Betty (Bent) Eames (1743 - 1776)

Born 1 May 1743 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Jesse Eames — married about 1761 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Died 14 Feb 1776 at age 32 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Biography

Betty was born in 1743. She is the daughter of John Bent and Betty Reed. ^[1][2]

Betty married Jesse Eames (1739-1829) about 1761 in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Betty Eames died on 14 February 1776, in Framingham,^[3] leaving six children. Her widowed husband moved to New York and married again.

• Fact: Burial Church Hill Cemetery , Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

Sources

1. ↑ Bent, Allen H. (Allen Herbert), 1867-1926; The Bent family in America. Being mainly a genealogy of the descendants of John Bent who settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1638, with notes upon the family in England and elsewhere; Pub: 1900, D. Clapp & Son, Boston MA; Page 28; https://archive.org/details/bentfamilyinamer00bent/page/28/mode/1up?view=theater
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4GY-PNY : 10 November 2020), Betty Bent, 1 May 1743; citing Birth, Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011193.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHYL-HMT : 10 November 2020), Bettey Eames, 14 Feb 1776; citing Death, Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011193.

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• Bettey Eames (Unknown-1776) on Find A Grave: Memorial #28742758 retrieved 18 November 2020