John Bent

1596 - 1672  (~ 75 years)

• Name	John Bent
  Born	Nov 1596	Penton-Grafton, Eng
  Gender	Male
  Died	27 Sep 1672	Sudbury,,MA
  Person ID	I152	B03 Thomas Hore, b1649, Chilham, Kent, England
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2018

  
  

  Father	Robert Bent,   b. 1566, Penton-Grafton, Eng ,   d. 1631, Sudbury,Middlesex,MA  (Age 65 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Annis-Agnes Gosling,   b. ENG ,   d. 1634, Sudbury,Middlesex,MA
  Relationship	natural
  Married	13 Oct 1589	Weyhill,Hants,Eng
  Family ID	F352	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martha Baker,   b. Penton-Grafton,,Eng ?? ,   d. 15 May 1679, Sudbury,,MA
  Married	Bef 1625	ENG
  Children	1. John Bent,   b. 24 Jan 1636, Penton-Grafton, Eng ,   d. 15 Sep 1717, Framingham, MA (bur. date), age 81  (Age 81 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2018
  Family ID	F133	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The Bent Family, Allen H. Bent, published 1900. pages 11-13. #1 of Bent Family in America. John Bent (1), first of the name in America, was born in Penton-Grafton, England, in November 1596 (while Elizabeth was still Queen), came to America in his forty-second year, and settled in Sudbury, MA, where he remained until his death , Sept. 27, 1672, age nearly 76. He married in England about 1624, Martha (Unknown), who died in Sudbury, May 15, 1679, well along in years. The family ---- John, his wife and five small children ---- sailed from Southampton in the latter part of April, 1638, in the ship "Confidence of London," John Jobson, master, the whole numbers of passengers, "greater and little," being 110 souls. John Bent continued to till the soil in America as he had done in England. His farm was in the part of Sudbury now the town of Wayland, about sixteen miles directly west of Boston. He was one of the original settlers of the town, which was incorporated in 1639 with fifty-four inhabitants. Although it was the nineteenth town in Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the Sudbury River, the picture of peace, ran through fertile meadows near his new home, it was for some years after its settlement a frontier town. John Bent was made a freeman in 1640; that is , because he had become a member of the church of the Puritans, he was allowed to take part in town affairs. Children of John and Martha, i. to v. born in Penton-Grafton, England, vi. and vii, in Sudbury, MA: i. Robert baptized Jan. 10, 1625. ii William, baptized Oct. 24, 1626. iii. Peter, baptized April 14, 1629. iv. Agnes, b. about 1631. #4 v. JOHN, BAPTIZED JAN. 24, 1636. vi. Joseph, b. May 16, 1641. vii. Martha, b.about 1643. Source: Genealogical Register of Framingham (CD): John (1) was an original proprietor of Marlborough, 1656.