Thomas Bennett is listed in the 1624 Virginia census on the south side of the James River, near Lawne's Creek.
Shortly after this census Thomas Bennett married Alice Pierce, the widow of Thomas Pierce who was killed in the Massacre of 1622 at Martin's Hundred. Thomas Pierce's wife and daughter had been reported as killed, but had survived.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Massacre_of_1622In October, 1624, Elizabeth Pierce, daughter of his wife Alice, chose her "father-in-law" (stepfather) Thomas Bennett, as her guardian.
On that same date, Alice Bennett testified in a trial concerning a servant who had been mistreated by her master, Mr. John Proctor, after her husband Thomas Bennett, and a Mr. Richards had carried her home. Another witness in this trial was Anthony Barham
Thomas Bennett appears as a tenant on the Governor's land at the mouth of the Chickahominy, January 1626/1627.
Thomas Bennett served in the House of Burgesses representing Mulberry Island in 1632. Mulberry Island is in Warwick County, whose records have been lost. No further record has been found on Thomas Bennett.
Anthony Barham and his wife, Elizabeth, were living at Mulberry Island in the census of 1624/1625 This is on the north side of the James River, where Thomas Pierce had his plantation. Anthony crossed the Atlantic on the Abigail in 1621, and Elizabeth on the William and Thomas in 1618.
Anthony was Burgess from Mulberry Island in 1629-1630. Anthony Barham died in 1641, and named "Mother Bennett" and his brother-in-law Richard Bennett in his will. Elizabeth Pierce Barham married Richard Jackson, by whom she had two daughters, Sarah, who married Arthur Smith II, and Mary, who married George Hardy.
Richard was the only child of record of Thomas Bennett and his wife Alice. Richard Bennett resided at Blackwater, in the vicinity of the plantations of Justinian Cooper & Francis England, according to deed records.
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