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Excerpt from The Bennetts of Saugus, Lynn and Groton Samuel Bennett, whose active participation in the early affairs of Saugus and Lynn, is known to you all, came over in the ship James in 1635, when 24 years of age. The house which still exists on Howard Street, Saugus, near where I reside, and which is one of the best preserved specimens of colonial architecture in New England, was built either by Samuel Bennett or one of his two sons, and although it is frequently referred to as the Boardman House, yet its early connection with the history of Lynn, Saugus and Boston would be better emphasized if it were designated The Bennett House. The oldest son of Samuel Bennett, of Saugus, namely Samuel Bennett, Jr., whose marriage to the daughter of William Hargrave, of horsey-down, England, was the cause of the oft-quoted instrument of settlement by hisfather recorded in Suffolk County Deeds, Boston, IV: 328, is the one who i theorize subsequently removed to Groton, Mass. The second and third sons, Elisha and John, were both mariners. John Bennett had a wife, Susanna, in 1673, but before 1677 he married Aphra, widow of Jonathan Adams, who had a son John Adams, born in 1672, and a daughter, Sarah Bennett, born in 1677. John Bennett had trouble in court with Samuel Adams of Chelmsford. He was in 1678, shortly to go on a voyage. Captain Elisha Bennett, the second son of the original Samuel, made his will April 9, 1726, and the same was proved May 30, 1726. In his will he is described, as of Rumney Marsh, and the will mentions his wife, Dorothy and children, ' John, Ellis and Sarah, who had grown and settled in life. The son Ellis was a mariner, and resided in Boston. The will also mentions a grandson, John Bennett at New York. Samuel Bennett, . Ir., migrated from Saugus in the latter half of the seventeenth century, but Captain Elisha Bennett, Mariner, is believed to have still lived in the old house which was then in that part of Boston called Rumney Marsh, now Chelsea, until at least. The first half of the eighteenth century, as his will is recorded May 30, 1726, as already stated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
