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Rufus BENNETT was born in 1754; came here from Connecticut with the family consisting of a mother and grandmother, the names of the father and grandfather being lost; was a soldier in the Revolutionary War; was home on furlough and fought in the Battle of Wyoming, and in the escape or flight two Indians were in close pursuit of him with tomahawk and spear. Richard INMAN, who had fallen out on the way to the battlefield, saw the Indians and shot one, and the other ran back; Rufus lived in Hanover and died in Wilkes-Barre about 1842; he married Martha BENNETT, daughter of Ishmael BENNETT--no relationship to him before. They had:
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