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Joseph—born
GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 317
children, and many of his more remote posterity. He has
left ninety-one grand-children, and eighty-eight great-grandchildren,
the whole number of his descendants, now living,
being 191.
" For about thirty-two years he sustained the office of Deacon
of the First Congregational Church in that town. Dea.
Benedict was one of those venerable personages by whom
what remains of the pious habits of our forefathers, have
been transmitted to the present generation. His long life has
been eminently exemplary, and years to come will feel its
happy influence. Every morning and evening witnessed his
devotion. His Sabbaths were faithfully appropriated to public
worship, and religious family instructions. An amiable,
cheerful disposition, a sound mind, improved by a good degree
of reading and much reflection, and adorned with a bright
constellation of Christian graces, comprised his character. At
his funeral an appropriate Sermon was delivered
by the Rev.
Dr. [Burnett, from Prov. xiv. 32d.
'
The wicked is driven
away in hi's wickedness ;
but the righteous hath hope in his
death: »
Hannah Benedict—married Matthew Gregory, and removed
to Danbury.
Phebe Benedict—married Ezra Hoyt.
EIGHTH GENERATION.
Children of Nathaniel Benedict and Mary Lockwood (p. 313.)
Aner—born 1740—married Seth Seymour.
Molly—born 1741—married Deliverance Bennett, removed
to Saugatuck.
Nathaniel—born March 26, 1744—married Anah Raymond,
June 6, 1758—died February 24, 1833
—aged 88.
1746—married Hannah, removed to Danbury
—died December, 1835—aged 89.
Isaac—born 1751—married Jane Raymond, daughter of
Samuel Ra)^mond, October 13, 1773, and removed
to New Canaan, where, for many
years, he was Deacon of that Church. For
the record of his children, sec page 290.