Benjamin McConnell [55287]

  General Notes:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chute/gp8025.htm#head6


Benjamin McConnell and Elizabeth Hains/Haines McConnell:
WEC: "Benjamin McConnell and his twin brother Joseph were born in Ireland, 1742, and came to Long Island, New York about 1765. Joseph died young. Benjamin married Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew Hains, Jr., 1770, and went to Weymouth, Nova Scotia, at the time of the Revolution, where he died Dec 28, 1808, and was buried in the Church of England Cemetery. His widow died in 1828, aged 77." (p. cvi)
Sheila Stewart gives his birthdate as 1749, not 1742.
"This may be incorrect. To be researched. I believe that Benjamin and Joseph are brothers.
A Loyalist. Moved his family to Nova Scotia at the close of the Revolution.
Came to Weymouth, Nova Scotia in the sloop Shoulderham from New York in May 1784, after a boisterous and prolonged voyage of nine weeks -- having lost her bowsprit in Grand Passage. Samuel Doty the Loyalist, a blacksmith, Alexander Haines, Joseph McConnell, senior, brother of Benjamin, and others, were also passengers. She landed south of Campbell's old wharf. After being repaired she sailed with most of her passengers for their destination in Annapolis. Benjamin McConnell located on farm east of Weymouth Point, adjoining Benjamin Chapel on western side. The site for that edifice was afterwards presented by his widow.
Died in his 60th year."
Source: Sheila Stewart, Gertridge Tree, Ancestry.com
The source she quotes for his year of birth is:
Title: Haggan Papers Part 1, Page 131, McConnell
Pub: LDS Library System
The source she quotes for the notation is:
Title: Wilson, Isaiah W., A Geography and History of the County of Digby, Nova Scotia

Record Type: Chute Family History/Book
Title: A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources
Author: William Edward Chute
Published: Salem, Massachusetts, 1894
Comments: Copy originally owned by George Maynard Chute, nephew of William Edward Chute with his signature on the flyleaf; handwritten notes in margins; passed to George Maynard Chute, Jr. who published an updated addendum to this work in 1968; passed to George Maynard Chute, III; passed to Jacqueline Irene Chute.
Location: Privately held

Type: Family Genealogical Database
Name: Descendants of Godfrey Hains
Generation No.: 3
Name: Elizabeth Hains
Date Recorded: Wednesday, December 11, 2002
URL: <http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/c/h/Judy-St-eve-Schor/>
HARD COPY LOCA: Chute Family Records/GP8025-6

Type: Family Genealogical Database
Name: Gertridge Tree
ID No.: I54186
Name: Benjamin McConnell
Last Date Recorded: Mon Jul 16, 2001
URL: <http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:438945&id=I54186>
HARD COPY LOCA: Chute Family Records/GP8025-6

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence, 1765, Long Island, New York, American Colonies.

Benjamin married Elizabeth Haines [55288] [MRIN: 551614442], daughter of Matthew Haines [55289] and Sarah Miller [55290], in 1770 in Long Island, New York, American Colonies. (Elizabeth Haines [55288] was born in 1751 in Long Island, New York, American Colonies and died in 1828 in Weymouth, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada.)