Joseph Benjamin, III

Joseph Benjamin was one of the sailors on the Connecticut Colony Sloop Defence, which accompanied the Joint Colonial Expedition against Louisberg, in 1744, when that fortress was captured, and in the suits brought by soldiers and sailors, of the Colony Sloop Defence, to recover prize money collected by Captain John Prentice of the Sloop Defence, he was awarded his proper share by the Courts of Connecticut.

One of the prizes captured by the Defence, in company with several British ships of the line, was a French merchantman from the Orient, laden with a cargo worth more than 200,000 pounds sterling.

The births and baptisms of the children of Joseph and Deborah Clarke Benjamin were all recorded in the Second Congregational Church of Preston, Conn., commonly called the Pechaug Church, at Griswold, Conn.

(The town of Griswold was incorporated October, 1815, from land that was taken from Preston. The Congregational Church in Griswold was organized November 20, 1720 as the Second Church in Preston. Rev. Hezekiah Lord pastor from 1720 to 1761)

Joseph Benjamin/ (Joseph/ Joseph/ John/)

s. of Joseph and Eliz. Benjamin, b. at Pres-

ton, Conn., , 1705 ; m. at Preston, Conn.,

April 3, 1722, to Deborah Clark. He d.

abt. 1803. She d. at Mount Washington or

Egremont, Mass., at the house of her son

Nathan.

CHILDREN V GENERATION.

29 Joseph, b. December 17, 1723.

30 Eliz., b. June 8, 1725.

31 James, b. April 3, 1727.

32 Barzillai, b. March 28, 1730.

33 Deborah, b. March 26, 1732.

34 JosiAH, b. March 13, 1734.

35 Nathan Clarke, b. April 19, 1737.

(Early in life he obtained a grant of land in Western Massachusetts where he founded Mount Washington

He served in the War of the Revolution as private under Lt. Andrew Loomis's Co., Of Col. Ashley's Berkshire County Massachusetts militia and participated in the alarm of Bennington.

In 1773 (Egremont, Mass Deeds 11:75 Samuel Clark Benjamin sold his inheritance to Uncle Nathan Benjamin.)

36 Mary, b. June 22, 1739.

37 Isaac, b. April 15, 1742.

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