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• Gender	Male
  _UPD	23 AUG 2009 13:37:53 GMT-5
  Died	1588	Penton-Grafton, England, U.K.   [1]
  Person ID	I5513	Alan Donald Vibber
  Last Modified	08 Dec 2009
  Family	Edith,   d. 1601, Penton-Grafton, England, U.K.
  Children	1. Bent Robert,   b. Sep 1566, Penton-Grafton, England, U.K.
  Family ID	F2371	Group Sheet

• Notes

  BENT FAMILY. The English ancestors of Charles O. and Rpderic L. Bent, of Gardner, Massachusetts, lived in the town of Penton-Grafton, Hampshire, England, a town seventy miles southwest of London. Theparish is Weyhill. (I) John Bent is the first Englishman to whom the ancestry is traced. He lived in Penton-Grafton, and died there in 1588. His widow Edith died there in 1601. Their children: Edith, baptized September16, 1564; Robert, see forward; David, baptized October 13, 1568; Maria, baptized January 13, 1672 died young; Joan, baptized November 12. 1574; Richard, baptized February 5, 1577; Alice, baptized June 7. 1579; Agnes, baptized February 27, 1582.

• 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).