This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Austin,Baker,Crossman,Wade, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BRD.2ACEB/4334 Message Board Post: Hello! Interested on information on Pardon Erastus Bennett,my great great grandfather who was married to Elizabeth Baker from Pomfret,Connecticut.His parents were Thomas Bennett and Tryphena Crossman.Tryphena was only daughter of Asahel Crossman,American Revolution,pension soldier gfrom Massachusetts.Looking for verification to link by official records with Pardon to his father. Family history tells me early Bennett in my lineage was Samuel Bennett born 1684 in Rhode Island.He married Anna ___.A cooper by trade,General Sergeant in Militia,and Deputy for Rhode Island.I understand I can qualify to join under the SAR under Nathan Bennett who was the father of Thomas Bennett.Also Nathan's father Samuel Bennett(Samuel born in 1707 and died in Connecticut on May 3,1779) also qualifies me.Samuel's wife was Hannah Wade.I will consider joining under the Bennetts if can be readily done. Thanks in advance, Joseph Bennett Brearley