Nicholas Bennett

1819 - 1850  (31 years)

• Name	Nicholas Bennett
  Born	15 Apr 1819	Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Sep 1850	Keswick, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I8779329428	Master Tree | Isaac Bennett Descendants
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2011

  
  

  Father	Aquilla Bennett,   b. Abt. 1775, Virginia, United States ,   d. 1869, Pennsylvania, United States  (Age ~ 94 years)
  Mother	Susanna Cober,   b. Abt. 1791
  Married	1804	Pennsylvania, United States
  Family ID	F8026691301	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Diamia Sprague,   b. 27 Nov 1818, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1873, Keswick, Ontario, Canada  (Age 54 years)
  Married	15 May 1837	York, Ontario, Canada
  Children	+ 1. Sydney James Bennett,   b. 18 Mar 1838, Keswick, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 24 May 1911, Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States  (Age 73 years)   2. David Henry Bennett,   b. 21 Jun 1840, Keswick, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 27 Sep 1862, Maryland, United States  (Age 22 years) + 3. Nelson Bennett,   b. 14 Oct 1843, Keswick, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 20 Jul 1913  (Age 69 years) + 4. Willard Bennett,   b. 18 Oct 1844, Keswick, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 19 Apr 1924, Helena, Lewis and Clark, Montana, United States  (Age 79 years) + 5. George Albert Bennett,   b. 22 Oct 1846, Keswick, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 10 Aug 1929, Raton, Colfax, New Mexico, United States  (Age 82 years) + 6. Amelia Bennett,   b. 09 Apr 1850, Keswick, Ontario, Canada
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2011
  Family ID	F8026691353	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 15 Apr 1819 - Ontario, Canada Married - 15 May 1837 - York, Ontario, Canada Died - 21 Sep 1850 - Keswick, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  From Jean Shoenmaker: This is the earliest record I've seen for Nichols Bennett. Aquilla and Susannah didn't come to Upper Canada until 1810 and family lore is that Susannah had a "babe in arms" at the time. After ten years of research into my family I came to the conclusion that though the story my aunt wrote in her book was true she had wrong names attached to the right situation. She said, to paraphrase, "When Diademia was a little girl in Holland she was very ill. When she began to get better a Dutchman she had befriended gave her a root of his prize peony told her to keep it always as it was a symbol that God would take care of her no matter what happened . The family moved to Ireland where she married Peter Bennett an Irishman." My aunt went on to say, "When the family wagon was packed the youngest daughter ran back to dig up a root of the peony to take to her new home. When they were floating the wagons with her household goods and her children across the Niagara River she was on horseback with her babe in her arms and the root of the peony in her saddlebag." Apparently when the German families were fleeing persecution in their homeland they came to America through Holland. The girl to whom the Dutchman gave the peony was apparently Margaretha Stroeher who married Peter Cober in America. When her youngest daughter, Susannah was leaving the family home for Upper Canada she ran back to dig up the peony to take with her. Both the story and the pink peony are in the famiily to this day. But a friend tells me Susannah wasn't on horseback with the baby in her arms as the horse would be too low in the water.