{"page_1": " 4/5/23\nREV. BENAJAH ROOTS, (John, John, Josiah) ( pg 58)\nBorn:\nMay\n1725 at Woodbury,\nMarried: Sept.\nCt.\nSe ta child 3tth mann.\nElizabeth, dau. of Peter Guernsey\nShe was born May 4,\n1813 in New\nDied: March 15, 1736 ana died 1ug. 3' est Rutland, Vt.\nRes:\n1787 ae 61\nSinsbury,\nCt., Rutland, Vt.\nChildren:\n1. Benajah Guernsey\nBon i sense toy 13, 1758; d. Sept. 11\n1842 ae\nПідз\n2. Amelia b. Warch 11\nd. June 1800; he\n1761: 1• 2. 1812\nAbner Mead.\n3. Sophia Leonora, b. Jan. 12, 1762; m.\nNathan\nPerry.\nThey lived at Cleveland, Ohio;\nhe died 1813\n4. Peter Philanthropos b. March 27, 1766; died\nDec. 26 1828 ae 62\n5. Elizabeth b.\nOct. 16, 1771; m. Rev. Silas Bong\nBingham of New Haven,\nVt. where she d.\nreb. 6,\nVt.\n6. Anna b. Oct.\nLived In West Rutland, Vt.\nRobert Gilmore.\nThey\nNOTES:\nHe united with the Congregational Church in Wood-\n1740. He graduated at New Jersey\nDr. Joseph\nBellamy\nCt. and\nwas licensed by the Litch-\nTield South Association in 1754.\nIn the fall of 1756 he was employed on\nprobation by\nFirst\nCongregational Society\nthe\nSinsbury,\nwards became pastor,\nin\nbeing ordained and\ninstalled over\nand after-\nthe\nChurch\nAug.\n10, 1757.\nHe seemed to have gained while\nthere considerable reputation\nas\na theologian of the\nstrictest puritan school, and in the course of the relig-lous controversy of that period published a pamphlet\nat Hartford entitlec\n\" Remarks on an Ecclesiastical\nCouncil convened at the First Society in\nSimsbury in\n1770\" in which he attempted to clear up the misrepresentations of his enemies.\nwas\nAnother pamphlet published by him\nentitled\n\" The Church of Christ described.\"\nDuring the\nlast three or four years he had muck difficulty with his Church and\ncongregation\nand he was dismissed from this\ncharge in the summer of 1772, after preaching there about fifteen years.\nHe removed to\nhe bought a farm with\nRutland, three 103 houses,\nVermont, then a new country, where\nMarch 1773.\nOct.\n1773,\nhe assisted in forming the church at Rutland\nCenter,\nand preached a sermon which was published.\nThe date of his settlement as first pastor in\nRutland is\nsomewhat uncertain, probably 1774.\nIn 1776 Oct. 26, he ", "page_2": " preached the\nfuneral sermon of Rev. William Enerson\nof Concord,\nwho died\nat his house.\nwere\nadded\nto the\nMass Church under his care in this\nplace.\nIn Oct.\n1779, he preached the election sermon\nbefore\nthe legislature\ning\nto the records of Last Rutland\nN.H.\nAccord-\nat Nanchesteurch made some\nten years after his death, he preached for the town about seven years;\nthe residue or the time\nabout\nseven years,\nhe was supported chiefly by individuals,\nbut\nthe town records\nshow votes for the temporary\nhiring\nof him to preach as late as 1784.\nHe received his A.M. from his Alma Matel\nalso from\nYale\nCollege,\nalso from Dartmouth in 1784.\nfis Will\nHe left an\nestate exceed-\ning in appraised value\nwhich would\n$20, 000 in value now.\n1787 ae\nlaven, Vt. "}