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James Bennett (abt. 1619 - 1659)

James Bennett
Born about in Wray, Lancashire, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of [uncertain] and [uncertain]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married 1639 in Concord, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 40 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticutmap
Profile last modified | Created 24 May 2011
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Biography

Date of birth shown is actually his date of baptism. [1]

James Bennett was a freeman at Concord, Mass 1639,[2]

James married Hannah Wheeler,[3] dau of Thomas. James removed to Fairfield 1644. [4]

Children:

  1. Hannah b 1640 recorded at Concord, died 1650 at Fairfield
  2. Thomas b 1642 recorded at Concord
  3. James b about 1645
  4. John b about 1648
  5. Mary b 1651/2 died between 1654 and 1659
  6. Sarah b about 1654, marr abt 1673 to Capt John Osborne
  7. Hannah b abt 1656, probably marr 1st to Lt Nathaniel Seeley, marr 2nd to ----

He came from England to Concord with the Rev. Peter Bulkeley. [5]

Another reference said he came from England on the Hercules of Dover[6]

Will of Thomas Wheeler of Fairfield, 1654, mentioned son-in-law James Bennett, and Mary, James, Thomas, and John Bennett, children of dau. Hannah.

James died in 1659 at Fairfield, his widow Hannah married second to Joseph Middlebrook.

Will of Ann Wheeler, 1659, named dau. Hannah and grandchildren Sarah and Hannah Bennett.

Research Notes

Unless there's something on the US side there's not a scrap of evidence in England that James Bennet was born in Cranfield Bedfordshire in 1618. The first Bennet entry in Cranfield parish register wasn't until 1632, a baptism where the father was Richard Bennet. Cranfield looks to be a red herring and it would be safer to change James' birthplace to England. Just because he married in America to someone from Cranfield doesn't mean he was from Cranfield as well. Update: A baptismal record for James, son of Nicholas, has been located in the records of St. Michael's, Kirkham, Lancashire. A burial of Nicholas in 1648 in the same church is also on record. Information on both has been updated on their profiles. [7]

Sources

  1. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2478/32883_276504-00075?pid=10046688&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid%3D2478%26h%3D10046688%26indiv%3Dtry&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.100286238.1651870034.1573659739-837967927.1552884537
  2. Orcutt, Samuel. The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (Springfield Printing Company, Springfield, Mass., 1880) Page 576: " ... of Fairfield, who came from Concord, Mass., in 1639."
  3. Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985. Page 63.
  4. Jacobus, Donald Lines History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Genealogical Publishing Company, 1930) Vol. 1, Page 65: "Freeman at Concord, Mass., 1639; rem. to Fairfield 1644 ... Married Hannah Wheeler, dau. of Thomas."
  5. Wheeler, William. The Genealogy of the Wheeler Family (Washington, D.C., 1919) Page 5
  6. https://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/hercules2.htm "Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England 1620 - 1650" by Charles Edwards Banks, Edited and Indexed by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell, Southern Book Company, Baltimore, 1957 (Lady Anne's Library)
  7. Lancashire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812




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A recent addition to the biography mentions a James Bennet's arrival on the Hercules of Dover and cites a website, packrat. I investigated a little, and the base references to that online blog appear to be these two articles in the NEHGR:

The second is inconsequential to the subject, but the first article identifies a James Bennet, as servant to Nathaniel Tilden of Tenterden, Kent, who embarked on the ship Hercules of Sandwich, certificated dated 04 Mar 1634[/5?].

It appears that these may be two different James Bennets and the recent addition should be removed.

posted by Bobbie (Madison) Hall

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