Stephen  BENEDICT

Biography
TEPHEN BENEDICT was born in Milton, Saratoga County, N. Y., January 15th, 1801. He was the son of Thomas and Zelota (Sprague) Benedict, and a descendant of Thomas Benedict, who came to this country in 1638. He settled first in Massachusetts, then removed to Long Island, and subsequently in Connecticut, where he became a man of influence. Stephen's father, Thomas Benedict, was a soldier in the revolution and was an enterprising farmer. In 1833 he removed from Otsego County, N.Y., to Central Falls, where he died. Stephen was employed on his father's farm, attending school in the winter until near his majority, receiving the best of home training and religious instruction. In 1821, as his half brother, Reverend David Benedict, D.D., the Baptist historian, had settled as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Pawtucket, he went to that place and engaged to work in a machine shop and afterward in a cotton mill. In 1828 he formed a co-partnership with Honorable Joseph Wood and removed to...Read full story


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Name: Stephen Benedict
Gender: Male
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Death Date: 25 Dec 1868
Death Place: Central Falls, Providence, Rhode Island
Age: 67
Birth Date: 1801
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Father's Name: Thomas Benedict
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Mother's Name: Telota
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I09565-9
System Origin: Rhode Island-EASy
GS Film number: 2294969
Reference ID: p. 44

'Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:F8F7-G6Y : 6 December 2014), Stephen Benedict, 25 Dec 1868; citing Central Falls, Providence, Rhode Island, reference p. 44; FHL microfilm 2,294,969.'