William Bennett

  General Notes:

Not much is known of William's origin. One researcher (John Austin) says he was born in Ireland, perhaps Co Tyrone...... or Essex County, New York.... and another says Shoreham, VT. A family bible was found and the dates in it confirm his DOB, DOD and date of marriage [but do not list POB or POD] Census records record his movement and the bible shows he married twice. It also gives the names of his children and their birth dates. Also some of their dates of death. This information passed to me via mail in Sept 1999 and is the research of B.Bennett Bauman his great great grand daughter. According to John Austin;" William is said to have served in the War of 1812. He was at Ticonderoga in 1850 and Kingsbury, Washington Co, NY in 1855. In Warren County Home records of his son Milton, William was called a temperate farmer b. at "Shoram", Vt. He was listed with son William at Ticonderoga in 1875, called farmer and widower, ae 87, b. Essex Co." B.Baumann researched the military records and found a William Bennett who "shot himself in the foot while stationed at Lake Erie site during War of 1812." Family lore: (Mary Moore O'Connor) overheard a conversation when she was very young of her mother, Agnes Bennett Moore, telling another unknown adult about "someone in the family that had shot themselves in the foot to escape fighting in the War" William who married twice had a total of 21 children and per Beverly Baumann when the family lived in Ticonderoga they were referred to as the "21 Bennetts of Ti"...

Various trees on the internet name his parents but none are documented
e.g "When William Bennett was born on February 18, 1793, in Shoreham, Vermont, his father, Benajah, was 56 and his mother, Zerviah (Crane), was 51. He had 11 sons and nine daughters. He died on March 9, 1878, in his hometown, having lived a long life of 85 years." [with no source given] - Researcher: Cheryl Dean
Several; other trees claim his parents were Timothy and Lucretia (Pollett) Bennett (I Jane O'Connor Foster have multiple DNA matches with Benajah Bennett descendants)

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 @ www.ancestry.com
William Bennett Gender: Male Birth Place: Ir Birth Year: 1793 Spouse Name: Rosannah Ferris Spouse Birth Year: 1795 Number Pages: 1

Bennett Family Bible 1816 Brattleboro, VT

1820 census Ticonderoga: widower with two young sons [sons Alexander and Jeduthan both under 10yrs of age by his wife Rosanna Ferris who died prior to taking of census]

US and Internat'l Birth records on Internet on www.ancestry.com
William Bennett Gender: Male Birth Place: Ir Birth Year: 1793 Spouse Name: Jane Eager Spouse Birth Year: 1799 Marriage State: of VT

1830 - Shoreham, Addison, Vermont - 2 males 1825-30 [Royal Z and Joel]; 1 male 1820-25 [Isaac]; 1 male 1790-1800 [William]; 1 female 1825-30 [Jemima]; 2 females 1820-25 [Catherine and Adeline] and 1 female 1790-1800 [his wife Jane]

1840 census Shoreham, Addison, VT: 16 people in household: Wm and wife Jane wtih children: Isaac, Royal, Joel, Charles, Wm, Manley, Catherine, Adeline Jemima, Sarah, Mary, Annette, Ann and Emma

1850 Ticonderoga, Essex County, NY William Bennet 1794 b. VT; Jane 1800 Catherine 1823 Joel 1827 Charles 1832 Mary 1833 William 1835 Ann 1838 Manly 1839 Emma 1840 Milton 1842 Myron 1845
1853-
www.fold3.com <http://www.fold3.com> [military site]
It is hereby certified that William Bennett of Ticonderoga in the County of Essex and the State of New York, a sergeant in the 1^st Company of the 9^th regiment of Infantry of New York Militia commanded by Col Joiner and mustered into the Service of the United States in September A. D 1814 is rendered incapable of performing the duty of a soldier by reason of injuries inflicted in the line of duty and while he was actually in the Service aforesaid viz
By satisfactory evidence and accurate examination it appears that on or about the sixth day of September A. D. 1814 the said William Bennett by reason of great fatigue, exposure to cold and lying on the ground without sufficient covering and from want of sufficient nourishment contracted a cold which has ultimately resulted in a chronic cough with dyspnea and in a chronic rheumatism which is located in right arm, back and hip and the rheumatism appears to be growing worse and increasing in severity as the said Bennett increases in years and he is thereby not only incapacitated from military duty but in the opinion of the undersigned is totally disenabled from obtaining his subsistence from manual labor. [signed by surgeons John Smith and ______? 18 April 1853

State of New York and County of Essex
On this fourteenth day of March A. D. 1853 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state of aforesaid personally came William Bennett who being duly sworn according to law upon oath makes the following declaration for the purpose of being put upon the roll of invalid pensioners of the United States. That he is a resident of Ticonderoga and was Sixty years of age on the eighteenth of February and that he is the identical William Bennett who was a sergeant in the First Company commanded by Capt Silas Sayre in the Ninth Regiment of the New York State militia commanded by Col Joiner. That on or about the sixth day of September A. D. 1914 while in the service of the United States at a place called Plattsburgh in the State of New York under the immediate command of General McComb he received the following injury to wit that on the night of the 2^nd of September A. D. 1814 this deponent received orders from his Captain Silas Sayre to warn out members of the said company one to muster at 8 O'clock on the following morning for service at the house of Doctor Levi Wilcox at a place called the Street in Ticonderoga aforesaid that the members of the company were widely scattered and that this deponent was engaged all that night on foot in warning out the said company and that by 9 O'clock the said company on the following morning were upon the appointed ground and marched for Plattsburgh aforesaid. That at the time the company marched the weather was mild and pleasant and this deponent in common with many others of his company was lightly clad: that on the morning of Sunday following this deponent with his company marched into Plattsburgh aforesaid: that at one or two O'clock Monday morning this deponent's company were turned out and paraded but the alarm proved to be false but at sunrise the company received orders to march to Beekmantown to repel (sic)l the advance of the British troops that this deponent participated in the said battle of the sixth of September
A. D. 1814 and upon the retreat of the American troops he followed them into Plattsburgh and that the planks of the bridge were then torn up and used upon the south side of the river for a breastwork. That this deponent was then stationed with his company about five miles south of said Plattsburgh at Salmon River where on or about the 9^th or 10^th of September this deponent was discharged verbally and honorably by his captain Silas Sayre on account of sickness and inability to perform further military duty and this deponent further says that from the Sunday morning when he entered Plattsburgh aforesaid until Tuesday night following he had nothing to eat except a part of a card of gingerbread that from the time he started from home until his discharge as aforesaid he slept either upon the ground or the floors of out houses without blankets or covering. That this deponent from the great fatigues he underwent and from exposure at said Plattsburgh contracted a severe cold and sickness which finally resulted in a cough which continues to this day and in rheumatism which is located in the right shoulder and arm and in the back and hips of this deponent. And this deponent further says that he was well and hearty and never had either a cough or a rheumatic pain previous to the time he went to Plattsburgh as aforesaid. And this deponent further says that his Captain Silas Sayre now resides in Ticonderoga aforesaid; his Lieutenant John Allen moved west but where this deponent can not say; that his 2^nd Lt Waters Chilson is dead and also that his Ensign is dead; that he was last paid by he has forgotten whom.
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year first above written [signed William Bennett]
Jay Collins Wicker, Justice of the Peace
[the first page of this request for pension is stamped in red: REJECTED]


1855 census Kingsbury, NY: wife Jane and Wm b. VT
Wm Bennet62
Jane Bennet54
Ann Bennet17
Wm Bennet18
Manly Bennet16
Emma Bennet14
Melton Bennet13
Myron Bennet10
Ugene Bennet1

1860 - can't locate him or Jane
1870 census Ticonderoga : living alone; age 77 born Vermont; his son Wm Jr is living in close proximity..perhaps across the street; Wm Jr at dwelling #250 and his father at #253
1875 census Ticonderoga: living in household of son Wm Justin Bennett

  Research Notes:

Name John Lester Bennett Gender Male Birth date 28 Jun 1800 Birth place SHOREHAM TWP,ADDISON,VERMONT Father name Ephraim Bennett Mother name Jerusha Batch number 7450022 Record group Vermont-ODM Film number unknown

ame Abiah Bennitt Gender Female Birth date 06 Aug 1802 Birth place SHOREHAM TWP,ADDISON,VERMONT Father name Ephraim Bennitt Mother name Jerusha Batch number 7450022 Record group Vermont-ODM Film number unknown

Name Ebeazer Cary Bennitt Gender Male Birth date 12 Aug 1804 Birth place SHOREHAM TWP,ADDISON,VERMONT Father name Ephraim Bennitt Mother name Jerusha Batch number 7450022 Record group Vermont-ODM Film number unknown

William married Rosanna Ferris, daughter of Alexander Ferris and Anna Case, on 13 Dec 1813. (Rosanna Ferris was born on 25 Jan 1795 in Prob Shoreham, VT and died on 26 Apr 1820.)

William next married Jane Eager, daughter of Private and Private, on 14 Jan 1821 in Vermont. (Jane Eager was born on 15 Jul 1799 and died on 1 Feb 1865.)

  Marriage Notes:

Bennett Family Bible

Possibly married in Shoreham?