Born in 1742 in France. Himself being imbued with the spirit that characterized the French under the leadership of the immortal Lafayette, he took up arms against the minions of George III, and in defense of the home and liberties of the oppressed Colonists fought in the battles and shared the hardships of those trying days. At the Battle of Bunker Hill he bore aloft the colors of the regiment, and at Yorktown he was one of Washington's own body-guards. At Yorktown he received wounds from which he never recovered, and which cause his death years later. After the close of the war he married Adria Ann Britton (1758-1840), of his adopted state, who was born a native of Holland and was brought by her parents to America during her infancy. In a short time they moved to Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where seven children were born: John 1781, William, Nicholas, Abram b. 1789, Mary, David and Isaac b. 1798. Of him it is known that in early manhood (1760) he emigrated from his native land to the then inhospitable shores of the New World, and located in New Jersey previous to the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. In 1816, following the Star of the West, William Bennet and family, excepting his sons, John and Abram, who remained in Pennsylvania, emigrated to Ohio, settling in Section 33, Turtle Creek township, Warren County, Ohio. He died September 13, 1828 was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, 379 Mason Montgomery Road, Mason, Ohio, 45040, Interment # 881 in Sec 1 lot 119 [removed from Unity Graveyard]. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ., 2002) plus data to 2004. SAR # P-113448. DAR #653084. Beers History of Warren County page 962. He has a tombstone and 1776 marker.