Name: Wentworth, Benning (1696-1770)
Title: First Royal Governor, Province of New Hampshire, 1741-67
Other Names: His Excellency
Born: 07/24/1696
Birthplace: Portsmouth, NH
Died: 10/14/1770
Death Location: Portsmouth, NH
Residence: Portsmouth, NH
Little Harbor, NH
Occupation: Merchant
Father: Wentworth, John (Lieut-Gov) (1671-1730)
Mother: Hunking, Sarah (1671/2-1741)
Relations: Nephew: Royal Gov. John Wentworth.
Siblings:
Wentworth, Hunking (1697-1784; b.d. Portsmouth, NH; m1. Elizabeth Wibird; m2. Elizabeth Keese; m3. Margaret Vaughan; children)
Wentworth, Hannah (1700-1769; m1. Samuel Plaisted; m2. Judge Theodore Atkinson)
Wentworth, Sarah (1701/2-; b. Portsmouth, NH; m1.__; m2. George Jaffrey II)
Wentworth, John (1702/3-; b. Portsmouth, NH)
Wentworth, William (1704/5-; b. Portsmouth, NH)
Wentworth, Mary (1706/7-; b. Portsmouth, NH)
Wentworth, Samuel (1707/8-; b. Portsmouth, NH)
Wentworth, Mark Hunking (1708/9-; b. Portsmouth, NH; m. Elizabeth Rindge, father of Gov. John)
Wentworth, Elizabeth (1709/10-; b. Portsmouth, NH)
Wentworth, Rebecca (1711/12-; b. Portsmouth, NH)
Wentworth, Ebenezer (1713/14-; b. Portsmouth, NH)
Wentworth, Daniel (1715/16-; b. Portsmouth, NH)
Wentworth, George (1718/19-; b. Portsmouth, NH)
Grandparents: Samuel Wentworth.
Great-grandparents: Elder William Wentworth, of Dover, NH
Spouse: 1. Ruck, Abigail (1699-1755). Married 1719, Boston. Abigail was the daughter of John Ruck of Boston, MA.
2. Hilton, Martha. Married 1760. Martha was the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Richard Hilton, and was brought up in the household of Benning. She married 2nd, Michael Wentworth, and had a daugther with him.
Children: Children of Abigail Ruck:
Wentworth, John (baptized 1720-21-1759; Major for role in Canadian expedition; not married)
Wentworth, Benning (baptized 1722; died young)
Wentworth, Foster (died young)
Notes: NOTE: Name, death date, and age engraved on salver owned by Theodore Atkinson IV.
SEE ALSO (father): Wentworth, John (Lieut.-Gov.)
SEE ALSO (2nd wife): Wentworth, Martha
SEE ALSO (brother): Wentworth, Hunking
SEE ALSO (brother-in-law): Jaffrey, George
SEE ALSO (brother-in-law): Atkinson, Theodore (IV)
SEE ALSO (sister-in-law): Wentworth, Mary Mendum
SEE ALSO (cousin): Rymes, Christopher
SEE ALSO (son): Wentworth, John (Major)
SEE ALSO (nephew): Wentworth, John (Governor)
SEE ALSO (nephew): Atkinson, Theodore (Jr)
John Wentworth, The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American. Volume I. (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, And Company, 1878),