II. SECOND GENERATION: JOHN BENEDICT
  
    John BENEDICT was born about 1640 in Southold, Long Island,
    NY., second child of 
Thomas
    Benedict and Mary Bridgum.
  
 
  
    He moved with family to Norwalk, Fairfield Co., where John
    BENEDICT and Phoebe GREGORY were married on 11 Nov 1670.
    Phoebe GREGORY was daughter of John and Sarah Gregory.
  
  
    John was a freeman in 1680 and succeeded his father as
    selectman in 1689. He died at Norwalk, 11 November 1729; 
View Cemetery Memorial.
   
  
    John BENEDICT and Phoebe GREGORY had the following
    children:1
  
  
    
      - Sarah BENEDICT, was born 1693.
 
      - Phoebe BENEDICT, was born 1649 and died 1749.
 
      - John BENEDICT, was born
      on 3 Mar. 1676 in Norwalk, Fairfield, CT. He died on 16
      Jan. 1766 in Norwalk, Fairfield, CT.
 
      - Jonathan BENEDICT.
 
      - Benjamin BENEDICT, was born in 1678.
 
      - Joseph BENEDICT.
 
      - James BENEDICT, was born Jan. 5, 1685.
 
      - Thomas BENEDICT, was born in 1682.
 
    
   
  
  
    Sources:
    
      - "Genealogy of the Benedicts in America" vol.
      I, H. M. Benedict, 1870, page 49.
 
    
   
  
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