Benjamin Pelton1

M, #507, b. 3 September 1698, d. November 1775
Last Edited: 27 Apr 2007

Parents:

Father: Samuel Pelton1 b. c 1647, d. c 1713/14
Mother: Mary Smith1

Family:

Keziah (?) d. bt 6 Dec 1780 - 23 Dec 1780

Children:

Philip Pelton1 b. c 1720, d. 1772
Keziah Pelton+ 1 b. c 1722, d. a 1777
Mary Pelton1 b. c 1724
Elizabeth Pelton1 b. c 1726
Ananias Pelton2 b. 18 Jun 1727
Samuel Pelton1 b. bt 1728 - 1740
John Pelton2 b. 29 May 1743

Notes

  • Note: 30 September 1775; Will...dated September 30, 1775, and proved November 22, 1775.1
  • Note*: "By or before 1723, he joined his oldest brother, Samuel, in Huntington, L.I., then called Nassau, N.Y....probably...after the marriage of his daughters...he removed to Hopewell township, then in Hunterdon, now in Mercer Co., N.J...."1

Citations

  1. [S342] Pelton, J. M., Genealogy of the Pelton Family In America; Being a Record of the Descendents of John Pelton who settled in Boston, Mass., about 1630-1632, and died in Dorchester, Mass. January 23d, 1681 (Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892).
  2. [S85] Cook, Lewis D., "Notes, Additions And Corrections; Pelton, New Jersey", The American Genealogist Vol. 40, p. 100 (April 1964).   Cook--Pelton-Corrections.pdf