Richard Bennett III
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Richard Bennett III 1667-1749 His Wife Elizabeth Rousby 1682-1740 Bennett's will (1749) ordered 250 pounds sterling to be "expended in a decent house to be built over the graveyard and burying place where my dear wife lays interr'd." The will (1698) of Francis Morgan Sayer ordered "a chapel built of lime and breek" (20 by 30 feet) over the grave of her husband, Col. Peter Sayer, at this site.
Archaeological evidence indicates that the Sayer chapel was most probably incorporated in the Bennett chapel. Also buried here: Dorothy Blake Carroll (mother of Charles, the Barrister): Thomas Greene (D. 1674). Queen Anne's County Historical Society Maryland Historical Society
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