Benjamin Soule (1719-1803) is #358 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married #359 Meribah Waite (1720-1803) in 1742 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.
I am descended through:
* their daughter #179 Martha Soule (1743-1828) who married #178 David Kirby (1740-1832) in 1763.
* their daughter, #89 Sibel Kirby (1764-1848)who married #88 Humphrey White (1757-1814) in 1786.
* their son, #44 Jonathan White (1803-1850) who married #45 Miranda Wade (1804-1850) in 1824.
* their son #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) who married #23 Amy Oatley (1826-1864) in 1844.
* their daughter #11 Julia E. White (1848-1913) who married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868.
* their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) who married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)
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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Name: Benjamin Soule[1–5]
* Alternate Name: Benjamin Sowle[1,6–9]
* Sex: Male
* Father: Jacob Soule (1687-1747)
* Mother: Rebecca Gifford (1689-1747)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 18 November 1719, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States[1–4]
* Distribution: 3 May 1748 (age 28), father's will proved; Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States[5]
* Census: 1 August 1790 (age 70), Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States[6]
* Census: 1 June 1800 (age 80), Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States[7]
* Death: 31 January 1803 (age 83), Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States[8]
* Probate: 3 May 1803 (age 83), will proved; Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States[9]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: Meribah Waite (1720-1803)
* Marriage: about 1742 (about age 23), probably Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States[1-2]
* Child 1: Martha Soule (1743-1828)
* Child 2: Patience Soule (1745-1780)
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Benjamin Soule was born 18 November 1719 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, the 6th child of Jacob and Rebekah (Gifford) Soule[3-4].
He is described in two peer-reviewed works:
* Anne Borden Harding, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Three, George Soule, Gen Soc of Mayflower Descendants, 1980, page 71, Benjamin Sowle sketch[1].
* Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "The Dartmouth Branch of the Soule Family", The American Genealogist, Volume 39, No. 12 (January 1963), pages 39-40, Benjamin Soule sketch[2].
Benjamin Soule married Meribah Waite in about 1742 in Dartmouth[10], the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Tripp) Waite of Dartmouth. They had two children:
* Martha Soule, born 1 October 1743 in Dartmouth, married David Kirby (1740-1832) in 1763 in Tiverton, Rhode Island, died 26 May 1828 in Westport, Massachusetts.
* Patience Soule, born 31 January 1745 in Dartmouth, married Benjamin Devol in 26 SDeptember 1765 in Dartmouth, and died 3 November 1780 in Dartmouth.
In the will of his father, Jacob Soule of Dartmouth, dated 12 August 1747 and proved 3 May 1748, Benjamin Soule was bequeathed the northernmost third of the Sowle homestead farm in Dartmouth, plus the east half of Jacob Soule's meadow[5].
Benjamin Sowle's land was in the part of Dartmouth that was set off as Westport in 1787.
In the 1790 United States Census, the Benjamin Sowle household was enumerated in Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts[6]. The household included one free white male over age 16 and one free white female.
In the 1800 United States Census, the Benjamin Sowle household was enumerated in Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts[7]. The household included one free white male over age 45, one free white female aged 16 to 25, and one free white female over age 45.
Benjamin Soule died 31 January 1803 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, aged 83[1-2,8]. He was buried on the Joseph Sowle farm in Westport[1-2].
Benjamin Sowle died testate, having written a will on 20 February 1792 which was proved in Bristol county, Massachusetts Probate Court on 3 May 1803[9].
The transcription of the will is:
This Twentieth day of the second month called February one Thousand Seven hundred Ninety two I Benjamin Sowle of Westport in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts yeoman, Being in a weak State of health but through the goodness of God of Sound Disposing mind and memory Do need for preventing further difficulty in my family make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament and as to such Temporal things as God by his kind Providence hath been Pleased to Bless me with in this life I give devise and dispose of of the same in the following manner and form.
Imprimis My mind and will is and I do hereby order that all my Just Debts funeral Charges and Just Expences of all sorts together with the Settling of my Estate Should be first agreed and Justly discharged out of my Personal Estate by my Executor herein after Named.
Item. I hereby give to Meribah Sowle my loveing and well-beloved wife wife the Choice of my feather beds with a full set of furniture throughout to the Same Sutable for both winter and Summer also the Choice of my Cows also my Bible and my Chest of Drawers all a free gift to her own disposal, and further I give to my said wife as above said all the Provisions that I have in Store at my decease that I have Provided for food and raiment. And a further Provision is herein after made for my wife during the time she remains my widow.
Item. I hereby give to my Daughter Martha Kirby and to my granson Peter Davol son of my Daughter Patience deceased and to their heirs and assigns for ever all my Real Estate and to be Divided Equilly between them when my wife Ceases to be my widow and not to Come into Possession of said real Estate till then.
Item. I hereby give to my two grandsons Namely Peter Davol and Ichabod Kirby all my waring apperial of all sorts to be Equilly divided between them. And my Gun I give to my granson Peter Davol.
Item. I hereby give to my grandaughter Meribah Davol my bigest Puter Platter and my red Chest without draws
Item. I hereby give to my Daughter Martha Kirby and to my grandaughter Meribah Davol daughter of my Daughter Patience deceased to be Equilly divided between them all my Personal Estate that is left at the time when my wife ceases to be my widow not herein before otherwise disposed of. This intent of this gift is to include only what is left of my Personal Estate that the use and Improovement of it is given to my wife during the time she remains my widow.
Item. I hereby give to my above said wife the use and Improvement of all my Real Estate, also all my Personal Estate that is not herein before otherwise wise disposed of during the term of time She remains my widow; And all the gifts uses and Improvements herein given to my wife I give her for the love and good will I have for her and in liu of her ^right of^ dower and Power of thirds in my Estate.
Item. I do hereby ordain Constitute and appoint my beloved and trusty Son in law Benjamin Davol of this Town Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby making null and void all other wills or Testaments by me before this time made Rattifying this and no other to be my last will and Testament n wittness whereof I the said Benjamin Sowle have here Unto set my hand and seal the day and year above written.
Signed Sealed Pronounced and declared by the said Benjamin Sowl to be his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us who have ^hereunto^ Subscribed our names as wittnesses in the Presence of Each other and the Testator.
Phillip Tripp his
Lemuel Sowle Benjamin X Sowle
Gideon Davis mark
Tripp dead Sowle N York State
May 3^d 1803 approved
5) SOURCES
1. Anne Borden Harding (editor), Mayflower families Through Five Generations : Volume 3: George Soule (Plymouth, MA : General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1980), page 71, Benjamin Sowle sketch.
2. Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "The Dartmouth Branch of the Soule Family", The American Genealogist, Volume 39, No. 1 (January 1963), pages 39-40, Benjamin Soule sketch.
3. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Dartmouth, Births, Marriages, Deaths" page 154 (image 81 of 2331), Benjamin Soule entry.
4. Vital records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 ( Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society,1929-1930), Births, page 256, Benjamin Soule, son of Jacob, entry.
5. Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Probate Packet 24220 for Jacob Sowle of Dartmouth 1748 (8 images); "Bristol County (Massachusetts) Probate Records, 1636-1899," digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.americanancestors.org); original records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, digitized images provided by FamilySearch.
6. 1790 United States Federal Census, Bristol County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Westport, page 701, Benjamin Sowle household, indexed records and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M637, Roll 4.
7. 1800 United States Federal Census, Bristol County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Westport, page 621, Benjamin Sowle household, indexed records and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M32, Roll 19.
8. Vital records of Westport, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1918), Deaths, page 288, Benjamin Sowle, husband of Meribah, entry.
9. Bristol County [Mass.] Register of Probate, Bristol County (Mass.) Probate Records, 1690-1881, on 351 FHL US/CAN Microfilm rolls; original records at Probate Registry, Taunton, Mass., Benjamin Sowle, Westport, 1803 estate file, accessed 2 February 2016 on FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,580,779.
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