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Peter Bent (1703 - aft. 1790)

Peter Bent
Born in Sudbury, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
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Husband of — married 18 Apr 1727 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Baymap
Husband of — married 17 Jun 1774 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Baymap
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Died after after age 86 in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, USAmap [uncertain]
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Biography

Peter Bent was born on 17 May 1703 to Hopestill and Elizabeth (Brown) Bent in Sudbury, Massachusetts.[1]

Peter should not be confused with his cousin Peter, son of Peter, who was born, married and died in Marlborough. Both of them had wives named Mary, but they were distinct couples.

The proband Peter's father Hopestill died in 1725,[2] intestate, and Peter and his mother Elizabeth co-administered the estate. The real estate was deemed not to admit division among all the heirs, and his mother relinquished her rights to her thirds to Peter in favor of "good consideration." The various plots were settled on Peter, eldest son, and Thomas, next oldest, they promising to pay their siblings their shares.[3]

Peter married Mary Parris on 18 April 1727 in Sudbury,[4][5] daughter of Rev. Samuel and Dorothy (Noyes) Parris, in whose family the Salem witchcraft delusion began in 1692.

On 26 October 1741, Peter, in right of his father Hopestill Bent, was among the petitioners for land grants to veterans or heirs thereof of the 1690 expedition led by Sir William Phipps to capture Quebec. The resultant "Sudbury Grant" covered the present-day towns of Jay and Canton, Maine.[6][7]

Children of Peter and Mary (Parris) Bent:[8][9]

  • Mary Bent, b. 28 June 1727, m. Phinehas Brintnall[10]
  • Martha Bent, b. 11 March 1728/9
  • Dorothy Bent, b. 31 December 1730, m. Nov. 9, 1762, Richard Mills[10]
  • Unis Bent (Eunice), b. 15 November 1732
  • Susanah Bent, b. 17 September 1734, m. Dec. 5, 1765, Ebenezer Mower [Moore][10]
  • Kathrian Bent (Catherine), b. 23 September 1736, m. Jan 4, 1758, William Russell[10]
  • Abigail Bent, b. 30 October 1737, m. June 18, 1765, Jason Glozen [Gleason]
  • Peter Bent, b. 10 September 1741, apparently d. young[11]
  • Samuel Bent, 15 August 1743
  • Anna Bent, b. 16 December 1745
  • Hopestill Bent, b. 15 July 1748

9 July 1728 -- Peter Bent, husbandman of Sudbury to Benjamin Stow, tailor of Sudbury, £20 lawful money of New England, 8 acres owned in fee simple by inheritance in east part of Sudbury, bounded by Benjamin Parmenter, Alexander Grant, Nathaniel [Hafey], road leading to Dedham. Wits: Abraham Briant, Thomas Adams, John Ross.[12]

25 July 1728 -- Peter Bent, yeoman of Sudbury, with consent of wife Mary, to Thomas Bryant, yeoman of Sudbury, £500 money, homestead of buildings with 15 acres, bounded by the [Shill?] Brooks, the county road, the road that goes to Bridell [Bridle] Point, and my own land, also 4 acres of land and swamp on which the barn stands, bounded by the road to Bridell Point, the land of Joseph Parmenter, and land of Abraham Briant, said land in in fee simple, estate of inheritance. Wits: Jno. Woodward, Abraham Briant. The deed was not recorded until 31 October 1765, on which day Peter and Mary Bent personally appeared and acknowledged it.[13]

After Mary and Peter acknowledged their deed of 1728 on 31 October 1765, there is no further record of Mary.

Peter married, second, Sarah (Willard) Pratt, widow of Oliver and daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Bartlett) Willard, on 17 June 1774 in Newton,[14][15] Allen H. Bent, author of The Bent Family was not able to track Peter, supposing he may have removed to Nova Scotia, and erroneously assigned this marriage to Peter and Mary's son Peter, but the son, had he still been living, would have been 30 years the junior of Sarah (Willard) Pratt, and subsequent records assure us of this marriage.

30 April 1776 -- Peter Bent, yeoman of Sudbury, with consent of wife Sarah, to Isaac Cutting, gentleman of Sudbury, £500, 70 acres with buildings thereon, east side of Sudbury river, in three pieces, parted by town roads. The piece where the buildings stand bounded by a brook near a small bridge, a town road, John TIlton's land. Another piece bounded at the corner of the wall before the dwelling house, sd. Tilton's land, a town road. Another piece bounded by John Meriam's land, land in possession of widow Anna Noyes, Widow Pool, land set off to Mrs. Hepzibah Hoar for her thirds, and Timothy Underwood's land. Also another tract on east side of the River, 30 acres, bounded by Joseph Smith, John Tilton, sd. Noyes, Lieut Bissell, Benjamin Dudley Jun'r. Also a pew in the East Meeting House in said town, being the second pew from the south door. Also all my right & title I have as a proprietor in said town. Wits: William Baldwin, Wm. Hunt, Abigail Parris, Elizabeth Tomson.[16]

6 May 1776 -- Nathan Sparkhawk, gent. of Hutchinson, and Katherine, his wife, to Peter Bent of Sudbury, £500 lawful money, lot no. 2 in Hutchinson. Wits: Noah Sparhawk, Peter Frink.[17]

Hutchinson was renamed as Barre on 7 November 1776.

"In March, 1780, the house of Mr. Peter Bent was consumed by fire in the night, with almost every thing contained therein, and two of his children,a son and a daughter, of adult age, perished in the flames."[18]

15 August 1781 -- Peter Bent, gent. of Barre, to Phinehas Brintnall, yeoman of Barre, & Mary, his his wife, Ebenezer Mower, joiner of Barre, & Susannah, his wife, Richard Mills, gent. of Barre, & Dorothy, his wife, and William Russell, yeoman of Barre, & Katherine, his wife, 2,200 spanish milled dollars, lot no. 2 in Barre. Wits: Hul [Hull#93; Sparhawk, Eb'r Rice.[19]

14 March 1786 -- the same four couples as above, "for the consideration of thirty eight pounds thirteen shillings & four pence paid by Ephraim Brooks of [Barre] to our Hon'd Father Peter Bent on the fifth day of January A.D. 177_[20] with which sum we acknowledge ourselves fully satisfied," and quitclaim all right & title in one and a half acres of house lot no. two in Barre. Wits: PHinehas Brintnall 2d, N. Sparhawk Hancock, Sam'l H. Robinson, William Russell Jun'r, Jos. Lee, Wm. Smith, Daniel Mason.[10]

Sarah died in 1789, and her remains were interred in Winchester, New Hampshire, where a number of her Pratt children had settled.[21]

Peter was still living in Barre in 1790,[22] after which no record of him has yet been found.

Sources

  1. ↑ Birth of Peter Bent, 17 May 1703. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Death of Hopestill Bent, 18 August 1725. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, p. 296.
  3. ↑ Estate of Hopestill Bent, 1725. Middlesex County Probate Case No. 1615; Probate records 1648--1924 (Middlesex County, Massachusetts). "Probate papers 1548-1631," FamilySearch, Film # 7,552,911, images 668-94.
  4. ↑ Marriage of Mary Parris and Peter Bent, 18 April 1727. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, p. 249.
  5. ↑ Bent, p. 24.
  6. ↑ Hudson, Alfred S. The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1638-1889. Sudbury, Mass: The Sudbury Press, 1968, p. 272.
  7. ↑ Watkins, Walter K. Soldiers In the Expedition to Canada In 1690: And Grantees of the Canada Townships. Boston: Printed for the author, 1898, p. 68.
  8. ↑ Bent births. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, pp. 16-18.
  9. ↑ Bent marriages. Ibid., pp. 168-70.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Phinehas Brintnall et al. to Ephraim Brooks, 14 March 1786. Worcester County Deeds, 102:16-17. "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (22 May 2014), Worcester > Deeds 1786-1788 vol 102-103 > image 13 of 675; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.
  11. ↑ Peter, the son of Mary and Peter, seems to have died young, because his cousin Peter, son of Hopestill and Beulah Bent, is the one who appears in deeds of Sudbury as Peter Jr., and whose will was proved in 1778. These cousins were only 2 months apart in age, which would have either resulted in Peter and Mary's son being called III,' or otherwise differentiated. Instead, there are no records of a third Peter. N.B. The birth record of Peter, son of Hopestill and Beulah, is misindexed in FamilySearch. An examination of the microfilm shows that the indexer read the date just above his birth record (18 July 1745), rather than the date associated with his record (8 July 1741). Peter, son of Mary and Peter, happens to be on the same page. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Middlesex > Sudbury > Births, marriages, deaths 1663-1829 vol 4 > image 44 of 142; town clerk offices, Massachusetts.
  12. ↑ Peter Bent to Benjamin Stow, 9 July 1728. Middlesex County Deeds, 59-60. "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (22 May 2014), Middlesex > Deeds 1749-1753 vol 49-50 > images 45-6 of 674; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.
  13. ↑ Peter and Mary Bent to Thomas Bryant, 25 July 1728. Middlesex County Deeds, 64:534-5. "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (22 May 2014), Middlesex > Deeds 1764-1765 vol 63-64 > image 816 of 824; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.
  14. ↑ Marriage of Peter Bent and Sarah Pratt, 17 June 1774. Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston, Mass: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1905, p. 241.
  15. ↑ William Pratt et al. to Joseph Mudge[e] Jr., November 1790, interest in the estate of Sarah Bent of Barre, her thirds of the estate of Oliver Pratt of Newton. Suffolk County Deeds, 169:205-6. "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (22 May 2014), Suffolk > Deeds 1791 vol 169-170 > images 220-1 of 604; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.
  16. ↑ Peter Bent and wife Sarah to Isaac Cutting. Middlesex County Deeds, 84:442-3. "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (22 May 2014), Middlesex > Deeds 1782-1784 vol 84-85 > images 228-9 of 627; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.
  17. ↑ Nathan and Katherine Sparhawk to Peter Bent, 6 May 1776. Worcester County Deeds, 88:13."Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch ( 22 May 2014), Worcester > Deeds 1782-1784 vol 88-90 > image 12 of 820; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.
  18. ↑ Peter Bent's house fire of 1780. Whitney, Peter. The History of the County of Worcester... Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts: by Isaiah Thomas, Sold by him in Worcester, by said Thomas and Andrews, in Boston, and by said Thomas and Carlisle, in Walpole, Newhampshire, 1793, p. 288.
  19. ↑ Peter Bent to Phinehas Brintnall et al., 15 August 1781. Worcester County Deeds, 86:230-1. "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (22 May 2014), Worcester > Deeds 1781-1783 vol 85-87 > image 430 of 841; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.
  20. ↑ The deed book was not fully opened when it was microfilmed, and the tail end of the date is thus obscured.
  21. ↑ Here lies buried Mrs. Sarah Bent Wife of Mr. Peter Bent of Barre who Died July 19th 1789 in the 77th year of her age. Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 10 October 2018), memorial page for Sarah Willard Bent (3 Sep 1711–19 Jul 1789), Find A Grave: Memorial #81944324, citing Evergreen Cemetery, Winchester, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA ; Maintained by Linda Mac (contributor 47062703).
  22. ↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 10 October 2018), Peter Bent, Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 85, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 4; FHL microfilm 568,144.
  • Bent, Allen H. The Bent Family In America: Being Mainly a Genealogy of the Descendants of John Bent... Boston: Printed by D. Clapp & Son, 1900. Profile of Peter Bent, son of Hopestill. pp. 24-5.
  • Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903.




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Hoult-24 Chris Hoult
Bent-692 and Bent-153 do not represent the same person because: Different people but have been married off to the same wife.
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Paula (Cullen) Staunton
Bent-692 and Bent-153 appear to represent the same person because: Same wife and child. Difference in parents needs research before merge
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