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Descendants of Forbes William fifth-300367

Fifth Generation


5. Forbes Ralph Bennet-8054 (John , Archibald , John , William fifth ) was born on 11 Jun 1773 in Milton, Massachusetts. He died on 5 Oct 1824.

Note a Collingwood woman in http per Linda Minor. He also has drs Cornelia (1807-1809), Mary Abbot Forbes, (1814-1904) and Frances Cordelia (1817-1911). Per Linda Minor. His sons are cousins of John Perkins Cushing. See also email of 6-11-200 from Linda Minor and her http. L. Vernon Briggs, History and Genealogy of the Cabot Family, 1475-1927. In Two Volumes. Boston, Privately printed, Charles E. Goodspeed and Co., 1927.

Ralph married Perkins Margaret Mitchell-21040 daughter of Boston fur trader Perkins James-8043 and Peck Elizabeth-116791 on 13 Oct 1799. Margaret was born in 1773. She died in 1856.

She married Richard Bennett Forbes. From Linda Minor, she is sister of Thomas Handasynd Perkins qv.

Ralph and Margaret had the following children:

  8 F i Forbes Emma Perkins-61906 was born in 1801. She died in 1847.

Per Linda Minor.
  9 M ii Forbes Thomas Tunno-61904 was born in 1802. He died in 1829.

Code-US He is with THP firm by about 1826 see notes to THP file. Per Linda Minor.
+ 10 M iii Opium trader, US merchant, Railroads Forbes John Murray-8057 was born on 23 Feb 1813. He died on 12 Oct 1898.
+ 11 M iv US-China trader Forbes Robert Bennet I-8138 was born on 18 Sep 1804. He died on 3 Nov 1889.
  12 F v Forbes Margaret Perkins-61516 was born in 1806. She died in 1876.

Per Linda Minor.

6. Colonel Forbes James Grant-57286 (John , Archibald , John , William fifth ) was born on 22 Nov 1769. He died on 25 Sep 1826 in New York.

Per Linda Minor. Additional information (accesssed 30-8-2007) per a web treatment of Senator John Forbes Kerry (b. 1943) by William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services - email to: wargs@wargs.com (with help from David Curtis Dearborn and Gary Boyd Roberts et al. http on Bingham Genealogy Project at http://www.pa.uky.edu/~shapere/dkbinhgam/index/.

James married Blackwell Frances Elizabeth-276227 daughter of New York iron merchant Blackwell Joseph-276226 and Hazard Mary-350953. Frances died in 1845.

Additional information (accesssed 30-8-2007) per a web treatment of Senator John Forbes Kerry (b. 1943) by William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services - email to: wargs@wargs.com (with help from David Curtis Dearborn and Gary Boyd Roberts et al.

James and Frances had the following children:

+ 13 M i Rev Forbes John Murray-276222 was born in 1807. He died in 1885.
+ 14 M ii US-China merchant Forbes Paul Sieman-359010 was born in 1808. He died in 1886.
  15 F iii Forbes Mary Josephine-359474 was born in 1806. She died in 1871.

http by Doug Bingham, on Bingham Genealogy Project at: http://www.pa.uky.edu/~shapere/dkbinhgam/index/.
  16 M iv Forbes William Howell-359475 was born in 1811. He died in Lost at sea.

http by Doug Bingham, on Bingham Genealogy Project at: http://www.pa.uky.edu/~shapere/dkbinhgam/index/.
+ 17 F v Forbes Harriet Blackwell-359476 was born in 1814. She died in 1885.
+ 18 F vi Forbes Frances Margaret-359477 was born in 1817. She died in 1886.
+ 19 F vii Forbes Adelaide Augusta-359478 was born in 1820. She died in 1882.

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