Pane-Joyce Genealogy
Family of Peter Bent (2732) & Elizabeth [Bent]
9461. Peter Bent. Born on 15 Oct 1653 in Sudbury, MA.80 Peter died on 3 Mar 1717; he was 63.124
Peter married Abigail Barnes, daughter of Richard Barns & Deborah [Dix]. Abigail died on 4 Feb 1768 in Southboro, MA.124
Children of Peter and Abigail (Barnes) Bent, born at Marlboro:
i. Beulah Bent, b. 27 Mar 1705, d. unmarried 17 Apr 1783 at Southboro;
ii. Peter Bent, b. 20 Mar 1707, d. 11 Mar 1798, m. Mary (d. 3 Jun 1803 æ. 93);
iii. John Bent, b. 24 Sep 1708, d. after 1784;
iv. Abigail Bent, b. 1 Sep 1710, d. unmarried 29 Jul 1787 at Southboro;
v. Elizabeth Bent, b. 5 Sep 1712, probably d. at Southbor 1798, unmarried; and
vi. Jabez Bent, b. 28 Jan 1716, probably d. young.124
9462. Martha Bent.
Martha was probably the Martha lining in Boston in 1690.124
9463. Elizabeth Bent. Born on 2 Dec 1658 in Sudbury, MA.80
9464. Agnes Bent. Born on 19 Aug 1661 in Sudbury, MA.80
On 9 Jul 1684 when Agnes was 22, she married Caleb Johnson in Sudbury, MA.80
Caleb, of Sudbury.
9465. John Bent. Born on 8 Jan 1663 in Sudbury, MA.80 John died in Cambridge, MA, on 20 Apr 1676; he was 13.
John died at Cambridge where the family had moved for safety after Philip’s war.124
9466. Zacheus Bent. Born ca 1667 in Marlboro, MA. Zacheus died on 20 Mar 1690.124
9467. Patience Bent. Born ca 1670 in Marlboro, MA.124
9468. Ens. Hopestill Bent. Born on 17 Jan 1672 in Marlboro, MA.124
From Allen H. Bent’s article “The Bent Family”:124
Hopestill “saw service in the disastrous canadian campaign of 1690, in the first of the French and Indian wars, and on his tombstone in the old burial ground in what is now the town of Wayland, is called an ensign.”
On 27 Nov 170[1] when Hopestill was 29, he married Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Thomas Brown, in Sudbury, MA.80
Children of Hopestill and Elizabeth (Brown) Bent, born at Sudbury:80
i. Martha Bent, b. 15 Sep 1701, d. 22 Dec 1722;
ii. Peter Bent, b. 17 May 1703, m. 18 Apr 1727 Mary Parris (dau. of Rev. Samuel Parris);
iii. Thomas Bent, b. 29 Jul 1706, d. 26 Jul 1775, m. 28 May 1733 Mary Stone (d. same day as Thomas, dau. of Samuel Stone);
iv. Hopestill Bent, b. 4 Nov 1708;
v. Sarah Bent, b. 22 Apr 1711, m. 10 Jul 1729 Jeremiah Wesson of Sudbury;
vi. Elijah Bent, b. 15 Aug 1713, d. 2 May 1797 at Barre, MA, m. Susannah Stone (d. 3 Jul 1801 at Barre æ. 80, dau. of Samuel Stone);
vii. Micah Bent, b. 29 Apr 1716, d. ca. 1760, m. 1737 Grace Rice (dau. of David Rice); and
viii. Elizabeth Bent, b. 14 Jun 1720.124
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