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Family: Benjamin Garfield / Eunice Cooley (F711)

• Male Benjamin Garfield

  
  

  Birth	6 May 1718	Marlborough, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  Death	5 Jun 1755	Vernon, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  Burial
  Marriage	2 Sep 1752  [1]	Leicester, Worcester Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay  [1]
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  Female Eunice Cooley

  
  

  Birth	2 Oct 1732	Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  Death	30 Dec 1829	Dana, Worcester Co, Massachusetts
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  Other Spouse	Ephraim Pratt | F729
  Marriage	Bef 1757	Hardwick, Worcester Co, Massachusetts
  Father	Benjamin4 Cooley | F187 Group Sheet
  Mother	Elisabeth Charles | F187 Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Married: 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."

  
  

• Sources

  [S522] Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Mass Vital Records, Note: Aug 16, 1752 is an Old Style date (Reliability: 3).

  
  

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