THOMAS BREWER BENSON was named for his grandfather, THOMAS ASPINWALL BREWER. This notice is one of the first times T. A. Brewer is mentioned in a Georgia newspaper. Port of Augusta. Arrived, a shipment of goods to be received by Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014178/1821-03-13/ed-1/seq-3/
Thomas Brewer Benson was my second great-grandfather. He was born January 22, 1849 in Macon, Georgia. He was the second child born to his parents Catherine Elizabeth Brewer and Richard Aaron Benson.
Thomas Brewer Benson died at an early age. He was married to Wesleyan College graduate Hattie Eliza Freeman. They had two young daughters, Lula May Benson and Mamie Shepherd Benson.
Death of his father Richard Aaron Benson. Thomas Brewer Benson predeceased his parents.
The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia
11 October 1877, Thursday on Page 3
Tom's brother Admiral William Shepherd Benson was the highest ranking officer in the United States Navy. Admiral Benson remained close to Tom's daughters.
Tom's sister Gertrude married Henry Clay Arnall, grandfather of Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 69th Governor of Georgia. As his widow, Aunt Gertrude lived to see her husband's grandson become Georgia's most progressive governor in history. Tom's daughters knew the Arnall family.
Aspinwall cousin and family friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when Rear Admiral Benson was made first Chief of Naval Operations, a position created for him by Josephus Daniels. Following this appointment, William Shepherd Benson reported only to Secretary of the Navy Daniels and to Assistant Secretary Roosevelt. There was no officer above Benson's rank at this point in his career.
FDR spent much time in Georgia before becoming President of the United States of America. Ellis Gibbs Arnall was at this time a brash young attorney who didn't shy from representing workers, even representing employees of his grandfather's company Arnall Mills. Arnall's mentor and great-uncle (by marriage to his grandfather's sister) Judge Alvan Dean Freeman had family in Vineville, where they knew Tom Brewer and his family as neighbors.
Tom Benson was a grandson of Massachusetts natives Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer Brewer of Vineville, Bibb County, Georgia.
Tom's paternal grandparents were Eliza Jane Jappie Benson Scott of Vineville, originally of New York, and her late husband Aaron Benson of Georgia. Eliza's father was from Ireland. Aaron Benson, believed to have come to Georgia from Maryland, is said to be a son of James Benston. According to Tom's brother Shepherd Benson (known as Admiral William Shepherd Benson), the Benston or Benson family was from Isle of Wight in Virginia, and originally from England.
Excepting his Irish heritage, all ancestors of Thomas Brewer Benson were from England. The earlier known ancestors were the ruling families of Europe who became the English royal family. Thomas Brewer Benson has a royal and noble ancestry, and thus has French and other extensive European lineages which are documented and accepted by historians and professional genealogists as completely certain and accurate.
Thomas Brewer Benson married Hattie Eliza Freeman. She was a daughter of Charles Henry Freeman and his wife Hannah Lum, both originally of New Jersey.
Thomas Brewer Benson and Hattie Eliza Freeman had two children, Lula May Benson and Maria Shepherd Benson.
Thomas Brewer Benson's younger sister Gertrude later in life was married, as his second wife, to Henry Clay Arnall, grandfather of Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 69th Governor of Georgia.
Georgia was an important agricultural component in America's effort to become independent of foreign goods and markets. The railroad was important to both the local economy and to the economic development of Georgia. Additionally, the railroad afforded new opportunity for trade and travel, both of which impacted the entire nation.
Thomas Brewer Benson worked for the railroad industry. He was a railway conductor. This was probably his job when he died.
Richard Aaron Benson, Timekeeper. Vineville, Bibb County, Georgia.
https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_confederate-states-central-laboratory
BREWER
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066183567&view=1up&seq=142&skin=2021
Childhood home of Catherine Elizabeth Brewer, mother of Thomas Brewer Benson (see photos).
Catherine Brewer Benson estate notice, after she died. On the death of her own father, Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, Catherine Elizabeth Brewer (Mrs. Richard Aaron Benson) had inherited extensive real estate holdings and a life interest in her father's home. Mrs. Benson also will have inherited her husband's property.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053321/1908-12-12/ed-1/seq-3/
Thomas Brewer Benson was the second child and first son born to Richard Aaron Benson and Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson.
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson was known as "Bess" to her family. Bess, born 1822 in Augusta, Georgia, was the eldest child of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and his wife Mary Foster Brewer Brewer. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer were second cousins. Both are directly descended from Elizabeth Mayo and Nathaniel Brewer III. An additional shared ancestry is the Weld family of Massachusetts. Obviously each line includes further shared ancestors (wives and their ancestors are ancestors also).
Thomas Brewer Benson was twice a descendant of Reverend Thomas Weld, son of Edmund Weld and Amye. Thomas Brewer Benson was also a direct descendant of Captain Joseph Weld, son of Edmund Weld and Amye and brother of Reverend Thomas Weld. By bloodlines and marriages (extended family), Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer Brewer shared countless family ties – both historic and contemporary to their own lives and generation.
Reverend Samuel Whiting and his first wife are ancestors of both Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer. Additionally, Reverend Samuel Whiting and Elizabeth St John are ancestors of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer - bringing Thomas Brewer Benson three lines from Reverend Samuel Whiting plus one line from Elizabeth St John, second wife of Reverend Samuel Whiting.
Weld
Edmund Weld and Amye
Reverend Thomas Weld and Margaret
Thomas Weld and Dorothy Whiting
Margaret Weld and Nathaniel Brewer
Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo
- both Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer were direct descendants of the above named persons. STEPHEN BREWER
married Susanna White. JOSEPH BREWER married Rebeckah Weld. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was a descendant of Stephen; and Mary Foster Brewer a descendant of Joseph (Stephen's brother). The additional Weld line is because Joseph Brewer married Rebeckah Weld, his distant cousin (both Joseph and Rebeckah being descended from Edmund Weld and Amye). Rebeckah and Joseph are ancestors of Mary Foster Brewer, and Joseph Brewer is a Weld in the Brewer line also. Thus this one line to Nathaniel Brewer III and then the marriage of Joseph to Rebeckah Weld provides three lines from Reverend Samuel Whiting, two lines from Daniel Brewer, and three lines from Edmund Weld and Amye, plus additionalshared ancestors.
Other ancestors on the side of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer include St John-Whiting, Danforth-Whiting, Newman-Sparhawk, Whiting-Sparhawk, Oliver-Sparhawk, and Sparhawk-Aspinwall - Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall married Edward Brewer which unites several shared ancestries into their son Thomas Aspinwall Brewer. When Thomas Aspinwall Brewer marries his Brewer cousin Mary Foster Brewer, further shared ancestries unite into their daughter Catherine Elizabeth Brewer (Mrs. Richard Aaron Benson). This is the Massachusetts ancestry of Thomas Brewer Benson.
Twice a descendant of John "The Scholar" Oliver, Harvard College 1645. Member, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. Elizabeth Oliver, daughter of John The Scholar, married Enoch Wiswall. Captain Thomas Oliver, son of John "The Scholar" Oliver, married twice, Mary Wilson being ancestor of Thomas Brewer Benson. Mary Olver, daughter of Nathaniel Oliver and Bethia Hyde, married Hon. Thomas Sparhawk of Cambridge who was also her appointed guardian following the death of Nathaniel her father. Mary Oliver, daughter of Nathaniel and Bethia Hyde Oliver, in "Descendants of Samuel Hyde" (New England Historic Genealogical Society, publisher).
https://books.google.com/books?id=f0plVwLW5zQC&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=thomas+Sparhawk+mary+oliver+guardian&source=bl&ots=lk5vKD-qVs&sig=ACfU3U2ljtRRsrB9q6q-CGHRpNA7yh8-_g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwigtbDfueb7AhWOjYkEHYd3BH8Q6AF6BAgfEAI#v=onepage&q&f=true
Tom's father Richard Aaron Benson had Irish and Maryland/Virginia ancestors. Tom's wife Hattie Eliza Freeman had English/New Jersey and colonial New York ancestors.
Life Member, American Bible Society
Brewer, Thomas A. - Macon, Ga.
Pages 58 and 59
Annual Report of the American Bible Society
Volume 49
American Bible Society, 1865
https://books.google.com/books?id=N4s7AQAAMAAJ&q=Brewer+Thomas+A+Macon#v=snippet&q=Brewer%20Thomas%20A%20Macon&f=false
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer in 1840 was the first graduate of Georgia Female College, now Wesleyan College. She married Richard Aaron Benson, son of Eliza Jane Jappie Benson Scott of Vineville and the late Aaron Benson, on November 24, 1842.
Eliza Jappie
Aaron Benson
Marriage announcement
The Evening Post
New York, New York
18 May 1820, Thursday • Page 3
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer Brewer first removed from Massachusetts to Augusta, Georgia, and then to Lexington, Georgia. The couple next settled in Vineville, nearby to Macon, in Bibb County, Georgia, where they built their home circa about 1830 (pictured).
Thomas Brewer Benson, father of Lula May Benson and Mamie Shepherd Benson, was born in 1849. His wife Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson was born May 30, 1853, in Macon. Hattie died in 1879. Thomas died in 1880, aged 31 years, leaving two young daughters. Thomas had been a railroad conductor, at the time an important job and one which often was a step to higher management. Many of the family's associates were railroad executives. It is not known what further career Thomas Brewer Benson might have had because he died early. Tom's wife Hattie Eliza predeceased him. Thus, he was survived only by his mother, his siblings, and his two young daughters.
In 1896, Tom and Hattie's daughter, Lula May Benson, was married to Connecticut native Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
Mamie Shepherd Benson was married to Van Porter Enloe, Sr. of Senoia, Coweta County, Georgia, after 1918. Van's children were reared by Mamie, and are from her husband's first marriage to Vallie V. Payne Enloe.
Wesleyan College
The Benson Room
The Benson Room is named for Thomas Brewer Benson's mother, Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson (Mrs. Richard Aaron Benson, of Macon, Georgia).
Wesleyan Magazine Summer 2011 https://issuu.com/wesleyancollege/docs/wesmagsummer2011/25 via @issuu
Admiral William Shepherd Benson
Thomas Brewer Benson's younger brother William Shepherd Benson was known as "Shepherd" to his family. Admiral Benson was educated at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He was the first Chief of Naval Operations and worked closely alongside Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, for much of this stage in his career. He and Roosevelt had family in common, including the Aspinwall lineage and also a Brewer connection. Admiral Benson converted to the Catholic faith and helped to found a Catholic school for African-American pupils in Maryland, which is also where he and wife Mary Augusta Wyse lived. Admiral Benson for much of his earlier career was at sea, and later was responsible for developing the Merchant Marines and United States Shipping Board. Known as both courtly in manner and incredibly modest – a true gentleman, Admiral Benson remained highly respected throughout his life. He had a happy marriage and died in 1932, having also remained in contact with the family of his late brother Tom (Thomas Brewer Benson).
Shepherd Benson
Macon, Georgia
Burke's weekly for boys and girls. (Macon, Ga.) 1867-1870, August 24, 1867, Page 61, Image 5
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn01211919/1867-08-24/ed-1/seq-5/
Painting of Admiral William Shepherd Benson, USN (brother of Thomas Brewer Benson)
Subject: Admiral William Shepherd Benson (1855-1932), US Naval Representative
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date painted: 1918
Artist: Herbert Arnould Olivier (1861 - 1952)
Where painted –
Location Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy
https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/artwork/2216/
Admiral Benson Dead at Capitol
The Boston Globe
Boston, Massachusetts
21 May 1932, Sat • Page 15
SPARHAWK FAMILY
https://books.google.com/books?id=Yc00AQAAMAAJ&q=Sparhawk#v=snippet&q=Sparhawk&f=false
William Henry Freeman, Sr.
His wife's brother (brother of Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson) was William Henry Freeman Sr. He was born on June 4, 1855, and died January 22, 1947, aged 91. William Henry Freeman is buried in the Pinewood Cemetery in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida.
MEMORIAL ID 58128370
Hattie's daughters Miss Mamie Shepherd Benson and Lula May Benson Parker in 1910 were living in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida, where the family of William Henry Freeman (brother of Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson) and his wife Ella Ellis Freeman (also from Macon, Georgia) remained and reared their family.
Charles Henry Freeman
Father-in-law of Thomas Brewer Benson
Charles H. Freeman, Grand Tyler
http://rosehillcemeterymacongeorgia.blogspot.com/2013/07/death-of-1887-grand-treasurer-of-masons.html?m=1
Ellenora Francesca Scott Baxter
Aunt of Thomas Brewer Benson (half-sister of Richard Aaron Benson). Family of Thomas Brewer Benson's father Richard Aaron Benson are featured in the recently published "The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865", edited by Janet Croon. Richard Aaron Benson's sister Ellenora Francesca Scott Baxter was married to Loy Gresham's uncle Thomas Wiley Baxter. The Baxter family had railroad interests.
Thomas Aspinwall Benson
Lula's first cousin Thomas Aspinwall Benson, son of Richard Edward Benson, was born in 1871. He died 29 Oct 1926. Thomas Aspinwall Benson is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. Find A Grave Memorial ID 119313915. Lula's uncle Richard Edward Benson was born 20 October 1846, in Macon, Georgia. He and Emma Haskins were married in Macon, Georgia.
Direct Descendant of Duncan I of Scotland
Duncan I of Scotland
Malcolm III of Scotland
St. Margaret of Scotland
David I, King of Scotland
Maud of Northumberland
Henry of Huntingdon
Ada de Warenne
Margaret of Scotland
Humphrey IV de Bohun
Henry de Bohun
Magna Carta Surety Baron
Maude de Mandeville
Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Maud of Eu
Alice de Bohun
Roger V de Toeni
aka Roger de Tony
Alice de Toeni / de Tony
Sir Walter de Beauchamp
Roger de Beauchamp
Unknown
Sir Roger de Beauchamp
Sibyl de Pateshulle
Sir Roger de Beauchamp
Joan de Clopton
Sir Roger Beauchamp
Mary Unknown
Sir John Beauchamp
Edith Stourton
Margaret Beauchamp
Sir Oliver St John
Sir John St John
Alice Bradshagh
Sir John St John
Sybil ferch Morgan
Alexander St John
Jane Dalison
Henry St John
Jane Neale
Sir Oliver St John
Sarah Bulkeley
Elizabeth St John
Reverend Samuel Whiting
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Danforth
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
Thomas Brewer Benson
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson married Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr. They had six surviving children.
Mamie Shepherd Benson married Van Porter Enloe, Sr. Mamie had no children of her own.
BREWER One
Daniel Brewer
Joanna
Nathaniel Brewer
Elizabeth Rand
Nathaniel Brewer II
Margaret Weld
Nathaniel Brewer III
Elizabeth Mayo
Stephen Brewer
Susanna White
Edward Brewer
Catherine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
BREWER Two
Daniel Brewer
Joanna
Nathaniel Brewer
Elizabeth Rand
Nathaniel Brewer II
Margaret Weld
Nathaniel Brewer III
Elizabeth Mayo
Joseph Brewer
Rebecca Weld
Ebenezer Brewer
Mary Foster
Mary Foster Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
DANFORTH One
Thomas Danforth
Mary Withington
Sarah Danforth
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
DANFORTH Two
Thomas Danforth
Mary Withington
Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
Abial Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WITHINGTON One
Henry Withington
Ann Leech
Faith Withington
Richard Baker
John Baker
Preserved Trott
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WITHINGTON Two
Henry Withington
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Withington
Thomas Danforth
Sarah Danforth
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WITHINGTON Three
Henry Withington
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Withington
Thomas Danforth
Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
Abial Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
1Daniel Brewer Joanna 2Nathaniel Brewer Elizabeth Rand 3Nathaniel Brewer Margaret Weld 4Nathaniel Brewer Elizabeth Mayo 5Stephen Brewer Susanna White 6Edward Brewer Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall 7Thomas Aspinwall Brewer Mary Foster Brewer of Macon GA
OLIVER ONE
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 40, 1886. Pages 58-63. New England Historic Genealogical Society; Heritage Books, 1996 - New England - 436 pages. "Enoch Wiswall² (Thomas¹) married November 25, 1657, Elizabeth Oliver.."
Thomas Oliver
Uncertain
John "The Scholar" Oliver
Elizabeth Newgate
Elizabeth Oliver
Enoch Wiswall
Oliver Wiswall
Sarah Baker
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susannah White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
THOMAS ASPINWALL BREWER
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
OLIVER TWO
Thomas Oliver
Uncertain
John "The Scholar" Oliver
Elizabeth Newgate
Thomas Oliver
Mary Wilson
Nathaniel Oliver
Bethia Hyde
Mary Oliver
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
THOMAS ASPINWALL BREWER
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
PALFREY
Peter Palfrey
Edith
Remember Palfrey
Peter Aspinwall
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
Map of the Old Planters 1000 Acre Grant of 1635
by Robert S. Raymond
Some of the earliest men to "plant" settlements on the North Shore of Massachusetts Bay were Roger Conant, John Woodbery, William Trask, John Balch, and Peter Palfrey. The arrival of new colonists and a new governor from the New England company for a Plantation in Massachusetts Bay in 1628 resulted in contention between these "old planters" and the new settlers. The New England company strove to integrate them into the new community. On the 25th of November 1635, a grant of 1000 acres was made to the five old planters mentioned, probably in recognition of their early contributions.
Three of these planters, Conant, Woodbery, and Balch, settled on the grant. Palfrey sold his share to William Dodge and Trask's grant passed to Thomas Scruggs.
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~raymondfamily/genealogy/OldPlantersMap.html
His Benson grandparents are said to have married on April 17, 1820, in Putnam County, Georgia. The Marriage Record for his Benson grandparents is as follows:
PUTNAM COUNTY
"The county was created by Act of December 10, 1807, from lands formerly in Baldwin county. Eatonton is the county seat.
Early Marriage Records.
BENSON, Aron & Elizabeth J. Jappie(?) Apr 18, 1820"
SOURCE:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/macon/Marriages/putnam.htm
One of several lines of direct descent from William the Conqueror include:
Mabel of Chester
William d'Aubeney
Nichole d'Aubeney
Sir Roger de Somery
Maud de Somery
Sir Henry de Erdington
Sir Henry de Erdington
Joan de Wolvey
Sir Giles de Erdington
Elizabeth de Tolthorpe
Margaret de Erdington
Sir Roger Corbet
Sir Robert Corbet
Margaret Unknown
Mary Corbet
Robert Charlton
Richard Charlton
Elizabeth Mainwaring
Anne Charlton
Randall Grosvenor
Elizabeth Grosvenor
Thomas Bulkeley
Rev. Edward Bulkeley
Olive Irby
Sarah Bulkeley
Sir Oliver St John
Elizabeth St John
Reverend Samuel Whiting
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Danforth
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943–1982)
Note: The children of Van Porter Enloe, Sr. are stepchildren of Mamie Shepherd Benson Enloe. They are not descendants of Thomas Brewer Benson and Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson. Mamie apparently was so valued by her husband that he listed his children as her own in Mamie's obituary.
Benjamin White and Susannah Cogswell
9132. EDWARD WHITE. Born on 10 Jul 1693. Education: Harvard 1712.
EDWARD resided at Brookline. He was town clerk from 1719 to 1726, a selectman eight years, a representative five years. His will was dated 30 October 1763, probated 28 July 1769.
22 January 1718/9 EDWARD married HANNAH WISWELL – WISWALL
Hannah, of Dorchester.
Children of Edward and Hannah (Wiswell) White:
i. Hannah White, b. 14 April 1720, d. 5 October 1725
ii. SUSANNA WHITE, b. 20 May 1722
iii. Benjamin White, b. 5 October 1724, d. 1790, m. 19 February 1756 Elizabeth Aspinwall, grad. Harvard 1744, resided at Brookline
iv. Hannah White, b. 8 February 1725/6, d. young
v. Hannah White, b. 7 February 1726/8
vi. Sarah White, b. 7 August 1730, not named in her father's will
vii. John White, b. 26 August 1734
viii. Ann White, m. 25 March 1768 James Wesson
ix. Oliver White
SUSANNA WHITE, BORN 20 May 1722
SUSANNA WHITE MARRIED STEPHEN BREWER.
https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr04/rr04_449.html
WHITE
John White
Frances Jackson
Benjamin White
Susanna Cogswell
Major Edward White
Hannah Wiswall
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WISWALL
Thomas Wiswall
Elizabeth Berbage
Enoch Wiswall
Elizabeth Oliver
Oliver Wiswall
Sarah Baker
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Jr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
BAKER
Richard Baker
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Faith Withington
John Baker
Preserved Trott
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Harvard College
Susanna White
first cousin of Susanna (Boylston) Adams
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
second cousin of John Adams, via mother Susanna (White) Brewer and grandfather Major Edward White, brother of Ann (White) Boylston
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
fourth cousin of John Adams via Thomas Gardner III, brother of Mary (Gardner) Boylston: Caleb Gardner, first cousin of Peter Boylston; Johanna Gardner, second cousin of Susanna (Boylston) Adams; Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall, third cousin of President John Adams
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
SPARHAWK
Nathaniel Sparhawk
Deacon of the Cambridge Church
Mary Angier
Nathaniel Sparhawk
Patience Newman
Samuel Sparhawk
Sarah Whiting
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
TROTT
Thomas Trott
Sarah Proctor
Preserved Trott
John Baker
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
PROCTOR
George Proctor
Edith
Sarah Proctor
Thomas Trott
Preserved Trott
John Baker
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
Thomas Brewer Benson
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943 – 1982)
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer received goods by railroad many times.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Consignees per Railroad, January 22 —
.... T. A. Brewer ....
— The Georgia constitutionalist. (Augusta, Georgia) on January 24, 1835.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn90052030/1835-01-24/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=01%2F01%2F1763¬text=&date2=12%2F31%2F2021&words=Brewer+T&searchType=advanced&sequence=0&index=10&city=Augusta&proxdistance=5&sort=date_asc&rows=12&ortext=&proxtext=T+A+Brewer+&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&andtext=&page=2
PORT OF AUGUSTA
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Augusta herald. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1799-1822, March 13, 1821, Image 3
T. A. Brewer & Co.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014178/1821-03-13/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=01%2F01%2F1763¬text=&date2=12%2F31%2F2018&words=Brewer&searchType=advanced&sequence=0&index=11&proxdistance=5&sort=date_asc&rows=12&ortext=&proxtext=&andtext=Brewer&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&page=45
Great-grandson of Captain Paul Jappie
PAUL JAPPIE in "The Marine Society of the City of New York, in the State of New York. Instituted in the year 1769, incorporated in the year 1770. And styled previous to Act of Legislature of May, 1786, the Marine Society of the City of New York.."
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014178/1821-03-13/ed-1/seq-3/
Thomas Brewer Benson was my second great-grandfather. He was born January 22, 1849 in Macon, Georgia. He was the second child born to his parents Catherine Elizabeth Brewer and Richard Aaron Benson.
Thomas Brewer Benson died at an early age. He was married to Wesleyan College graduate Hattie Eliza Freeman. They had two young daughters, Lula May Benson and Mamie Shepherd Benson.
Death of his father Richard Aaron Benson. Thomas Brewer Benson predeceased his parents.
The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia
11 October 1877, Thursday on Page 3
Tom's brother Admiral William Shepherd Benson was the highest ranking officer in the United States Navy. Admiral Benson remained close to Tom's daughters.
Tom's sister Gertrude married Henry Clay Arnall, grandfather of Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 69th Governor of Georgia. As his widow, Aunt Gertrude lived to see her husband's grandson become Georgia's most progressive governor in history. Tom's daughters knew the Arnall family.
Aspinwall cousin and family friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when Rear Admiral Benson was made first Chief of Naval Operations, a position created for him by Josephus Daniels. Following this appointment, William Shepherd Benson reported only to Secretary of the Navy Daniels and to Assistant Secretary Roosevelt. There was no officer above Benson's rank at this point in his career.
FDR spent much time in Georgia before becoming President of the United States of America. Ellis Gibbs Arnall was at this time a brash young attorney who didn't shy from representing workers, even representing employees of his grandfather's company Arnall Mills. Arnall's mentor and great-uncle (by marriage to his grandfather's sister) Judge Alvan Dean Freeman had family in Vineville, where they knew Tom Brewer and his family as neighbors.
Tom Benson was a grandson of Massachusetts natives Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer Brewer of Vineville, Bibb County, Georgia.
Tom's paternal grandparents were Eliza Jane Jappie Benson Scott of Vineville, originally of New York, and her late husband Aaron Benson of Georgia. Eliza's father was from Ireland. Aaron Benson, believed to have come to Georgia from Maryland, is said to be a son of James Benston. According to Tom's brother Shepherd Benson (known as Admiral William Shepherd Benson), the Benston or Benson family was from Isle of Wight in Virginia, and originally from England.
Excepting his Irish heritage, all ancestors of Thomas Brewer Benson were from England. The earlier known ancestors were the ruling families of Europe who became the English royal family. Thomas Brewer Benson has a royal and noble ancestry, and thus has French and other extensive European lineages which are documented and accepted by historians and professional genealogists as completely certain and accurate.
Thomas Brewer Benson married Hattie Eliza Freeman. She was a daughter of Charles Henry Freeman and his wife Hannah Lum, both originally of New Jersey.
Thomas Brewer Benson and Hattie Eliza Freeman had two children, Lula May Benson and Maria Shepherd Benson.
Thomas Brewer Benson's younger sister Gertrude later in life was married, as his second wife, to Henry Clay Arnall, grandfather of Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 69th Governor of Georgia.
Georgia was an important agricultural component in America's effort to become independent of foreign goods and markets. The railroad was important to both the local economy and to the economic development of Georgia. Additionally, the railroad afforded new opportunity for trade and travel, both of which impacted the entire nation.
Thomas Brewer Benson worked for the railroad industry. He was a railway conductor. This was probably his job when he died.
Richard Aaron Benson, Timekeeper. Vineville, Bibb County, Georgia.
https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_confederate-states-central-laboratory
BREWER
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066183567&view=1up&seq=142&skin=2021
Childhood home of Catherine Elizabeth Brewer, mother of Thomas Brewer Benson (see photos).
Catherine Brewer Benson estate notice, after she died. On the death of her own father, Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, Catherine Elizabeth Brewer (Mrs. Richard Aaron Benson) had inherited extensive real estate holdings and a life interest in her father's home. Mrs. Benson also will have inherited her husband's property.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053321/1908-12-12/ed-1/seq-3/
Thomas Brewer Benson was the second child and first son born to Richard Aaron Benson and Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson.
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson was known as "Bess" to her family. Bess, born 1822 in Augusta, Georgia, was the eldest child of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and his wife Mary Foster Brewer Brewer. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer were second cousins. Both are directly descended from Elizabeth Mayo and Nathaniel Brewer III. An additional shared ancestry is the Weld family of Massachusetts. Obviously each line includes further shared ancestors (wives and their ancestors are ancestors also).
Thomas Brewer Benson was twice a descendant of Reverend Thomas Weld, son of Edmund Weld and Amye. Thomas Brewer Benson was also a direct descendant of Captain Joseph Weld, son of Edmund Weld and Amye and brother of Reverend Thomas Weld. By bloodlines and marriages (extended family), Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer Brewer shared countless family ties – both historic and contemporary to their own lives and generation.
Reverend Samuel Whiting and his first wife are ancestors of both Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer. Additionally, Reverend Samuel Whiting and Elizabeth St John are ancestors of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer - bringing Thomas Brewer Benson three lines from Reverend Samuel Whiting plus one line from Elizabeth St John, second wife of Reverend Samuel Whiting.
Weld
Edmund Weld and Amye
Reverend Thomas Weld and Margaret
Thomas Weld and Dorothy Whiting
Margaret Weld and Nathaniel Brewer
Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo
- both Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer were direct descendants of the above named persons. STEPHEN BREWER
married Susanna White. JOSEPH BREWER married Rebeckah Weld. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was a descendant of Stephen; and Mary Foster Brewer a descendant of Joseph (Stephen's brother). The additional Weld line is because Joseph Brewer married Rebeckah Weld, his distant cousin (both Joseph and Rebeckah being descended from Edmund Weld and Amye). Rebeckah and Joseph are ancestors of Mary Foster Brewer, and Joseph Brewer is a Weld in the Brewer line also. Thus this one line to Nathaniel Brewer III and then the marriage of Joseph to Rebeckah Weld provides three lines from Reverend Samuel Whiting, two lines from Daniel Brewer, and three lines from Edmund Weld and Amye, plus additionalshared ancestors.
Other ancestors on the side of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer include St John-Whiting, Danforth-Whiting, Newman-Sparhawk, Whiting-Sparhawk, Oliver-Sparhawk, and Sparhawk-Aspinwall - Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall married Edward Brewer which unites several shared ancestries into their son Thomas Aspinwall Brewer. When Thomas Aspinwall Brewer marries his Brewer cousin Mary Foster Brewer, further shared ancestries unite into their daughter Catherine Elizabeth Brewer (Mrs. Richard Aaron Benson). This is the Massachusetts ancestry of Thomas Brewer Benson.
Twice a descendant of John "The Scholar" Oliver, Harvard College 1645. Member, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. Elizabeth Oliver, daughter of John The Scholar, married Enoch Wiswall. Captain Thomas Oliver, son of John "The Scholar" Oliver, married twice, Mary Wilson being ancestor of Thomas Brewer Benson. Mary Olver, daughter of Nathaniel Oliver and Bethia Hyde, married Hon. Thomas Sparhawk of Cambridge who was also her appointed guardian following the death of Nathaniel her father. Mary Oliver, daughter of Nathaniel and Bethia Hyde Oliver, in "Descendants of Samuel Hyde" (New England Historic Genealogical Society, publisher).
https://books.google.com/books?id=f0plVwLW5zQC&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=thomas+Sparhawk+mary+oliver+guardian&source=bl&ots=lk5vKD-qVs&sig=ACfU3U2ljtRRsrB9q6q-CGHRpNA7yh8-_g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwigtbDfueb7AhWOjYkEHYd3BH8Q6AF6BAgfEAI#v=onepage&q&f=true
Tom's father Richard Aaron Benson had Irish and Maryland/Virginia ancestors. Tom's wife Hattie Eliza Freeman had English/New Jersey and colonial New York ancestors.
Life Member, American Bible Society
Brewer, Thomas A. - Macon, Ga.
Pages 58 and 59
Annual Report of the American Bible Society
Volume 49
American Bible Society, 1865
https://books.google.com/books?id=N4s7AQAAMAAJ&q=Brewer+Thomas+A+Macon#v=snippet&q=Brewer%20Thomas%20A%20Macon&f=false
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer in 1840 was the first graduate of Georgia Female College, now Wesleyan College. She married Richard Aaron Benson, son of Eliza Jane Jappie Benson Scott of Vineville and the late Aaron Benson, on November 24, 1842.
Eliza Jappie
Aaron Benson
Marriage announcement
The Evening Post
New York, New York
18 May 1820, Thursday • Page 3
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer Brewer first removed from Massachusetts to Augusta, Georgia, and then to Lexington, Georgia. The couple next settled in Vineville, nearby to Macon, in Bibb County, Georgia, where they built their home circa about 1830 (pictured).
Thomas Brewer Benson, father of Lula May Benson and Mamie Shepherd Benson, was born in 1849. His wife Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson was born May 30, 1853, in Macon. Hattie died in 1879. Thomas died in 1880, aged 31 years, leaving two young daughters. Thomas had been a railroad conductor, at the time an important job and one which often was a step to higher management. Many of the family's associates were railroad executives. It is not known what further career Thomas Brewer Benson might have had because he died early. Tom's wife Hattie Eliza predeceased him. Thus, he was survived only by his mother, his siblings, and his two young daughters.
In 1896, Tom and Hattie's daughter, Lula May Benson, was married to Connecticut native Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
Mamie Shepherd Benson was married to Van Porter Enloe, Sr. of Senoia, Coweta County, Georgia, after 1918. Van's children were reared by Mamie, and are from her husband's first marriage to Vallie V. Payne Enloe.
Wesleyan College
The Benson Room
The Benson Room is named for Thomas Brewer Benson's mother, Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson (Mrs. Richard Aaron Benson, of Macon, Georgia).
Wesleyan Magazine Summer 2011 https://issuu.com/wesleyancollege/docs/wesmagsummer2011/25 via @issuu
Admiral William Shepherd Benson
Thomas Brewer Benson's younger brother William Shepherd Benson was known as "Shepherd" to his family. Admiral Benson was educated at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He was the first Chief of Naval Operations and worked closely alongside Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, for much of this stage in his career. He and Roosevelt had family in common, including the Aspinwall lineage and also a Brewer connection. Admiral Benson converted to the Catholic faith and helped to found a Catholic school for African-American pupils in Maryland, which is also where he and wife Mary Augusta Wyse lived. Admiral Benson for much of his earlier career was at sea, and later was responsible for developing the Merchant Marines and United States Shipping Board. Known as both courtly in manner and incredibly modest – a true gentleman, Admiral Benson remained highly respected throughout his life. He had a happy marriage and died in 1932, having also remained in contact with the family of his late brother Tom (Thomas Brewer Benson).
Shepherd Benson
Macon, Georgia
Burke's weekly for boys and girls. (Macon, Ga.) 1867-1870, August 24, 1867, Page 61, Image 5
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn01211919/1867-08-24/ed-1/seq-5/
Painting of Admiral William Shepherd Benson, USN (brother of Thomas Brewer Benson)
Subject: Admiral William Shepherd Benson (1855-1932), US Naval Representative
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date painted: 1918
Artist: Herbert Arnould Olivier (1861 - 1952)
Where painted –
Location Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy
https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/artwork/2216/
Admiral Benson Dead at Capitol
The Boston Globe
Boston, Massachusetts
21 May 1932, Sat • Page 15
SPARHAWK FAMILY
https://books.google.com/books?id=Yc00AQAAMAAJ&q=Sparhawk#v=snippet&q=Sparhawk&f=false
William Henry Freeman, Sr.
His wife's brother (brother of Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson) was William Henry Freeman Sr. He was born on June 4, 1855, and died January 22, 1947, aged 91. William Henry Freeman is buried in the Pinewood Cemetery in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida.
MEMORIAL ID 58128370
Hattie's daughters Miss Mamie Shepherd Benson and Lula May Benson Parker in 1910 were living in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida, where the family of William Henry Freeman (brother of Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson) and his wife Ella Ellis Freeman (also from Macon, Georgia) remained and reared their family.
Charles Henry Freeman
Father-in-law of Thomas Brewer Benson
Charles H. Freeman, Grand Tyler
http://rosehillcemeterymacongeorgia.blogspot.com/2013/07/death-of-1887-grand-treasurer-of-masons.html?m=1
Ellenora Francesca Scott Baxter
Aunt of Thomas Brewer Benson (half-sister of Richard Aaron Benson). Family of Thomas Brewer Benson's father Richard Aaron Benson are featured in the recently published "The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865", edited by Janet Croon. Richard Aaron Benson's sister Ellenora Francesca Scott Baxter was married to Loy Gresham's uncle Thomas Wiley Baxter. The Baxter family had railroad interests.
Thomas Aspinwall Benson
Lula's first cousin Thomas Aspinwall Benson, son of Richard Edward Benson, was born in 1871. He died 29 Oct 1926. Thomas Aspinwall Benson is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. Find A Grave Memorial ID 119313915. Lula's uncle Richard Edward Benson was born 20 October 1846, in Macon, Georgia. He and Emma Haskins were married in Macon, Georgia.
Direct Descendant of Duncan I of Scotland
Duncan I of Scotland
Malcolm III of Scotland
St. Margaret of Scotland
David I, King of Scotland
Maud of Northumberland
Henry of Huntingdon
Ada de Warenne
Margaret of Scotland
Humphrey IV de Bohun
Henry de Bohun
Magna Carta Surety Baron
Maude de Mandeville
Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Maud of Eu
Alice de Bohun
Roger V de Toeni
aka Roger de Tony
Alice de Toeni / de Tony
Sir Walter de Beauchamp
Roger de Beauchamp
Unknown
Sir Roger de Beauchamp
Sibyl de Pateshulle
Sir Roger de Beauchamp
Joan de Clopton
Sir Roger Beauchamp
Mary Unknown
Sir John Beauchamp
Edith Stourton
Margaret Beauchamp
Sir Oliver St John
Sir John St John
Alice Bradshagh
Sir John St John
Sybil ferch Morgan
Alexander St John
Jane Dalison
Henry St John
Jane Neale
Sir Oliver St John
Sarah Bulkeley
Elizabeth St John
Reverend Samuel Whiting
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Danforth
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
Thomas Brewer Benson
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson married Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr. They had six surviving children.
Mamie Shepherd Benson married Van Porter Enloe, Sr. Mamie had no children of her own.
BREWER One
Daniel Brewer
Joanna
Nathaniel Brewer
Elizabeth Rand
Nathaniel Brewer II
Margaret Weld
Nathaniel Brewer III
Elizabeth Mayo
Stephen Brewer
Susanna White
Edward Brewer
Catherine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
BREWER Two
Daniel Brewer
Joanna
Nathaniel Brewer
Elizabeth Rand
Nathaniel Brewer II
Margaret Weld
Nathaniel Brewer III
Elizabeth Mayo
Joseph Brewer
Rebecca Weld
Ebenezer Brewer
Mary Foster
Mary Foster Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
DANFORTH One
Thomas Danforth
Mary Withington
Sarah Danforth
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
DANFORTH Two
Thomas Danforth
Mary Withington
Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
Abial Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WITHINGTON One
Henry Withington
Ann Leech
Faith Withington
Richard Baker
John Baker
Preserved Trott
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WITHINGTON Two
Henry Withington
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Withington
Thomas Danforth
Sarah Danforth
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WITHINGTON Three
Henry Withington
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Withington
Thomas Danforth
Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
Abial Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
1Daniel Brewer Joanna 2Nathaniel Brewer Elizabeth Rand 3Nathaniel Brewer Margaret Weld 4Nathaniel Brewer Elizabeth Mayo 5Stephen Brewer Susanna White 6Edward Brewer Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall 7Thomas Aspinwall Brewer Mary Foster Brewer of Macon GA
OLIVER ONE
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 40, 1886. Pages 58-63. New England Historic Genealogical Society; Heritage Books, 1996 - New England - 436 pages. "Enoch Wiswall² (Thomas¹) married November 25, 1657, Elizabeth Oliver.."
Thomas Oliver
Uncertain
John "The Scholar" Oliver
Elizabeth Newgate
Elizabeth Oliver
Enoch Wiswall
Oliver Wiswall
Sarah Baker
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susannah White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
THOMAS ASPINWALL BREWER
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
OLIVER TWO
Thomas Oliver
Uncertain
John "The Scholar" Oliver
Elizabeth Newgate
Thomas Oliver
Mary Wilson
Nathaniel Oliver
Bethia Hyde
Mary Oliver
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
THOMAS ASPINWALL BREWER
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
PALFREY
Peter Palfrey
Edith
Remember Palfrey
Peter Aspinwall
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
Map of the Old Planters 1000 Acre Grant of 1635
by Robert S. Raymond
Some of the earliest men to "plant" settlements on the North Shore of Massachusetts Bay were Roger Conant, John Woodbery, William Trask, John Balch, and Peter Palfrey. The arrival of new colonists and a new governor from the New England company for a Plantation in Massachusetts Bay in 1628 resulted in contention between these "old planters" and the new settlers. The New England company strove to integrate them into the new community. On the 25th of November 1635, a grant of 1000 acres was made to the five old planters mentioned, probably in recognition of their early contributions.
Three of these planters, Conant, Woodbery, and Balch, settled on the grant. Palfrey sold his share to William Dodge and Trask's grant passed to Thomas Scruggs.
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~raymondfamily/genealogy/OldPlantersMap.html
His Benson grandparents are said to have married on April 17, 1820, in Putnam County, Georgia. The Marriage Record for his Benson grandparents is as follows:
PUTNAM COUNTY
"The county was created by Act of December 10, 1807, from lands formerly in Baldwin county. Eatonton is the county seat.
Early Marriage Records.
BENSON, Aron & Elizabeth J. Jappie(?) Apr 18, 1820"
SOURCE:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/macon/Marriages/putnam.htm
One of several lines of direct descent from William the Conqueror include:
Mabel of Chester
William d'Aubeney
Nichole d'Aubeney
Sir Roger de Somery
Maud de Somery
Sir Henry de Erdington
Sir Henry de Erdington
Joan de Wolvey
Sir Giles de Erdington
Elizabeth de Tolthorpe
Margaret de Erdington
Sir Roger Corbet
Sir Robert Corbet
Margaret Unknown
Mary Corbet
Robert Charlton
Richard Charlton
Elizabeth Mainwaring
Anne Charlton
Randall Grosvenor
Elizabeth Grosvenor
Thomas Bulkeley
Rev. Edward Bulkeley
Olive Irby
Sarah Bulkeley
Sir Oliver St John
Elizabeth St John
Reverend Samuel Whiting
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Danforth
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943–1982)
Note: The children of Van Porter Enloe, Sr. are stepchildren of Mamie Shepherd Benson Enloe. They are not descendants of Thomas Brewer Benson and Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson. Mamie apparently was so valued by her husband that he listed his children as her own in Mamie's obituary.
Benjamin White and Susannah Cogswell
9132. EDWARD WHITE. Born on 10 Jul 1693. Education: Harvard 1712.
EDWARD resided at Brookline. He was town clerk from 1719 to 1726, a selectman eight years, a representative five years. His will was dated 30 October 1763, probated 28 July 1769.
22 January 1718/9 EDWARD married HANNAH WISWELL – WISWALL
Hannah, of Dorchester.
Children of Edward and Hannah (Wiswell) White:
i. Hannah White, b. 14 April 1720, d. 5 October 1725
ii. SUSANNA WHITE, b. 20 May 1722
iii. Benjamin White, b. 5 October 1724, d. 1790, m. 19 February 1756 Elizabeth Aspinwall, grad. Harvard 1744, resided at Brookline
iv. Hannah White, b. 8 February 1725/6, d. young
v. Hannah White, b. 7 February 1726/8
vi. Sarah White, b. 7 August 1730, not named in her father's will
vii. John White, b. 26 August 1734
viii. Ann White, m. 25 March 1768 James Wesson
ix. Oliver White
SUSANNA WHITE, BORN 20 May 1722
SUSANNA WHITE MARRIED STEPHEN BREWER.
https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr04/rr04_449.html
WHITE
John White
Frances Jackson
Benjamin White
Susanna Cogswell
Major Edward White
Hannah Wiswall
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WISWALL
Thomas Wiswall
Elizabeth Berbage
Enoch Wiswall
Elizabeth Oliver
Oliver Wiswall
Sarah Baker
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Jr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
BAKER
Richard Baker
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Faith Withington
John Baker
Preserved Trott
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Harvard College
Susanna White
first cousin of Susanna (Boylston) Adams
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
second cousin of John Adams, via mother Susanna (White) Brewer and grandfather Major Edward White, brother of Ann (White) Boylston
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
fourth cousin of John Adams via Thomas Gardner III, brother of Mary (Gardner) Boylston: Caleb Gardner, first cousin of Peter Boylston; Johanna Gardner, second cousin of Susanna (Boylston) Adams; Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall, third cousin of President John Adams
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
SPARHAWK
Nathaniel Sparhawk
Deacon of the Cambridge Church
Mary Angier
Nathaniel Sparhawk
Patience Newman
Samuel Sparhawk
Sarah Whiting
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
TROTT
Thomas Trott
Sarah Proctor
Preserved Trott
John Baker
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
PROCTOR
George Proctor
Edith
Sarah Proctor
Thomas Trott
Preserved Trott
John Baker
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
Thomas Brewer Benson
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943 – 1982)
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer received goods by railroad many times.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Consignees per Railroad, January 22 —
.... T. A. Brewer ....
— The Georgia constitutionalist. (Augusta, Georgia) on January 24, 1835.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn90052030/1835-01-24/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=01%2F01%2F1763¬text=&date2=12%2F31%2F2021&words=Brewer+T&searchType=advanced&sequence=0&index=10&city=Augusta&proxdistance=5&sort=date_asc&rows=12&ortext=&proxtext=T+A+Brewer+&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&andtext=&page=2
PORT OF AUGUSTA
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Augusta herald. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1799-1822, March 13, 1821, Image 3
T. A. Brewer & Co.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014178/1821-03-13/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=01%2F01%2F1763¬text=&date2=12%2F31%2F2018&words=Brewer&searchType=advanced&sequence=0&index=11&proxdistance=5&sort=date_asc&rows=12&ortext=&proxtext=&andtext=Brewer&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&page=45
Great-grandson of Captain Paul Jappie
PAUL JAPPIE in "The Marine Society of the City of New York, in the State of New York. Instituted in the year 1769, incorporated in the year 1770. And styled previous to Act of Legislature of May, 1786, the Marine Society of the City of New York.."
THOMAS BREWER BENSON was named for his grandfather, THOMAS ASPINWALL BREWER. This notice is one of the first times T. A. Brewer is mentioned in a Georgia newspaper. Port of Augusta. Arrived, a shipment of goods to be received by Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014178/1821-03-13/ed-1/seq-3/
Thomas Brewer Benson was my second great-grandfather. He was born January 22, 1849 in Macon, Georgia. He was the second child born to his parents Catherine Elizabeth Brewer and Richard Aaron Benson.
Thomas Brewer Benson died at an early age. He was married to Wesleyan College graduate Hattie Eliza Freeman. They had two young daughters, Lula May Benson and Mamie Shepherd Benson.
Death of his father Richard Aaron Benson. Thomas Brewer Benson predeceased his parents.
The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia
11 October 1877, Thursday on Page 3
Tom's brother Admiral William Shepherd Benson was the highest ranking officer in the United States Navy. Admiral Benson remained close to Tom's daughters.
Tom's sister Gertrude married Henry Clay Arnall, grandfather of Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 69th Governor of Georgia. As his widow, Aunt Gertrude lived to see her husband's grandson become Georgia's most progressive governor in history. Tom's daughters knew the Arnall family.
Aspinwall cousin and family friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when Rear Admiral Benson was made first Chief of Naval Operations, a position created for him by Josephus Daniels. Following this appointment, William Shepherd Benson reported only to Secretary of the Navy Daniels and to Assistant Secretary Roosevelt. There was no officer above Benson's rank at this point in his career.
FDR spent much time in Georgia before becoming President of the United States of America. Ellis Gibbs Arnall was at this time a brash young attorney who didn't shy from representing workers, even representing employees of his grandfather's company Arnall Mills. Arnall's mentor and great-uncle (by marriage to his grandfather's sister) Judge Alvan Dean Freeman had family in Vineville, where they knew Tom Brewer and his family as neighbors.
Tom Benson was a grandson of Massachusetts natives Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer Brewer of Vineville, Bibb County, Georgia.
Tom's paternal grandparents were Eliza Jane Jappie Benson Scott of Vineville, originally of New York, and her late husband Aaron Benson of Georgia. Eliza's father was from Ireland. Aaron Benson, believed to have come to Georgia from Maryland, is said to be a son of James Benston. According to Tom's brother Shepherd Benson (known as Admiral William Shepherd Benson), the Benston or Benson family was from Isle of Wight in Virginia, and originally from England.
Excepting his Irish heritage, all ancestors of Thomas Brewer Benson were from England. The earlier known ancestors were the ruling families of Europe who became the English royal family. Thomas Brewer Benson has a royal and noble ancestry, and thus has French and other extensive European lineages which are documented and accepted by historians and professional genealogists as completely certain and accurate.
Thomas Brewer Benson married Hattie Eliza Freeman. She was a daughter of Charles Henry Freeman and his wife Hannah Lum, both originally of New Jersey.
Thomas Brewer Benson and Hattie Eliza Freeman had two children, Lula May Benson and Maria Shepherd Benson.
Thomas Brewer Benson's younger sister Gertrude later in life was married, as his second wife, to Henry Clay Arnall, grandfather of Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 69th Governor of Georgia.
Georgia was an important agricultural component in America's effort to become independent of foreign goods and markets. The railroad was important to both the local economy and to the economic development of Georgia. Additionally, the railroad afforded new opportunity for trade and travel, both of which impacted the entire nation.
Thomas Brewer Benson worked for the railroad industry. He was a railway conductor. This was probably his job when he died.
Richard Aaron Benson, Timekeeper. Vineville, Bibb County, Georgia.
https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_confederate-states-central-laboratory
BREWER
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066183567&view=1up&seq=142&skin=2021
Childhood home of Catherine Elizabeth Brewer, mother of Thomas Brewer Benson (see photos).
Catherine Brewer Benson estate notice, after she died. On the death of her own father, Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, Catherine Elizabeth Brewer (Mrs. Richard Aaron Benson) had inherited extensive real estate holdings and a life interest in her father's home. Mrs. Benson also will have inherited her husband's property.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053321/1908-12-12/ed-1/seq-3/
Thomas Brewer Benson was the second child and first son born to Richard Aaron Benson and Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson.
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson was known as "Bess" to her family. Bess, born 1822 in Augusta, Georgia, was the eldest child of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and his wife Mary Foster Brewer Brewer. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer were second cousins. Both are directly descended from Elizabeth Mayo and Nathaniel Brewer III. An additional shared ancestry is the Weld family of Massachusetts. Obviously each line includes further shared ancestors (wives and their ancestors are ancestors also).
Thomas Brewer Benson was twice a descendant of Reverend Thomas Weld, son of Edmund Weld and Amye. Thomas Brewer Benson was also a direct descendant of Captain Joseph Weld, son of Edmund Weld and Amye and brother of Reverend Thomas Weld. By bloodlines and marriages (extended family), Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer Brewer shared countless family ties – both historic and contemporary to their own lives and generation.
Reverend Samuel Whiting and his first wife are ancestors of both Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer. Additionally, Reverend Samuel Whiting and Elizabeth St John are ancestors of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer - bringing Thomas Brewer Benson three lines from Reverend Samuel Whiting plus one line from Elizabeth St John, second wife of Reverend Samuel Whiting.
Weld
Edmund Weld and Amye
Reverend Thomas Weld and Margaret
Thomas Weld and Dorothy Whiting
Margaret Weld and Nathaniel Brewer
Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo
- both Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer were direct descendants of the above named persons. STEPHEN BREWER
married Susanna White. JOSEPH BREWER married Rebeckah Weld. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was a descendant of Stephen; and Mary Foster Brewer a descendant of Joseph (Stephen's brother). The additional Weld line is because Joseph Brewer married Rebeckah Weld, his distant cousin (both Joseph and Rebeckah being descended from Edmund Weld and Amye). Rebeckah and Joseph are ancestors of Mary Foster Brewer, and Joseph Brewer is a Weld in the Brewer line also. Thus this one line to Nathaniel Brewer III and then the marriage of Joseph to Rebeckah Weld provides three lines from Reverend Samuel Whiting, two lines from Daniel Brewer, and three lines from Edmund Weld and Amye, plus additionalshared ancestors.
Other ancestors on the side of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer include St John-Whiting, Danforth-Whiting, Newman-Sparhawk, Whiting-Sparhawk, Oliver-Sparhawk, and Sparhawk-Aspinwall - Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall married Edward Brewer which unites several shared ancestries into their son Thomas Aspinwall Brewer. When Thomas Aspinwall Brewer marries his Brewer cousin Mary Foster Brewer, further shared ancestries unite into their daughter Catherine Elizabeth Brewer (Mrs. Richard Aaron Benson). This is the Massachusetts ancestry of Thomas Brewer Benson.
Twice a descendant of John "The Scholar" Oliver, Harvard College 1645. Member, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. Elizabeth Oliver, daughter of John The Scholar, married Enoch Wiswall. Captain Thomas Oliver, son of John "The Scholar" Oliver, married twice, Mary Wilson being ancestor of Thomas Brewer Benson. Mary Olver, daughter of Nathaniel Oliver and Bethia Hyde, married Hon. Thomas Sparhawk of Cambridge who was also her appointed guardian following the death of Nathaniel her father. Mary Oliver, daughter of Nathaniel and Bethia Hyde Oliver, in "Descendants of Samuel Hyde" (New England Historic Genealogical Society, publisher).
https://books.google.com/books?id=f0plVwLW5zQC&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=thomas+Sparhawk+mary+oliver+guardian&source=bl&ots=lk5vKD-qVs&sig=ACfU3U2ljtRRsrB9q6q-CGHRpNA7yh8-_g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwigtbDfueb7AhWOjYkEHYd3BH8Q6AF6BAgfEAI#v=onepage&q&f=true
Tom's father Richard Aaron Benson had Irish and Maryland/Virginia ancestors. Tom's wife Hattie Eliza Freeman had English/New Jersey and colonial New York ancestors.
Life Member, American Bible Society
Brewer, Thomas A. - Macon, Ga.
Pages 58 and 59
Annual Report of the American Bible Society
Volume 49
American Bible Society, 1865
https://books.google.com/books?id=N4s7AQAAMAAJ&q=Brewer+Thomas+A+Macon#v=snippet&q=Brewer%20Thomas%20A%20Macon&f=false
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer in 1840 was the first graduate of Georgia Female College, now Wesleyan College. She married Richard Aaron Benson, son of Eliza Jane Jappie Benson Scott of Vineville and the late Aaron Benson, on November 24, 1842.
Eliza Jappie
Aaron Benson
Marriage announcement
The Evening Post
New York, New York
18 May 1820, Thursday • Page 3
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer Brewer first removed from Massachusetts to Augusta, Georgia, and then to Lexington, Georgia. The couple next settled in Vineville, nearby to Macon, in Bibb County, Georgia, where they built their home circa about 1830 (pictured).
Thomas Brewer Benson, father of Lula May Benson and Mamie Shepherd Benson, was born in 1849. His wife Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson was born May 30, 1853, in Macon. Hattie died in 1879. Thomas died in 1880, aged 31 years, leaving two young daughters. Thomas had been a railroad conductor, at the time an important job and one which often was a step to higher management. Many of the family's associates were railroad executives. It is not known what further career Thomas Brewer Benson might have had because he died early. Tom's wife Hattie Eliza predeceased him. Thus, he was survived only by his mother, his siblings, and his two young daughters.
In 1896, Tom and Hattie's daughter, Lula May Benson, was married to Connecticut native Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
Mamie Shepherd Benson was married to Van Porter Enloe, Sr. of Senoia, Coweta County, Georgia, after 1918. Van's children were reared by Mamie, and are from her husband's first marriage to Vallie V. Payne Enloe.
Wesleyan College
The Benson Room
The Benson Room is named for Thomas Brewer Benson's mother, Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson (Mrs. Richard Aaron Benson, of Macon, Georgia).
Wesleyan Magazine Summer 2011 https://issuu.com/wesleyancollege/docs/wesmagsummer2011/25 via @issuu
Admiral William Shepherd Benson
Thomas Brewer Benson's younger brother William Shepherd Benson was known as "Shepherd" to his family. Admiral Benson was educated at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He was the first Chief of Naval Operations and worked closely alongside Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, for much of this stage in his career. He and Roosevelt had family in common, including the Aspinwall lineage and also a Brewer connection. Admiral Benson converted to the Catholic faith and helped to found a Catholic school for African-American pupils in Maryland, which is also where he and wife Mary Augusta Wyse lived. Admiral Benson for much of his earlier career was at sea, and later was responsible for developing the Merchant Marines and United States Shipping Board. Known as both courtly in manner and incredibly modest – a true gentleman, Admiral Benson remained highly respected throughout his life. He had a happy marriage and died in 1932, having also remained in contact with the family of his late brother Tom (Thomas Brewer Benson).
Shepherd Benson
Macon, Georgia
Burke's weekly for boys and girls. (Macon, Ga.) 1867-1870, August 24, 1867, Page 61, Image 5
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn01211919/1867-08-24/ed-1/seq-5/
Painting of Admiral William Shepherd Benson, USN (brother of Thomas Brewer Benson)
Subject: Admiral William Shepherd Benson (1855-1932), US Naval Representative
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date painted: 1918
Artist: Herbert Arnould Olivier (1861 - 1952)
Where painted –
Location Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy
https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/artwork/2216/
Admiral Benson Dead at Capitol
The Boston Globe
Boston, Massachusetts
21 May 1932, Sat • Page 15
SPARHAWK FAMILY
https://books.google.com/books?id=Yc00AQAAMAAJ&q=Sparhawk#v=snippet&q=Sparhawk&f=false
William Henry Freeman, Sr.
His wife's brother (brother of Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson) was William Henry Freeman Sr. He was born on June 4, 1855, and died January 22, 1947, aged 91. William Henry Freeman is buried in the Pinewood Cemetery in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida.
MEMORIAL ID 58128370
Hattie's daughters Miss Mamie Shepherd Benson and Lula May Benson Parker in 1910 were living in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida, where the family of William Henry Freeman (brother of Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson) and his wife Ella Ellis Freeman (also from Macon, Georgia) remained and reared their family.
Charles Henry Freeman
Father-in-law of Thomas Brewer Benson
Charles H. Freeman, Grand Tyler
http://rosehillcemeterymacongeorgia.blogspot.com/2013/07/death-of-1887-grand-treasurer-of-masons.html?m=1
Ellenora Francesca Scott Baxter
Aunt of Thomas Brewer Benson (half-sister of Richard Aaron Benson). Family of Thomas Brewer Benson's father Richard Aaron Benson are featured in the recently published "The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865", edited by Janet Croon. Richard Aaron Benson's sister Ellenora Francesca Scott Baxter was married to Loy Gresham's uncle Thomas Wiley Baxter. The Baxter family had railroad interests.
Thomas Aspinwall Benson
Lula's first cousin Thomas Aspinwall Benson, son of Richard Edward Benson, was born in 1871. He died 29 Oct 1926. Thomas Aspinwall Benson is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. Find A Grave Memorial ID 119313915. Lula's uncle Richard Edward Benson was born 20 October 1846, in Macon, Georgia. He and Emma Haskins were married in Macon, Georgia.
Direct Descendant of Duncan I of Scotland
Duncan I of Scotland
Malcolm III of Scotland
St. Margaret of Scotland
David I, King of Scotland
Maud of Northumberland
Henry of Huntingdon
Ada de Warenne
Margaret of Scotland
Humphrey IV de Bohun
Henry de Bohun
Magna Carta Surety Baron
Maude de Mandeville
Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Maud of Eu
Alice de Bohun
Roger V de Toeni
aka Roger de Tony
Alice de Toeni / de Tony
Sir Walter de Beauchamp
Roger de Beauchamp
Unknown
Sir Roger de Beauchamp
Sibyl de Pateshulle
Sir Roger de Beauchamp
Joan de Clopton
Sir Roger Beauchamp
Mary Unknown
Sir John Beauchamp
Edith Stourton
Margaret Beauchamp
Sir Oliver St John
Sir John St John
Alice Bradshagh
Sir John St John
Sybil ferch Morgan
Alexander St John
Jane Dalison
Henry St John
Jane Neale
Sir Oliver St John
Sarah Bulkeley
Elizabeth St John
Reverend Samuel Whiting
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Danforth
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
Thomas Brewer Benson
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson married Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr. They had six surviving children.
Mamie Shepherd Benson married Van Porter Enloe, Sr. Mamie had no children of her own.
BREWER One
Daniel Brewer
Joanna
Nathaniel Brewer
Elizabeth Rand
Nathaniel Brewer II
Margaret Weld
Nathaniel Brewer III
Elizabeth Mayo
Stephen Brewer
Susanna White
Edward Brewer
Catherine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
BREWER Two
Daniel Brewer
Joanna
Nathaniel Brewer
Elizabeth Rand
Nathaniel Brewer II
Margaret Weld
Nathaniel Brewer III
Elizabeth Mayo
Joseph Brewer
Rebecca Weld
Ebenezer Brewer
Mary Foster
Mary Foster Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
DANFORTH One
Thomas Danforth
Mary Withington
Sarah Danforth
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
DANFORTH Two
Thomas Danforth
Mary Withington
Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
Abial Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WITHINGTON One
Henry Withington
Ann Leech
Faith Withington
Richard Baker
John Baker
Preserved Trott
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WITHINGTON Two
Henry Withington
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Withington
Thomas Danforth
Sarah Danforth
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WITHINGTON Three
Henry Withington
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Withington
Thomas Danforth
Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
Abial Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
1Daniel Brewer Joanna 2Nathaniel Brewer Elizabeth Rand 3Nathaniel Brewer Margaret Weld 4Nathaniel Brewer Elizabeth Mayo 5Stephen Brewer Susanna White 6Edward Brewer Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall 7Thomas Aspinwall Brewer Mary Foster Brewer of Macon GA
OLIVER ONE
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 40, 1886. Pages 58-63. New England Historic Genealogical Society; Heritage Books, 1996 - New England - 436 pages. "Enoch Wiswall² (Thomas¹) married November 25, 1657, Elizabeth Oliver.."
Thomas Oliver
Uncertain
John "The Scholar" Oliver
Elizabeth Newgate
Elizabeth Oliver
Enoch Wiswall
Oliver Wiswall
Sarah Baker
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susannah White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
THOMAS ASPINWALL BREWER
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
OLIVER TWO
Thomas Oliver
Uncertain
John "The Scholar" Oliver
Elizabeth Newgate
Thomas Oliver
Mary Wilson
Nathaniel Oliver
Bethia Hyde
Mary Oliver
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
THOMAS ASPINWALL BREWER
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
PALFREY
Peter Palfrey
Edith
Remember Palfrey
Peter Aspinwall
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
Map of the Old Planters 1000 Acre Grant of 1635
by Robert S. Raymond
Some of the earliest men to "plant" settlements on the North Shore of Massachusetts Bay were Roger Conant, John Woodbery, William Trask, John Balch, and Peter Palfrey. The arrival of new colonists and a new governor from the New England company for a Plantation in Massachusetts Bay in 1628 resulted in contention between these "old planters" and the new settlers. The New England company strove to integrate them into the new community. On the 25th of November 1635, a grant of 1000 acres was made to the five old planters mentioned, probably in recognition of their early contributions.
Three of these planters, Conant, Woodbery, and Balch, settled on the grant. Palfrey sold his share to William Dodge and Trask's grant passed to Thomas Scruggs.
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~raymondfamily/genealogy/OldPlantersMap.html
His Benson grandparents are said to have married on April 17, 1820, in Putnam County, Georgia. The Marriage Record for his Benson grandparents is as follows:
PUTNAM COUNTY
"The county was created by Act of December 10, 1807, from lands formerly in Baldwin county. Eatonton is the county seat.
Early Marriage Records.
BENSON, Aron & Elizabeth J. Jappie(?) Apr 18, 1820"
SOURCE:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/macon/Marriages/putnam.htm
One of several lines of direct descent from William the Conqueror include:
Mabel of Chester
William d'Aubeney
Nichole d'Aubeney
Sir Roger de Somery
Maud de Somery
Sir Henry de Erdington
Sir Henry de Erdington
Joan de Wolvey
Sir Giles de Erdington
Elizabeth de Tolthorpe
Margaret de Erdington
Sir Roger Corbet
Sir Robert Corbet
Margaret Unknown
Mary Corbet
Robert Charlton
Richard Charlton
Elizabeth Mainwaring
Anne Charlton
Randall Grosvenor
Elizabeth Grosvenor
Thomas Bulkeley
Rev. Edward Bulkeley
Olive Irby
Sarah Bulkeley
Sir Oliver St John
Elizabeth St John
Reverend Samuel Whiting
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Danforth
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943–1982)
Note: The children of Van Porter Enloe, Sr. are stepchildren of Mamie Shepherd Benson Enloe. They are not descendants of Thomas Brewer Benson and Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson. Mamie apparently was so valued by her husband that he listed his children as her own in Mamie's obituary.
Benjamin White and Susannah Cogswell
9132. EDWARD WHITE. Born on 10 Jul 1693. Education: Harvard 1712.
EDWARD resided at Brookline. He was town clerk from 1719 to 1726, a selectman eight years, a representative five years. His will was dated 30 October 1763, probated 28 July 1769.
22 January 1718/9 EDWARD married HANNAH WISWELL – WISWALL
Hannah, of Dorchester.
Children of Edward and Hannah (Wiswell) White:
i. Hannah White, b. 14 April 1720, d. 5 October 1725
ii. SUSANNA WHITE, b. 20 May 1722
iii. Benjamin White, b. 5 October 1724, d. 1790, m. 19 February 1756 Elizabeth Aspinwall, grad. Harvard 1744, resided at Brookline
iv. Hannah White, b. 8 February 1725/6, d. young
v. Hannah White, b. 7 February 1726/8
vi. Sarah White, b. 7 August 1730, not named in her father's will
vii. John White, b. 26 August 1734
viii. Ann White, m. 25 March 1768 James Wesson
ix. Oliver White
SUSANNA WHITE, BORN 20 May 1722
SUSANNA WHITE MARRIED STEPHEN BREWER.
https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr04/rr04_449.html
WHITE
John White
Frances Jackson
Benjamin White
Susanna Cogswell
Major Edward White
Hannah Wiswall
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WISWALL
Thomas Wiswall
Elizabeth Berbage
Enoch Wiswall
Elizabeth Oliver
Oliver Wiswall
Sarah Baker
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Jr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
BAKER
Richard Baker
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Faith Withington
John Baker
Preserved Trott
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Harvard College
Susanna White
first cousin of Susanna (Boylston) Adams
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
second cousin of John Adams, via mother Susanna (White) Brewer and grandfather Major Edward White, brother of Ann (White) Boylston
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
fourth cousin of John Adams via Thomas Gardner III, brother of Mary (Gardner) Boylston: Caleb Gardner, first cousin of Peter Boylston; Johanna Gardner, second cousin of Susanna (Boylston) Adams; Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall, third cousin of President John Adams
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
SPARHAWK
Nathaniel Sparhawk
Deacon of the Cambridge Church
Mary Angier
Nathaniel Sparhawk
Patience Newman
Samuel Sparhawk
Sarah Whiting
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
TROTT
Thomas Trott
Sarah Proctor
Preserved Trott
John Baker
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
PROCTOR
George Proctor
Edith
Sarah Proctor
Thomas Trott
Preserved Trott
John Baker
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
Thomas Brewer Benson
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943 – 1982)
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer received goods by railroad many times.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Consignees per Railroad, January 22 —
.... T. A. Brewer ....
— The Georgia constitutionalist. (Augusta, Georgia) on January 24, 1835.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn90052030/1835-01-24/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=01%2F01%2F1763¬text=&date2=12%2F31%2F2021&words=Brewer+T&searchType=advanced&sequence=0&index=10&city=Augusta&proxdistance=5&sort=date_asc&rows=12&ortext=&proxtext=T+A+Brewer+&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&andtext=&page=2
PORT OF AUGUSTA
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Augusta herald. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1799-1822, March 13, 1821, Image 3
T. A. Brewer & Co.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014178/1821-03-13/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=01%2F01%2F1763¬text=&date2=12%2F31%2F2018&words=Brewer&searchType=advanced&sequence=0&index=11&proxdistance=5&sort=date_asc&rows=12&ortext=&proxtext=&andtext=Brewer&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&page=45
Great-grandson of Captain Paul Jappie
PAUL JAPPIE in "The Marine Society of the City of New York, in the State of New York. Instituted in the year 1769, incorporated in the year 1770. And styled previous to Act of Legislature of May, 1786, the Marine Society of the City of New York.."
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014178/1821-03-13/ed-1/seq-3/
Thomas Brewer Benson was my second great-grandfather. He was born January 22, 1849 in Macon, Georgia. He was the second child born to his parents Catherine Elizabeth Brewer and Richard Aaron Benson.
Thomas Brewer Benson died at an early age. He was married to Wesleyan College graduate Hattie Eliza Freeman. They had two young daughters, Lula May Benson and Mamie Shepherd Benson.
Death of his father Richard Aaron Benson. Thomas Brewer Benson predeceased his parents.
The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia
11 October 1877, Thursday on Page 3
Tom's brother Admiral William Shepherd Benson was the highest ranking officer in the United States Navy. Admiral Benson remained close to Tom's daughters.
Tom's sister Gertrude married Henry Clay Arnall, grandfather of Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 69th Governor of Georgia. As his widow, Aunt Gertrude lived to see her husband's grandson become Georgia's most progressive governor in history. Tom's daughters knew the Arnall family.
Aspinwall cousin and family friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when Rear Admiral Benson was made first Chief of Naval Operations, a position created for him by Josephus Daniels. Following this appointment, William Shepherd Benson reported only to Secretary of the Navy Daniels and to Assistant Secretary Roosevelt. There was no officer above Benson's rank at this point in his career.
FDR spent much time in Georgia before becoming President of the United States of America. Ellis Gibbs Arnall was at this time a brash young attorney who didn't shy from representing workers, even representing employees of his grandfather's company Arnall Mills. Arnall's mentor and great-uncle (by marriage to his grandfather's sister) Judge Alvan Dean Freeman had family in Vineville, where they knew Tom Brewer and his family as neighbors.
Tom Benson was a grandson of Massachusetts natives Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer Brewer of Vineville, Bibb County, Georgia.
Tom's paternal grandparents were Eliza Jane Jappie Benson Scott of Vineville, originally of New York, and her late husband Aaron Benson of Georgia. Eliza's father was from Ireland. Aaron Benson, believed to have come to Georgia from Maryland, is said to be a son of James Benston. According to Tom's brother Shepherd Benson (known as Admiral William Shepherd Benson), the Benston or Benson family was from Isle of Wight in Virginia, and originally from England.
Excepting his Irish heritage, all ancestors of Thomas Brewer Benson were from England. The earlier known ancestors were the ruling families of Europe who became the English royal family. Thomas Brewer Benson has a royal and noble ancestry, and thus has French and other extensive European lineages which are documented and accepted by historians and professional genealogists as completely certain and accurate.
Thomas Brewer Benson married Hattie Eliza Freeman. She was a daughter of Charles Henry Freeman and his wife Hannah Lum, both originally of New Jersey.
Thomas Brewer Benson and Hattie Eliza Freeman had two children, Lula May Benson and Maria Shepherd Benson.
Thomas Brewer Benson's younger sister Gertrude later in life was married, as his second wife, to Henry Clay Arnall, grandfather of Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 69th Governor of Georgia.
Georgia was an important agricultural component in America's effort to become independent of foreign goods and markets. The railroad was important to both the local economy and to the economic development of Georgia. Additionally, the railroad afforded new opportunity for trade and travel, both of which impacted the entire nation.
Thomas Brewer Benson worked for the railroad industry. He was a railway conductor. This was probably his job when he died.
Richard Aaron Benson, Timekeeper. Vineville, Bibb County, Georgia.
https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_confederate-states-central-laboratory
BREWER
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066183567&view=1up&seq=142&skin=2021
Childhood home of Catherine Elizabeth Brewer, mother of Thomas Brewer Benson (see photos).
Catherine Brewer Benson estate notice, after she died. On the death of her own father, Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, Catherine Elizabeth Brewer (Mrs. Richard Aaron Benson) had inherited extensive real estate holdings and a life interest in her father's home. Mrs. Benson also will have inherited her husband's property.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053321/1908-12-12/ed-1/seq-3/
Thomas Brewer Benson was the second child and first son born to Richard Aaron Benson and Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson.
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson was known as "Bess" to her family. Bess, born 1822 in Augusta, Georgia, was the eldest child of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and his wife Mary Foster Brewer Brewer. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer were second cousins. Both are directly descended from Elizabeth Mayo and Nathaniel Brewer III. An additional shared ancestry is the Weld family of Massachusetts. Obviously each line includes further shared ancestors (wives and their ancestors are ancestors also).
Thomas Brewer Benson was twice a descendant of Reverend Thomas Weld, son of Edmund Weld and Amye. Thomas Brewer Benson was also a direct descendant of Captain Joseph Weld, son of Edmund Weld and Amye and brother of Reverend Thomas Weld. By bloodlines and marriages (extended family), Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer Brewer shared countless family ties – both historic and contemporary to their own lives and generation.
Reverend Samuel Whiting and his first wife are ancestors of both Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer. Additionally, Reverend Samuel Whiting and Elizabeth St John are ancestors of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer - bringing Thomas Brewer Benson three lines from Reverend Samuel Whiting plus one line from Elizabeth St John, second wife of Reverend Samuel Whiting.
Weld
Edmund Weld and Amye
Reverend Thomas Weld and Margaret
Thomas Weld and Dorothy Whiting
Margaret Weld and Nathaniel Brewer
Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo
- both Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer were direct descendants of the above named persons. STEPHEN BREWER
married Susanna White. JOSEPH BREWER married Rebeckah Weld. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was a descendant of Stephen; and Mary Foster Brewer a descendant of Joseph (Stephen's brother). The additional Weld line is because Joseph Brewer married Rebeckah Weld, his distant cousin (both Joseph and Rebeckah being descended from Edmund Weld and Amye). Rebeckah and Joseph are ancestors of Mary Foster Brewer, and Joseph Brewer is a Weld in the Brewer line also. Thus this one line to Nathaniel Brewer III and then the marriage of Joseph to Rebeckah Weld provides three lines from Reverend Samuel Whiting, two lines from Daniel Brewer, and three lines from Edmund Weld and Amye, plus additionalshared ancestors.
Other ancestors on the side of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer include St John-Whiting, Danforth-Whiting, Newman-Sparhawk, Whiting-Sparhawk, Oliver-Sparhawk, and Sparhawk-Aspinwall - Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall married Edward Brewer which unites several shared ancestries into their son Thomas Aspinwall Brewer. When Thomas Aspinwall Brewer marries his Brewer cousin Mary Foster Brewer, further shared ancestries unite into their daughter Catherine Elizabeth Brewer (Mrs. Richard Aaron Benson). This is the Massachusetts ancestry of Thomas Brewer Benson.
Twice a descendant of John "The Scholar" Oliver, Harvard College 1645. Member, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. Elizabeth Oliver, daughter of John The Scholar, married Enoch Wiswall. Captain Thomas Oliver, son of John "The Scholar" Oliver, married twice, Mary Wilson being ancestor of Thomas Brewer Benson. Mary Olver, daughter of Nathaniel Oliver and Bethia Hyde, married Hon. Thomas Sparhawk of Cambridge who was also her appointed guardian following the death of Nathaniel her father. Mary Oliver, daughter of Nathaniel and Bethia Hyde Oliver, in "Descendants of Samuel Hyde" (New England Historic Genealogical Society, publisher).
https://books.google.com/books?id=f0plVwLW5zQC&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=thomas+Sparhawk+mary+oliver+guardian&source=bl&ots=lk5vKD-qVs&sig=ACfU3U2ljtRRsrB9q6q-CGHRpNA7yh8-_g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwigtbDfueb7AhWOjYkEHYd3BH8Q6AF6BAgfEAI#v=onepage&q&f=true
Tom's father Richard Aaron Benson had Irish and Maryland/Virginia ancestors. Tom's wife Hattie Eliza Freeman had English/New Jersey and colonial New York ancestors.
Life Member, American Bible Society
Brewer, Thomas A. - Macon, Ga.
Pages 58 and 59
Annual Report of the American Bible Society
Volume 49
American Bible Society, 1865
https://books.google.com/books?id=N4s7AQAAMAAJ&q=Brewer+Thomas+A+Macon#v=snippet&q=Brewer%20Thomas%20A%20Macon&f=false
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer in 1840 was the first graduate of Georgia Female College, now Wesleyan College. She married Richard Aaron Benson, son of Eliza Jane Jappie Benson Scott of Vineville and the late Aaron Benson, on November 24, 1842.
Eliza Jappie
Aaron Benson
Marriage announcement
The Evening Post
New York, New York
18 May 1820, Thursday • Page 3
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Mary Foster Brewer Brewer first removed from Massachusetts to Augusta, Georgia, and then to Lexington, Georgia. The couple next settled in Vineville, nearby to Macon, in Bibb County, Georgia, where they built their home circa about 1830 (pictured).
Thomas Brewer Benson, father of Lula May Benson and Mamie Shepherd Benson, was born in 1849. His wife Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson was born May 30, 1853, in Macon. Hattie died in 1879. Thomas died in 1880, aged 31 years, leaving two young daughters. Thomas had been a railroad conductor, at the time an important job and one which often was a step to higher management. Many of the family's associates were railroad executives. It is not known what further career Thomas Brewer Benson might have had because he died early. Tom's wife Hattie Eliza predeceased him. Thus, he was survived only by his mother, his siblings, and his two young daughters.
In 1896, Tom and Hattie's daughter, Lula May Benson, was married to Connecticut native Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
Mamie Shepherd Benson was married to Van Porter Enloe, Sr. of Senoia, Coweta County, Georgia, after 1918. Van's children were reared by Mamie, and are from her husband's first marriage to Vallie V. Payne Enloe.
Wesleyan College
The Benson Room
The Benson Room is named for Thomas Brewer Benson's mother, Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson (Mrs. Richard Aaron Benson, of Macon, Georgia).
Wesleyan Magazine Summer 2011 https://issuu.com/wesleyancollege/docs/wesmagsummer2011/25 via @issuu
Admiral William Shepherd Benson
Thomas Brewer Benson's younger brother William Shepherd Benson was known as "Shepherd" to his family. Admiral Benson was educated at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He was the first Chief of Naval Operations and worked closely alongside Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, for much of this stage in his career. He and Roosevelt had family in common, including the Aspinwall lineage and also a Brewer connection. Admiral Benson converted to the Catholic faith and helped to found a Catholic school for African-American pupils in Maryland, which is also where he and wife Mary Augusta Wyse lived. Admiral Benson for much of his earlier career was at sea, and later was responsible for developing the Merchant Marines and United States Shipping Board. Known as both courtly in manner and incredibly modest – a true gentleman, Admiral Benson remained highly respected throughout his life. He had a happy marriage and died in 1932, having also remained in contact with the family of his late brother Tom (Thomas Brewer Benson).
Shepherd Benson
Macon, Georgia
Burke's weekly for boys and girls. (Macon, Ga.) 1867-1870, August 24, 1867, Page 61, Image 5
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn01211919/1867-08-24/ed-1/seq-5/
Painting of Admiral William Shepherd Benson, USN (brother of Thomas Brewer Benson)
Subject: Admiral William Shepherd Benson (1855-1932), US Naval Representative
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date painted: 1918
Artist: Herbert Arnould Olivier (1861 - 1952)
Where painted –
Location Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy
https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/artwork/2216/
Admiral Benson Dead at Capitol
The Boston Globe
Boston, Massachusetts
21 May 1932, Sat • Page 15
SPARHAWK FAMILY
https://books.google.com/books?id=Yc00AQAAMAAJ&q=Sparhawk#v=snippet&q=Sparhawk&f=false
William Henry Freeman, Sr.
His wife's brother (brother of Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson) was William Henry Freeman Sr. He was born on June 4, 1855, and died January 22, 1947, aged 91. William Henry Freeman is buried in the Pinewood Cemetery in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida.
MEMORIAL ID 58128370
Hattie's daughters Miss Mamie Shepherd Benson and Lula May Benson Parker in 1910 were living in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida, where the family of William Henry Freeman (brother of Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson) and his wife Ella Ellis Freeman (also from Macon, Georgia) remained and reared their family.
Charles Henry Freeman
Father-in-law of Thomas Brewer Benson
Charles H. Freeman, Grand Tyler
http://rosehillcemeterymacongeorgia.blogspot.com/2013/07/death-of-1887-grand-treasurer-of-masons.html?m=1
Ellenora Francesca Scott Baxter
Aunt of Thomas Brewer Benson (half-sister of Richard Aaron Benson). Family of Thomas Brewer Benson's father Richard Aaron Benson are featured in the recently published "The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865", edited by Janet Croon. Richard Aaron Benson's sister Ellenora Francesca Scott Baxter was married to Loy Gresham's uncle Thomas Wiley Baxter. The Baxter family had railroad interests.
Thomas Aspinwall Benson
Lula's first cousin Thomas Aspinwall Benson, son of Richard Edward Benson, was born in 1871. He died 29 Oct 1926. Thomas Aspinwall Benson is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. Find A Grave Memorial ID 119313915. Lula's uncle Richard Edward Benson was born 20 October 1846, in Macon, Georgia. He and Emma Haskins were married in Macon, Georgia.
Direct Descendant of Duncan I of Scotland
Duncan I of Scotland
Malcolm III of Scotland
St. Margaret of Scotland
David I, King of Scotland
Maud of Northumberland
Henry of Huntingdon
Ada de Warenne
Margaret of Scotland
Humphrey IV de Bohun
Henry de Bohun
Magna Carta Surety Baron
Maude de Mandeville
Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Maud of Eu
Alice de Bohun
Roger V de Toeni
aka Roger de Tony
Alice de Toeni / de Tony
Sir Walter de Beauchamp
Roger de Beauchamp
Unknown
Sir Roger de Beauchamp
Sibyl de Pateshulle
Sir Roger de Beauchamp
Joan de Clopton
Sir Roger Beauchamp
Mary Unknown
Sir John Beauchamp
Edith Stourton
Margaret Beauchamp
Sir Oliver St John
Sir John St John
Alice Bradshagh
Sir John St John
Sybil ferch Morgan
Alexander St John
Jane Dalison
Henry St John
Jane Neale
Sir Oliver St John
Sarah Bulkeley
Elizabeth St John
Reverend Samuel Whiting
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Danforth
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
Thomas Brewer Benson
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson married Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr. They had six surviving children.
Mamie Shepherd Benson married Van Porter Enloe, Sr. Mamie had no children of her own.
BREWER One
Daniel Brewer
Joanna
Nathaniel Brewer
Elizabeth Rand
Nathaniel Brewer II
Margaret Weld
Nathaniel Brewer III
Elizabeth Mayo
Stephen Brewer
Susanna White
Edward Brewer
Catherine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
BREWER Two
Daniel Brewer
Joanna
Nathaniel Brewer
Elizabeth Rand
Nathaniel Brewer II
Margaret Weld
Nathaniel Brewer III
Elizabeth Mayo
Joseph Brewer
Rebecca Weld
Ebenezer Brewer
Mary Foster
Mary Foster Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
DANFORTH One
Thomas Danforth
Mary Withington
Sarah Danforth
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
DANFORTH Two
Thomas Danforth
Mary Withington
Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
Abial Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WITHINGTON One
Henry Withington
Ann Leech
Faith Withington
Richard Baker
John Baker
Preserved Trott
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WITHINGTON Two
Henry Withington
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Withington
Thomas Danforth
Sarah Danforth
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WITHINGTON Three
Henry Withington
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Withington
Thomas Danforth
Mary Danforth
Solomon Phipps
Abial Phipps
Captain Caleb Gardner
Johanna Gardner
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
1Daniel Brewer Joanna 2Nathaniel Brewer Elizabeth Rand 3Nathaniel Brewer Margaret Weld 4Nathaniel Brewer Elizabeth Mayo 5Stephen Brewer Susanna White 6Edward Brewer Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall 7Thomas Aspinwall Brewer Mary Foster Brewer of Macon GA
OLIVER ONE
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 40, 1886. Pages 58-63. New England Historic Genealogical Society; Heritage Books, 1996 - New England - 436 pages. "Enoch Wiswall² (Thomas¹) married November 25, 1657, Elizabeth Oliver.."
Thomas Oliver
Uncertain
John "The Scholar" Oliver
Elizabeth Newgate
Elizabeth Oliver
Enoch Wiswall
Oliver Wiswall
Sarah Baker
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susannah White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
THOMAS ASPINWALL BREWER
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
OLIVER TWO
Thomas Oliver
Uncertain
John "The Scholar" Oliver
Elizabeth Newgate
Thomas Oliver
Mary Wilson
Nathaniel Oliver
Bethia Hyde
Mary Oliver
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
THOMAS ASPINWALL BREWER
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
PALFREY
Peter Palfrey
Edith
Remember Palfrey
Peter Aspinwall
Captain Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens
Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
Map of the Old Planters 1000 Acre Grant of 1635
by Robert S. Raymond
Some of the earliest men to "plant" settlements on the North Shore of Massachusetts Bay were Roger Conant, John Woodbery, William Trask, John Balch, and Peter Palfrey. The arrival of new colonists and a new governor from the New England company for a Plantation in Massachusetts Bay in 1628 resulted in contention between these "old planters" and the new settlers. The New England company strove to integrate them into the new community. On the 25th of November 1635, a grant of 1000 acres was made to the five old planters mentioned, probably in recognition of their early contributions.
Three of these planters, Conant, Woodbery, and Balch, settled on the grant. Palfrey sold his share to William Dodge and Trask's grant passed to Thomas Scruggs.
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~raymondfamily/genealogy/OldPlantersMap.html
His Benson grandparents are said to have married on April 17, 1820, in Putnam County, Georgia. The Marriage Record for his Benson grandparents is as follows:
PUTNAM COUNTY
"The county was created by Act of December 10, 1807, from lands formerly in Baldwin county. Eatonton is the county seat.
Early Marriage Records.
BENSON, Aron & Elizabeth J. Jappie(?) Apr 18, 1820"
SOURCE:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/macon/Marriages/putnam.htm
One of several lines of direct descent from William the Conqueror include:
Mabel of Chester
William d'Aubeney
Nichole d'Aubeney
Sir Roger de Somery
Maud de Somery
Sir Henry de Erdington
Sir Henry de Erdington
Joan de Wolvey
Sir Giles de Erdington
Elizabeth de Tolthorpe
Margaret de Erdington
Sir Roger Corbet
Sir Robert Corbet
Margaret Unknown
Mary Corbet
Robert Charlton
Richard Charlton
Elizabeth Mainwaring
Anne Charlton
Randall Grosvenor
Elizabeth Grosvenor
Thomas Bulkeley
Rev. Edward Bulkeley
Olive Irby
Sarah Bulkeley
Sir Oliver St John
Elizabeth St John
Reverend Samuel Whiting
Reverend Joseph Whiting
Sarah Danforth
Sarah Whiting
Samuel Sparhawk
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943–1982)
Note: The children of Van Porter Enloe, Sr. are stepchildren of Mamie Shepherd Benson Enloe. They are not descendants of Thomas Brewer Benson and Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson. Mamie apparently was so valued by her husband that he listed his children as her own in Mamie's obituary.
Benjamin White and Susannah Cogswell
9132. EDWARD WHITE. Born on 10 Jul 1693. Education: Harvard 1712.
EDWARD resided at Brookline. He was town clerk from 1719 to 1726, a selectman eight years, a representative five years. His will was dated 30 October 1763, probated 28 July 1769.
22 January 1718/9 EDWARD married HANNAH WISWELL – WISWALL
Hannah, of Dorchester.
Children of Edward and Hannah (Wiswell) White:
i. Hannah White, b. 14 April 1720, d. 5 October 1725
ii. SUSANNA WHITE, b. 20 May 1722
iii. Benjamin White, b. 5 October 1724, d. 1790, m. 19 February 1756 Elizabeth Aspinwall, grad. Harvard 1744, resided at Brookline
iv. Hannah White, b. 8 February 1725/6, d. young
v. Hannah White, b. 7 February 1726/8
vi. Sarah White, b. 7 August 1730, not named in her father's will
vii. John White, b. 26 August 1734
viii. Ann White, m. 25 March 1768 James Wesson
ix. Oliver White
SUSANNA WHITE, BORN 20 May 1722
SUSANNA WHITE MARRIED STEPHEN BREWER.
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WHITE
John White
Frances Jackson
Benjamin White
Susanna Cogswell
Major Edward White
Hannah Wiswall
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
WISWALL
Thomas Wiswall
Elizabeth Berbage
Enoch Wiswall
Elizabeth Oliver
Oliver Wiswall
Sarah Baker
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Jr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
BAKER
Richard Baker
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Faith Withington
John Baker
Preserved Trott
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Harvard College
Susanna White
first cousin of Susanna (Boylston) Adams
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
second cousin of John Adams, via mother Susanna (White) Brewer and grandfather Major Edward White, brother of Ann (White) Boylston
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
fourth cousin of John Adams via Thomas Gardner III, brother of Mary (Gardner) Boylston: Caleb Gardner, first cousin of Peter Boylston; Johanna Gardner, second cousin of Susanna (Boylston) Adams; Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall, third cousin of President John Adams
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
SPARHAWK
Nathaniel Sparhawk
Deacon of the Cambridge Church
Mary Angier
Nathaniel Sparhawk
Patience Newman
Samuel Sparhawk
Sarah Whiting
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk
Mary Oliver
Lucy Sparhawk
Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Edward Brewer
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
TROTT
Thomas Trott
Sarah Proctor
Preserved Trott
John Baker
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
THOMAS BREWER BENSON
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
1943 – 1982
PROCTOR
George Proctor
Edith
Sarah Proctor
Thomas Trott
Preserved Trott
John Baker
Sarah Baker
Oliver Wiswall
Hannah Wiswall
Major Edward White
Susanna White
Stephen Brewer
Edward Brewer
Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
Richard Aaron Benson
Thomas Brewer Benson
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943 – 1982)
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer received goods by railroad many times.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Consignees per Railroad, January 22 —
.... T. A. Brewer ....
— The Georgia constitutionalist. (Augusta, Georgia) on January 24, 1835.
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PORT OF AUGUSTA
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Augusta herald. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1799-1822, March 13, 1821, Image 3
T. A. Brewer & Co.
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Great-grandson of Captain Paul Jappie
PAUL JAPPIE in "The Marine Society of the City of New York, in the State of New York. Instituted in the year 1769, incorporated in the year 1770. And styled previous to Act of Legislature of May, 1786, the Marine Society of the City of New York.."
Inscription
THOS. B. BENSON
Jan. 1849
Dec. 1880
Gravesite Details
Son of Catherine Elizabeth Brewer and Richard Aaron Benson, of Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. Marble with decorative details in the romantic Victorian style.
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