Bent Martha b. ABT 1643 Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 29 AUG 1680

1643 - 1680

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Birth Abt 1643 Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA [1, 2]

Gender Female

_UPD 23 AUG 2009 14:02:13 GMT-5

Died 29 Aug 1680 [1, 3]

Person ID I5507 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Father Bent John, b. Nov 1596, Penton-Grafton, England, U.K. , d. 27 Sep 1672

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

Married 1624 England, U.K.

Family ID F2367 Group Sheet

Family Howe Samuel, b. 20 Oct 1642, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA , d. 13 Apr 1713, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Married 05 Jun 1663 [1, 3, 4, 5]

Children

1. Howe Hannah, b. 06 Apr 1677, d. 08 Nov 1742

Family ID F2366 Group Sheet

Notes	Martha, the youngest child of John Bent, married in 1663 Samuel Howe. Her son, David, was first proprietor of the Red Horse Tavern at Sudbury. David Howe's son, Ezekiel, grandson,. Adam, and great-grandson, Lyman, (died 1861), were successive proprietors of this old tavern, which was made famous by Longfellow under the name of "The Wayside Inn." It was Lyman. Howe to whom Longfellow's poem refersas A man of ancient pedigree, A Justice of the Peace was be, Known in all Sudbury as " The Squire." Martha Bent (John) was born in Sudbury, Mass., about 1643, and died Aug. 29, 1680; married, June 5 1663, Samuel How, carpenter, born Oct. 20, 1642, son of John How, one of the first settlers of Sudbury. John afterward moved to Marlboro, where he opened the first public house in the place, but Samuel remained in Sudbury, where he died, April 13, 1713. He married again, Sept. 18, 1685, Mrs. Sarah (Leavitt) Clapp, widow of Nehemiah Clapp of Hingham. David, the youngest son by the first marriage, was the first proprietor of Red Horse Tavern, the "Wayside Inn" made famous by Longfellow. The old hostelry is in the southwest corner of the town, near the boundaries of both Marlboro and Framingham, and was probably built about 1702, though some think at an earlier date. The Hows were a race of tavern-keepers. John's grandson, Capt. Daniel Howe (1681-1768), was one of the first settlers of Shrewsbury, where he soon opened a teavern. In the Revolutionary days, when Capt. Cyprian Howe and MunningSawin kept rival inns in Marlboro, there was an old rhyme running like this: "Uncle Cyp makes the flip And munning makes the toddy, O." Children of Samuel and Martha (Bent) How, born in Sudbury: i. John, b. July 24, 1664; lived in Framingham and Hopkinton. ii. Mary, b. March 2, 1666; m. 1st, George Farrar, and 2d, Thomas Barnes. iii. Samuel, b. May 19, 1668; d. in Framingham, 1731. iv. Martha, b. Oct. 9, 1669; m. Thomas Walker. v. Daniel, b. Oct. 9 1672; d. 1680. vi. David, b. Nov. 2, 1674; kept the "Wayside Inn" in Sudbury, until his death, Aug. 3, 1759, when he was succeeded by his youngest son, Ezekial How (b. April 5, 1720, d. Oct. 15, 1796), during the Revolutionary War colonel of the 4th Middlesex Militia. The latte was succeeded by his son Adam How (b. May 15, 1763; d. Dec. 10, 1840), and he in tuen by his son "Squire" Lyman Howe (b. Nov. 6, 1801),a bachelor, at whose death, in April, 1861, it passed out of the Howe name. In 1897 it was again re-opened as a place of public entertainment. vii. Hannah, b. April 6, 1677; m. John Barnes.

Sources

[S302] The Bent family in America: Being mainly a genealogy of the descendants of John Bent who settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1638, with notes upon the family in England and elsewhere, Allen Herbert Bent, (Name: Printed by D. Clapp & Son, 1900;), 17 (Reliability: 3).
[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).
[S301] History of the town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for 150 years: with family genealogies. By J.H. Temple and G. Sheldon, Josiah Howard Temple, 468 (Reliability: 3).
[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;), 282 (Reliability: 3).
[S253] Who Begot Thee? Some Genealogical and Historical Notes Made in an Effort to Trace the American Progenitors of One Individual Living in America in 1903, Gilbert Oliver Bent, Gilbert Oscar Bent, (Name: Printed for private distribution, 1903;), 7 (Reliability: 3).