Benjamin Borden b. 16 May 1650 Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island d. 1718: Stewart

1650 - 1718 (67 years)

Name	Benjamin Borden
Born	16 May 1650	Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island [1]
Gender	Male
Died	1718 [1]
Person ID	I4167	Stewart
Last Modified	7 Aug 2008

Father	Richard Borden, b. 1595, Headcorn, County Kent, England , d. 25 May 1671, Portsmouth, Rhode Island (Age 76 years)
Relationship	Birth
Mother	Joane Fowle, b. 15 Feb 1604, d. 15 Jul 1688 (Age 84 years)
Relationship	Birth
Married	28 Sep 1625	Headcorn Church, Headcorn, County Kent, England [2]
Notes	Benjamin Borden 8th of 10 children. [3]
Family ID	F1367	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Abigail Glover, d. 1720, Shewsbury, New Jersey

Married 22 Sep 1670 Portsmouth, Rhode Island [4, 5]

Children

+	1. Benjamin Borden, Sr., b. 06 Apr 1675, Monmouth County, New Jersey , d. 1743, Winchester, Virginia (Age 67 years)
	2. Joseph Borden, b. 17 May 1687, New Jersey , d. 22 Sep 1765, Bordentown, New Jersey (Age 78 years)

Last Modified 31 Mar 2021

Family ID F1366 Group Sheet | Family Chart

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Born - 16 May 1650 - Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island

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Documents
Family Genealogy of Benjamin Borden (1 of 5)
From Genealogies of Virginia Families
From the William and Mary College
Quarterly Historical Magazine
Volume 1 - Adams-Clopton

Notes

3. Benjamin Borden married Abigail Grover (dau. of James Grover, senior, of Middletown), Sept. 22, 1670; she d. Jan. 8, 1720, aged 66 years. He probably removed from Portsmouth, R. I., soon after making the purchase of lands in Shrewsbury, in 1665, and settled at the later place, being allotted Lot No. 29 "of the lotts of Middleton," Dec. 30, 1667, and the next day Lot No. 23, "in the lotts that are in the Poplar feild and the mountany feild."—Town Book of Old Middletown, 1. He was allowed, April 9, 1670, to take up nine acres selsewhere in lieu of Lot No. 23, "considering the badness of it being throwne up to make good some other lotts."—Ib., 10. He was admitted, July 8, 1670, as one of the associate patentees. He contributed £6 toward the purchase, and was allotted one share. The court was held at his house in Shrewsbury, in 1676. He was a Justice of the Peace in 1685. In 1692 and 1694 he was elected to the Assembly from Middletown, and in 1695 and 1698 as one of the six members from Monmouth county. In 1693 he was appointed by act of the Assembly to be one of the Road Commissioners for Monmouth County, a position he still held in 1711. He was one of three men "legally Chosen to Assess . . . . the tax or Rate that is to be Raised for the Support of the Government," to which office (corresponding with the "chosen freeholder" of to-day) he was re-elected in 1697-8.—Town Book, 32-33. The records of conveyances show that he was a large landowner; some of the purchases were as follows: Oct. 21, 1676—return of survey for tract in the allotment of Cohanzick; 1677-8. Feb. 28—patent for. same, 300 acres; he was then a weaver, of Middletown; June 20, 1677—patent for 351 acres at Middletown; Jan. 22, 1687—patent for 150 acres in Monmouth county; March 28, 1688—he was the owner of 1-20th of 1-48th of East Jersey; May 1, 1695—patent for 240 acres at Crosswicks, and 30 acres at Barnegat; Oct. 5, 1696—deed for 560 acres in Monmouth county.—N. J. Archives, XXI., 27, 113, 116, 235, 297, 542, 556, 566. In 1716 he appears to have been at Eversham, Burlington county, when he conveyed lands to his son Joseph, of Freehold. In 1718, being then of Auchweas, Burlington county, he conveyed lands to his son James.—Austin, as cited; Old Times in Old Monmouth, 170, 171, 207, 208, 249; N. M. Archives, XXI., 158-61. [6]
The first of his line in America was Richard Borden (1595/96-1671), who came from Headcorn, County Kent, England, and was one of the original settlers of Portsmouth, R. I., in 1638. He was a surveyor and became a large landowner, as did many of his descendants in the earlier generations. He was a governor's assistant in 1653 and 1654; commissioner, 1654-1657; treasurer, 1654-1655; deputy to the General Court, 1667 and 1670. He married in Headcorn church September 28, 1625, Joan Fowle. Of their ten children the eigth, Benjamin, was the father of the Virginia Pioneer. The first Benjamin Borden was born at Portsmouth, R. I., May 16, 1649. Soon after 1665 he settled on some of this father's lands in Monmouth County, N. J., residing first at Shrewsbury and later for many years at Middletown, whence he removed in 1713 to Evesham, Burlington County. He was Justice of the Peace in 1685. In 1692 and 1694 he was elected to the assembly from Middletown, and in 1695 and 1698 as one of the six members from Monmouth County. He was road commissioner, 1693-1711. Like his father, he became a large landowner. He married (1) Sept. 1, 1670, Abigail Grover, who died january 8, 1720; (2) Susannah ??, who administered his estate in 1728. His son, Joseph (1687-1765), was the founder of Bordentown and became one of the leading citizens of New Jersey. [7]

Sources

[S219] Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society, Volume IX, (New Jersey Historical Society, 1916), 41.
Benjamin, born May, 1649; died 1718; married Abigail Grover, Sept. 22, 1670.
[S165] Notable Southern Families, v02, Zella Armstrong, (The Lookout Publishing Co., Chattanooga, TN), 23.
[S91] Virginia Families, Vol. 1, (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982), 400 (Reliability: 3).
[S218] Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Penn., John Woolf Jordan, 2004, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc.), 1184.
Benjamin Borden, son or Richard and Joane Borden, born at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1649, married there, September 22, 1671, Abigail, daughter of Henry Glover, of Hartford, Connecticut, and removed to Shrewsbury, New Jersey, where his father had purchased land in 1667. He died there in 1718, and his widow Abigail in 1720.
[S219] Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society, Volume IX, (New Jersey Historical Society, 1916), 42.
Benjamin Borden married Abigail Grover (dau. of James Grover, senior, of Middletown), Sept. 22, 1670; she d. Jan. 8, 1720, aged 66 years. He probably removed from Portsmouth, R. I., soon after making the purchase of lands in Shrewsbury, in 1665, and settled at the later place, being allotted Lot No. 29 of the lotts of Middleton, Dec. 30, 1667, and the next day Lot No. 23, in the lotts that are in the Poplar feild and the mountany feild.—Town Book of Old Middletown, 1.
[S219] Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society, Volume IX, (New Jersey Historical Society, 1916), 42-43.
[S91] Virginia Families, Vol. 1, (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982), 400.