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- This is a brief biography of his wife, according to Perley:
"Mary, born about 1634; married, first, John, son of John and Martha Cheny of Newbury April 20 ,1660. He was a brother of her brother' Joseph's wife. Mr. Cheny died in Newbury, where they lived, Jan. 7, 1671. Mr. Cheny's physician was Dr. David Bennett of Rowley, and during his professional visits became acquainted with Mrs. Cheny, whom he married April 29, 1672. She lived with Doctor Bennett under her decease in 1682. At the time of her marriage with Doctor Bennett he was about fifty-seven years lod; and after her death he married Rebecca Spencer in 1683, when he was nearly seventy. She was a daughter of Captain Roger Spencer and a siser of the wife of Sir. William Phips, the wealthy governor of the colony. He had three children by each wife. Mrs. Bennett died March 26, 1712; and the doctor Feb. 4, 1718/9, at the great age, according to the records, of one hundred and three years. Mary Plumer had three children by each of her husbands."
In the light of this story, note that their first child was born before they were married.
He did have a first wife as well, name unknown The children are not named in Perley's article. David Bennett had six children between his two wives.
His son Spencer (by his second wife) became the adoptive son of his first wife's sister and her husband; he was William Phips, and his son took the name Spencer Phips. [3, 4, 5]
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