This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bennett, Whipple Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BRD.2ACEB/4432.1 Message Board Post: Individual Summary - 13 Aug 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Joseph BENNETT Sex: Male Father: Stephen BENNETT (8 Apr 1707 - 29 Aug 1791) Mother: Mehitable STEBBINS ( - ) Individual Facts Birth 29 Jun 1760 Stonington, New London Co., CT1 Death 23 Apr 1837 (age 76) Dummerston, Windham, VT2 Military Revolutionary War3 Marriages/Children 1. Zipporah WHIPPLE Marriage bet 1777 and 1782 (age 17)5 Children: Zeporah BENNETT ( - ) Varney BENNETT ( - ) Ralph BENNETT ( - ) 2. Elizabeth GOULD Marriage 20 May 1810 (age 49)4 Notes (Individual) Military: "Joseph entered Revolutionary service at Groton, CT; he moved to Dummerston and Brattleboro, VT, where he lived for 30 or more years, then moved to Westfield, Tioga Co., PA to live with a son. In 1834 he stated that he had lately moved to Stonington, CT where he intended to remain with his nephew Erastus Bennett. He had recently lost his wife, his children as they came of age had left him and went into different parts, and he had broken up his family establishment and had no property or person to take care of him in his old age. In 1836 he was removed to Demmerston, VT, by his guardian Enos Leonard (National Archives Revolutionary Pension S21639)" Notes (Family #2) Marriage: None of his children are recorded, but a deed of 2 Mar 1819 (Dummerston 7:23) shows at least three children of Joseph and Zipporah. Sources 1-5. Inderkum, Dorothy Bennett. The Family of John Bennett of Stonington, Connecticut: the First Seven Generations. Mouse House InK, Church Hill, Maryland, 2000. p. 139.