Benjamin Bunnell & Rebecca Mallory
Benjamin Bunnell & Rebecca Mallory
Husband:
Benjamin Bunnell
Born:
about 1636 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA, USA
Married:
 in New Haven, New Haven, CT, USA
Died:
before 08 Sep 1696 in New Haven, New Haven, CT, USA (1 2)
Father:
William Bunnell
Mother:
Ann Wilmot
Wife:
Rebecca Mallory
Born:
18 Mar 1649/50 in New Haven, New Haven, CT, USA (3)
Died:
12 Mar 1691/92 in New Haven, New Haven, CT, USA (4 5)
Father:
Peter Mallory
Mother:
Mary Preston
Children:
01  (F):
Rebecca Bunnell
Born:
19 Jan 1667/68
Died:
26 Jan 1667/68
02  (F):
Rebecca Bunnell
Born:
11 Feb 1668/69 in New Haven, New Haven, CT, USA (6)
Died:
after 05 Feb 1732/33 in West Haven, New Haven, CT, USA
Spouse:
Samuel Burwell
03  (F):
Judith Bunnell
Born:
13 Apr 1672
Died:
Unknown
04  (M):
Benjamin Bunnell
Born:
04 Jan 1675/76
Died:
Jan 1675/76
05  (F):
Ann Bunnell
Born:
08 Jan 1677/78
Died:
about 1679
06  (M):
Benjamin Bunnell
Born:
29 Nov 1679
Died:
Unknown
07  (M):
Hezekiah Bunnell
Born:
23 Mar 1681/82
Died:
Unknown
08  (F):
Rachel Bunnell
Born:
16 Dec 1683
Died:
Unknown
09  (M):
Nathaniel Bunnell
Born:
May 1686
Died:
Unknown
10  (M):
Israel Bunnell
Born:
12 Mar 1689/90
Died:
Unknown
More Info:

Benjamin Bunnell:

Notes:

Benjamin was apprentice to Nicolas Elsey while a young boy. He and five other boys "were found guilty of committing much wickedness in a filthy corrupting way one with another. The boys were sentenced to be publicly whipped."
Benjamin took the oath of fidelity in April of 1657. He and Rebecca married and lived in New Haven, CT. They rented a home from John Wakefield on the west side of the West Creek in New Haven.

Benjamin appeared before the New Haven Court on a number of charges, including that he "Lay with an indian squaw, was ye basest ffellow and subsequently was implicated in imbeizling, including a great quantity of strong Liquor & wine, & other goods. On one occasion he was fined five shillings, on another ten shillings for his entertaining of other mens servants tipling at his house unseasonably contrary to law."

The couple received from Peter Mallory land "by way of portion in part with my loving daughter Rebecca Bunnell, to my loving son-in-law Benjamin Bunnell" in July 1684. On April 27, 1690, Benjamin and the six youngest children were baptized.
After Rebecca's death, Benjamin married widow Elizabeth Sperry.

Footnotes:
  1. Jacobus, Donald L., Families of Ancient New Haven ((Rome, NY, C. Smith, 1923)).
  2. database.

    [His inventory amounted to 261 pounds, 19s. 0d. , being taken September 8, 1696.]

  3. James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. USGenNet. scanned and edited. (July 1994) (http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage: Nov. 2000).
  4. Ibid.
  5. Vital Records, Vital Records of New Haven 1649-1850, vol. 1, p. 78.
    Quality: 3.

    Rebecka ye wife of Benjamin Bunill dyed ye 12th of March 1691

  6. Ibid., Vital Records of New Haven 1649-1850, vol. 1, p. 28.
    Quality: 0.

    Rebecca, daugher of Benjamin Bunnell February 11, 1668




Revised: 11/9/2011