, 1666.  She died June 3, 1702. (2) Mrs. Mary Hooker.  He died April 1, 1709.  Monument still stands (1872) in the Old Burying Ground of Saybrook bearing this inscription:

“Here lies the body of the
Rev. Mr. Thomas Buckingham.
Pastor of the Church of
Christ in Saybrook, dec’d
April ye 1st, 1709, in ye
63 year of his age.” (4)

The following is the inscription on his wife’s tombstone:
Mrs. Hester Buckingham
Wife to ye Rev’d Mr. Thomas
Buckingham, Pastor of ye
Church of Christ in Saybrook
Dec’d June ye 3, 1702, in
ye 56 year of her age.

1.  Hester, born January 10, 1668; married Samuel Breman.
2.  Thomas, born September 29, 1670; married Margaret Griswold.
3.  Daniel, born October 3, 1672; married Sarah Lee.

4.  Stephen, born September 4, 1675; married Sarah Hooker.
5.  Samuel, born May 26, 1678; died June 20, 1678.
6.  Samuel, born July 24, 1679; died January 25, 1684.
7.  Hezekiah, born June 21, 1682; married Sarah Lay.
8.  Temperance, born January 6, 1684; married John Kirtland.
9.  Anne, born August 2, 1687; married Samuel Doty.

Thomas, born September 29, 1670; married Margaret, daughter of Francis Griswold, December 16, 1691; died at Saybrook, September 12, 1739.
1.  Thomas, born January 24, 1693; married Mary Parker.
2.  Samuel, born September 26, 1694.
(5) 3.  Jedediah, born October 2, 1696; married Mary Haynes.
4.  Margarett, born August 14, 1699; married – Johnson.
5.  Mary, born February 10, 1702; died June 5, 1703.
6.  Mary, born June 5, 1705; married Solomon Huntington
7.  Joseph, born June 20, 1707; married Sarah Lulley.
8.  Sarah, born January 3, 1710; married – Crocker.

Thomas, born January 24, 1693; married Mary Parker, April 5, 1722 who died in Lebanon, Connecticut after 1771.  He was a sea-faring man; died December 13, 1760.
1.  Jedediah, born January 20, 1727; married Martha Clano.
2.  Stephen, born September 20, 1729; married Elizabeth (6) Whittlesy.
3.  Mary, born July 27, 1732.
4.  Sarah, born 1734; died May 23, 1742.

Jedediah, born January 20, 1727 at Saybrook; married Martha Blank (born 1732) of Lebanon Connecticut.  Settled in Columbia, where he died July 9, 1809.  She died May 20, 1821.
1.  Sarah, born 1753.
(7) 2.  Thomas, born 1755; married Triphena Hubbard.
3.  Joseph, born 1757; married Clarissa Chapman.
4.  Mary, married James Crocker.
5.  Jedidiah P., born April 7, 1758; married (1) Ann Cook.
6.  Sarah, born 1761; married Erastus Fitch.
7.  Stephen, born May 12, 1763; married (1) Mary Dorrance.
8.  Esther, married Enos Geary.
9.  Martha, married Simon Lewis.
10. Nancy Ann, born 1767; married Benjamin Dorrance.

Thomas, born 1755; married Triphena Hubbard of Windham, Connecticut, August 6, 1778.  His marriage and the names of his children are recorded on Town Records of Lebanon, Connecticut; died at Norwalk, Ohio, 1840.
1.  Henry, born January 13, 1779; married Harriet Talcott.
2.  Lucinda, born April 28, 1781; married Asa Syms.
3.  Amelia, born September 10, 1784; died 19 years of age.
4.  Charlotte, born February 21, 1786; died 22 years of age.
(8) 5.  Salome, born August 24, 1788; married William Ticknor.
6.  John, born November 10, 1790; married Sarah Ebert.
7.  Mary, born April 26, 1793; married Elijah Loveland.
8.  Samuel, born August 13, 1797; married (1) Thankful Babcock.
9.  Matilda, born January 4, 1799; married John Bennet.
10. Fanny, born January 21, 1804; married Stephen Vaughn.

Henry, born January 13, 1779; married Harriet, daughter of George and Vienna (Bradford) Talcott of Canterbury, Connecticut, March 20, 1803.  He was a man much respected and was for many years Treasurer of the county.  Died of apoplexy at Norwalk, Ohio, 1845.
1.  George Talcott, born December 1, 1806; married
(9) Lavinia Linsley.
2.  Fanny, born April 16, 1809; married Jonas Benedict.

Fanny, (10) born April 16, 1809 at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania; married Jonas Benedict, October 8, 1829; went to housekeeping in a 1½ story frame house built on the lot on Seminary Street where the Benedict Homestead now stands; died March 4, 1840 and is buried, as are her father and mother, on the D.D. Benedict lot in Woodlawn Cemetery, Norwalk, Ohio.  Her oldest son, Platt, crept out of bed early one morning and going to the fireplace in the living room, set his nightgown on fire and was so badly burned that he died the next day.  Mrs. Frederick Wickham tells of going there to help.  She found that the child was not allowed by the doctor to have water, although he begged for it.  Being left alone in the room, she gave him all he could drink.  She said he was a beautiful little fellow, only three years old.  Another child, Mary, had her back broken by a fall, and was obliged to walk with her hands on her knees.  D.D. Benedict, her brother, said that his stepmother was good to this child, although very disagreeable to his sister, Fanny, and himself.  Mary died when she was 8 years old.

(1) Buckingham Family, page 10
(2) Ibid, page 134
(3) vide Indian Papers, Vol. I, doc 30.
(4) Buckingham Family, p. 139
(5) Ibid, page 140
(6) Ibid, page 146
(7) Ibid, page 152
(8) Ibid, page 172.
(9) Ibid, page 219
(10) Ibid, page 296

NOTE: Agnes and Harriott cited their sources in the margins of original notebook.  I included these citations as footnotes, attempting to keep them as close as possible to where they appear in the original notebook.

I would appreciate critiques and corrections of this genealogy. Please comment below. Thank you.

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