CEDAR CREEK HUNDRED
THE BRICK GRANERY FARM
AND ROGERVILLE
PART 2
During the 1800's great
trading activities developed along Cedar Creek. Daniel Rogers
evidently became Governor
and records show he freed his slaves at their 21st
birthday by
his 1806 will. Both he
and Reynear Williams were slave owners with more than five slaves.
Rogers had also purchased
several large farms on the north banks of Cedar Creek to support
his milling business and
was owner of more than 1000 acres. He owned a tavern at Drapers
Cedar Creek Pond. AKA
Swiggett's Mill, which became home to William V Coulter in
1888, that was a familiar
local landmark.
After Rogers death in
February 1806, the 128 acre Brick Granary farm was sold at a
Sheriff's sale to John
Robinson for $748 on April 19, 1814. then in 1833 transferred to
his
daughter, Arcada Smith
Robinson, who married Nathan Bennetts son John, September 5th
1821, John being a fourth
generation resident of slaughter Neck. Johns father died when John
was age 26 and a member of
the Delaware Militia defending Lewes in 1812. Arcada Robinson
was just seventeen when she
married John Bennett who was 19 years older than she. Arcada
bore him 11 children, all
but one reached maturity.
John & Arcada Bennett
in 1834 bought at public bank sale two tracts of her fathers
estate,
one a 150 acre tract and
a parcel of 130 acres with two story house, two tenant
houses,
storehouses and a brick
granary, thereon. John and Arcada lived here to raise their
family
and he and his 10 children
used the Brick Granary until 1860 as a trading center.
While on Cedar Creek, John
Bennett sold 40 acres of the brick granary farm to a negro by
name of John Davis,
northwest of the road to the creek. He also sold to Anthony Ingram
a ¾ acre lot for a
home.. The brick granary farm was now a 90 acre tract that John
and
Acadra sold to their son
John Robinson Bennett , Christmas Day, 1855. Bennetts family
history suggest none of
the Bennett children had any interest in the farm and drifted off
to
different fields and
places.
Finally, John Robertson
Bennett and Arcadia in 1860 , packed up, sold his lands,
went to Philadelphia
where their sons lived, opened up a boarding house at 705 Chestnut
Street and there he died
September 24 1867. One of his last acts was to purchase a large
burial plot in Woodlands
Cemetery, Philadelphia. There her was buried. Arcadia died in
Philadelphia on March 20,
1880. She is buried in Woodlands with John Robertson Bennett.
Nine of their children are
also buried at Woodlands Cemetery. One son, who remained in
Milford, Joseph Smith
Bennett, Milford's first druggist in 1850, on North Walnut
Street.
Abstract of Dave Kenton's
Brick Granary Farm & Rogersville, 1775 – 2007 by Harrison H
July 15, 2018 for
www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com
& Facebooks “Postively Milton “ page.
TO BE CONTINUED
HENRY S WATSON IS NEXT
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