Source Genealogies of Rhode Island Families From Rhode Island Periodicals, indexed by Carol Lee Ferd, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983, Vol I, p 362-377: Benjamin was of Quidnesset and later of E Greenwich. His name appears on the freemen's list of North Kingstown in 1696 and is found often within the next nine years in the Council records. In later years he was one of the town's committee to lay out what is now called the "post road", following the ancient "Pequit path" through the town. His land in Quidnesset is mentioned as adjoining that of James Green soon after 1700, and at other times he seems to have owned real estate in other parts of the town. In January or February 1704-05, he was engaged in a land controversy, in Kingstown, with the brothers Samuel and Joseph Waite, and Beriah Brown. March 26, 1705, having then a wife Humility, he sold his property in Kingstown and removed to East Greenwich, where he died in the winter of 1718-19. His will, dated January 7, of that year, was proved March 5 and is on record in East Greenwich. In it he mentions his wife Humility, and 12 children, of whom the three youngest were under eighteen.
