The history of King Philip's War

INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.
Benjamin was born at Plymouth in 1639, and was bred
to his father's trade. No other circumftance of his early-
life has found record. 26 Dec. 1667, — when at the age of
twenty feven or eight, -— he married Alice, fecond daugh-
ter of Conftant and Elizabeth ( Collier ) Southworth, of
Duxbury; who was then not far from twenty-one, having
been born in 1646. It is prefumed that their early married
life was paffed in Duxbury, though it is probable that he
was temporarily relident in various portions of the Colony,
in the purfuit of his vocation. His firft appearance upon
the Plymouth Colony Records is 25 Oct.. 1668, when [P.
C. R. vii: 150] he is named as on a trial jury in the
cafe of Jofias Winflow vs. Kenelm, and in that of John
Doged.
1 June, 1669, lefs than fix months after his father's death,
the Court granted him " land att Taunton River " which
William Pabodie had taken up and then furrendered, \P.
C. R. v: 20] "for full fatisfa6tion for all the right his
father, Richard Church, deceafed, hath to land in this
Collonie."
7 March 1670 \P. C. R. vii: 163], he was one of a petit
jury at Plymouth for the trial of feveral actions. 29 May,
1670, [P. C. R. v: 275],
his name appears upon the lift of
Sarah, wife of James Burroughs, of publifhed lift of Richard's children which
Briftol, tailor, as his filter, though no I have feen. [iV. E. Hiji. and Gen.
fuch name appears upon the fulleft Reg. xi : 154.]
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