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Tnaeene a easee ae i tag eaea.n et6ee 41i14f 93sic 4 xi i e Rath Ba aSR t‘e pNoS nas adsaD Nea i iH 1 saReY JN \aLSANSMSinD nSe sP NPEO,R Boston Public Library M Oru oe - - eo oh OUTS - 7 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2021 with funding trom Boston Public Library https://archive.org/details/binghamfamilyinuOOmung THE BINGHAM FAMILY IN THE UNITED STATES: The DESCENDANTS of THOMAS BINGHAM OF CONNECTICUT Compiled and Written by Donna Bingham Munger Including Contributions from Bingham Researchers The Bingham Association New York 1996 3p Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 96-83801 © 1996 by The Bingham Association All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced by any process in whole or in part, including illustrations, without written permission from The Bingham Association Please direct all book orders and correspondence to The Bingham Association 19 East 72nd Street New York, N.Y. 10021 Printed in the United States of America by Family History Publishers 845 South Main Street Bountiful, Utah 84010 Contents Preface Preface-1 - 2 Introduction Introduction-1 - 3 Bingham Armorial Bearings Introduction-2 Users’ Guide _—_ User’s Guide-1 Generation One 1-1 - 1-5 Norwich Home Lots Map, 1659 1-3 Thomas Bingham Gravestone 1-5 Generation Two 2-1 - 2-7 Old Windham Lots Map, 1686-1916 2-3 - 2-4 Generation Three 3-1 - 3-13 Generation Four 4-1 - 4-38 Generation Five 5-1 - 5-65 Generation Six 6-1 - 6-97 Generation Seven 7-1 - 7-90 Generation Eight 8-1 - 8-79 Generation Nine 9-1 - 9-83 Generation Ten 10-1 - 10-29 Generation Eleven 11-1 - 11-12 Generation Twelve 12-1 - 12-2 Contributors Contributors-1 - 4 References References-1 - 7 Index Index-1 - 77 The Bingham Association Officers President A. Walker Bingham III Vice-President Donna Bingham Munger Secretary Nicolette Pathy Bingham Treasurer Arthur W. Bingham IV Archivist-Historian Donna Bingham Munger Directors A. Walker Bingham III, New York, N. Y. Arthur W. Bingham IV, New York, N.Y. David B. Bingham, Salem, Connecticut Everett Bingham, Midland, Texas Hiram A. Bingham, Greenwich, Connecticut Robert J. Bingham, Tulsa, Oklahoma Jo Bingham Disco, Delray Beach, Florida Donna Bingham Munger, Yelm, Washington Board of Advisors Jean Bigelow, Bountiful, Utah Mrs. Ralph Bigham, Albuquerge, New Mexico Frances E. Bingham, Canterbury, Connecticut Thomas S. Bingham, Ogden, Utah Anne A. Jennings, Scottsdale, Arizona Joan Bingham Payne, Cornwall, Vermont Tom A. Richards, Edmonton, Alberta Joyce Bingham Roy, Stone Mountain, Georgia Garth E. Story Jr., Lee, Massachusetts Descendants, Thomas Bingham of Connecticut Preface-1 Preface The first version of this book was published in 1898 by Theodore A. Bingham, then a Colonel in the Quartermaster Corps, later brevetted Brigadier General and reactivated during WW I, who stated in his preface that “a few notes regarding his imme- diate family” had come into his possession some fifteen years earlier, and that he had “endeavored to straighten them out and fill up the gaps”. We are still doing this. Publication brought in a mass of further data, and General Theodore, or TAB as later re- searchers have referred to him, conducted additional investigations. A much expanded manuscript was published during the years 1927 to 1930 by the Bingham Association, a family organization founded for that express purpose. The Bingham Association began its life with a grand dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on February 12, 1925. Its first officers were: U.S. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, President (1.1.9.10.7a.6.2.); General Theodore A. Bingham of New York, Vice-President (1.11b.1a.1a.10.4.1.); Judge Robert W. Bingham of Louisville, Kentucky, Vice-President®99, ®426: 69; F.F. Bingham of Pensacola, Florida, Vice-President (1.1.9.9a.6.8b.5.); Walter Bingham of Ogden, Utah, Vice-President (1.2.8a.1b.1.7a.2b.3.); Professor Eugene C. Bingham of Easton, Pennsylvania, Secretary (1.1.9.9a.3.2a.3a.2.); Frederick C. Bingham of New York City, Treasurer (1.1.9.9a.3.2a.4.4.); and Dr. Anne Bingham of New York City, Recorder (1.2.9.5b.2a.2.1.3.). The principal goal of the Association was achieved with the gradual sale of the generous printing, and its activity became attenuated over the years. My father, Arthur W. Bingham Jr., was the faithful Treasurer and last surviving officer at his death in 1967. For years thereafter, the Association maintained a custodial role, preserving information offered by interested family members, but remaining always on the lookout for a qualified genealogist who would make it possible to produce a new edition worthy of the effort that had gone before. In 1977, Donna Bingham Munger, an historian by profession, came forward to meet the considerable challenge presented by such a project. In working out her own line of descent from Deacon Thomas, our first American ancestor, she became inter- ested in pulling together, verifying, perfecting, and adding to the information that which had become available from various ad- ditional sources. Originally from Seattle, Donna lived for twenty-seven years in Hershey, Pennsylvania where she was associat- ed with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She has authored over thirty books, pamphlets and papers and has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards and other honors in her profession. She is also the founder of a private genealogical research and consultation service, but her work on the book in your hands has been simply out of love of family. This book is the result of twenty years of research by Donna Munger. It was completed three years after moving to Hobart, Tasmania, where she has remained closely in touch with the known world by fax and internet communications. She is the gener- al author, compiler, and editor. My own role has been limited to reconstituting the Bingham Association and arranging for publi- cation and distribution. Much of Donna’s efforts have been directed towards validating vital records data, correcting, updating and rewriting information. A good deal of her supporting material has come from probate, land, tax, and other records, as the many cited sources reveal. Her computer skills and the use of modern research technology have been important. She has taken a fresh approach and given us completely rewritten biographical sketches. There has been no attempt to identify in print the many errors in the previous edition, but their correction serves to explain the differences one may find in making a comparison. Donna and | made a basic decision early on in determining the scope of this volume. While the last edition was entitled The Bingham Family in the United States, it was in truth devoted chiefly to the descendants of Thomas Bingham of Connecticut. We believed that it was not practical to undertake a study in one volume of all persons in the United States with the surname Bingham. There are other family organizations today that are devoted to branches of the Irish line, for example, and they have issued their own excellent genealogies. We have therefore limited this book to the direct descendants of Thomas, and have used a title that is intended to convey that limitation. In keeping with most genealogies that run to as many generations, only the male line is followed, although all known children of each person named Bingham are given with the exception, due to space limita- tions, of certain descendants of Erastus Bingham and Lucinda Gates. Preface-2 Descendants, Thomas Bingham of Connecticut Donna has useda t ightly disciplined approach, restricting herself to the provable facts without yielding to speculation or imaginative embellishment. In the essay that follows, on family origins, the points are clearly indicated where a theory is sup- ported only by legend or tradition. I take the responsibility for including such points with the thought that it is better to place in perspective any information, however dubious, where it has gained sufficient currency. In publishing, our underlying objective has always been to insure that the information we have about the descendants of Thomas Bingham will never be lost. Family associations typically experience periods of activity at the time they publish and then lapse when that effort is expended. It seems that genealogy may be overshadowed in the general public at the moment by competing interests and activities. The returns from a mass mailing about this book, to eight thousand persons with the name Bingham, barely covered our mailing expenses and left nothing for the cost of the books subscribed by family members at a bar- gain price. The discount, however, was not intended to increase revenue but to widen distribution among those who will hope- fully retain these pages for a long time to come. The Association will also distribute this book without charge to a significant number of genealogical societies, historical societies, libraries and other institutions. This has been made possible financially by the small surplus that was left from the publication of the last edition in 1930, which has remained invested since that date. Several other Bingham researchers have contributed to this volume and they are cited by initials placed immediately after the name of the person researched. A master list of contributors will be found just ahead of the final index. Donna emphasizes that much work remains to be done on the Bingham family and expresses the hope that others will be stimulated to join in it. Those willing to share their information are encouraged to send it to the Association, which will endeavor to preserve and dis- seminate their heritage to succeeding generations of descendants of Thomas Bingham. A. Walker Bingham 111 President The Bingham Association 19 East 72nd Street New York, N.Y. 10021
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