Bennett Carlton will present John Hatton: King of the Tories at the Salem County Historical Society's March Quarterly Meeting. This event will be held on Sunday, March 8th, at Friends Village, 1 Friends Drive, Woodstown, NJ 08098, in the Fenwick Auditorium at 1:30 p.m.

Bennett Carlton is the author of several books. His nonfiction books include Have We Taken the Mountain?: The Civil War Battles of General Charles G. Harker; King of the Tories: The American Revolution in Swedesboro and Woolwich Township, New Jersey; “With Zeal and Intelligence”: Captain Jeffers Commands the Monitor, and a children’s version of the story of General Charles G. Harker titled, General Harker: Civil War Hero. Bennett then branched out to successfully write two engaging historical fiction books: The Professor: A Tale of Sabotage, Betrayal, and Unrequited Love During the Great War in America and The Return of the Professor: A Quest for Redemption.                                                              

Bennett Carlton was previously a principal library assistant at the Logan Township Public Library of the Gloucester County Library System, an editor and proofreader for a major pharmaceutical company, and a history tour guide for Centipede Tours of Philadelphia, as well as a long-time Civil War reenactor. Currently, Bennett teaches history at Grace Christian Academy and continues to be a speaker at libraries, schools, historical societies, and Civil War roundtable meetings. He is a long-time resident and local historian of historic Swedesboro, NJ.