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Benjamin Runyon
Posted Nov 18, 2009 by rhodajoe
CAUTION - Several Current genealogies list this Benjamin with two wifes, a Mary ? and Anna Higgins. Accounts list Mary as a widow of and administrator of the estate of Benjamin, and also Benjamin on his death leaving by will to his wife "... Anna Runyan, all the goods she brought to me, and the profits of my plantation, to bring up those of my children that are under age,..."
It appears the records of two compleatly different Benjamin Runyon's have somehow been combined into one record.
A person can't die twice and have two different estates, so we have to be talking about two different Benjamin Runyon's, one who married Mary ?, who later became Mary Fish, and a second Benjamin who married Anna Higgins.
Benjamin Runyon son of John Vincent Runyon was the Benjamin who married Mary ?, and was born on June 16,1704 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, NJ., and died about 1776/7 in Somerset County, New Jersey.
The Benjamin Runyon (Runyan) who married Anna Higgins had to be born after 1704 because his will dated January 29, 1776 and proved February 12, 1776 left to his "...Wife Anna Runyan, all the goods she brought to me, and the profits of my plantation, to bring up those of my childern that are under age...". To have more than one child under age in 1776, we would have to estimate that this Benjamin was born between 1725 and 1738.
Notes for MARY ?:
Information on this Mary wife of Benjamin Runyon seems to have originated from Page 627 of "First Settlers of Ye Plantation of Piscataway and Woodbridge" by Orra Eugene Monnette who says Benjamin left a Widow, Mary, who immediatly married William Fish, who died soon & then Mary immediatly married Joseph Furman. It has been shown that Monnette's work had many outright errors and inconsistencies.
Amali (Runyon) Perkins provided me with a xerox copy of information she had copied at Rutgers University concerning the estate of Benjamin, which supports Monnette's account of this Mary. The copied information says:
"1746-7, March 3, Runion (Runyon), Benjamin, of Somerset Co. Int. Inventory ... includes gun, sword and halbert, one white stallion. made by Zebulon Stout and Benjamin Rounsavall.
1747, Dec. 4. Bond of Mary Fish, of Somerset County, widow, as administratrix. James Clark, of New Windsor, Middlesex Co., farmer surety. Witness - William Coxe.
1756, April 19. Account of Josiah Furman and Mary his wife, late Mary Fish, and James Clark administrators of the estate..."
Online source: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/u/n/Ira-A-Runyan/GENE6...
