Benjamin Garfield

1718 - 1755  (37 years)

• Name	Benjamin Garfield  [1]
  Birth	6 May 1718	Marlborough, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Jun 1755	Vernon, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  Person ID	I1919	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2017

  
  

  Family	Eunice Cooley,   b. 2 Oct 1732, Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 30 Dec 1829, Dana, Worcester Co, Massachusetts (Age 97 years)
  Marriage	2 Sep 1752	Leicester, Worcester Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [2]
  	From Massachusetts Town and Vital Records and the 1857 transcription of marriages in Leicester Mass the date of the Benjamin and Eunice marriage is 2 Sep 1752. As respects the note below about the "Old Stile" date, the 2nd of September 1752 is still an Old Style date, it was the last date of the Julian calender in Britain and the British Colonies. At midnight on what would have been the 3rd, 11 days were added resulting in the new date of September 14th, 1752. Some sources have their date of marriage 2 Sep 1752 "Old Stile" but this is surely wrong since the date of conversion to the Gregorian Calendar by England and the American Colonies was the very same day, 2 Sep 1752 so the next day was 14 Sep 1752. Confusion abounded at the time just as today so the 16 Aug 1752 date seems most likely from the Mass Vitals source. As a refereence, the Cooley Genealogy states: "On Apr. 13, 1752 [Eunice Cooley's] intention to wed was filed in Leicester, Mass., and on May 2, 1752 she was married to Benjamin Garfield of Leicester."
  Family ID	F711	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2017

  
  

• Sources

  [S592] Holbrook, Jay Mack, MVR, (Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). ), Marlbobough Births p75 (Reliability: 3). Benjamin, s. of Benjamin and Bethiah May 6, 1718 [S522] Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Mass Vital Records, Note: Aug 16, 1752 is an Old Style date (Reliability: 3).