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About Richard Bennett
Richard Bennett was an English planter and Governor of the Colony of Virginia, serving 1652–1655. He had first come to the Virginia colony in 1629 to represent his merchant uncle Edward Bennett's business, managing his plantation known as Bennett's Welcome in Warrascoyack. Two decades later, Bennett immigrated to the Maryland colony with his family, and settled on the Severn River in Anne Arundel County.
Everything about Richard Bennett →- Position held
- colonial governor of Virginia
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England, British North America
- Born
- August 6, 1609, 1608
- Died
- April 12, 1675, 1675