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Benjamin Franklin (4) (John 3, Benjamin 2, William 1) b. Woodstock, Connecticut, Dec 30 1716.
Child:
14. Henry J. (5)*
Henry J Franklin
(Benjamin, John, Benjamin, William) d. Woodstock Oct 2nd 1783, m (1) Pomfret July 18 1763 Mary Williams b. Sep 27 1739, daughter of Samuel Williams of Roxbury and Deborah Throop: || Married (2) July 29 1766 Dorothy
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Chaffee (Chaffee No. 71)* (both of Woodstock), b. Woodstock May 6th 1743, daughter of James Chaffee and his first wife Beriah Hayden. The autographs of Henry J. Franklin (5) and his daughter Dorothy Franklin appear in Matthew Bowen's Account Book. Henry was in the 4th Conn. Regt. in 1779 in Revolutionary War.
ALL CHILDREN BUT OLDEST BORN IN WOODSTOCK:
17. Mary born Pomfret Nov 13 1765
18. Lotheta b. Oct 18 1767, d. Woodstock June 28th 1814, m. as his first wife Walter Tucker...
Note:
The Henry J. Franklin who married Mary Williams and the Henry J. Franklin who married Dorothy Chaffee are not the same. The book acknowledges only the oldest child of Henry J. and Mary, their daughter Mary born 1765, when they continued having children (and in Amherst, Massachusetts, not Pomfret), Sophie, Elizabeth, Persis, and Francis, the youngest Sophia being born in 1778.
(See https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCPT-JJW)
However, since the Henry J. Franklin who married Dorothy Chaffee was of Connecticut, the military record is most likely accurate.
This questions his father as being listed as Benjamin, however there was a Benjamin Franklin born in Woodstock on Dec 30 1716:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74L-HBJ
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