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Job Bennet Jr. (17__ – YEAR) was a justice of the Colonial Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1764 to May 1768, and again from May 1773 to August 1776.[1]
Bennet "served as a militia officer between 1754 and 1762, the last two years as colonel of the Newport County Regiment".[2]
Job Bennet Jr., of Newport, Oct. 1763 to 1768. 1773 to Aug. 1776.[3]
Bennet was selected to serve on the colonial supreme court in October 1763, along with Justice Silas Niles, and Chief Justice John Banister, though it does not appear that Banister actually served.[4]
? 1718-1784
? Col. Job Bennet died August 21, 1784; he was a leading member of the church for about twenty-six years, and at the time of his death, which was greatly lamented, was a trustee of the church with Deacon Tanner. https://books.google.com/books?id=DjZAAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA85
References
- ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
- ^ Rhode Island History, Vol. 24-27 (1965), p. 54.
- ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 60.
- ^ Marian Mathison Desrosiers, John Banister of Newport: The Life and Accounts of a Colonial Merchant (2017), p. 211, n. 57.
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