Ole Larson's Folks

Born in Warwick, Rhode Island, on this date in 1720: my fifth great-grandfather Thomas Bennet, storied pioneer in the Wyoming Valley of northeastern Pennsylvania. He is my only known ancestor with a whole book written about him.

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Thomas survived the Battle of Wyoming during the Revolutionary War, and numerous skirmishes with Native Americans, and with Pennamites bent on taking the valley from its Yankee settlers. Read more …

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