ABSTRACT OF PROBATE RECORDS AT FAIRFIELD, COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD, AND STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
BY SPENCER P. MEAD, L.L.B. Volume 6, 1717 - 1735. Page 240

Transcribed by Geri Ryerson K

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BENEDICT, Samuel, Sr., late of Danbury, will dated Mch. 4, 1734/5, probated Apl. 9, mentioned his wife Abigail, and Hannah, and grandson Mathew Wildman the only son of my daughter Mary, deceased. Executors his wife Abigail, and my brother in law Ephraim Pickit. Witnesses Isreal Curtiss, Joseph Gregory, and Nathaniel Stephens, page 293.

Inventory taken Apl. 4, 1735, by Isreal Curtiss, Richard Barnum, and Joseph Gregory, and filed Apl. 9, 1735, page 295.

BENEDICK, Samuel, late of Danbury, will dated in 1718, probated Mch. 20, 1719, mentioned his wife Rebeckah, and Children Rebeckah, Esther, Samuel, Nathaniel, and Abraham, and grandson Samuel, a son of his son Thomas, now deceased. Executors sons Samuel and Nathaniel. Witnesses James Bebe and Isreal Curtiss, page 84. Apl. 17, 1719, inventory taken by James Benedick, Isreal Curtiss, and Thomas Taylor, and filed Mch. 20, 1719, page 24b.

BENEDICK, Thomas, late of Danbury, Dec. 6, 1714, letters of administration on his estate granted to his widow Elizabeth Benedick, and Sergeant Francis Barnum of Danbury, page 24b. Inventory taken Dec. 13, 1714, by James Benedick, Sr., Thomas Taylor, Jr., and Isreal Curtiss, and filed Jan. 3, 1714/5, page 58.

Jan. 3, 1714/5, account filed, and estate ordered distributed by Isreal Curtiss and Sergeant Thomas Taylor to his widow Elizabeth Benedick, and children one son and three daughters, no names, page 58.

Jan. 3, 1714/5, the court appointed Elizabeth Benedick, widow of decedent, guardian of Hannah and Rebeckah; Ensign Thomas Taylor guardian of Elizabeth: and Ebeneazer Hickcox guardian of Samuel, children of decedent, page 58a.

BENNIT, Daniel, late of Stratford, distribution agreement dated Nov. 25, 1715, between his brother and sisters viz: Nathan Bennit, Sarah wife of Robert Wheeler, Mary wife of Samuel David, Elizabeth wife of Ephraim Rice of Newark, East Jersey, Mary Bennit, and Hannah Bennit, and filed Apl. 4, 1719. Witnesses Daniel Shelton and Daniel Perry, page 63.

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