Benjamin Hand, 1673–1744 (aged 71 years)

Name
Benjamin Hand
Given names
Benjamin
Surname
Hand
Birth February 8, 1673 36 33
Birth of a brotherStephen Hand
February 8, 1674 (aged 1 year)
Birth of a sisterElizabeth Hand
March 2, 1677 (aged 4 years)
Birth of a sisterSilence Hand
November 12, 1679 (aged 6 years)
Death of a sisterJane Hand
February 3, 1683 (aged 9 years)
Birth of a sisterAnn Hand
July 10, 1683 (aged 10 years)
Birth of a sisterJane Hand
April 25, 1686 (aged 13 years)
MarriageMary Wilcox — View this family
July 10, 1695 (aged 22 years)
Birth of a sonNathaniel Hand
April 12, 1696 (aged 23 years)
Birth of a sonJohn Hand
June 12, 1698 (aged 25 years)
Death of a brotherJoseph Hand
1699 (aged 25 years)
Birth of a daughterMary Hand
June 6, 1700 (aged 27 years)
Birth of a daughterSubmit Hand
August 5, 1702 (aged 29 years)
Birth of a sonEbenezer Hand
September 5, 1705 (aged 32 years)
Birth of a sonBenjamin Hand
May 7, 1708 (aged 35 years)
Birth of a daughterMary Hand
August 15, 1712 (aged 39 years)
Marriage of a childNathaniel Hand — Jemima French — View this family
April 19, 1722 (aged 49 years)

Death of a fatherJoseph Hand
January 1, 1724 (aged 50 years)
Death of a motherJane Wright
December 16, 1724 (aged 51 years)
Marriage of a childEbenezer Hand — Susanna French — View this family
May 31, 1725 (aged 52 years)
Death of a sisterSilence Hand
1725 (aged 51 years)
Marriage of a childEbenezer Bartlett — Submit Hand — View this family
February 1, 1726 (aged 52 years)
Marriage of a childJohn Hand — Deborah Bishop — View this family
about 1727 (aged 53 years)
Marriage of a childBenjamin Hand — Mary Penfield — View this family
October 29, 1730 (aged 57 years)
Marriage of a childEbenezer Hand — Mary West — View this family
September 13, 1743 (aged 70 years)
Death December 7, 1744 (aged 71 years)
LDS baptism June 16, 1931 (186 years after death)

LDS endowment April 25, 1934 (189 years after death)

LDS spouse sealingMary Wilcox — View this family
February 2, 1956 (211 years after death)

LDS temple: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

LDS child sealing May 19, 1992 (247 years after death)

LDS temple: Jordan River, Utah, United States

Unique identifier
1D46AC8D3A91410687E34BECC707A9EEB46A

Last change August 7, 2019

Family with parents
father
1637–1724
Birth: 1637 26 23 — Ashford, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Death: January 1, 1724 — East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
mother
Marriage
Marriage: 1663 —
2 years
elder sister
1665–1751
Birth: March 2, 1665 28 25 — East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: August 1, 1751 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
4 years
elder sister
1668–1683
Birth: September 19, 1668 31 28 — East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: February 3, 1683 — East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
3 years
elder brother
1671–1699
Birth: April 2, 1671 34 31 — East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: 1699 — East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
23 months
himself
1673–1744
Birth: February 8, 1673 36 33 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: December 7, 1744 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
12 months
younger brother
1674–1755
Birth: February 8, 1674 37 34 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: August 14, 1755 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
3 years
younger sister
1677–1767
Birth: March 2, 1677 40 37 — East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: 1767
3 years
younger sister
1679–1725
Birth: November 12, 1679 42 39 — East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: 1725 — Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA
4 years
younger sister
1683–
Birth: July 10, 1683 46 43 — East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death:
3 years
younger sister
1686–1747
Birth: April 25, 1686 49 46 — East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: October 27, 1747 — New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Family with Mary Wilcox
himself
1673–1744
Birth: February 8, 1673 36 33 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: December 7, 1744 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
wife
–1749
Birth: Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA
Death: October 24, 1749 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Marriage
Marriage: July 10, 1695 — Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA
9 months
son
1696–1752
Birth: April 12, 1696 23 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: April 19, 1752 — East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2 years
son
1698–1739
Birth: June 12, 1698 25 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: April 1739 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2 years
daughter
1700–1702
Birth: June 6, 1700 27 — East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: August 17, 1702 — East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2 years
daughter
1702–1734
Birth: August 5, 1702 29 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: July 25, 1734 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
3 years
son
1705–
Birth: September 5, 1705 32 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death:
3 years
son
1708–1748
Birth: May 7, 1708 35 — Of Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: December 7, 1748 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
daughter
daughter
1712–
Birth: August 15, 1712 39 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death:
daughter
daughter
Note

BIRTH: Barbour Collection of Vital Records, FHL film 2920, Guilford V.R. Vol A, p. 78. "Benjamin Hand, son of Joseph and Jane" Benjamin, son of Joseph and Jane Wright Hand was born 8 Feb. 1673." (Families of Early Guilford, Connecticut, FHL 974.67 G1 D2t, p. 595.)

DEATH: Barbour Collection, FHL film 2920, Guilford VR, Vol 2, p. 138. Date is 1748. Also found in Families of Early Guilford, Connecticut, FHL 974.67 G1 D2t, p. 595. However, the date given was 10 August 1744. PROBATE: Benjamin's probate is in Guilford Probates, Vol. 4, 1739-1751, FHL 4354, p. 211. Sept. 4, 1744, Benjamin Hand and Nathaniel Hand are executors of the will of Benjamin Hand, Esq. of Guilford. p. 212 is the will: "Mary my wife" to receive 1/3 of the estate. "My son Nathaniel Hand" received much land. "My son John Hand his children Elizabeth Hand, Deborah Hand, Submit Hand and John Hand," received land. "My son Ebenezer Hand to receive all that farm on which he now dwells." "My son Benjamin Hand" to receive the farm. "My granddaughter Mary Bartlett" to receive 70 pounds at the time of her marriage. If she dies it goes to her brothers Ebenezer and Ichabod Bartlet. His son John Hand's probate mentions the land "belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Hand, dec'd" and land "belonging to the heirs of aged Joseph Hand which he willed to his grandchildren and Ether Hand..." (Probate of Guilford, 1739-1750, FHL film 4354, p. 692, May 2, 1751.

BIOGRAPHY: "Benjamin Hand (Joseph, John, John) was born 2/8/1672/73 ; died August 1744. He was an important citizen of East Guilford, representing it 11 years at the General Court of Connecticut and often serving as the moderator at town meetings. He married July 10, 1695 Mary, a daughter of John Wilcox of Middleton CT. She died 10/24/1749." Comments copied from "Hand Sisson and Scott, More Yeoman Ancesters"

MARRIAGE RECORD: New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey, p. 340. Genealogical & Family History of the State of Connecticut, US/Can 974.6, D2c, p. 1227. NEHG Register, Vol. 55, Jan. 1901, p. 31,32.

PROBATE RECORD: Connecticut State Library (Hartford, Connecticut), Probate files collection, early to 1880 (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977-1979), FHL US/CAN Film [ 1015134 ], Family History Library, 35 North West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3400. Names his wife Mary and children and grandchildren: Sons: Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Benjamin, John's children; Elizabeth Hand, Debra Hand, Submit Hand, John Hand Submit's children; Ebenezer Bartlett, Ichabod Bartlett, Mary Bartlett

ANCESTORS: Benjamin HAND, born 6 Feb 1672/1673 in Guilford, New Haven, Ct,USA. Death: Aug 1748 in Guilford,New Haven,Ct,USA. Father: Joseph HAND b: 1638 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; Mother: Jane WRIGHT b: 1644 in Guilford, New Haven,Ct. (Sources: Ralph D. Smith, Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Hartford The Ct Society of the Order of the Founders & Patriots of America.)

RESEARCH: Another man named Benjamin Hands mar. Sarah Ward in 1688 in Middletown and had children there. He died July 8, 1739 in Middletown. Was never in Guilford.

Note

Barbour Collection of Vital Records, Family History Library film 2920, Guilford Vital Records Vol A, p. 95, 98. "On July 10, 1695 Benjamin Hand of Guilford mar. Mary Wilcocks of Middletown at Middletown." Also recorded in Guilford Vital Records. SEALING: 2 Feb. 1956, submitter Bessie Ritchie Rogers, FHL film 457022. Redone in 1991 in the Las Vegas Temple (FHL film 1553765, batch 5017414, sheet 29.

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