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(V) Matthew Bradbury, son of William Bradbury (4), was lord of the manor of Wick- en Hall in the parish of Wicken Bonhunt, which he bought in 1557. He purchased the manor of Grange in Thaxted, county of Es- sex, in 1551, but sold it the year following. He is mentioned in the wills of his brother William and his nephew Robert. He died June 19, 1585, and an inquisition post mor- tem was held October 26, 1587. His son Wil- liam was appointed administrator of his es- tate June 30, 1585. He married Margaret Rowse, of Cambridge. Children : I. Wil- liam, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, married
Dorothy Southwell. 3. Barbara, married (first) Sir Henry Cutts; (second) Sir Thomas Fludd; (third) Edward Gill; (fourth) Walter Covert, of Boxley, Kent.
(VI) William Bradbury, son of Matthew Bradbury (5), was of Wicken Bonhunt, born in 1544, aged forty-one years in 1585, named in the wills of his cousin, Robert Bradbury, and brother Thomas. His own will was dated April 19, 1622, and was proved May 6, 1623. He died November 30, 1622, and was buried at Wicken. He married Anne Eden, daugh- ter of Richard, Esq., LL.D., of Bury St. Ed- munds, Suffolkshire, who died and was bur- ied at Wicken, February 8, 1611-12. Children: I. Matthew, mentioned below. 2. Wymond, married Elizabeth (Whitgift), daughter of William, and was her third husband. 3. Hen- ry, died young, buried at Wicken, August 20, 1616. 4. Thomas, died young. 5. Thomas, died young. 6. Bridget, married Francis Bridgewater. 7. Anne, married Thomas Kinethorpe, of Louth, county Lincoln. 8. Alice, baptized at Newport Pond, February 23, 1572-73, married (first) George Yardley, of Weston, Hertfordshire; (second) Thomas Wadeson.
(VII) Matthew Bradbury, son of William . Bradbury (6), was of Wicken Bonant and died there September 22, 1616. His marriage settlement is dated June 6, 1594. He married Jane Whitgift, daughter of William Whitgift, of Clavering, county Essex. She married (second) Henry Bradbury, supposed to be son of Henry Bradbury, of Littlebury. Chil- dren: I. John, of Wicken, . married Mary Morsetrod, daughter of Michael, of Croyden, county Sussex; he died August 1, 1624; she married (second) Charles Millicent and she died November, 1628. 2. Francis, baptized January 12, 1600-01, died 1644. 3. Matthew, named in the will of his grandfather, William Whitgift, June 13, 1615. 4. Edward, not named by Matthew as an heir in his suit brought against the executors of the will, of George Whitgift. 5. Phillippa, married Ferdinando Clark. 6. Barbara. 7. Margaret married William Hyde. 8. Elizabeth, mar- ried Thomas Wells, a minister. 9. Martha, baptized April 14, 1606.
(VII) Wymond Bradbury, son of William. Bradbury (6), was of Wicken Bonant after- ward of the Parish of Whitechapel, county Middlesex, England. He died in 1650 and his daughter, Anne Stubbles, was appointed administratrix November 20, 1650. He was baptized at Newport Pond, May 16, 1574; was in London as early as October 17, 1628 ..
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He married Elizabeth Whitgift, daughter of William Whitgift, and sister of the wife of Matthew Bradbury, his brother, mentioned above. Elizabeth died June 26, 1612, aged thirty-eight years and three months, and was buried at Croyden, county Surrey. Her first husband was Richard Coles, of Leigh, Wor- cestershire, who died November, 1600. She married (second) Francis Gill, of London, who died in 1605. Bradbury was her third husband. Children: I. William, baptized at Newport Pond, September 28, 1607; born September 13, 1607. 2. Thomas, born 1610, baptized February 28, 1611, mentioned below. 3. Jane, baptized at Wicken Bonant, June 2, 1606. 4. Anne, baptized at Newport Pond, February 20, 1608-09, married (first) Troughton; (second) - - Stibbles, adminis- tratrix of her father's estate in 1650.
(VIII) Thomas Bradbury, son of Wymond Bradbury (7), was baptized at Wicken Bo- nant, Essex county, England, February 28, 1610-II. Early in 1634 he ap- peared in Agamenticus, now York, Maine, as the agent or steward of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the proprietor of the Province of Maine. Bradbury was one of the original proprietors of the town of Salisbury, Massachusetts; one of its earliest settlers and a foremost citizen for more than a half cen- tury. He was admitted a freeman May 13, 1640; was at various times school master, town clerk, justice of the peace, deputy to the general court, in 1651-57-60-61-66; clerk of the writs in 1641, and for years afterward county recorder, associate judge and captain of the military company. He wrote an easy, graceful, legible hand, as shown by the rec- ords he kept.
He died March 16, 1694-95. His will dated February 14, 1693-94, proved March 26, 1695. He married Mary Perkins, daughter of John and Judith Perkins, of Ipswich. Her father was born in Gloucestershire, England, in I590; came to America in 1631; has a num- erous and distinguished posterity, especially in Essex county, Massachusetts. Mrs. Brad- bury in her old age was tried for witchcraft and convicted July 28, 1692. The evidence in her defense is a fine testimonial to a worthy life. Her husband's testimony was: "We have been married fifty-five years, and she has been a loving and faithful wife unto me unto this day. She hath been wonderful laborious, diligent and industrious in her place and en- ployment about the bringing up of our fami- ly which have been eleven children and four grandchildren. She was both prudent and
provident, of a cheerful spirit, liberal and charitable. She being now very aged and weak, and grieved under afflictions, may not be able to speak much for herself, not being so free of speech as some others might be. I hope her life and conversation among her neighbors has been such as gives a better or more real testimony than can be expressed by words." One hundred and eighteen of her friends signed a statement commending her good character: "she was a lover of the min- istry in all appearance, and a diligent attender upon God's holy ordinances, being of a cour- teous and peaceable disposition and carriage, neither did any of us (some of whom have lived in the town with her above fifty years) ever hear or know that she had any difference or falling out with any of her neighbors, man woman or child, but was always ready to do for them what lay in her power, night and day, though with hazard of her health and other danger."
Rev. James Allen, her pastor, said: "I hav- ing lived nine years at Salisbury, in the work of the ministry and now four years in the of- fice of pastor, to my best notice and observa- tion of Mrs. Bradbury, she hath lived accord- ing to the rules of the Gospel amongst us; was a constant attender upon the ministry of the word, and all the ordinances of the gospel full of works of charity and mercy to the sick and poor; neither have I seen or heard any- thing of her unbecoming the profession of the gospel." The evidence against her was as scant as it was nonsensical. Mrs. Bradbury was defended by Major Robert Pike. She was convicted with four others who were hanged in September, 1692. Mrs. Bradbury's execution was postponed, why we know not, but the delusion passed and her life was spared.
Children: I. Wymond, born April 1. 1637, mentioned below. 2. Judith, born October 2, 1638, married, October 9, 1665, Caleb Moody, of Newbury. 3. Thomas, born January 28, 1641. 4. Mary, born March 17, 1643, mar- ried, December 17, 1663, John Stanyan, of Hampton, New Hampshire. 5. Jane, born May II, 1645, married, March 15, 1668, Hen- ry True. 6. Jacob, born June 17, 1647, died at Barbadoes unmarried. 7. William, born September 15, 1649, married, March 12, 1676, Rebecca Maverick, nee Wheelwright. 8. Elizabeth, born November 7, 1651, married May 12, 1673, John Buss, of Durham, New Hampshire. 9. John, born April 20, 1654; died unmarried. November 24, 1678. IO. Ann, born April 16, 1656, died 1659. 11. Ja-
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bez, born June 27, 1658, died April 28, 1677.
(IX) Wymond Bradbury, son of Thomas Bradbury (8), was born in Salisbury, Massa- chusetts, April 1, 1637; married, May 7, 1661, Sarah Pike, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Sanders) Pike. He died April 7, 1699, on the Isle of Nevis. This is stated in a record made by his father and preserved in the Es- sex county archives, Salem. Sarah Bradbury his widow, married (second), John Stockman, who died December 10, 1686. Children of Wymond and Sarah Bradbury: I. Sarah, born February 26, 1662, married Abraham Merrill. 2. Ann, born November 22, 1666, married Jeremy Allen. 3. Wymond, born May 13, 1669, mentioned below.
(X) Wymond Bradbury, son of Wymond Bradbury (9), was born in Salisbury, Massa- chusetts, May 13, 1669, married Maria Cot- ton, who was born January 14, 1672, daugh- ter of Rev. John Jr., and Joanna ( Rosseter) Cotton, granddaughter of Rev. John and Sar- ah (Story) Cotton. Her mother was daugh- ter of Dr. Bryan Rosseter, of Guilford, Con- necticut. Bradbury died in York, Maine, April 17, 1734. His widow married (second) John Heard, of Kittery, Maine, and died there January 30, 1736. Children of Wymond and Maria Bradbury: I. Jabez, born Janu- ary 26, 1693, died in Boston, January 13, 1781; unmarried. 2. Wymond, born August 18, 1695, married Phebe Young. 3. John, born September 9, 1697, mentioned below. 4. Rowland, born December 15, 1699, married Mary Greenleaf. 5. Ann, born March 9, 1702, married, 1743, Jabez Fox, of Falmouth. 6. Josiah, born July 25, 1704, married Ann Woodman. 8. Maria, born 1708, married Samuel Service, of Boston. 9. Jerusha, born July 5, 17II, married John Dulling, of Salem. (XI) John Bradbury, son of Wymond Bradbury (10), was born in Salisbury, September 9, 1697, married Abigail Young, daughter of Lieutenant Joseph and Abi- gail (Donnell) Young, of York. He was the founder of the York family of Bradbury, a leading man in town affairs and in the Pres- byterian church of which he was an elder. At the breaking out of the Revolution he was a stanch Whig and on one occasion openly re- buked in meeting the loyalist sentiments ex- pressed by the minister. He died December 3, 1778, and his widow died September 28, 1787. He was several terms a member of the provincial legislature, and ten years of the executive council. He was also judge of pro- bate in his county. Children: I. Cotton, born October 8, 1722, married Ruth Weare, of
York. 2. Lucy, born January 18, 1725. 3. Bethulah, born March 20, 1727, married James Sayward. 4. Maria, born April 5, 1729; married - Simpson. 5. Abigail, born August 12, 1731. 6. Elizabeth, born January 5, 1734. 7. John, born September 18, 1736, married Elizabeth Ingraham. 8. Joseph, born October 23, 1740, married Dorothy Clark. 9. Anne, born June 2, 1743, married
Moulton.
(XII) John Bradbury, son of John Brad- bury (II), was born September 18, 1736, in York, Maine. He married, January 26, 1764, Elizabeth Ingraham, born in York, August 6, 1743, daughter of Edward and Lydia (Holt) Ingraham. He was a soldier in the French war, lieutenant of Captain Moulton's com- pany of Provincial troops near Lake George in 1760-61, and kept a journal of the cam- paign which has been preserved. He contin- ued his diary up to near the close of life. He was a deacon of Christ Church of York and a useful citizen. He lived for a time in New- town, but returned to York and died there July II, 1821. Several of his family settled in Chester, now Chesterville, Maine. Chil- dren: I. John, born October 29, 1764, men- tioned below. 2. William, born January 18, 1766, married Anna Mitchell. 3. Lydia, born August 27, 1767, married, January 27, 1791, Thomas Davenport, of Hallowell. 4. Joanna, born November 6, 1768, married, February 9, 1801, Jonathan Davenport, of Hallowell. 5. Samuel, born February 9, 1771, married Dor- cas Remick. 6. Elizabeth, born January 25, 1773, married Samuel Linscott, and removed to Utica, New York. 7. Mary, born Novem- ber 8, 1774, died unmarried. 8. Joseph, born November 9, 1776, died August 27, 1778. 9. Joseph, born March 24, 1779, married Abigail Chaney. 10. Dorcas, born May 8, 1781, mar- ried, October 7, 1803, Rufus Simpson, of New York. II. Jotham, born July 8, 1783. 12. David, born June 5, 1785, married Sophia Chase.
(XIII) John Bradbury, son of John Brad- bury (12), was born in York, October 29, 1764, married Priscilla Burbank, who was born August 2, 1764, and died April 8, 1831. He died July 24, 1851. He moved from York to Chesterville, Maine. Children: I. Abi- gail Sewell, born July 11, 1789, died January 31, 1797. 2. Eliza Jane, born November 2, 1791, married, March 2, 1812, John Storer, of Carthage, Maine. 3. Rachel Crosby, born March 7, 1794, married Rev. Jotham Sewell, Jr., Congregational minister at Newcastle, Maine, fifteen years. 4. Maria, born June II,
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1796, married, June II, 1816, Elisha Bennett, of Chesterville. 5. Sabrina Ann, born May 13, 1798, married, March 8, 1821, Jonas M. Oakes. 6. John Roger Williams, born June 4, 1800, married Phebe R. Mayhew. 7. Ben- jamin Burbank, born September 24, 1802, mentioned below. 8. Lois Palmer, born May 26, 1806, married, December, 1823, Reuben, Lowell, of Chesterville.
(XIV) Benjamin Burbank Bradbury, son of John Bradbury (13), was born at Chester- ville, Maine, September 24, 1802, married there, January 8, 1823, Betsey Lowell, of Chesterville, who was born July 20, 1804. He was captain of the militia company of that town; removed from Chesterville to Newport, Maine, where he engaged in the business of druggist. Later he removed to Bangor. He was a musician of skill and training. He died in January, 1878. Children: I. Hannah Elizabeth, born March 16, 1827, married, July 17. 1859, George C. Goodwin, of Charles- town, Massachusetts. 2. Benjamin Frank- lin, born February 28, 1829, mentioned be- low. 3. Julia Maria, born May 8, 1835, mar- ried, December 15, 1855, Robert F. Patter- son, of Bangor, deceased; she died in 1857. 4. Sarah Eliza, born February 23, 1837. 5. Rachel Annie, born July 3, 1838, married Oc- tober 14, 1862, Rev. Charles F. Holbrook, of West Boylston, Massachusetts, later of Dav- enport, Massachusetts (deceased).
(XV) Benjamin Franklin Bradbury, son of Benjamin Burbank Bradbury (14), was born in Chesterville, Franklin county, Maine, Feb- ruary 28,. 1829. He was educated in the pub- lic schools and academy and for one term at- tended a School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia. Upon his return home he went to work in a drug store in Bangor and learned the busi- ness. In 1874 he removed to Melrose, Mas- sachusetts, and established a drug store on the corner of Winter and Washington streets, Boston, where he carried on business for a period of eighteen years. In 1892 he took quarters near Boylston street, and in 1903 re- moved to the corner of Beach street and Har- rison avenue. He retired in 1907. Mr. Brad- bury has always been interested in public af- fairs, especially in those meetings, movements and organizations designed to promote pa- triotism and to defend from attack the Ameri- can public school system. For more than twenty years he has been prominent in pa- triotic movements, and is today as earnest and zealous as ever in this line of activity. In politics he is. an independent Republican.
In religion he is a Baptist, and attends the Tremont Temple, Boston, and is a deacon of the Church Society.
He married (first) March 31, 1856, Anna M. Pierce, daughter of Samuel Pierce, of Bangor. She died at Bangor, July 28, 1863. He married (second), November 15, 1864, Sarah Horton Woodman, daughter of Dea- con Edwin Woodman, of Charlestown; she died October 31, 1905. He married (third) Mrs. Clara A. Beal. Children of Benjamin F. and Anna M. Bradbury: I. Samuel Pierce born at Bangor, September 7, 1857, died Sep- tember 10, 1858. 2. William Benjamin, born October 18, 1859, married, July 30, 1883, Ber- tha Grace Pittsinger, who was born in Keene, New Hampshire, May 9, 1859. Children: I. Edward Benjamin, born at Keene, New Hampshire, died July 18, 1884; ii. William Pittsinger, born in New York City, Novem- ber 19, 1885; iii. Annie Congdon, born at Mount Vernon, New York, January 9, 1887, died December 15, 1889; iv. Edward Lowell, born October 9, 1890. 3. Ann Pierce, born May 15, 1863, died at Barre, Massachusetts, June 25, 1871. Children of Benjamin F. and Sarah H. Bradbury: 4. Woodman, born at Bangor, April 9, 1866, married Mary E. Farr, of Waterville, Maine, now pastor of Old Cam- bridge Baptist Church, Cambridge, Massa- chusetts; one child, Elizabeth F., born Jan- uary 12, 1899. 5. George Goodwin, born January 7, 1868, died 1886. 6. Marion Eliz- abeth, born September 5, 1871, married, No- vember 12, 1907, Thomas Wilson Pomeroy. 7. Grace Lowell, born March 26, 1873. 8. Hannah Edith, born at Melrose, August I, 1877, married June 18, 1903, Albert B. Frank- lin, Jr .; they have one child, Sarah Wood- man, born July 8, 1906.
The name of Bennett is a BENNETT common one in Great Bri- tain under the different spell- ings of Bennet and Bennett. The tradition in some quarters has been that the family in Middlesex county were of Scotch origin. But the number of immigrants to New England in the seventeenth century bearing the name of Bennett was so numerous that it is difficult to determine with certainty whether this is true or not. The name is found in the differ- ent counties in England, and also in Scot- land, Ireland, and Wales, but the English branches of the family appear to be the most numerous.
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The name of Bennett is very familiar to the residents of Middlesex county, from the prominence which a number of the persons bearing the name have had in the financial, . legal, commercial, political and religious af- fairs of the county from the time of the Rev- olutionary War, in which a large contingent of the family served.
(I) Henry Bennett, the ancestor of the Bennett family of Ipswich, Essex county, who was born in England about 1629, came to this country before 1650, and is presumed to be the ancestor of the Bennett family of Woburn and Billerica. In 1651, he married (first) Lydia, daughter of John and Judith Perkins, and he married (second) Mary (Smith-Call) Burr, widow of Philip Call Burr, and daughter of Richard Smith, of Shrop- shire, county Norfolk, England. She died January 12, 1707-8, and the date of Henry Bennett's death is not known-it was after October 3, 1707. Children (all by the first wife) born in Ipswich: 1. Jacob, born 1651, see forward. 2. John, born 1655, killed at Bloody Brook, September 18, 1675. 3. Wil- liam, born 1657. 4. Henry, born 1664. 5. Thomas; and perhaps others.
(II) Jacob Bennett, son of Henry Bennett (1), born 1651, married Sarah He died March 5, 1685-6. Children: I. Jacob, born October 9, 1675. 2. William. 3. Stephen, see forward. 4. Ebenezer, born June 20, 1686.
(III) Stephen Bennett, son of Jacob Ben- nett (2), resided in Ipswich and its vicinity. He married, in 1709, Susanna Fuller. They were living in 1743. Children: I. Susannah, baptized in Ipswich, July 21, 1712. 2. Ste- phen, baptized in Ipswich, June 3, 1722. 3. James, baptized in Wenham, May 14, 1727; see forward; and probably others.
(IV) James Bennett, son of Stephen Ben- nett (3), baptized in Wenham, May 4, 1727, married in Ipswich, July 3, 1751, Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Dodge) Dodge, of Ipswich Hamlet, now Hamilton. He came to Woburn in 1754. He was a sol- dier in the French and Indian war in 1759, serving in Captain Jonathan Butterfield's company at Crown Point, from April 12, to November 22, of that year. He was also a soldier in the revolutionary war, serving six days at the time of the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775, as a private in Captain Joshua Walker's (Woburn) company, Colonel Dav- id Green's (second Middlesex county) regi- ment. He was next a member of Captain John Wood's (the captain being of Woburn) company, in Gerrish's and Baldwin's (Colonel
Loammi Baldwin of Woburn) regiment, af- ter May 1, 1775. He was also in this regi- ment as late as August 12, 1776, and may have served longer, his wages for 1776 being paid in an order dated Woburn, September 20, 1777. It may be he whose name was in- cluded in the list of men who left the service December 31, 1775, having been stationed at Chelsea and Medford.
Mr. Bennett was a large landowner in Wo- burn and Billerica. In 1782 he sold his home- stead in Woburn to David Blanchard, of Wo- burn, and purchased in the same year a farm of some two hundred acres in Groton, of Ebenezer Parker. He died in Groton in 1809. His will, dated June 16, 1809, and probated August 29, 1809, mentions his wife, to whom he gave his property; his son Stephen Ben- net; and his son James Bennett, of Billerica, who was named as his executor: Children: I. Betty, born at Ipswich Hamlet; married at Woburn, September 20, 1768, Nathaniel Cut- ler, Junior, and died October 6, 1847, in her ninety-sixth year. 2. Stephen, married Han- nah Wakefield, resided in Billerica. 3. Thom- as, baptized in Woburn Second Parish, Au- gust 21, 1757. 4. James, baptized April 9, 1758; see forward. 5. Sarah, baptized March I, 1761; married June 2, 1778, John Wyman. 6. John, baptized May 22, 1763. 7. Jacob baptized August 18, 1765. 8. Susie, baptized September 27, 1767. 9. Joseph, baptized July 23, 1769. IO. Joseph, baptized November 17, 1776. II. Jonathan, baptized November 17, 1776. 12. Jerusha, baptized November 17, 1776.
(V) James Bennett, son of James Bennett, (4), baptized in Woburn Second Parish, April 9, 1758, died September 4, 1842, aged eighty- four years; he married, April 13, 1780, Mary Walker, born December 9, 1758, died March 30, 1857, in her ninety-ninth year, daughter of Captain Joshua and Mary (Proctor) Walk- er, of Woburn. In 1840 he was a revolution- ary pensioner living in Billerica. His epitaph at Burlington says he was an officer in Wash- ington's army, and served about five years in the struggle for his country's independence : that he was at the battle of Bunker Hill, and Trenton, and in other important actions. He was first taxed in the Woburn precinct (now Burlington) list in 1780. Like his father, he served in the Lexington battle, in Walker's company, on April 19, 1775, and for the per- iod of six days at that time. In 1775 he was one of the men who served in Wood's com- pany, Baldwin's regiment; was one of the men from the same company serving in the
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Continental army for twelve months in 1776. He was one of the men who lost articles at the evacuation of New York, September 14, 1776. He was in the Continental service in 1777 as a three years man; ensign in 1778, in a regiment raised for service at Rhode Isl- and. His wife's epitaph says, "She was ex- empt in a remarkable degree from the infirm- ities of extreme old age. Her peaceful and affectionate disposition together with a pa- tient and Christian resignation to the last, will long be remembered by all who knew her." The whole family of Bennetts belonging to Woburn were remarkable for the extent and number of their terms of revolutionary ser- vice. Mr. Bennett, like his father, was a large landowner and raised large quantities of hops, which he sold in the southern markets. He was a man of large frame, and this character- istic is inherited by his descendants.
Children: I. James, born September 2, 1780, died September 5, 1856; married, June 9, 1805, Dorcas Nevers, born December 31, 1783, died November 26, 1860, daughter of Samuel and Anna (Wyman) Nevers, of Bur- lington ; children : i. Mary Ann, born June 3, 1806. ii. James, born August 1808. iii. Su- san M., born January 17, 1811; married Oc- tober 29, 1843, George Gleason, of Burling- ton. iv. John, born September, 1814. v. Charles W., born July 29, 1817; married No- vember 27, 1845, Susan K. Skelton, of Bur- lington. vi. William S., born June II, 1821 ; married January 9, 1851, Charlotte J. John- son, of Woburn. vii. Harriet M., born Jan- uary 30, 1828; married November 9, 1845, Henry Nichols, of Burlington. 2. Edward, born 1782, see forward. 3. Mary, born 1785; married July 20, 1834, James C. McPherson, of Chelmsford.
4. John. 5. Lucy, married April 28, 1822, Reuben Richardson, of Dra- cut. 6. Nancy, married May 27, 1819, Jo- seph Thompson Bowers, of Billerica; chil- dren: i. Joshua, born April 20, 1820. ii. Nan- cy, born December 31, 1821. iii. Maria Fran- ces, born January 29, 1824. 7. Joshua, born November 27, 1792, died August 6, 1865; married. October 8, 1815, Eleanor Richard- son, born September II, 1794, died 1896, daughter of Ebenezer and Rebecca (Walker) Richardson, of Billerica, a sister of Rebecca, who married Edward Bennett. Joshua Bennett in early life taught school several years in Dorchester. He was later a mem- ber of the firm of Bennett & Felton, Boston. He was largely interested in real estate in Boston, and prominent in financial affairs. He contributed liberally for the cause of the Un-
ion during the civil war. Children: i. Ellen, born February 15, 1816; married April 27, 1841, George Holden. ii. Rebecca, born June 19, 1818; married October 17, 1837, Wil- liam Wilkins Warren, of West Cambridge.
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