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Flagg Benjamin
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  • Birth  25 Jun 1662  [1, 2] 
    Gender  Male 
    _UPD  16 AUG 2009 14:09:59 GMT-5 
    Died  03 May 1741  [1, 2] 
    Person ID  I988  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Father  Flegg Thomas,   b. 1615, Whinbergh Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 06 Feb 1697/98 
    Mother  Mary,   b. 1619 
    Family ID  F432  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Child Experience,   b. 26 Feb 1669, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1747, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  26 Sep 1690  [1] 
    Children 
     1. Flagg Gershom,   b. 11 Jul 1702, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1744
    Family ID  F430  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • 11. Benjamin2, b. 25 June, 1662; m. 26 Sept., 1690, Experience Child, dau. of Richard Child of Water- town. Removed to Worcester, where he d. 3 May, 1741. Issue, nine children. (See Bond's Watertown,p. 221).

      ORTHOGRAPHY of the FAMILY NAME, FLEGG-FLAGG.

      The family name, as found in the English records and as spelled by the earlier members of the family in America, was FLEGG, and such was the spelling used as far back as the twelfth century. (See Chapter I). FLEGGE was another mode of spelling, used often in the English records, and we even find FLEG, FLEGE, FLEGH, FLEGHT, FLEGGH, and FLIGHT to have been made use of, as the family name. But FLAGGwe never find until about 1700, when our ancestors in New England seem, by common consent, to have abandoned the less euphonious FLEGG.

      Concerning this change of spelling, Dr. Bond, in his History of Watertown, Mass., says: "This orthography (FLAGG) of the name has been adopted in the text, because it has become the prevalent, almostthe universal, usage, for the last few generations. There is, however, very little doubt but that it is erroneous, and that the correct orthography is FLEGG. In the early records of the town (Watertown) and of the county, for eighty years or more, the name is, almost without exception, written FLEGG, with some variations, always retaining the E."

      In "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England," published 1860 by James Savage, Vol. II, p. 171, is
      found the following:

      "THOMAS FLEGG (FLAGG)— In the records of Water- town the name is spelled FLEG or FLEGG, in conformity, — as in our English patronymics is so usual — with its geographical derivation, but, in general,at other places, conforming to the sound.

      There exists a German family name, FLAGGE, which may easily be confused with our own family name, especially if, by a process of being Americanized, its final syllable is incorrectly silent in pronunciation.

      Members of the FLEGG family, still using the ancient and correct orthography, are William Martin FLEGG, and his son James Minter FLEGG, of London, England.

      "FLEGG is an old English surname, the family having its origin, tradition says, in one RAWL FLEGG, a Norse viking who ravaged the eastern coast and made settlement in Norfolk about 868. There was theseat of the family and there are located (1905) FLEGG Hall and the hundreds of East and West FLEGG, old civil divisions of the county." (Extract from article in Vermont Antiquarian, March, 1905, by Chas. Allcott Flagg, of Washington, D. C., furnished through courtesy of John Henry Flagg of New York City and of Dr. John S. Flagg of Combridge, Mass).

      Benjamin Flagg, son of Thomas Flagg (1), was born June 25, 1662. He removed to Worcester and settled there as one of the early proprietors, was admitted a freeman April 19, 1690, and died there May 3, 1741. He married, September 26, 1690, Experience, daughter of Richard Child, of Watertown. She died at Worcester, 1747. Children of Benjamin Flagg and wife Experience:

      1. Benjamin, born August 25, 1691 ; died at Worcester June 12, 1751 ; selectman, captain, sheriff.
      2. Experience, born May 5, 1693; married, October 26, 1713, Caleb Ball, of Concord.
      3. Abigail, born April 16, 1694-5.
      4. Bartholomew, born November 16, 1697, mariner of Bristol.
      5. Elizabeth, born December 28, 1699; married Peter King.
      6. Gershom, mentioned below.
      7. Mary, baptized April 9, 1704.
      8. Ebenezer, born January 21, 1705-6.
      9. Richard, born May 30, 1708; lieutenant Holden company, died November 12, 1799. aged ninety-two years ; he settled in Holden, and his son was Colonel Samuel, who was selectman of Worcester 1790-1808; owned 240 acres on Green street.
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S59] Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of, Ellery Bicknell Crane, (Name: 1907;), 532 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S58] Family Records of the Descendants of Gershom Flagg Born 1730 of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 132 (Reliability: 3).

  

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