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- Richard Bennett lived in a part of Isle of Wight County called "Blackwater" near the plantation of Justinian Cooper.
In 1638 he patented 300 acres in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. He and John Cofer were granted 1400A (undated).
In 1656, Richard Bennett purchased land at Hickory Valley Branch from William Miles. On 5 July 1699, he conveyed of portion of the land bought from William Miles to his Son Richard, who lived there until his death in 1720. Isle of Wight Record Book 1688-1704, p. 292. When Richard Bennett, Jr., made his will in 1720 he was still living on this land he speaks of "my plantation and land whereon I now live, it being part of ye land which was bought formerly of William Miles." Miles patented land on the second branch of the Blackwater adjoining Mr. England's land at an early date and died in 1698. He was aged seventy-five years on the 8 March, 1697-8, which would have made him twenty-three years of age in 1656.
In 1682, Richard Bennett patented 630 acres in the Lower Parish of Surry County, bounded by the land of Francis Mason, William Edwards and the Hollybush Swamp, for the transportation of thirteen persons, his name not being among those mentioned. As he did not receive any land for his own transportation it seems therefore that he was born in Virginia.
Soon after receiving the above grant he sold George Morrell part of the land as evidenced by the following deed (Deed Bk 2, pp.30-31):
"Richard Bennet, ye elder of the Upper Parish of Isle of Wight with the free will and consent of my wife, Anne, have for a valuable consideration to me in hand paid before the sealing, grant unto George Morrell of Lawne's Creek Parish in the County of Surry, 150 acres situate on the west side of Pocatink Swamp in Surry, the same parcel of land being part of a patent for 630 acres to me granted the 22 July 1682 - near Mr. Thos. Binns."
On the fourth of September, 1694, he made a gift of 200 acres on the west side of Pocatink Swamp to his son James Bennet of the Lower Parish of Surry County. (Deeds 1694-1709, p 18) July 5, 1699, as Richard Bennett of the Upper Parish of Isle of Wight, he deeded to his "son and heir" Richard Bennett, Jr., of the same parish "all right and title in land that belonged to Edward Jones then taking in plantation Richard Bennett now lives, being part of land bought of William Miles in 1656." 9Bk 1688-1704, p. 292)
In 1704, Richard Bennett was taxed for 70 acres in Isle of Wight County and 200 acres in Surry County..\
Richard Bennett's first wife was named Anne. She was probably the mother of his children. The wife mentioned in his will was named Sarah and she subsequently married Robert Lancaster whose will was probated in 1720. Sarah Bennett-Lancaster made her will the 31st of October, 1722, and same was probated 29 January, 1723.
Richard Bennett, Sr., died in 1709. He was then probably between eighty and eighty-five years of age as he had several sets of great grandchildren. Fifteen years before his death he made a deed of land in Surry to Ann Bell a married grandaughter. He made his will on 4 December, 1709, which was probated February, 1710. In his will he mentions his second wife, Sarah. Legatees were Mary Thorpe, daughter of Daniel Lewis; John Mangum; James Coffield; and Susana and Martha Lewis, daughters of Susan who married Daniel Lewis, Jr..
Sources:
John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol 2, p. 821 (Baltimore Maryland:Genealogical Publishing Company, Fourth Ed. 2005)
Sixteenth Century Isle of Wight 294-29
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Abt 1625 - Bef 1710 (~ 85 years)