When Benjamin Billings was born on 10 October 1743, in Preston, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Roger Billings, was 35 and his mother, Abigail Denison, was 35. He married Priscilla Huntington on 25 February 1770, in Preston, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died in 1800, in Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 57.
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English (Midlands): variant of Billing , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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