Benedict Alvord

Male Abt 1619 - 1683  (~ 64 years)


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  • Name Benedict Alvord 
    Born Abt 1619  Whitestaunton, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    AFN 8Q6D-3K 
    Died 23 Apr 1683  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I926  James Henry Martineau
    Last Modified 27 Oct 2015 

    Father Thomas Alvord,   b. Abt 1575, Whitestaunton, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1636  (Age ~ 60 years) 
    Mother Joan Hawkins,   b. Abt 1594, Ashill, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 May 1636, Whitestaunton, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 42 years) 
    Married 11 May 1618  , Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F943  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jane Newton,   b. Abt 1623, Broadway Parish, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1715  (Age ~ 92 years) 
    Married 26 Nov 1640  Windsor, , Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Children 
     1. Jonathan Alvord,   b. 1 Jun 1645, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Benedict Alvord,   b. 11 Jul 1647, Windsor, , Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Benjamin Alvord,   b. 11 Jul 1647, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Aug 1709  (Age 62 years)
     4. Josiah Alvord,   b. 6 Jul 1649, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    +5. Elizabeth Alvord,   b. 21 Sep 1651, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     6. Jeremiah Alvord,   b. 24 Dec 1655, Windsor, , Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jun 1709  (Age 53 years)
    Last Modified 27 Oct 2015 
    Family ID F385  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • Source: Alvord Gen. (A 8 E 8) pp. 14, 17, 18, 24. American Fam. (A 9 C 34) pp. 170-171.
      Ancient Windsor, (Conn. W 9) p. 35., His five children's births are listed in the Records of Windsor,Conn., Record of Marriages and Births , NEHGR, Vol. 5, p. 63 (1851)
      The Connecticut settlement "was in a frightfully exposed position. isolated with no more than 250 men capable of bearing arms. It lay within reach of as many as 5,000 fighting barbarians: 1,00 of them, two days march to the Eastward. Pequots, most warlike of all."(See Makers of America-- John Winthrop-Twitchell, page 170). 30 men were levied in Windsor (History of Windsor, Vol 1, pp. 67-68) Windsor also furnished 6 suits of Armour, 60 bushels of corn, 50 pieces of Pork, 30 # of rice & 4 cheeses.
      The corn was to be ground & 1/2 baked into biscuits The expedition had a hoghead of beer, some strong water & sack. Capt. John Mason of Windsor led the expedition and a decisive battle was fought May 26 1637. (The extermination of the Pequots was dictated by the imperious instinct of self-preservation) A grant of land was also given to each soldier, and to this day, the memory of an ancestor in the Pequot fight is anhonorable heirloom in every Connecticut family.

  • Sources 
    1. [S212] American Marriages Before 1699, William Montgomery Clemens, ((http://Ancestry.com : 1997)), accessed 23 Oct 2008), Benedictus Alvord. (Reliability: 3).
      Name: ?tab?Benedictus Alvord
      Spouse: ?tab?Ione Nuton
      Marriage Date: ?tab?26 Nov 1640
      Marriage Place: ?tab?Winsor, Conn.

    2. [S15] Rockwell Family in America, Henry Ensign Rockwell, (Boston:Rockwell & Churchill, publishers 1873), p. 101 (Reliability: 3).
      In "The Mothers of the Family"

    3. [S12] Record of Marriages and Births, in Windsor, Connecticut, Vol 5, p. 63 (Reliability: 3).