Hannah BACKUS

Hannah married Thomas BINGHAM on 17 Feb 1691/2. Thomas was born on 11 Dec 1667 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 1 Apr 1710 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Name:
"The Bingham Family": He and his (second) wife were both alive Aug. 31, 1770, and in "common" good health.

1716 -- The second ecclesiastic Society of Old Norwich was organized in 1716 and located in that part of Norwich called "West Farms." In 1786 this became the town of Franklin.

1718, Dec. 30 -- A Thomas Bingham of Norwich charged the Town L 1.0.8 for bounty on snakes' tails and for drumming. As people were called to church by beat of drum, this is probably what is meant.

1725 -- He was Ensign, 2nd Co., of Train band.

1739 -- He removed from Old Norwich to Franklin, 2nd Society--"West Farms"-- in 1739 and lived in the house where, in 1865, the late Thomas Hyde resided.

He and his (second) wife, Sarah (Huntington), were admitted to the church of the 2nd Society (Franklin) March 11, 1739, by letter from the first of Old Norwich.

Family/Spouse: Hannah EDGERTON. Hannah died before 1724. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Sarah HUNTINGTON on 23 Apr 1724 in Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of Christopher HUNTINGTON and Sarah ADGATE) was born on 05 Jan 1700 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; died after 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary/Margaret SAFFORD. Mary/Margaret died before 1750. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Hannah WALCOTT on 16 Jan 1750 in Mansfield, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Jonathan WALCOTT and Priscilla BAILEY) died after 1762. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
"The Bingham Family": He and his wife, Ruth, were admitted to the 2nd Church at Norwich-West Farms or Franklin, "by profession," Jan. 4, 1736.

He was 2nd Lieut. 8th Co., 2nd Regt, in the French War, 1758, under Capt. John
Durkee and Col. Nathan Whiting. Also 1st Lieut., 3rd Co., 4th reg't, under major John Durkee, 1759.


They lived at Norwich, where all his children were born, until shortly after the close of the French War, when they removed with their family to Charlemont, Mass., a mountainous town among the spurs of the Green Mts., some 30 miles south-east of Bennington, Vermont.

About 1773 his youngest sons, Jeremiah and Calvin, went to Bennington and purchased a farm, partly cleared, on which the frame of a house had been erected and partly finished, and they, soon after, with their aged parents, removed thither.
Deacon Joseph, when a young man, was possessed of uncommon muscular strength and was exceedingly quick in his movements. He was full six feet two inches tall, not fleshy, had a keen, penetrating eye and an indomitable will. He was an officer in the "old French War" and commanded a company at Ticonderoga.
He was of eminent piety and great benevolence - a member of the church and deacon for many years. Social and affectionate in disposition, his conversation abounded in moral and religious instruction; and was eminently scriptural and spiritual. He was a man of prayer and had great trust in its efficacy.
He lived within two miles of the ground where the battle of Bennington was fought, on Saturday, Aug. 16, 1777, and was prevented from being there by a broken hip . His son, Jeremiah, was in the battle; but Calvin, that morning, removed his aged and infirm parents to the center of the town, where were collected most of the aged men with the women and children. During the day Deacon Joseph called the people to the church and prayed fervently.

Joseph married Ruth POST on 25 Nov 1731. Ruth (daughter of Samuel POST and Ruth LATHROP) was born on 15 Oct 1711 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 11 Aug 1796 in Bennington, Bennington, Vermont, USA; was buried in Bennington, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]