Revolutionary War Veteran
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Ishmael Bennett fought in the American Revolution at the Battle of Wyoming. He was married to Martha Elliott and Abigail Beers.
Ishmael BENNETT was born in Rhode Island about 1730; moved to Connecticut; came to Wilkes-Barre about 1770 with a family by a first wife; settled in Wilkes-Barre; after the Wyoming Battle, returned with the expelled inhabitants; married a second time to Abigail BEERS, widow of Philip WEEKS, who was killed in the Wyoming Massacre in 1778 at the river's edge; removed to Hanover about 1788; lived on the Back Road about a half mile below the Sugar Notch Mines; removed to Ohio about 1816; died there, very old."
An early industry was that of Ishmael Bennett, making grindstones at the foot of Little mountain, a short distance from the present Hanover Coal Company's breaker
-- thanks to contrib#47687309
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Ishmael Bennett fought in the American Revolution at the Battle of Wyoming. He was married to Martha Elliott and Abigail Beers.
Ishmael BENNETT was born in Rhode Island about 1730; moved to Connecticut; came to Wilkes-Barre about 1770 with a family by a first wife; settled in Wilkes-Barre; after the Wyoming Battle, returned with the expelled inhabitants; married a second time to Abigail BEERS, widow of Philip WEEKS, who was killed in the Wyoming Massacre in 1778 at the river's edge; removed to Hanover about 1788; lived on the Back Road about a half mile below the Sugar Notch Mines; removed to Ohio about 1816; died there, very old."
An early industry was that of Ishmael Bennett, making grindstones at the foot of Little mountain, a short distance from the present Hanover Coal Company's breaker
-- thanks to contrib#47687309
Revolutionary War Veteran
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Ishmael Bennett fought in the American Revolution at the Battle of Wyoming. He was married to Martha Elliott and Abigail Beers.
Ishmael BENNETT was born in Rhode Island about 1730; moved to Connecticut; came to Wilkes-Barre about 1770 with a family by a first wife; settled in Wilkes-Barre; after the Wyoming Battle, returned with the expelled inhabitants; married a second time to Abigail BEERS, widow of Philip WEEKS, who was killed in the Wyoming Massacre in 1778 at the river's edge; removed to Hanover about 1788; lived on the Back Road about a half mile below the Sugar Notch Mines; removed to Ohio about 1816; died there, very old."
An early industry was that of Ishmael Bennett, making grindstones at the foot of Little mountain, a short distance from the present Hanover Coal Company's breaker
-- thanks to contrib#47687309
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Ishmael Bennett fought in the American Revolution at the Battle of Wyoming. He was married to Martha Elliott and Abigail Beers.
Ishmael BENNETT was born in Rhode Island about 1730; moved to Connecticut; came to Wilkes-Barre about 1770 with a family by a first wife; settled in Wilkes-Barre; after the Wyoming Battle, returned with the expelled inhabitants; married a second time to Abigail BEERS, widow of Philip WEEKS, who was killed in the Wyoming Massacre in 1778 at the river's edge; removed to Hanover about 1788; lived on the Back Road about a half mile below the Sugar Notch Mines; removed to Ohio about 1816; died there, very old."
An early industry was that of Ishmael Bennett, making grindstones at the foot of Little mountain, a short distance from the present Hanover Coal Company's breaker
-- thanks to contrib#47687309
Inscription
Ishmael Bennet
died
Jan 20 1820
Aged about 96
years
Abigail
wife of
Ishmael Bennet
died
July 28 1839
In the 88 year
of her age
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