Benjamin Tower

• BIRTH: 25 Jan 1673/1674, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• DEATH: 2 May 1743, Attleborough, Bristol, Massachusetts
• BURIAL: Peck Cemetery, Abbott Run Valley Road, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
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• MARRIAGE: 1697, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

1. +Gideon Tower (24 Feb 1699/1700 - 29 Dec 1772)
2.  Patience Tower (10 Apr 1702 - ____)
3. +Sarah Tower (16 Aug 1704 - Dec 1792)
4. +Margaret Tower (26 Oct 1706 - 9 Apr 1787)
5. +Zipporah Tower (4 Dec 1709 - ____)
6. +John Tower (23 Nov 1711 - ____)
7.  Hannah Tower (2 Jan 1713/1714 - ____)
8.  Benjamin Tower (25 Feb 1715/1716 - 12 Feb 1792)
9.  Esther or Hester Tower (5 Jan 1718 - ____)
10. +Joseph Tower (13 Sep 1721 - ABT 1761)
11.  Enoch Tower (3 Dec 1724 - ____)

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                       _John Tower _________|
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 _John Tower _________|
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|--Benjamin Tower 
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  (.... - 1729) m 1669|
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Notes

!SOURCE: Pam Koch (?) (email hidden), 11/28/96.

!SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 38. From a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historical Society Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL.

!SOURCE: The Sprague Database (email from Dick Weber (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 23 Oct 1997). Gave names of parents, and exact birth date and place.

!SOURCE: "Tower Family Ancestors" (Descendancy chart of John Tower, 1609-1701/1702), emailed by Chuck Shelby (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 19 Jun 2001.

!SOURCE: Vital Records of Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts: Rehoboth Marriages & Intentions, p. 511.

!SOURCE: Email from Don Streeter to Weldon Whipple, 6 Mar 2003. Gives location of grave "in an ancient cemetery near the Arnold's Mills Cemetery in Cumberland, RI."

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 15 Apr 2006. Adds precise burial place, citing the Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Database Index.

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