Benjamin BELCHER

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Benjamin Belcher, born in Boston, Mar. 20, 1680/1, was a shipwright, and about 1703 settled in Newport, Rhode Island. He was admitted freeman of Rhode Island, May 6, 1707, and died about 1719. The information herein given of his descendants needs further verification. He married first, Phebe, who died after 1711; and married second, about 1715, Sarah, born Aug. 13, 1680, daughter of Arnold and Sarah Collins of Newport. She married second, about 1720, Josiah Bliss of Middletown, Rhode Island.

Family/Spouse: Phebe ?. Phebe died after 1711. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Sarah COLLINS about 1715. Sarah (daughter of Arnold COLLINS and Sarah ?) was born on 13 Aug 1680. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Arnold BELCHER was born about 1715.

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Josiah Belcher, born in 1631, was a wheelwright, and settled in Boston, where he acquired an estate on the southeasterly corner of what is now Essex Street and Harrison Avenue, measuring 126 feet onEssex Street, and running back 285 feet to the water. After the death of his widow, a partition as made of this estate among his surviving children on Sept. 20, 1693, which is described and recorded in Suffolk Co. Deeds, vol. 19, p.158. Further deeds in relation to this property show that all his sons except John and Benjamin died without issue and apparently unmarried, and that his daughter Dorothy died without issue soon after her marriage. (Suffolk Co. Deeds, vol. 40, p.225; vol. 41, p.210; vl. 46, p. 90; vol. 41, p.212.)

He was one of the founders of the Third or Old South, Church and died Apr. 3, 1683, aged 52, being buried in the Granary Burying Ground, where his gravestone still remains. His will made the day of his decease, names wife Ranis, sons John, Jonathan, Joseph, Edward, Nathan, and Benjamin, and daughters Elizabeth, Rebecca, Anna, Dorothy, Abigail, and Ruth. (Suffolk Co. Probate) He married Mar. 3, 1654/5, Ranis, born June 4, 1638, daughter of Elder Edward and Elizabeth Rainsford of Boston. She died Oct. 2, 1691.

Josiah married Ranis RAINSFORD on 3 Mar 1654/5. Ranis was born on 4 Jun 1638; died on 2 Oct 1691. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Elder Edward and Elizabeth Rainsford of Boston.