Benjamin Bunnell:

Family 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

Jacobus, Donald L., Families of Ancient New Haven ((Rome, NY, C. Smith, 1923)).
Inventory of Estate.
His inventory amounted to 261 pounds, 19s. 0d. , being taken September 8, 1696.
James Savage, A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, SHOWING THREE GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE MAY, 1692, ON THE BASIS OF FARMER'S REGISTER. USGenNet. scanned and edited. (July 1994) (http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage: Nov. 2000).
Ibid.
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.
Ibid., Vital Records of New Haven 1649-1850, vol. 1, p. 28.
Quality: 0.
Rebecca, daughter of Benjamin Bunnell February 11, 1668.
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