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She was married to John STONE WFT Est. 1656-1686 in Massachusetts.(3)
He was married to Sarah (Pryor) FOBES WFT Est. 1753-1786 in ?.(3) He was married to Desire FORD WFT Est. 1709-1742 in Massachusetts.(3)
She was married to Jacob WEBSTER in 1786. He was married to Phebe WILCOXSON WFT Est. 1665-1698 in Connecticut.(3) He was married to Susanna (Lewis) BEAL WFT Est. 1683-1714 in Massachusetts. (3) She was married to Benjamin II EATON on Mar 11 1728/29 in Hingham, Massachusetts.(3) She was married to Lazarus BEAL WFT Est. 1683-1714 in Massachusetts.(3) He was married to Mary ANDREWS WFT Est. 1660-1691 in Massachusetts.(3)
She was married to Elisha BILLING in Jun 1749 in Hatfield, Massachusetts, possibly. (3) He was married to Sarah BILLING on Oct 9 1678 in Hatfield, Massachusetts, probably. (3) He was married to Hannah BILLING on Jan 2 1745/46 in Massachusetts.(3) He was married to Elizabeth ? WFT Est. 1773-1805 in Massachusetts, probably.(3) He was married to Esther TOMSON WFT Est. 1721-1754 in Massachusetts.(3)
He was married to Abigail THOMAS in 1781 in Middleboro, Massachusetts.(3) He was married to Mrs. Dinah RICHARDSON in May 1813 in Barnard, Vermont, possibly.(3) She was married to Jairus EATON on Aug 21 1803 in Woodstock, Vermont, probably. (3) Children were: Selina EATON, Bennett EATON, Jairus Eaton JR., John EATON, Sophia EATON, Harriet N. EATON, Silas EATON, Lucy EATON, Philanda EATON. A Note Written by Lucy Maria Eaton Titus Sylvester Bennett and Hannah Raymond, my great grandfather and grandmother - Sylvester went away from his family in Woodstock, Vt., to drive cattle through the woods and was never heard from by his family. Their children were that I know of Asaph Bennett, Lucy Bennett, Philanda Bennett. Unlike three of his brothers who migrated to Vermont from Middleboro, Massachusetts, before 1790, to settle in Woodstock, Sylvanus apparently chose to live in Barnard, about ten miles away. He is a resident of that community, according to the 1890 Vermont Federal Census, the only Bennett listed. He is the only white male of 16 years and upward of his household. With him lived two white males under 16 years and four white females. It would appear then, that almost eleven years into his marriage with Hannah Raymond, he had sired four children. If the information in the note printed above in accurate, he apparently moved to Woodstock after 1790. He is listed nowhere in either the Vermont or Massachusetts Federal Censuses of 1800. His mysterious disappearance probably occurred sometime before 1800 but certainly after 1790. The 1810 Vermont Census indicates a Sylvanus Bennett living in Shoreham, Addison County, Vermont, with Ephraim and Ira E. Bennett. If this Sylvanus was our ancestor, in 1810 he would have been 53 years old. Did he leave his first family to establish a second sufficiently distant from Woodstock, Vermont? Or was the Shoreham Sylvanus Bennett another person? Although the name Sylvanus may seem somewhat uncommon to Twentieth Century Americans, another Sylvanus Bennett [the son of Dr. Cornelius Bennett] was born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, three years before our ancestor was, and lived in that community until his death in 1809. I do not believe that we can conclude that the Sylvanus of Shoreham, Vermont, whose name does not appear in subsequent censuses, was the husband of Hannah Raymond and the father of Lucy Bennett. --Harold W. Titus Parents: William BENNETT and Tabbatha BRYANT. He was married to Hannah RAYMOND on Nov 16 1779 in Plympton, Massachusetts.(3) Children were: Lucy BENNETT, Asaph BENNETT, Philanda BENNETT. The 1790 Vermont Federal Census reveals that three of William's sons preceded or accompanied him to Woodstock. Jabez, Arthur, and William all are listed as residents of the town. Another son, Sylvanus, was a resident of Barnard, some ten miles away. When William, the father, moved from Middleboro, is conjecture, but he was in Woodstock at the time of his death in 1784. He had become a member of Woodstock's first church in December 1781. William was "buried in the old cemetery overlooking Bennett's Mills, apparently the oldest headstone in the yard being set up at his grave." Some information about William's ancestry and an interesting character appraisal of his eldest and most notable son, Jabez Bennett, follow. Jabez Bennett, the original proprietor of Bennett's Mills, was the son of William and Tabitha Bennett, and was born in Middleborough. Mass., September 11, 1754. His paternal ancestor, John Bennett, son of Peter Bennett, was a native of Bristol, England, and was born in the year 1642. At the age of twenty-three he emigrated from England and went to Jamestown, Va., but not finding suitable employment there, he moved to Beverly, in Massachusetts. In the days of Salem witchcraft he took up his residence in Weymouth, where he remained a year, and then settled in Middleborough, which thenceforward continued to be the family residence. Jabez Bennett, while yet a young man, left Middleborough and dwelt for awhile in Grantham, N. H., from which place he came to Woodstock, with his brother William, about the year 1776, and selected and began to improve the farm on which he continued to reside for the rest of his life. His original purchase contained eighty acres, a deed of which he received from William Powers, the 21st of June, 1776. He built on his land, in the first place, a log house, which he and his brother William occupied together. In meantime, as taverns and boarding-places . . . were then exceedingly scarce in those regions, Jabez was fain to seek night's lodgings for the present at Nathan Howland's, on North Branch. He was fond of repeating, in after times, some of the adventures he met with in traveling to his lodging-place under the darkness of the night, after the day's work on his farm was ended. As soon as circumstances permitted he put up a comfortable frame house, which continued standing and occupied till within a few years [This source was published in 1889], and was then taken down by James H. Murdock. . . . During the first portion of Mr. Bennett's residence in Woodstock he was much interested and much engaged in pushing forward improvements of various kinds in the new settlement. Where solid and substantial work was to be done, there Jabez Bennett was found busily employed. Under his direction Bennett's Mills and English Mills were erected; also mills in Barnard and other places. If a bridge was to be built anywhere about, he commonly had a hand in the business; quite frequently as contractor for the job. Mr. Bennett was a man who never indulged in speculations and dreams, and consequently his idea was that work of this kind should be constructed so as to stand all reasonable shocks to be expected in the course of human events. He therefore, first of all, gave most careful attention to the foundation, appealing to the "Sarmon upon the Mount" for his authority, and confidently asserting that rains and floods and winds are liable to come any day, and sure to come some time. Then as to the superstructure; that must not be thin and airy, but firm like the foundation, so that the whole structure, from top to bottom, might be the embodiment of solidity and substance. He would have preferred that the bridge he was constructing should be built of stone, as well as the abutments on which it rested; but as this was inconvenient, good solid wood might be used, and diligence and thoroughness in the work must make up the difference, so far as possible, between wood and stone for material to build with. In like manner, the framework of a house ought to be composed of solid plates, supported and joined together by upright beams almost as solid, and the rafters must be no pipe-stems, but thick timber to match the rest of the framework. It was believed, and no reasonable man entertained any doubt after Jabez Bennett said so, that a house thus planned and put together would not tumble down in a night, nor blow away in any ordinary storm. The more fastidious class of carpenters and joiners did, indeed, make themselves merry sometimes at the expense of "Uncle Jabez," averring that he gave directions to his workmen to "measure off three paces and make a mortise," and that in his smaller measures he had "a large inch, a small inch, and just an inch." But however that might be, his stone work and his wood work partook of the style and structure of his own staunch physical frame, and were to be admired and commended more for their durable character than for architectural beauty. Mr. Bennett did not intermeddle much in political affairs, yet he was by no means indifferent to these matters. The town-meeting it was his rule always to attend and there exercise his right as a freeman, that he might show his fellow-citizens the importance he attached to the proper discharge of this right, and that he stood firm on the side of law and order. Although never seeking office, he was called to serve in various capacities in town affairs, and in the performance of his official duties so conducted himself that he came to be recognized and esteemed as a sort of guardian of the town's interests. Mr. Bennett in his moral and religious views was as firmly fixed as the bedded rock. He was concerted in this wilderness, and united with the Congregational Church, December 26, 1781, the day it was organized, and through the long period of his after life never swerved in his loyal attachment to its cardinal principles. In the many disputes and controversies that arose in the church of which he was a member, soon after that church had been established, his inquiry always was, "What saith the Scripture on this point? How is it written there?" Other authority he never quoted or referred to, except it might be on occasion either the "Cambridge platform" or the "Saybrook platform," brief embodiments each of the Orthodox belief, and, in his judgment, of the highest significance and value. The platform, indeed, was, in Mr. Bennett's opinion, the most essential element in the organization of a church, inasmuch as, to his mind, a church without this important element would be much like a bridge without abutments. Therefore when storms threated the stability of the church, or even in seasons of religious declension, the remedy he usually proposed was a revision of the platform, so that the church, being once sure of its foundation, might then be in condition to rise in its majesty, "shake off the dust, and remove the stumbling-blocks." "'Squire Bennett," in his general appearance and make-up, including his gait and the very tone of his voice, was wholly unique. He was not a movable in any particular, but a fixture in all things. A certain style of dress or way of life, a special mode of conveyance along the highway, which seemed good to him, he adopted without regard to popular opinion or the ways and methods of other people in the same matters, and once adopted, he adhered to them through life. Yet in all these ways of living and acting there was no affectation of oddity on his part. His particular style of dress was good for him, but another might not be suited by it, and was free to adopt a different style. When a new church was built in this vicinity he chose a pew by the wall, and had a nail driven in a convenient place over his head where he could hang his hat. How other people disposed of their hats during divine service he did not consider; it was not any concern of his; yet of one thing he was sure: up there, hanging on that nail, his hat was in the right place. Mr. Bennett was twice married. His first wife was Abigail Thomas, whom he married at Middleborough, in 1781. She was the mother of all his children, six in number, namely:-- Urania . . . Ebenezer . . . Phoebe . . . Ezra . . . Sarah . . . Galen. Abigail Bennett, the mother of these children, died December 23, 1812, aged fifty-nine years. Mr. Bennett married, for his second wife, Mrs. Dinah Richardson, of Barnard, in May, 1813. She was a kind and worthy woman, shared with Mr. Bennett in his charities and hospitalities, and did her part to make his declining years peaceful and pleasant. She died, the 7th day of October, 1842, at the age of eighty years. Jabez Bennett died January 16, 1849, being ninety-four years old. History of Woodstock, Vermont, Henry Swan Dana, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1889. The 1800 Vermont Federal Census lists these Bennetts as residents of Woodstock, Vermont: Arthur, Jabez, John, Jonas, Jonathan, Samuel, Terah, and William. Parents: Mercy TOMSON. He was married to Tabbatha BRYANT on Nov 26 1753 in Plympton, Massachusetts. (3) Children were: Jabez BENNETT, Arthur BENNETT, Sylvanus (Sylvester) BENNETT, Samuel BENNETT, William BENNETT, Deborah BENNETT, Levi BENNETT, Terah BENNETT, Tabitha BENNETT. He was married to Patience ? WFT Est. 1779-1812 in ?.(3) She was married to Barnabas RAYMOND before 1729 in Massachusetts.(3) She was married to Jonathan Bangs JR. WFT Est. 1695-1723.(3) She was married to Jonas HOUGHTON WFT Est. 1773-1811 in ?.(3) Children were: Charles HOUGHTON. She was married to Francis DINGLEY WFT Est. 1583-1626 in England.(3) Children were: John DINGLEY. He was married to Elizabeth ROBINSON in Apr 1765 in Hardwick, Massachusetts.(3) He was married to Mary RUGGLES on Feb 23 1758 in Hardwick, Massachusetts.(3) He was married to Dorothy BELDING in Jun 1749 in Hatfield, Massachusetts, possibly. (3) He was married to Mrs. Prudence GILBERT in Sep 1788 in Massachusetts.(3) She was married to Joel Columbus WEBSTER WFT Est. 1793-1820.(3) She was married to Joel Columbus WEBSTER in 1799 in ?. (3) Children were: Daniel Billings WEBSTER, Joel Columbus WEBSTER , Arvilla Reliance WEBSTER, Hannah Euphemia WEBSTER, Betsy Maria WEBSTER, Jason WEBSTER. She was married to Rufus FIELD in 1814 in Vermont.(3) Children were: Samanthia FIELD, Dianthia FIELD, Cynthia FIELD. She was married to Silas BELDING on Jan 2 1745/46 in Massachusetts.(3) She was married to Deacon Samuel WARE on Nov 3 1757 in Massachusetts.(3) He was married to Lydia WELLS on Feb 24 1757 in Hardwick, Massachusetts.(3) Children were: Silas BILLING, Silas BILLING, Anna BILLING, Moses BILLING, Persis BILLING. He was married to Reliance BANGS on Dec 26 1769 in Hardwick, Massachusetts. (3) Children were: Lydia BILLING, Anna BILLING, Hannah BILLING. She was married to Leonard ROBINSON on Aug 31 1758 in Massachusetts.(3) |