Richard Bennett (Governor)
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Richard Bennett (August 6, 1609 - April 12, 1675) was a British Colonial Governor of Virginia.
Born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, Bennett served as governor from April 30, 1652, until March 2, 1655.[1][2] His uncle, Edward Bennett, was a wealthy merchant from London and also a member of the Virginia Company. Bennett traveled to the colony as a representative of his uncle's business interests, and quickly rose to prominence, serving in the House of Burgesses in 1629 and 1631.[3] On November 30, 1657, Bennett signed the treaty with Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, which recognized the latter's claim to Maryland.[2] While little is known about his time as governor, it is believed that he was popular with the colonists.[3]
Bennett was an ancestor of Henry Lee III, Robert E. Lee and John Randolph of Roanoke.[4]
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- ^ Lossing, Benson John (1901). Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902. Harper & Brothers, 544.
- ^ a b Tyler, Lyon Gardiner (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 47.
- ^ a b Warfield, Joshua Dorsey (1905). The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland: A Genealogical and Biographical Review from wills, deeds and church records. Kohn & Pollock, 41.
- ^ Boddie, John Bennett (1973). Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Genealogical Publishing Company, 79-80. ISBN 0806305592.
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