Benoni HODSDON
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Old Kittery and Her Families, by Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole
NOTES: 1. Benoni and Abigail lived at Quamphegon, near Salmon Falls, Maine where their house was burned by the Indians 16 Oct 1675, and several inhabitants were slain. Benoni was given the homestead at Birchen Point, Kittery, Maine by his father on 22 Oct 1678. He was a prominent man, selectman in 1692 and 1694, an influential member of the church and one of the committee to locate the meeting house in 1701 and a representative in 1718. Benoni sold his homestead 2 March 1773 to his son, Thomas, and he was to pay his brothers and sisters a certain sum as their share of their father's estate. The administration on his estate was granted to his widow on 15 May 1718. BURIAL: Buried on the Hodson Family Homestead, Kittery, York County, Maine.
BURIAL: Buried on the Hodson Family Homestead, Kittery, York County, Maine
He married Abigail Curtis Abt 1668 at York, Maine . Abigail Curtis was born at Berwick, York, Maine 1649 daughter of Thomas Curtis and Elizabeth Salmon .
They were the parents of 8
children:
Esther Hodsdon
born Abt 1668.
Elizabeth Hodsdon
born Abt 1670.
Abigail Hodsdon
born Abt 1672.
Joseph Hodsdon
born Abt 1675.
Thomas Hodsdon
born Abt 1680.
Hannah Hodsdon
born Abt 1681.
Samuel Hodsdon
born Abt 1687.
John Hodsdon
born 24 Jul 1698.
Benoni Hodsdon died 15 May 1718 at Berwick, York, Maine .
Abigail Curtis died 1718 at Berwick, York, Maine .