On 10 Oct 1752 Ruth married
Benjamin Bunnell (33761) , son of
Benjamin Bunnell (30035) (30 Apr 1704-aft 1762) &
Mehitabel Baldwin (16023) (25 Feb 1705-14 Feb 1765), in Derby, CT.
140 Benjamin Bunnel, Jr, m. Ruth Smith, both of Derby, married by Rev. Jonathan Lyman.
Born on 7 Mar 1731 in Milford, CT.65 Benjamin was baptized in First Church of Milford, on 12 Mar 1731.176 Benjamin died in Derby, CT, on 5 Nov 1770; he was 39.140
Bunnell, Benjamin of Waterbury, late of Derby, d. Nov. 5, 1770 Derby Vital Records Vol. TM 1 Page 48 Barbour Index cards.
The most recent compilation of the Bunnell Family provides the following information for Benjamin Bunnell. The Bunnell/Bonnell Family in America, second edition, Volume I revised and Volume 2; William Bunnell of Massachusetts Bay and New Haven Colonies, Compiled by William R. Austin, Heritage Books, 2007:176
Benjamin Bunnell 5 (Benjamin 4, Benjamin 4, Benjamin 4, William 1) was born 7 March 17 1731 at Milford, New Haven Co., CT. He was baptized 12 March 1731 in the Milford Congregational Church. He was married 10 October 1752 by Rev. Jonathan Lyman at Derby, New Haven, CT. to Ruth Smith, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Smith. She was born about 1737.
Benjamin and Ruth were admitted to full communion in the Congregational church of Oxford, New Haven, Co. CT, on 5 April 1753. In June 1761 Benjamin advertised in the Connecticut Gazette offering a reward for the prehension of a runaway named Daniel Wording, aged about 35 years, who was apprenticed to him after he paided to save Wording from jail.
Benjamin and his family became members of Episcopal Church in the parish of Oxford when it was established in 1764 by the labors of Rev. Richard Mansfield. On 22 December 1766 Joseph Davis, of Derby, in the parish of Oxford, granted to the parishioners of the Church of England in Oxford, a meeting=house lot of about five acres “to have and to hold to the said Abel Gunn, Benjamin Bunnell, and to all the rest of the professors of the Church of England, in said Oxford.”
Benjamin died 5 November 1770 either at Waterbury (or Derby), New Haven County, Connecticut. His estate was probated in Waterbury in 1771. HIs widow Ruth served as administratrix, and she was appointed guardian of the children. Ruth appears in the 1800 census in Oxford, Connecticut, living alone. She died in Oxford at the of 72.