Bent John b. NOV 1596 Penton-Grafton, England, U.K. d. 27 SEP 1672

1596 - 1672

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Birth Nov 1596 Penton-Grafton, England, U.K. [1]

Gender Male

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Died 27 Sep 1672 [1]

Person ID I5508 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Father Bent Robert, b. Sep 1566, Penton-Grafton, England, U.K.

Mother Gosling Agnes, d. 1639, on the ship "Jonathan", Boston Harbor, Massachusetts

Family ID F2370 Group Sheet

Family Martha, d. 1679, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Married 1624 England, U.K. [1]

Children

1. Bent Martha, b. Abt 1643, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

, d. 29 Aug 1680

Family ID F2367 Group Sheet

Notes	(III) John Bent, third child of Robert Bent (2), was born in Penton-Grafton, England, November, 1596. He was forty-two years old when he emigrated to New England. He married, in England. 1624, Martha_____, who died in Sudbury. Massachusetts. May 15. 1679. He brought his wife and five children with him when he sailed from Southampton, April, 1638. in the ship "Confidence," John Johnson, master. His house lot in Sudbury, where he settled, was about a quarter mile "north of the present railroad station in Wayland, and an equal distance from the Sudbury river. He had many other grants of land. He was admitted a freeman, 1640; was selectman, 1641; on a town committee to assign timber land, 1648. He served on the committee that laid out the highway from Weston to the Dunster farm, on the edge of Framingham. This road followed the ancient Indian trail from the sea coast to the Connecticut river. He was one of Major Simon Willard's troopers at Ded- ham in 1654. In 1656 he was one of the petitioners for the grant at Marlboro, but seems not to have lived there. His first five children were born in England, and the two others in Sudbury, Massa chusetts. He was a magistrate, and a man who was often honored, and universally trusted and esteemed. He died September 27. 1672. Children of John and Martha Bent: I. Robert, baptized January 10, 1625; William, baptized October 24, 1626; Peter, baptized April 24, 1629; Agnes, baptized about 1631; John, baptized January 24, 1636; Joseph, born May 16, 1641; Martha, born about 1643.

Sources

[S142] Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: with a history of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Ellery Bicknell Crane, (Name: 1907;), p. 234, vol 3 (Reliability: 3).