Tenth Generation

514. Deacon Benjamin SABIN (*) was born on 3 July 1646 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 22 July 1725 at the age of 79 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He was buried in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. in the South (Sabin) Cemetery. Sarah PARKER (*) and Deacon Benjamin SABIN (*) were married on 5 September 1678 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

He was one of the eleven founders of Woodstock, CT. A historical marker at the entrance to the town says: "Woodstock - Near this place in 1636, Thomas Hooker and his party may have passed by way of the Connecticut Path, going to settle what is now Hartford. In 1674 John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians, Pastor of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Major Daniel Gookin visited a peaceful encampment of Wabbaquassets living in the vicinity of present-day Woodstock to preach from nearby Eliot Rock, and sought to establish their church among the natives of these land. King Philip's War broke out, in 1675, during which the Wabbaquassets deserted the area.

This site was chosen as a place of settlement and here on April 6, 1686, from Roxbury came Peter Aspinwall (?), Thomas Bacon, Henry Bacon, Matthew Davis, John Isabel (?), Nathaniel Gary, John Gore, Benjamin Griggs, George Griggs, John March, Ebenezer Morris (?), Benjamin Sabin, Jonathan Smithers (?)."

From "The Early Settlement of Pomfret, Connecticut": "In 1705 the little settlement was strengthened by the accession of Deacon Benjamin Sabin, of Woodstock, with his sons, Benjamin, Stephen, Nehemiah, Ebenezer, Josiah and Jeremiah. Deacon Sabin selected for his homestead a farm adjoining Philemon Chandler's. and settled his sons on land purchased of Samuel Gore's heirs and others."

"Captain John Sabin, the first known settler of the township of Pomfret, was a native of Rehoboth, and either brother or cousin to Benjamin Sabin of Woodstock. One hundred acres of land, 'bounded north by Woodstock, west by Purchase, east by land between it and the Quinebaug River, south by land belonging to James Fitch,' were conveyed by Fitch to Sabin for nine pounds, June 22d, 1691. How soon Captain Sabin took possession of this land is not indicated, but prior to the disturbances of 1696 he had built himself a house with fortifications, and gained much influence over the Indians. During the Indian war he rendered much service to the inhabitants of Woodstock, and also to the governments of Massachusetts and Connecticut, 'by standing his ground,' protecting the frontier and engaging his Indian neighbors in the service of the English."

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515. Sarah PARKER (*) was born on 23 May 1658 in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 22 January 1718 at the age of 59 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. She was buried in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. in the Sabin Cemetery.

Children were:

	i.	Sarah SABIN was born on 1 August 1679 in Roxbury Neighborhood, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 6 January 1704 at the age of 24 in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
	ii.	Nehemiah SABIN was born on 10 January 1681 in Roxbury Neighborhood, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 4 July 1746 at the age of 65 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
257	iii.	Patience "Patty" SABIN (*).
	iv.	Jeremiah SABIN was born on 11 March 1684 in Roxbury Neighborhood, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 20 January 1775 at the age of 90 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
	v.	Experience SABIN was born in February 1685 in Roxbury Neighborhood, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 9 September 1771 at the age of 86 in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
	vi.	Stephen SABIN was born on 30 May 1688 in Woodstock Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He died in 1737 at the age of 49 in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
	vii.	Jerusha SABIN was born on 11 October 1689. She died on 22 February 1746 at the age of 56.
	viii.	Ensign Timothy SABIN was born on 27 July 1694 in Woodstock Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 9 May 1780 at the age of 85 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He was buried in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. in the South Cemetery.