Bent Peter^{[1, 2, 3]}

1629 - 1678  (49 years)

• Name	Bent Peter
  Birth	Apr 1629	Penton-Grafton, County of Southampton, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Apr 1678	England   [1]
  Notes	From "The Bent Family in America" Allen Bent 1900: "Peter Bent (John1) was b. in Penton-Gragton, Eng., in April, 1629, and d. in England, whither he seems to have gone on business, in May, 1678 aged 49. He was but nine years old when he accompanied his father to America. At or before the incorporation in 1660 of Marlboro', which was carved out of the wilderness to the west of Sudbury, he had moved thither. He and his father were among the thirteen who petitioned the Colony in 1656 for the laying out of the town. He built a grist mill on Stony Brook, in what is now the town of Southboro', and became a busy man. In 1661 he contracted to build a bridge across the Sudbury rived 'for horse and man and laden cart to pass over.' More than once he went to England, no small undertaking in those days. He had build his house just south of Williams Pond, a mile of more from the present center of Marlboro'. We commend his good judgement on the selection of a site. Here his little family was growing up when suddenly the Indians, stirred up by the animosities of the Narragansett chief, King Phillip, swopped down upon the growing town, one Sunday morning (March 26, 1676), while the good people were at church, applied the fire-brand, and Marlboro' was no more. The November before, a small band of Indians crept up to Bent's mill and scalped his son (probably Zacheus, a lad of nine years) left him for dead -- he afterwards recovered -- and carried off one of his apprentices, Christopher Muchin. ... Two years after Marlboro' was burned by the Indians, Peter died. ... Peter left a widow Elizabeth (maiden name not ascertained), who was living in Sudbury in 1704, when she deeded to her elder son her widow's third of the Marlboro' property. A year after her husband's death she petitioned the Governor and Council for aid."
  Person ID	I51994	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Bent John,   b. Abt 1603, Penton-Grafton, Southampton, England d. 27 Sep 1672, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA (Age 69 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Martha   d. 1679, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1624	England   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F23823	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth   d. Aft 1704
  Children	1. Bent Martha  [natural]   2. Bent Peter,   b. 15 Oct 1653, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA  [natural]   3. Bent Elizabeth,   b. 02 Dec 1658, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA d. Abt 21 Feb 1682, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA (Age 23 years)  [natural]   4. Bent Agnes,   b. 19 Aug 1661, Marlborough, Middlesex County, MA d. 04 Jun 1727, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA (Age 65 years)  [natural]   5. Bent John,   b. Abt 08 Jan 1662, Marlborough, Ma d. 20 Apr 1676, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA (Age 14 years)  [natural]   6. Bent Zacheus,   b. Abt 1667, Marlborough, Ma d. Abt 20 Mar 1689, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA (Age 22 years)  [natural]   7. Bent Hopestill,   b. Abt 17 Jan 1671, Marlborough, Ma  [natural]
  Family ID	F23834	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S1252] Merged from BrianFreeman on 01-Jan-13 at 19:53. [S1255] Allen Bent 1900, "The Bent Family in America". [S1253] Kimball 1912, The Solomon Johnson Family, (NEHGR Vol. 66, p.233).