| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Seventh Generation96. Capt. Benjamin EDDY was born on 5 March 1710 in Swansea, Bristol Co., MA. He died about 1761 at the age of 51 in Providence, RI. Benjamin Eddy learned the trade of a ship carpenter and started his business in Warwick, R.I. He was a resident of Warwick in 1734, purchased property in East Greenwich in 1735, and was made a freeman of East Greenwich the same year. He bought property in Warwick in 1737 and sold it in 1744. He established a business on the west side of the Providence River about where Ship Street and Eddy Street now come together. He was made a freeman of Providence in 1749. His son-in-law Barnard Eddy and Esek Eddy joined him in the shipbuilding business. This establishment of shipbuilders was the largest in Providence at the time. He was an officer in the militia from 1748 to 1759. He served in Col. Hopkins Regiment in 1756 and as first lieutenant in Capt. Jencke's Company in 1758 and as Captain of the 9th Company in 1759. He died intestate, and his widow refused to accept the administration of his estate, so his son-in-law Barnard Eddy did so. The estate was insolvent. Source: "The Eddy Family in America," pp. 81-2. He is #194. Elizabeth COOPER and Capt. Benjamin EDDY were married in Warwick?. 97. Elizabeth COOPER was born on 6 April 1711 in Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA. She died on 27 March 1781 at the age of 69 in Providence, RI. An Elizabeth Cooper was b. Rehoboth April 6, 1711 (MA VR). She may have been the daughter of either Thomas or Nathaniel Cooper, sons of Deacon Thomas Cooper, an early settler of Rehoboth. Joshua Eddy and his son Benjamin appear to have been living in Swansea/Rehoboth until after 1734. Children were:
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