When the Particular Baptist leaders of the 17 th century passed to their reward, who took up their place? In the case of Benjamin Keach, two of his sons-in-law contributed to the Baptist cause in related but different ways. You may recall that Keach had a son, Elias, who became a Baptist minister. But he died 5 years before his father, in 1699, at the early age of 34.
The first of these two sons-in-law was named Benjamin Stinton. It is possible that his parents named him after his pastor. His older brother, Thomas, had married one of Benjamin Keach’s daughters, Elizabeth in 1690. Nine years later, Benjamin Stinton married Susannah, one of Keach’s younger daughters who was named after his second wife. So the year 1699 for Keach contained both grief and gladness as his son Elias died and daughter Susannah married.