Individual Details
Benjamin Bemis
(18 Jan 1743/44 - )
Events
| Birth | 18 Jan 1743/44 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts |  | ||
| Marriage | 1 Nov 1768 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts - Rebekah Draper | | ||
| Bio Note | 1781 - 1782 | Benjamin Bemis served as Town Clerk - Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts | | ||
| Bio Note | 1784 - 1786 | Benjamin Bemis served as Selectman - Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts | | ||
| Bio Note | 1785 | Benjamin Bemis served as Assessor - Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts | | ||
| Bio Note | 1786 | Benjamin Bemis served as Town Clerk - Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts | | ||
| Death | Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts | | |||
| Military | during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 |  | |
Families
| Spouse | Rebekah Draper (1744 - ) |
| Child | Mary "Molly" Bemis (1770 - 1828) |
| Child | Mehitable Bemis (1772 - ) |
| Child | Rebekah Bemis (1774 - ) |
| Child | Martha Bemis (1777 - ) |
| Child | Reuben Bemis (1779 - ) |
| Child | James Draper Bemis (1783 - 1857) |
| Child | Benjamin Bemis (1785 - ) |
| Father | Samuel Bemis (1716 - 1793) |
| Mother | Mary Johnson (1724 - 1760) |
| Sibling | Mary Bemis (1745 - ) |
| Sibling | Rebekah Bemis (1747 - ) |
| Sibling | Samuel Bemis (1749 - ) |
| Sibling | Reuben Bemis (1752 - 1779) |
| Sibling | Beulah Bemis (1754 - 1829) |
Notes
Military
According to Draper's History of the Bemis Family, "Colonel Benjamin Bemis was a distinguished soldier in the Revolutionary Struggle and in the War of 1812. He was a private in Capt. Joseph Walcott's Company of Rangers, from Spencer in the Lexington Alarm. Sergeant in Capt. Joel Green's Company, Col. Frye's Regiment Mass. Militia 1775. Lieut. 8th Comp. Worcester County Militia, in Col. Washburne's Regiment, Worcester Co. Mass Militia Jan. 12, 1781. Also, Member of the Spencer Committee of Correspondence and Safety. He commanded a Regiment in the War of 1812, and was ordered to the Canadian frontier, where however they did not have an engagement with the British."Endnotes
1. James Draper, History of Spencer, Massachusetts, From its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1860: Including a Brief Sketch of Leicester, to the Year 1753 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Henry J. Howland, Printer, n.d.), 162.
2. Systematic History Fund, Vital Records of Spencer, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, Trustee of the Fund, 1909), 16.
3. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 124.
4. James Draper, History of Spencer, Massachusetts, From its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1860: Including a Brief Sketch of Leicester, to the Year 1753 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Henry J. Howland, Printer, n.d.), 163.
5. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 125.
6. Systematic History Fund, Vital Records of Spencer, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, Trustee of the Fund, 1909), 133.
7. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 126.
8. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 126.
9. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 126.
10. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 126.
11. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 124.
12. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 125-6.