Bellows, Benjamin (1712-1777)

Name:

Bellows, Benjamin (1712-1777)

Title:

Surveyor of Highways, Town of Lunenburg
Constable, Town of Lunenburg
Selectman, Town of Lunenburg
Clerk, Town of Lunenburg
Major, Massachusetts Militia
A Proprietor, Town of Walpole, 1752
Seelctman, Town of Walpole
Moderator, Town of Walpole
Treasurer, Town of Walpole
Clerk, Town of Walpole
Colonel, New Hampshire Militia

Born:

05/26/1712

Birthplace:

Lancaster, MA

Died:

06/10/1777

Death Location:

Walpole, NH

Residence:

Lancaster, MA 1712-1728
Lunenburg, MA 1728-1752
Walpole, NH 1752-1777

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Farmer
Surveyor

Father:

Bellows, Benjamin (1676-1750)

Mother:

Cutler, Dorcas (1675-1747)

Spouse:

1) Abigail Stearns (1708-1756), 1735
2) Mary Hubbard (1725-1794), 1758

Children:

Children of Abigail Stearns, all born Lunenburg, Mass. or Walpole, N.H.:
Bellows, Abigail (1736-1756)
Bellows, Peter (1738-1825; d. Charlestown NH)
Bellows, Benjamin (1740-1802; Brigadier-General; d.Walpole NH; in colonial and state legislature; member of N.H. convention that ratified federal constitution in 1788; served during American Revolution; m. Phebe Strong)
Bellows, John (1742-1812)
Bellows, Joseph (1744-1817)
Bellows, Jonathan (b.d. 1746)
Bellows, Abijah (1748-1749)

Children of Mary Hubbard:
Bellows, Abigail (1759-; b. Walpole NH)
Bellows, Theodore (1760-; b. Walpole NH)
Bellows, Thomas (1762-1848; b.d. Walpole, NH; married, children; resided in family homestead built by Col. Benj. Bellows)
Bellows, Mary (1764- ; b. Groton, Mass.)
Bellows, Josiah (1767-1846; b. Walpole NH)

Notes:

M1. Abigail Stearns (1708-1757), 1735, Walpole, N.H. Abigail was daughter of Abigail Fiske and John Stearns of Watertown, Massachusetts.
M2. Mary Hubbard (1725-1794), 1758. Mary was the daughter of Rebecca Brown and Jonathan Hubbard of Groton, Mass. Mary was married first to John Jennison, m. 1740, several children.

George D. Aldrich, Walpole As It Was and As It Is, Containing a Complete Civil History of the Town From 1749 to 1879... (Claremont, NH: The Claremont Manufcaturing Company, 1880), 193-211.

Thomas B. Peck, The Bellows Genealogy of John Bellows, The Boy Emigrant of 1635 and His Descendants... (Keene, NH: Sentinel Priniting Company, 1898), 20-38.