Pane-Joyce Genealogy
Maj. Thomas Brown (4526) & Patience Foster (5282)
13272. Elizabeth Brown. Born on 17 Mar 1677 in Sudbury, MA.

Children of Hopestill and Elizabeth (Brown) Bent, born at Sudbury:70
    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 1720.179
27 Nov 170[1] Elizabeth married Ens. Hopestill Bent (13241) , son of Peter Bent (4517) (ca Apr 1629-May 1678) & Elizabeth, in Sudbury, MA.70 Born on 17 Jan 1672 in Marlboro, MA.476

From Allen H. Bent’s article “The Bent Family”:179
    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.”
Their children include:
30467i.
Thomas Bent (29 Jul 1706-26 Jul 1775)
30468ii.
Hopestill Bent (4 Nov 1708-ca 1772)
13273. Silence Brown. Born on 15 Jul 1681 in Sudbury, MA. Silence died in Sudbury, MA, on 29 Mar 1691; she was 9.
Silence married Zachariah Heard. Born ca 1675. Zachariah died in Wayland, MA on 27 Dec 1761.
Their children include:
30523i.
Mary Heard (28 Nov 1708-13 Mar 1749[/50])
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