Richard Bennett (governor)

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. ^{Richard Bennett, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)}

6 August 1609

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Born in the same month (August 1609): Artus Quellinus the Elder • Jan Fyt • Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet