Benjamin Major1

d. 11 July 1747

5th great-grandfather of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
7th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Ruth Minerva Fairfield
     Marriage intention of Benjamin Major and Hannah Bailey was published 23 May 1702 at Wells, York County, Maine.1 He died on 11 July 1747 in Arundel, York County, Maine.1
     
     Benjamin Major was a blacksmith of Arundel. He was from Salem. He was of Newbury in 1703-4, and of Newcastle in 1708. He bought at Cape Porpus in 1720.1

Children of Benjamin Major and Hannah Bailey

Citations

  1. [S869] Charles Thornton Libby, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Maine: The Southward Press, 1928), 454.
  2. [S864] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1911), 2 vols., 1: 305.