Notes for Benjamin PUTNAM

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Notes for Benjamin PUTNAM

!Birth: Sources: Salem VR, 2:208, [James R. Taylor, turmoil2 {at} c-zone.net);
LDS Film #874031, _Vital records of Salem, Massachusetts, to the end
of the year 1849_, Essex Institute (Salem, Massachusetts)].

Birth: Date: Recorded as '24 Dec 1644' in _The Hutchinson Family: or the
Descendants of Barnard Hutchinson, of Cowlam, England_, compiled by
Perley Derby, Essex Institute Press, 1870, Salem, Massachusetts, p. 7.

!Marriage: Sources: _The Hutchinson Family: or the Descendants of
Barnard Hutchinson, of Cowlam, England_, compiled by Perley Derby,
Essex Institute Press, 1870, Salem, Massachusetts, p. 11; (James R.
Taylor, turmoil2 {at} c-zone.net); (Bill Putnam, BillPutman {at} aol.com,
http://al7fl.abts.net/putman/putman.htm); [2] LDS Film #761209,
_Births, marriages, and deaths, 1650-1865_, Salem, Massachusetts, City
Clerk.

!Death: Source: _History of Salem, MA_, Vol. II, 1638-1670, by Sidney
Perley, Salem, MA, 1926, 'CD-ROM,' Vol. 2, p. 109, (James R. Taylor,
turmoil2 {at} c-zone.net).

Death: Date: Recorded as '1744' in Derby, p. 7.

This is from The Putnam Family, by Eben Putnam, 1891: Captain
Benjamin Putnam of Salem Village, b. there 24 Dec. 1664; died there abt
1715; married, according to Col. Perley Putnam, 25 Aug., 1686,
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Putnam, but on the Salem Records, the
births of his children are recorded and it is there stated that they were
"by wife Hanna." (Roy Clarke Leggitt, Royc {at} cts.com,
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com, db=royc-putnam).

The following came from Rand M. Putnam (rmputnam {at} access1.net):

Fact 1: Most of Benjamin's kids have mother's given name listed as
Sarah in Salem Vital Records, Vol. 2.
Fact 2: Ben and Sarah's third kid has given name Tarrant (Salem VR, Vol.
2, p. 218).
Fact 3: Eben Putnam suggests Ben's first wife had maiden name Tarrant
(see Putnam Leaflets Vol. 1, p. 3).
Fact 4: I am using the marriage date of 25 Aug 1868 as found in The
History of the Putnam Family, Vol. 1, p. 58.

Unfortunately, the second wife also has given name Sarah. Their
marriage was on 1 Jul 1706 (Salem VR, Vol. 4, p. 228). She was
previously m. to Benjamin Houlton. I have her maiden name as Holton but
am not sure.

I do have the following quote: "One of the mysteries of the Putnam line
yet remaining unsolved is the sure identity of Sarah the first wife of
Benjamin. Eben Putnam has her maiden name listed as Tarrant but there
is proof lacking. According to Read Putnam her name could also be
Hannah or Elizabeth. The old Putnam home where the senior Putnam had
lived for three generations burned to the ground in the early part of the
1700s, and it is felt this misfortune left us without an accurate record
of the time, and a generation before."

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