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Last name Bennit
First name James
Display name James Bennet
Other names James Bennit
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Bio notes James Bennett and his brother-in-law, Col. John Harris, operated a ferry across Cayuga Lake. Bennett and Harris moved from Harrisburg to upstate New York in 1789.

Mentioned in:

Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Indians, 1796, by James Cooper of Woodbury, N.J.

John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796