First Generation

BENJAMIN ALBIE of Braintree, Medfield and Swansea

Parents: Unknown

Little is known about Benjamin Albie. The birth records of his children say that their mother is named Hannah.

Benjamin was in Braintree in 1641. [Ref] He was a freeman on 18 May 1642. [Ref][Ref] He witnessed the will of Henry Adams of Braintree in 1646. [Ref] On 22 (7) 1650 Benjamin and Henry Adams (presumably the son of the previously named Henry) inventoried the estate of John Sheppard of Braintree. [Ref 8;58]

Benjamin was granted 138 acres in the East Section in Medfield in 1650. [Ref] He may have been of Mendon or Swansea in 1669, most probably the former. [Ref]

A brother Albee was one of the seven founding members of the Swansea Baptist church on 20 Jan 1666/7. He appears in the records in the early 1670s and both a Benjamin Albee and a Hannah Albee are on a list that appears to be from 1675. [Ref]

Children of Benjamin Albie and Hannah Unknown:

1. Hannah Albie was born on 16 Aug 1641 [Ref "unless the rec. be wrong"] in Braintree. [Ref] She married Samuel Wight on 25 Mar 1662 in Medfield. [Ref] Samuel may be the son of Thomas Wight. He died on 21 Dec 1716 in Medfield. [Ref]
2. Lydia Albie was born on 14 Apr 1642 [Ref "unless the rec. be wrong"] in Braintree. [Ref] She married Alexander Lovell on 30 Oct 1658 in Medfield. [Ref][Ref]
3. Prudence Albie married Thomas Barnes 1.
4. James Albie (perhaps) married Hannah Cooke on 18 Oct 1671 in Medfield. [Ref]
5. John Albie (perhaps) married Jane Holbrooke on 18 Oct 1671 in Medfield. [Ref]
6. Benjamin Albie was born in 1653 in Medfield. [Ref "it is said"]
7. Sarah Albie was born on 11 Mar 1652-3 in Medfield. [Ref][Ref][Ref says 11 Mar 1654]

Second Generation

PRUDENCE ALBIE (m. 1666)

Parents: Benjamin Albie and Hannah Unknown

Prudence Albie married Thomas Barnes 1 on 16 May 1666 in Medfield. [Ref] She died before 12 Nov 1694, when her husband remarried.

The evidence that James, John and Prudence are the children of Benjamin is circumstantial.

References:

Anderson, Robert Charles, ed., "Swansea, Massachusetts Baptist Church Records," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 139, 1985, 21-49.

Jameson, E. O., The Biographical Sketches of Prominent Persons, and the Genealogical Records of many Early and other Families in Medway, Mass. : 1713-1886, Millis, Mass., unknown, 1886.

Lucius R. Paige, "List of Freemen, " New England Historical and Genealogical Register 3, 1849, 189.

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2007.

Pulsifer, David, trans., "Records of Boston," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, various issues.

Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692.

William Trask, "Abstracts of the Wills of the Early Settlers of New England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 7, 1853, 35.

Trask, William, "Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on Record in the County of Suffolk, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 8, 1854, 58.