Private William Bennett was born in
Sandown, New Hampshire, in 1758. He enlisted four times to fight
in the Revolutionary War and fought in the Battle of Fort Ann.
After the war, he moved to Geneseo, New York, before moving to
Kane County in 1836 with his wife Sally (Ward) and her children
from a previous marriage. He died on February 15, 1846, and is
the only documented Revolutionary War soldier to be buried in
unincorporated Kane County, where he rests in God’s Little Acre
cemetery, along with his wife and family members Laura Ann
Morgan, Hannibal Ward, and Amos Haskins, who were also buried in
the private cemetery between 1840 and 1850. The Daughters of the American Revolution marked the
site in 1942 with a bronze marker on a boulder east of the
cemetery, but the marker was stolen about 20 or 30 years later.
The cemetery continued to be owned by descendents of the Bennett
family until early 1996, when it was deeded over to the Campton
Township Cemetery Association, and it was named to the county
register later the same year. The gravestones, now set in
concrete to stabilize their condition, are not in their original
locations, though all five graves are within the fenced boundary
of the cemetery. His military rank was indeed Private, other
signs you may see notwithstanding.
The cache is a small jar, painted black. Please bring only small
items to exchange.
Coordinates were recorded with a Garmin GPS II+, with a solid
lock on 7 satellites and an EPE of 14 feet.
This cache is also one of the stages on the ZooKeeper's History Tour #1 multi-stage
cache. Make a note of Hannibal Ward's death while you're here
for use on the Tour. This cache gives you a chance to visit one
of the more interesting Tour stops if you're not interested in
doing the whole multi.
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