Ancestry of
Oliver Platt

Movie Actor

Henry Bennett

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Oliver Platt — 11th Generation
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  • 1350 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Jan 1726 
  • Death Location:
  • Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Sarah Champion
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Dec 1673 
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  • Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
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  Love Bennet (Ahnentafel No:675 )

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  • Henry Bennett and Sarah Champion reportedly were married 09 DEC 1673, but the marriage was recorded 27 JAN 1673/4. The latter date sometimes appears as the marriage date.

• Sources for Henry Bennett

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lyme, p. 37, Marriage record for Henry Bennet and Sarah Champion.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, p. 261.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1933, Vol. 10, p. 220.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1972, Vol. 48, p. 15.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1933, Vol. 10, p. 166, Probate record for father-in-law Henry Champion.
  • ⁶ Martin, Mrs. Sophia (Smith), Mack Genealogy: The Descendants of John Mack of Lyme, Conn., Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, Printers (1903), 1101.
  • ⁷ Trowbridge, Francis Bacon, The Champion Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Henry Champion of Saybrook and Lyme, Connecticut, New Haven: Printed for the author (1891), 23, 27-28.

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