Ancestry of
James Bennett

(1651–1676)

James Bennett

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Francis Bennett 
  • Mother:
  • Alice -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Feb 1651 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 May 1676 
  • Death Location:
  • Battle of Turner's Falls, Gill, Franklin, Massachusetts 
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  • Notes: 

  • James Bennett was one of three boys who burglarized a neighbors house and was caught while trying to run away to the French. Their story is told in the History of Northampton, Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1898).

    James Bennett was killed in the Battle of Turner's Falls in 1676.

• Marriages for James Bennett

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Broughton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Feb 1674
  • Marriage Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts

• Sources for James Bennett

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1855, Vol. 9, p. 249, Birth record for James Benit.
  • ² Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in America . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: Hammond Press (1901), 136-137.
  • ³ Torry, Clarence, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 63.
  • ⁴ Trumbull, James Russell, History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from Its Settlement in 1654, Vol. 1, Northampton: Press of Gazette Printing Co. (1898), 180-182.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Battle of Turner's Falls", (accessed 12/16/2016).