Son of Frances Knapp Benedict and Phoebe Northup
Married Fedelia Moses, 30 November 1843, Canann, Litchfield, Connecticut
Children - Ann Eliza Benedict, Mary Esther Benedict, Garrie Northrop Benedict
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Unidentified Companies (1861); Age at Departure: 54
Evidence from genealogical and census records prove that the Benedict family came to Utah in 1861. They are on the 1860 Connecticut Census and the father died in Utah Sept. 1861.
History - Joshua Northrop Benedict was born April 14, 1806, in North Canaan, Connecticut. He was one of ten children born to Francis Knapp and Phoebe Northrop Benedict.
The first Benedict to come to America was Thomas Benedict, who at age 21 left his home in England, settling in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. He was the direct ancestor of Joshua.
The Benedicts were among the first to settle Connecticut and also Long Island. Clearly some of this family fought in the Revolutionary war, for Joshua preserved for posterity a Continental bill dated 1775, paid to a Benedict progenitor for his service to his young country.
Joshua owned land in Canaan, and some across the state line in Massachusetts. He was a prosperous New England farmer. On November 30, 1843, he married Fidelia Moses, daughter of Jesse and Esther Brown Moses. Her father's ancestors first came to America between 1630 and 1640. The Browns, too, came originally from England in 1634 and settled in New England.
A few years after the organization of the Mormon Church, Jesse Moses learned of a group of people in the State of New York who were being persecuted because of their religious beliefs. He could not understand this, for he knew that the Constitution of the United States gives every man the right of freedom of worship.
Jesse became interested in this new religion. Not long thereafter, he learned that two Mormon missionaries were preaching in a town near his home in Canaan. Being ill at the time, he asked two young brothers living near him, Francis and Joshua Benedict, to attend a meeting held by the Mormon Elders and then to invite them to Canaan. He arranged for a place where they could hold their meetings and asked them to be guests in his home.
After hearing the message of these missionaries, the Benedicts and the Moses families were converted to the Church. Family records do not show their date of baptism, but it was sometime prior to 1838, for Joshua Benedict's Elders License, or ordination, is dated January 28, 1838.
Not long after their baptism, Jesse and Esther Moses moved with their family to Kirtland, Ohio. While there, he purchased eighty acres of land in Far West, Missouri, but this property he never saw. In 1841, the Moses family moved to Nauvoo. At that time Jesse was over seventy years of age and in poor health. It was decided then that it would be better for him to return to Connecticut. We can infer that Fidelia accompanied him because, two years later she married Joshua Benedict and their three children – Ann Eliza, Mary Esther, Garrie Northrop – were all born in Connecticut.
As the years went by, Joshua and Fidelia talked more and more about gathering with the Saints in the far off valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Finally, by the spring of 1861, they had sold all their property, purchased wagons and teams, loaded their household possessions, provisions, and implements, and were ready to join a company of emigrants destined for Utah.
Friends and relatives gathered around them, in farewell, as it neared the time of their departure. Then this family sang with them the words of Auld Lang Syne "—Lest old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind—" they looked upon dear faces, and a landscape which they would never again behold.
As the wagons lurched across the hot, dusty plains, Lizzie became sick and feverish. When the red blotches appeared, it was evident that she had measles. Her parents made her as comfortable as possible on a feather bed in one of the wagons.
It was Joshua, her father, who watched over her, holding her hands, bathing her face, giving her sips of water, during the dismal days of her illness. Finally in August 1861, the Benedicts looked for the first time, upon the Salt Lake Valley. How barren it must have appeared to them then, after the verdure of New England.
After the long months of travel, the Benedicts made their way to the house of Julian and Barbara Moses, Fidelia's brother and sister-in-law, in East Mill Creek. Theirs was a heart-warming welcome and invitation to remain for some time with these relatives.
Joshua began making plans to buy property and build a good home for his family. However, shortly after their arrival in Utah, he became seriously ill from Mountain fever. Joshua Northrop Benedict, died on September 10, 1861. He was fifty-five years of age.
Married Fedelia Moses, 30 November 1843, Canann, Litchfield, Connecticut
Children - Ann Eliza Benedict, Mary Esther Benedict, Garrie Northrop Benedict
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Unidentified Companies (1861); Age at Departure: 54
Evidence from genealogical and census records prove that the Benedict family came to Utah in 1861. They are on the 1860 Connecticut Census and the father died in Utah Sept. 1861.
History - Joshua Northrop Benedict was born April 14, 1806, in North Canaan, Connecticut. He was one of ten children born to Francis Knapp and Phoebe Northrop Benedict.
The first Benedict to come to America was Thomas Benedict, who at age 21 left his home in England, settling in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. He was the direct ancestor of Joshua.
The Benedicts were among the first to settle Connecticut and also Long Island. Clearly some of this family fought in the Revolutionary war, for Joshua preserved for posterity a Continental bill dated 1775, paid to a Benedict progenitor for his service to his young country.
Joshua owned land in Canaan, and some across the state line in Massachusetts. He was a prosperous New England farmer. On November 30, 1843, he married Fidelia Moses, daughter of Jesse and Esther Brown Moses. Her father's ancestors first came to America between 1630 and 1640. The Browns, too, came originally from England in 1634 and settled in New England.
A few years after the organization of the Mormon Church, Jesse Moses learned of a group of people in the State of New York who were being persecuted because of their religious beliefs. He could not understand this, for he knew that the Constitution of the United States gives every man the right of freedom of worship.
Jesse became interested in this new religion. Not long thereafter, he learned that two Mormon missionaries were preaching in a town near his home in Canaan. Being ill at the time, he asked two young brothers living near him, Francis and Joshua Benedict, to attend a meeting held by the Mormon Elders and then to invite them to Canaan. He arranged for a place where they could hold their meetings and asked them to be guests in his home.
After hearing the message of these missionaries, the Benedicts and the Moses families were converted to the Church. Family records do not show their date of baptism, but it was sometime prior to 1838, for Joshua Benedict's Elders License, or ordination, is dated January 28, 1838.
Not long after their baptism, Jesse and Esther Moses moved with their family to Kirtland, Ohio. While there, he purchased eighty acres of land in Far West, Missouri, but this property he never saw. In 1841, the Moses family moved to Nauvoo. At that time Jesse was over seventy years of age and in poor health. It was decided then that it would be better for him to return to Connecticut. We can infer that Fidelia accompanied him because, two years later she married Joshua Benedict and their three children – Ann Eliza, Mary Esther, Garrie Northrop – were all born in Connecticut.
As the years went by, Joshua and Fidelia talked more and more about gathering with the Saints in the far off valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Finally, by the spring of 1861, they had sold all their property, purchased wagons and teams, loaded their household possessions, provisions, and implements, and were ready to join a company of emigrants destined for Utah.
Friends and relatives gathered around them, in farewell, as it neared the time of their departure. Then this family sang with them the words of Auld Lang Syne "—Lest old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind—" they looked upon dear faces, and a landscape which they would never again behold.
As the wagons lurched across the hot, dusty plains, Lizzie became sick and feverish. When the red blotches appeared, it was evident that she had measles. Her parents made her as comfortable as possible on a feather bed in one of the wagons.
It was Joshua, her father, who watched over her, holding her hands, bathing her face, giving her sips of water, during the dismal days of her illness. Finally in August 1861, the Benedicts looked for the first time, upon the Salt Lake Valley. How barren it must have appeared to them then, after the verdure of New England.
After the long months of travel, the Benedicts made their way to the house of Julian and Barbara Moses, Fidelia's brother and sister-in-law, in East Mill Creek. Theirs was a heart-warming welcome and invitation to remain for some time with these relatives.
Joshua began making plans to buy property and build a good home for his family. However, shortly after their arrival in Utah, he became seriously ill from Mountain fever. Joshua Northrop Benedict, died on September 10, 1861. He was fifty-five years of age.
Son of Frances Knapp Benedict and Phoebe Northup
Married Fedelia Moses, 30 November 1843, Canann, Litchfield, Connecticut
Children - Ann Eliza Benedict, Mary Esther Benedict, Garrie Northrop Benedict
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Unidentified Companies (1861); Age at Departure: 54
Evidence from genealogical and census records prove that the Benedict family came to Utah in 1861. They are on the 1860 Connecticut Census and the father died in Utah Sept. 1861.
History - Joshua Northrop Benedict was born April 14, 1806, in North Canaan, Connecticut. He was one of ten children born to Francis Knapp and Phoebe Northrop Benedict.
The first Benedict to come to America was Thomas Benedict, who at age 21 left his home in England, settling in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. He was the direct ancestor of Joshua.
The Benedicts were among the first to settle Connecticut and also Long Island. Clearly some of this family fought in the Revolutionary war, for Joshua preserved for posterity a Continental bill dated 1775, paid to a Benedict progenitor for his service to his young country.
Joshua owned land in Canaan, and some across the state line in Massachusetts. He was a prosperous New England farmer. On November 30, 1843, he married Fidelia Moses, daughter of Jesse and Esther Brown Moses. Her father's ancestors first came to America between 1630 and 1640. The Browns, too, came originally from England in 1634 and settled in New England.
A few years after the organization of the Mormon Church, Jesse Moses learned of a group of people in the State of New York who were being persecuted because of their religious beliefs. He could not understand this, for he knew that the Constitution of the United States gives every man the right of freedom of worship.
Jesse became interested in this new religion. Not long thereafter, he learned that two Mormon missionaries were preaching in a town near his home in Canaan. Being ill at the time, he asked two young brothers living near him, Francis and Joshua Benedict, to attend a meeting held by the Mormon Elders and then to invite them to Canaan. He arranged for a place where they could hold their meetings and asked them to be guests in his home.
After hearing the message of these missionaries, the Benedicts and the Moses families were converted to the Church. Family records do not show their date of baptism, but it was sometime prior to 1838, for Joshua Benedict's Elders License, or ordination, is dated January 28, 1838.
Not long after their baptism, Jesse and Esther Moses moved with their family to Kirtland, Ohio. While there, he purchased eighty acres of land in Far West, Missouri, but this property he never saw. In 1841, the Moses family moved to Nauvoo. At that time Jesse was over seventy years of age and in poor health. It was decided then that it would be better for him to return to Connecticut. We can infer that Fidelia accompanied him because, two years later she married Joshua Benedict and their three children – Ann Eliza, Mary Esther, Garrie Northrop – were all born in Connecticut.
As the years went by, Joshua and Fidelia talked more and more about gathering with the Saints in the far off valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Finally, by the spring of 1861, they had sold all their property, purchased wagons and teams, loaded their household possessions, provisions, and implements, and were ready to join a company of emigrants destined for Utah.
Friends and relatives gathered around them, in farewell, as it neared the time of their departure. Then this family sang with them the words of Auld Lang Syne "—Lest old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind—" they looked upon dear faces, and a landscape which they would never again behold.
As the wagons lurched across the hot, dusty plains, Lizzie became sick and feverish. When the red blotches appeared, it was evident that she had measles. Her parents made her as comfortable as possible on a feather bed in one of the wagons.
It was Joshua, her father, who watched over her, holding her hands, bathing her face, giving her sips of water, during the dismal days of her illness. Finally in August 1861, the Benedicts looked for the first time, upon the Salt Lake Valley. How barren it must have appeared to them then, after the verdure of New England.
After the long months of travel, the Benedicts made their way to the house of Julian and Barbara Moses, Fidelia's brother and sister-in-law, in East Mill Creek. Theirs was a heart-warming welcome and invitation to remain for some time with these relatives.
Joshua began making plans to buy property and build a good home for his family. However, shortly after their arrival in Utah, he became seriously ill from Mountain fever. Joshua Northrop Benedict, died on September 10, 1861. He was fifty-five years of age.
Married Fedelia Moses, 30 November 1843, Canann, Litchfield, Connecticut
Children - Ann Eliza Benedict, Mary Esther Benedict, Garrie Northrop Benedict
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Unidentified Companies (1861); Age at Departure: 54
Evidence from genealogical and census records prove that the Benedict family came to Utah in 1861. They are on the 1860 Connecticut Census and the father died in Utah Sept. 1861.
History - Joshua Northrop Benedict was born April 14, 1806, in North Canaan, Connecticut. He was one of ten children born to Francis Knapp and Phoebe Northrop Benedict.
The first Benedict to come to America was Thomas Benedict, who at age 21 left his home in England, settling in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. He was the direct ancestor of Joshua.
The Benedicts were among the first to settle Connecticut and also Long Island. Clearly some of this family fought in the Revolutionary war, for Joshua preserved for posterity a Continental bill dated 1775, paid to a Benedict progenitor for his service to his young country.
Joshua owned land in Canaan, and some across the state line in Massachusetts. He was a prosperous New England farmer. On November 30, 1843, he married Fidelia Moses, daughter of Jesse and Esther Brown Moses. Her father's ancestors first came to America between 1630 and 1640. The Browns, too, came originally from England in 1634 and settled in New England.
A few years after the organization of the Mormon Church, Jesse Moses learned of a group of people in the State of New York who were being persecuted because of their religious beliefs. He could not understand this, for he knew that the Constitution of the United States gives every man the right of freedom of worship.
Jesse became interested in this new religion. Not long thereafter, he learned that two Mormon missionaries were preaching in a town near his home in Canaan. Being ill at the time, he asked two young brothers living near him, Francis and Joshua Benedict, to attend a meeting held by the Mormon Elders and then to invite them to Canaan. He arranged for a place where they could hold their meetings and asked them to be guests in his home.
After hearing the message of these missionaries, the Benedicts and the Moses families were converted to the Church. Family records do not show their date of baptism, but it was sometime prior to 1838, for Joshua Benedict's Elders License, or ordination, is dated January 28, 1838.
Not long after their baptism, Jesse and Esther Moses moved with their family to Kirtland, Ohio. While there, he purchased eighty acres of land in Far West, Missouri, but this property he never saw. In 1841, the Moses family moved to Nauvoo. At that time Jesse was over seventy years of age and in poor health. It was decided then that it would be better for him to return to Connecticut. We can infer that Fidelia accompanied him because, two years later she married Joshua Benedict and their three children – Ann Eliza, Mary Esther, Garrie Northrop – were all born in Connecticut.
As the years went by, Joshua and Fidelia talked more and more about gathering with the Saints in the far off valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Finally, by the spring of 1861, they had sold all their property, purchased wagons and teams, loaded their household possessions, provisions, and implements, and were ready to join a company of emigrants destined for Utah.
Friends and relatives gathered around them, in farewell, as it neared the time of their departure. Then this family sang with them the words of Auld Lang Syne "—Lest old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind—" they looked upon dear faces, and a landscape which they would never again behold.
As the wagons lurched across the hot, dusty plains, Lizzie became sick and feverish. When the red blotches appeared, it was evident that she had measles. Her parents made her as comfortable as possible on a feather bed in one of the wagons.
It was Joshua, her father, who watched over her, holding her hands, bathing her face, giving her sips of water, during the dismal days of her illness. Finally in August 1861, the Benedicts looked for the first time, upon the Salt Lake Valley. How barren it must have appeared to them then, after the verdure of New England.
After the long months of travel, the Benedicts made their way to the house of Julian and Barbara Moses, Fidelia's brother and sister-in-law, in East Mill Creek. Theirs was a heart-warming welcome and invitation to remain for some time with these relatives.
Joshua began making plans to buy property and build a good home for his family. However, shortly after their arrival in Utah, he became seriously ill from Mountain fever. Joshua Northrop Benedict, died on September 10, 1861. He was fifty-five years of age.
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