1William Richard Cutter, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: a Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of ..., Vol. 1, p. 272 (1915).
"(I) Michael Emerson, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England about 1630, probably in Lincolnshire, as indicated in the will of Michael Emerson, cited above. He came to Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1656 or 1661, and had a meadow lot granted to him.
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He married April 1, 1657, Hannah Webster, daughter of John Webster of Ipswich and Newbury. Children: Hannah, born December 23, 1657, married Thomas Dustin, was the famous Hannah Dustin who killed the Indians who had captured her; John, born July 30, 1659; Mary, October 5, 1660; John, March 18, 1661-62; Samuel, February 2, 1663; Elizabeth, January 26, 1665; Abigail, December 17, 1667; Jonathan, March 9, 1669-70, mentioned below; Judith, July 2, 1673; Judith, September 29, 1674; Joshua, March 2, 1675-76, died young; Ruth, May 8, -----; Joshua, November 17, 1678; Susanna, April 30, 1680.
(II) Jonathan Emerson, son of Michael Emerson, was born in Haverhill, March 9, 1669-70.
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1George Thomas Little, Henry Sweetser Burrage and Albert Roscoe Stubbs, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Vol. 2, p. 541 (1909).
"(III) Isaac (1), eighth child and fifth son of Ferdinando and Huldah (Hayward) Thayer, was born in Mendon, where he passed his life as a farmer, upon land given him by his father. He married (first) first day, second mnth, 1691 or 1692, Mercy Ward, who died December 18, 1700. His second wife, whom he married in 1703, was Mary, who died in 1830. The four children by the first wife were: Mercy, Isaac, Ebenezer and Comfort; by the second wife: Mary, John, Nathaniel, Moses, Samuel, Joseph and Ichabod.".
1Ethel Farrington Smith, Seventeenth Century Hull, Massachusetts, and Her People, NEHGR Vol. 142, p. 270-272 (Jul. 1988).
"2. JOSEPH2 BENSON (John1) was born at Hingham about 1640 and died at Hull 2 January 1706. He married, probably about 1669, SARAH ______.
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Children, born at Hull, order uncertain (names from Suffolk Co. land records), surname Benson:
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viii. BENJAMIN, b. ca. 1687; d. at Mendon, Mass., 4 Nov. 1761 aged 72 yrs, "the first white settler in this vicinity" (Vital Records of Mendon, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 [Boston, 1920], 450); m. (1) ca. 1711, SARAH THAYER, who d. at Mendon 20 June 1739 (ibid.); m. (2) at Mendon, 3 Sept. 1739, PRUDENCE (SMITH) WHITE (ibid., 248), who d. 20 Dec. 1784 in her 94th yr (ibid., 450).
Children (ibid., 31-32) (surname Benson): 1. Joseph4, b. 14 Oct. 1712. 2. Sarah, b. 28 July 1715. 3. Martha, b. 14 April 1718. 4. Susanah, b. 2 Aug, 1721. 5. Benoni, b. 18 July 1724. 6. Abigail, b. 12 Aug. 1731.".