John BENN 1768 - 1815

 
John BENN, (alias VENHAM Venman) was sentenced in Wiltshire, England in 1789 to seven years and was transported  on the Gorgon on the 15 March 1791, arriving in Sydney 21 September 1791.  He married Lydia GRIFFIN, daughter of Michael GRIFFIN, Soldier, and Mary nee AMOS, on the 16th of August 1814 at Windsor. They had no children.

His Obituarary 10 Dec 1815 in the Sydney Gazette:

DIED - On Sunday, evening last, at Hawkesbury, owing to a fall from his horse, whic is supposed to have been instantly fatal, Mr JOHN BENN, Settler, and a resident of this Colony for the long space of 25 years. The deceased left Parramatta for his own farm, which is two miles from Windsor, between four and five in the evening of Sunday, and passed through the gate at Rouse Hill about an hour after, saying he had rode very quick. It did not appear that he was afterwards seen alive by any person. That same evening  his horse was found in a corn field near his house, and a search was in consequence made for the rider., who was unhappily found dead upon the road leading to the farm: about a mile and half distant. The deceased always bore the character of a very very respectable settler, and had accumulated by his industry a very considerable property, a part of which he latterly employed in maritime speculations, in which he was also fortunate. His remains were interred at Windsor on tuesday: and were followed by a very numerous retinue of friends, many of whom came from Sydney and Parramatta for the occasion.

On his Tomb at St Matthews Anglican Church, Windsor:

 Sacred to the Memory of
 JOHN BENN
 Who Departed this life
 December 10th 1815

  Aged 46 Years