Issac Bennett (1741 - abt. 1790)

Born 8 Jun 1741 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Dorcas (Wharff) Bennett — married 1762 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about 1790 at about age 48 in Guilford, Maine

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Biography

Sergeant Issac Bennett served with Massachusetts during the American Revolution.

Issac Bennett is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A009228.

Issac Bennett is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 113292
Rank: Sargent

THOUGHTS: My Bennetts best known to me are from Guilford Maine. Wondered how they got there and in researching Isaac (born 1741) I found out the answer! Small settlements were begun in the area known as Guilford, by the waters that powered mills. Three of his teenage sons , Isaac born 1771, Nathaniel 1766 and John 1773 were the only Bennetts in Township 6 which became Guilford. In February of 1806, a Mr. Low and Mr. Herring and their families moved to Guilford along with Isaac (1741) and his three sons, but Isaac (1741) returned to New Gloucester and the sons (13, 12 and 11 or so) stayed in Guilford to tend to the land and the cow, which provided the boys with her milk along with the summer's stores of hulled corn, wheat to boil, and potatoes. Isaac then returned to Guilford as their new home; thus, the Bennetts of Guilford! For more about the beginnings of Guilford, please see: http://guilford.mainememory.net/page/1825/display.html

Birth When Isaac Bennett was born on June 8, 1741, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, his father, Anthony Bennett, was 27 and his mother, Susanna Haskell was 29. He married Dorcas Wharff on September 30, 1762, in his hometown. They had seven children in 11 years.

Isaac Bennett, who was born in Gloucester in 1741 and three of his sons were the ancestors of the Bennetts of Guilford, Maine.

MARRIED TO DORCAS WHARFF IN 1762 Isaac Bennett married Dorcas Wharff in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on September 30, 1762, when he was 21 years old. She lived to 1810.

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Isaac Bennett served in Rev. War

Children in image born in Gloucester:^[3]

The Essex Antiquarian Vol 8 on Isaac and Dorcas Wharff Bennett marriage

i. Susanna b. 12 jul 1763. Lived till 1833.

ii. Sarah b. 20 May 1765. Lived till 1832.

iii. Nathaniel b. 14 Nov 1766 (or 19th). Died 1852.

iv. Dorcas b. 8 Aug 1768. Died 1808.

v. Isaac b. 1 Jan 1771 or Dec 8, 1770. Lived till 1847

vi. John b. 30 jan 1773. Died 1854.

vii. Joseph b. 13 jul 1775

After the Revolution, Isaac and two of his brothers--Moses and Jonathan--moved from Gloucester, Mass to New Gloucester, Maine. Children of three sons of of Isaac 1741--Isaac 1771, Nathaniel 1766 and John 1773-- are described in the following excerpt--another 3 brothers story. in the census of 1810 they were the only Bennetts in Township 6 which became Guilford; The brothers of Isaac 1741--Moses and Jonathan-- were still living in New Gloucester, Maine.

Guilford township was one of those conveyed to Bowdoin College by Massachusetts. Robert Low, Jr., was the first settler, moving in with his family in 1806; and Robert Herring, Jr., came about three weeks later. Isaac, Nathaniel and John Bennett came soon after and made clearings and put up buildings. These first settlers, for want of a threshing floor, beat out their wheat upon a smooth, flat ledge. When winter came, the three Bennetts returned to their homes at New Gloucester for the winter, leaving their three boys, David, Joseph and Isaac, Jr.-aged, the two first thirteen years, and the other eleven.-to keep the house and attend to the cow. For food, the boys had milk, hulled corn, boiled wheat and roasted potatoes. In 1807 the families came permanently.

Isaac Bennett, who was in early life a seafaring man and a resident of New Gloucester, Me. ), settled in Guilford as a pioneer, and cleared a farm, upon which he resided for the rest of his life. Guilford is a town in Piscataquis County, Maine ^[4]

Isaac died about 1790 in New Gloucester, Maine. From findagrave Memorial ID 204929413: Isaac Bennett BIRTH 8 Jun 1741 Gloucester, Essex County, Mass. Died: 1790 (aged 48–49) in Guilford, Piscataquis County, Maine. Burial Details Unknown.

Thank you for helping found our country. DAR Ancestor #: A009228. Included in the Kennesaw Mountain Chapter Virtual Chapter Patriot cemetery https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/1146913?page=1#sr-205033663 Left by Kennesaw Mountain Chapter, NSDAR on 25 Oct 2020

His wife Dorcas died in 1810:

Death Record for Dorcas Wharff Bennett, age 66

2 known Siblings:

Brother Nathaniel was born on June 30, 1743, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, when Isaac was 2 years old. 1743–1810

Brother Jonathan was born on October 28, 1746, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, when Isaac was 5 years old. 1746–1825

Death of Mother His mother Susanna passed away in December 1750 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, at the age of 38. She was born in 1712.

Death of Father His father Anthony passed away in June 1787 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, at the age of 73. 1714–1787

1790 Residence - Isaac Bennett lived in New Gloucester, Maine, in 1790.

Death Isaac Bennett died in or after 1790 in Guilford, Maine.

• Fact: Military Service (20 Jan 1776) Massachusetts, United States
• Fact: Military Service (1 Jun 1776) Massachusetts, United States

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Vol 1
2. ↑ per the Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 Massachusetts 03d Regiment, 1777-1782 (Folder 4) - 5th Regiment, 1783 (Folder 8)
3. ↑ Essex Antiquarian Vol 8 on Isaac and Dorcas Wharff Bennett marriage
4. ↑ Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Somerset, Piscataquis, Hancock, Washington, and Aroostook counties, Maine"

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 08 October 2020, 12:26), entry for Isaac Bennett(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LCFX-Y8S); contributed by various users.

Ancestry Family Trees

https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1599&context=towndocs

Global, Find A Grave Index for Non-Burials, Burials at Sea, and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current Find A Grave: Memorial #204929413

Maine, Death Records, 1617-1922

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (Images Online)

Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988

U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783

1790 United States Federal Census

• https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/20953304/person/1932960433/media/c0ce336c-522c-4e41-9212-574420983434destTreeId=16481606&destPersonId=140196635170&_phsrc=Svd186&_phstart=default )Copy of original document of Anthony and Susannah and the births of all children.

1. Sprague, Francis. Sprague's journal of Maine history. [S.l.]: John Francis Sprague.

2. Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. Birth info for Isaac.

2. Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHTB-86T : 9 February 2018), Isaac Bennet and Dorcas Wharfe, 30 Sep 1762; citing reference 1739-1794, page 21; FHL microfilm 864,861.

3. Varney, George. (1886). History of Guilford, Maine (From A Gazetteer of the State of Maine). Published by B. B. Russell, 57 Cornhill,Boston 1886

4. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors for Isaac Bennett. Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHTB-86T : 9 February 2018), Isaac Bennet and Dorcas Wharfe, 30 Sep 1762; citing reference 1739-1794, page 21; FHL microfilm 864,861.

5. https://archives.mainegenealogy.net/2007/02/vital-records-of-guilford.html