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 1764 - 1853 (88 years)
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| Name |
PIKE Bennett |
| Birth |
4 Aug 1764 |
Epping, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States  [2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| _UID |
84A50D38EB9ED5118A064445535400009DE5 |
| Death |
18 Apr 1853 |
Cornish, York, Maine, United States [2] |
- AE 85 yrs. 8 mos. 14 days.
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| Burial |
Aft 18 Apr 1853 |
Cornish, York, Maine, United States [3] |
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| Notes |
- Bennett resembled Henry Clay in person. He was tall and spare and remained spare all his life; but spare as he was, he was the champion wrestler of all the country around in his youth, and many stories of his prowess are yet extant. He was a bright, nimble witted man, intellectually superior to every other man in the settlement, Deacon Jewett and Elder Remick not excepted. He was thrifty , too, and became the most wealthy farmer in town, albeit "Squire Pease and Cotton Lincoln" had more of this world's goods. I remember him as a pleasant old gentleman in a swallow-tail blue coat with bright buttons, the collar of the coat coming well up to the top of his head and with a huge puff on each shoulder as the fashion once was. A rare man was Bennett. He died in old age, and now sleeps in the little graveyard at the mouth of the road.
In 1787 - 99 years ago - he married Dolly Morrill, of Epping, and had one son. He then married Hannah Brasbree, the step-daughter of Eben Barker, who when a child was being led to church by her widowed mother at the time Eben fell in love, as I wrote in the sketch of that good man. I will not say that Bennett's second wife was the best brained woman ever raised in Maine , but I will say she was one of the rarest of her sex. Books and newspapers were not common in those days, but she managed to get a fair supply from which she informed herself and then informed her husband, and Bennett would never have been the man he undoubtedly was but for his noble power behind the throne which was greater than the throne itself. Intellectually this couple were not only superior but vastly superior to any other married couple in the little town, and of the two Aunt Bennett possessed the best brains.
Thus we find among Bennet's descendants eight lawyers: Bennett, Ezra, Nathaniel, Edwin, Bennett, Vinton, Alvin and Jack; also two other graduates: Dr. William and his son, Frederick. The entire balance of the town has not turned out as many scholars, and I think not as many graduates. The would-have-been great men of the family, had they lived, were the second Bennett and Ezra. The great scholars were Ezra, Judge Bennett and Martha. The histrionic one was Jack. [Lauriston Ward Small writes, supplied by Robert Taylor].
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| Person ID |
I19432 |
Noyes Family Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
11 Feb 2003 |
| Father |
PIKE John, b. 2 Oct 1729, South Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States d. 1 Feb 1808, Cornish, York, Maine, United States (Age 78 years) |
| Mother |
BENNETT Mary, b. 11 Jul 1731, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 19 May 1816, Cornish, York, Maine, United States (Age 84 years) |
| Marriage |
15 Feb 1755 |
Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States [4] |
| Family ID |
F7486 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
MORRILL Dorothy, b. 31 May 1769, Epping, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States d. 1791 (Age 21 years) |
| Marriage |
1787 [3] |
| Family ID |
F7494 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
23 Feb 2024 |
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| Sources |
- [S68] Book-John Pike of Newbury, Mass., p.103-104.
- [S68] Book-John Pike of Newbury, Mass., p.102.
- [S68] Book-John Pike of Newbury, Mass., p.103.
- [S68] Book-John Pike of Newbury, Mass., p.59.
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