Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

BENJAMIN WALLINGFORD, the twelfth child and the youngest son of NICHOLAS, the immigrant, like his father became a Master Mariner and for some time followed the shipping trade. Evidently, he grew tired of the sea for in 1708, he purchased a tract of land in PRINCE GEORGES County, MARYLAND. This tract consisting of two hundred fifty acres lay along the POTOMAC RIVER and it was known as WALLINGFORD's PURCHASE.

BENJAMIN was married to ELIZABETH __________?. [(It seems almost certain that this missing surname is Brown. An old will contains a bequest from JOHN BROWN to BENJAMIN WALLINGFORD)by Dr. ALVIN WALLINGFORD]

BENJAMIN WALLINGFORD died prior to 1741. His wife, ELIZABETH made a will in 1741, in this will, she names their children.

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Benjamin Wallingford was born in Bradford, Essex County, Massachusetts 27 June 1678.(52) Benjamin died by 5 May 1733, in Arundel County, Maryland, at 54 years of age. The first inventory of his estate was taken on this date. He married Elizabeth Brown, about 1700, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. (The Maryland Register of Wills, v.7, records the will of John Brown of Ann Arundel County dated 10 May, probated 25 May 1734, in which he bequeaths to Benjamin Wollingford whom he makes his executor. This is the evidence upon which his marriage to Elizabeth Brown is based.) Elizabeth was the daughter of John Brown.

Elizabeth died in 1743, in Prince George's County, Maryland. On 27 September 1701 John Wallingford gave bond for the administration of the estate of his brother Benjamin, apparently upon a false report of his death. An inventory of Benjamin's estate was taken on 22 October 1701 by the Richard Kimball and Jonas Platts which included "about sixten acres of land and Medow".(53) But Benjamin was alive and well and living in Maryland, and he was back in Massachusetts in 1709, evidently to rectify the situation. On 4 April 1709 John, still said to be "of Bradford" and Benjamin signed an agreement -- John "did In ye Absence of Benja Wallingford take out Admn on said Benja Lands as may appear by Record. It is agreed by both parties yt if said administration shall have ye Improvement of said Estate for ye Time past. In consideration of his trouble Charge & care In Managing said Estate & do hereby acquitt & release ye said Admr for any reckoning considering his Adminstration & ye said Benja to Enjoy & possess all his [illeg.] of right Divided to him."(54)

Benjamin either remained in Massachusetts after this April 1709 agreement was made or soon returned, because on 3 November 1709 he was a signatory to a petition of the children of the late Nicholas Wallingford to the Massachusetts government. This petition is described in more detail under his father's record.(55)

Also that same year he was a beneficiary to the estate of his brother Joseph. He and each of his surviving siblings received one pound two shillings from the estate.(56)

Benjamin moved to Maryland and had numerous descendants, many in Kentucky. His line has not been traced in this genealogy. For more information on his descendants see the Wallingford genealogy by Charles C. Wallingford and Charles H. Murrow, available on microfilm in LDS Family History Centers worldwide.

52. Bradford, MA, VR, Published, p.163 (from town records).
53. Essex County, MA, Probate, File 28802.
54. Ibid., File 28810.
55. Mass. Archives Coll., 17:240-1.
56. Essex County, MA, Deeds, File 28810.

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