1784, Groton, Mass.,James Bennett, land sale, Revolutionary War Minutemen signed

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This document dated 1784, where James Bennett of Groton, Massachusetts has sold to Joseph Blanchard, a plot of land in Billerica, signed at bottom by James Bennett, Simon Blanchard and Oliver Crosby....signed on back by William Thompson as Justice of Peace. Document is 8x14, folds, toned, stained, overall good condition.
James Bennett was baptized in Wenham, May 4, 1727, married in Ipswich, July 3, 1751, Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Dodge) Dodge, of Ipswich Hamlet, now Hamilton. He came to Woburn in 1754. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war in 1759, serving in Captain Jonathan Butterfield's company at Crown Point, from April 12, to November 22. of that year. He was also a soldier in the revolutionary war, serving six days at the time of the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775, as a private in Captain Joshua Walker's (Woburn) company, Colonel David Green's (second Middlesex county) regiment. He was next a member of Captain John Wood's (the captain being of Woburn) company, in Gerrish's and Baldwin's (Colonel Loammi Baldwin of Woburn) regiment, after May 1, 1775. He was also in this regiment as late as August 12, 1776, and may have served longer, his wages for 1776 being paid in an order dated Woburn, September 20, 1777. It may be he whose name was included in the list of men who left the service December 31, 1775, having been stationed at Chelsea and Medford.
Mr. Bennett was a large landowner in Woburn and Billerica. In 1782 he sold his homestead in Woburn to David Blanchard. of Woburn, and purchased in the same year a farm of some two hundred acres in Groton, of Ebenezer Parker. He died in Groton in 1809.
Oliver Crosby, born in Billeri- ca, Mass., in 1744, was a Revolutionary soldier. In 1775 he was a lieutenant in command of twelve men, and as sisted in driving the British from Lexington to Boston. He had volunteered and gave his best efforts to sustain the Revolution. He was also at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He was known as Major Crosby. In 1799 and 1800 he represented Billerica in the Gen eral Court of Massachusetts, and was considered a good  representative of Massachusetts "Whiggery. "
William Thompson of Billerica (1724–1806). Lieutenant-Colonel, Second Middlesex County Regiment, which marched on the Lexington Alarm.
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