John Bent

Bef 1596 - 1672  (> 75 years)

• Name	John Bent  [1]
  Born	Bef 20 Nov 1596  [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Baptised	20 Nov 1596	Weyhill, Hampshire, England   [2, 3]
  Died	27 Sep 1672	Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I33787	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert Bent,   b. Bef 29 Sep 1566,   d. Bef 29 Jul 1631  (Age < 64 years)
  Mother	Agnes Gosling,   d. Between May 1639 and Jun 1639, On board the Jonathan, just outside Boston harbor
  Married	13 Oct 1589	Weyhill, Hampshire, England   [2, 4, 5]
  Family ID	F19907	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martha,   d. 15 May 1679, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Married	Abt 1624	England   [3]
  Children	+ 1. John Bent,   b. Bef 24 Jan 1637,   d. Bef 15 Sep 1717  (Age < 80 years)
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2021
  Family ID	F19906	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He arrived with his wife and five children in 1638 on the Confidence, and settled at Sudbury.

  
  

• Sources

  [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society. [S5396] E. C. Felton, "The English Ancestors of John Bent, of Sudbury." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 49:65, 1895. [S5395] The Bent Family in America by Allen H. Bent. Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1900. [S5395] The Bent Family in America by Allen H. Bent. Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1900., date only. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931.