James Bennett

1639 freeman - Concord

1639 Married Hannah Wheeler

1644 removed to Fairfield with Rev. John Jones & his father-in-law Thomas Wheeler

1637 in Concord

James Bennett was made a freeman at Concord, MA in 1639. In 1644 he went to Fairfield, Ct with a party lead by Rev. John Jones which included Bennett's father-in-law Thomas Wheeler. He married Hannah Wheeler and died in 1659 (inventory taken August 1659).

Son of: Nicholas and Jane (Brown) Bennett

Husband of Hannah Wheeler

MARRIED: Hannah Wheeler 1639 Concord, Middlesex, Mass., USA

Family links:

Parents:

 Nicholas Bennett (1585 - 1626)

 Jane Brown Bennett (1585 - 1621)

Spouse:

 Hannah Wheeler Bennett (1617 - 1659)*

Children:

 Thomas Bennet (1642 - 1704)*

 James Bennett (1645 - 1736)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Unknown

Created by: In Search Of Record added: May 07, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 110131060

GEDCOM Note

Biography ==Date of birth shown is actually his date of baptism. <ref> https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2478/32883_276504-00075?pid=10... </ref>

James Bennett was a freeman at Concord, Mass 1639,<ref>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."</ref>
James married Hannah Wheeler,<ref>Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985. Page 63.</ref> dau of Thomas. James removed to Fairfield 1644.<ref>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."</ref>

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#Hannah b abt 1656, probably marr 1st to Lt Nathaniel Seeley, marr 2ndto

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   He came from England to Concord with the Rev. Peter Bulkeley. <ref>Wheeler, William. The Genealogy of the Wheeler Family (Washington, D.C., 1919)Page 5</ref> 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 baptismalrecord for James, son of Nicholas, has been located in the records ofSt. 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. <ref> Lancashire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 </ref>

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