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John BENJAMIN
Abigail EDDY
Husband:  John BENJAMIN
Baptism:  21 Mar 1585, Chalvington, Heathfield, SSX
Death:  1645, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA
Father:  John BENJAMIN (1572-1597) of Heathfield, SSX
Marriage:  1619, Cranbrook, KEN
Migration: 1632, London to Boston on the Lyon (same crossing as James OLMSTED and Nicholas OLMSTED
Wife:  Abigail EDDY
Birth:  1 Oct 1601
Baptism:  6 Oct 1601, Cranbrook, KEN
Death:  20 May 1687, Charlestown, Middlesex Co., MA [now part of Boston, Suffolk Co., MA]
Father:  Rev. William EDDY
Mother:  Mary FOSTER / FOSTEN / FASTON
Children:
1.  John BENJAMIN, b. 11 Sep 1620; d. 22 Dec 1706, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA; m. 1649, Lydia ALLEN
2.  Abigail BENJAMIN, b. 1624; d. 30 Oct 1704, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA; m1. 1 Apr 1640, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA, Joshua STUBBS; m2. 1654/5, John WOODWARD
3.  Samuel BENJAMIN, b. 1628; d. 25 Sep 1669, Hartford, Hartford Co., CT; m. 1652, Mary __?__ 
4.  Joseph BENJAMIN, b. 16 Sep 1633 
5.  Richard BENJAMIN, b. ca. 1640; d. 22 Dec 1706, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA; m. Anna __?__
6.  Joshua BENJAMIN, b. 6 May 1642; d. 6 May 1682, Charlestown, Middlesex Co., MA; m. 24 Aug 1682, Thankful STOW
7.  Abel BENJAMIN, b. 1645/6; d. 10 May 1713, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA; m. 6 Nov 1671, Amity / Amithia / Amithy MYRICK / MERRICK
8.  Mary BENJAMIN, b. 10 May 1646; d. ca. 16 May 1646, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA
9.  Caleb BENJAMIN, b. 1647; d. 8 May 1684, Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT; m. 1669/70, Mary HALE
Keywords for search engines:  genealogy; UK, United Kingdom, England, Sussex, Kent; USA, US, United States, Connecticut, Massachusetts

Sources:

1.  Charles Edward Banks.  1930.  The Planters of the Commonwealth.  Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, MA (republ. 1961-97 by Genealogical Publ Co., Baltimore, MD).
p. 99 LYON, William Peirce, Master, sailed from London June 22 and arrived September 16 at Boston.  'He brought one hundred and twenty three passengers, whereof fifty children, all in health.  They had been twelve weeks aboard and eight weeks from Land's End.'¹


¹Winthrop:  Journal, I, 92.
p. 101 JOHN BENJAMIN
Mrs. Abigail Benjamin
of Heathfield Sussex [destination unknown]
Be aware that Banks is not a primary source and these are not necessarily actual passenger lists.  They are compiled probable or possible lists based on  circumstantial evidence.

2  John Matthews.  1991.  Complete American Armoury and Blue Book, combining 1903, 1907 and 1911-13 Editions.  Clearfield/Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD (Broderbund CD-368).
On p. 191, including illustration
EDDY, CHARLES HENRY, of Boston, Mass... Rev. William Eddy, Vicar of St. Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook, Kent, England, a native of the City of Bristol, Gloucestershire...
Arms--Sable, three old men's head couped at the shoulders argent, crined proper.
Crest--A cross-crosslet fitchée sable, and a dagger argent, hilt or, in saltire.
Motto--Crux mihi grata quies...
In Armorial Addenda, Part II, on p. 9, including illustration
BENJAMIN.
JOHN BENJAMIN, 1598-1645, from Bristol, Eng., in the ship "Lion," 1632, settled at Cambridge, Mass.
Arms--Or, on a saltire quarterly, pierced sable five annulets counterchanged.
Crest--On a chapeau turned up ermine a flame of fire proper.

3.  William Armstrong Crozier, ed.  1904.  Crozier's General Armory: a Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor.  Fox, Duffield, & Co., New York (1957, Southern Book Co., Baltimore, MD; Broderbund CD-368).  On p. 21:
BENJAMIN. Massachusetts.
John Benjamin, Boston, 1632.
Or, on a saltire quarterly, pierced sable five annulets counterchanged.
CREST--On a chapeau, a flame of fire, all ppr.
MOTTO--Poussez en avant.

4.  LDS.  Ancestral File and International Genealogical Index (online).

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