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Benjamin Banning

Male 1740 - 1762  (22 years)


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  1. 1.  Benjamin Banning was born on 1 Jan 1740 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA (son of John Banning and Margaret DeWolf); died on 20 Oct 1762.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  John Banning was born in 1709 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA (son of John Banning and Sarah Tiffany); died on 3 Jun 1755 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA.

    John married Margaret DeWolf on 15 Jul 1734 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA. Margaret (daughter of Benjamin DeWolf and Margaret Smith) was born in 1717; died on 31 Mar 1744 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Margaret DeWolf was born in 1717 (daughter of Benjamin DeWolf and Margaret Smith); died on 31 Mar 1744 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA.
    Children:
    1. John Banning was born on 8 Apr 1735 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA.
    2. 1. Benjamin Banning was born on 1 Jan 1740 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA; died on 20 Oct 1762.
    3. Phreaney Irene Banning was born on 20 May 1742 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA; died in in Middlesex, Vermont, USA.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  John Banning was born in 1671 in England, United Kingdom (son of John Banning and Elizabeth ?); died in 1759 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA.

    John married Sarah Tiffany in 1704 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of Humphrey Tiffany and Elizabeth Baker) was born on 6 Jul 1683 in Swansea, Massachusetts, USA; died before 1747 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Sarah Tiffany was born on 6 Jul 1683 in Swansea, Massachusetts, USA (daughter of Humphrey Tiffany and Elizabeth Baker); died before 1747 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA.
    Children:
    1. Elizabeth Banning was born in 1705 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA; died on 26 Apr 1738 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Brockway Cemetery, Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, USA.
    2. Sarah Banning was born in 1706.
    3. 2. John Banning was born in 1709 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA; died on 3 Jun 1755 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA.
    4. Samuel Banning was born in 1713 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA; died on 22 Apr 1803 in East Hartland, Connecticut, USA.
    5. Mary Banning was born in 1720.
    6. Hannah Banning was born in 1725; died on 22 Oct 1762 in East Haddam, Connecticut, USA.

  3. 6.  Benjamin DeWolf died in 1766.

    Benjamin married Margaret Smith. Margaret was born in 1696; died in 1742. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Margaret Smith was born in 1696; died in 1742.
    Children:
    1. 3. Margaret DeWolf was born in 1717; died on 31 Mar 1744 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  John Banning was born in 1650 in England, United Kingdom; died before Sep 1717 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA.

    John married Elizabeth ? in 1670 in England, United Kingdom. Elizabeth was born in 1650 in England, United Kingdom; died before 1689 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Elizabeth ? was born in 1650 in England, United Kingdom; died before 1689 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA.
    Children:
    1. 4. John Banning was born in 1671 in England, United Kingdom; died in 1759 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA.
    2. Frances Banning was born on 27 Oct 1673; was christened on 31 Oct 1673 in City of Westminster, Greater London, England, United Kingdom .

  3. 10.  Humphrey Tiffany was born on 4 Jun 1630 in Hackney, London Borough of Hackney, Greater London, England, United Kingdom (son of Henry Tiffany and Elizabeth ?); died on 15 Jul 1685 in Massachusetts, USA.

    Notes:

    Came from Yorkshire England, it is supposed, and was in Massachusetts Bay Colony about the year 1660.

    The following account of his death is given in the diary of Samuel Sewell, Publications of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol, 5, fifth series page 88: "Wednesday, P.M., July 15, 1685. Very deak and great tunder and lightning. One Humphre Tiffany and Frances Low, daughter of Antony Low, are slain with the lightning and thunder about a mile and a half beyond the Billinges Farm, the horse also slain, that they rode on and another horse in Company slain and his rider who held the garment on the Maid to steady it at the time the Stroke a coat or cloak, stoned, but not killed. Were coming to Boston. Antony Low being in Town the sad Bill was put up with (regards) of that solemn judgment of God; Fast-day Forenoon, July 15, 1685, 2 persons 2 horses." Another record states that he was killed by lightning between Swansea and Boston, and that for a long time a metal tablet was affixed to the tree beneath which he sought shelter. There was an inscription on the tree setting forth the incident and concluding with the following:
    Squire Humphrey Tiffany
    And Mistress Low
    By a stroke of lightning
    Into Eternity did go.

    Died:
    Killed by a lightning strike while on his way from Swansea to Boston.

    Humphrey married Elizabeth Baker. Elizabeth was born in 1645 in Massachusetts, USA; died in 1708 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Elizabeth Baker was born in 1645 in Massachusetts, USA; died in 1708 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA.
    Children:
    1. James Tiffany died in Jul 1732.
    2. Thomas Tiffany
    3. Ebenezeer Tiffany
    4. Consider Tiffany was born on 14 Jun 1675 in Milton, Massachussettes, USA; died on 7 Jan 1708 in New Shoreham, Rhode Island, USA.
    5. 5. Sarah Tiffany was born on 6 Jul 1683 in Swansea, Massachusetts, USA; died before 1747 in Lyme, Connecticut, USA.
    6. Hezekiah Tiffany died on 4 Dec 1685.
    7. Ephriam Tiffany

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