Benjamin Field Jr. ^1544,1545

   FamilySearch ID: L7BJ-NXM. Find a Grave ID: 158291976.

  General Notes:

Benjamin was Register and Recorder of Bucks County from 1721 to 1724; Trustee of the Loan Office in 1743, and was a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly continuously from 1738 to 1745.
(6/2021 not found on page 35, but page 64 has No.21 SARAH STEVENSON and the children all but Robert (1750). It also says "a short sketch of his career is given in No. XXI" ? - it is page 35 in a footnote.

Advertized 20 shilling reward for a run away Irish servant named Henry Carty about 19. (The Pennsylvania Gazette PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Sunday, July 5, 1744, page 4. ¹⁵⁵¹

  Events

• Politics: Elected Representative from Bucks County, Oct 1740, Bucks Co., PA. ¹⁵⁵²

• Religion: Quaker, 1741, Middletown, Bucks Co., PA. ¹⁵⁵³ Evidence in the Meeting Minutes: "John Woolston produced to this meeting the Deeds & writings relating to the meetinghouse ground which are ordered to be lodged in the care of Benjamin Field."

• Will, 1749, Middleton township, PA. ¹⁵⁵⁴ Abstract is dated wrong or weird: "Dated 10 m0.6, 1749. Proved Feb. 3, 1749."
Wife Sara executrix.
Sons - Benjamin, Thomas, Edward and Jennings.
Daughters - Sarah Stockdale, Susanna, Anne, Elizabeth and Mary.
Witnesses William Blake, Jos Stackhouse and William Paxson.

Will Book. No.2. (pg. 178) 314

• Burial: Middletown Friends Cemetery, Jan 1749/50, Langhorne, Bucks Co., PA. Find A Grave Memorial# 158291976

Benjamin married Sarah Stevenson, daughter of Thomas Stevenson III and Sarah Jennings, 5 Nov 1724 in Middletown, Bucks Co., PA ¹⁵⁴².^,1543 (Sarah Stevenson was born 6 Mar 1705/06 in Bucks Co., PA ^1555,1556 and died about 1764 in Abington Township, Montgomery Co., PA ^1262,1557.)

  Marriage Notes:

Birth of first child is recorded 6 months after marriage date which is drawn from the Stevenson Genealogy as is the birthdate of Sarah.