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John Benedict (February 6, 1649 – November 11, 1729) was a member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives The Connecticut State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The house is composed of 151 members representing an equal number of districts, with ...
from Norwalk, Connecticut Colony in the sessions of May 1722 and May 1725. He was born in 1649, in Southold, Long Island which was part of the
New Haven Colony The New Haven Colony was a small English colony in North America from 1638 to 1664 primarily in parts of what is now the state of Connecticut, but also with outposts in modern-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The history of ...
at the time. He was the son of
Thomas Benedict Thomas Benedict, Sr. (1617 – February 28, 1689) was an early settler in colonial New York, and Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Isla ...
and Mary Brigham Benedict. He moved with his family to Norwalk. He succeeded his father as deacon, and served in that position until old age. He was named a
freeman Freeman, free men, or variant, may refer to: * a member of the Third Estate in medieval society (commoners), see estates of the realm * Freeman, an apprentice who has been granted freedom of the company, was a rank within Livery companies * Free ...
1680. He served as a selectman in 1689, from 1692 to 94 and in 1699. He was appointed part of committees to recruit a minister and a schoolmaster. In 1686, he drew home-lot #27 in Norwalk, and in 1678, he bought a 4 acre home lot on Dry Hill. The church honored him by voting to allow him to sit "in ye seat before ye pulpit" in 1705.


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