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Name: Bartholomew Bennett

Birth Date: 00/00/1720

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Subject: Faversh Gunpowder Personnel Register

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1. Barholomew Bennett was birn circa 1720, and appointed as the Overseer of Works on the 25th April 1773. 2. On the 18th October 1787, Bennett, together with Mr Cowell, John Good Fellow and William Easton was "to go immediately to Mr Walton's Mills at Waltham Abbey (Supply 5/66)." Apparently, this was at the order of his Grace the Master General (of Ordnance), the Duke of Richmond (Supply 5/113). 3. At Waltham Abbey he supervised William Sutton, acting Overseer, also from Faversham, and the Artificers, etc., renovating the Mills. During this period he took an active interest in , and gave much good technical advice on, improvements to the Mills (W. H Simmonds, A Short History of Waltham Abbey Powder Mills). 4. By January 1788, he had returned to Faversham.