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- From "The Bent Family in America" Allen Bent 1900:
"John Bent, first of the name in America, was b. in Penton-Grafton Eng. in Nov., 1603, came to America in his 35th year and settled in Sudbury, MA, where he remained until his death, Sept. 27, 1672 at nearly 69. He
married in England about 1624, Martha ___, who died in Sudbury, May 15, 1679, well along in years.
The family -- John, his wife and five small children --- sailed from Southhampton in the latter part of April 1638, in the ship 'Confidence' of London, John Jobson, master, the whole number of passengers, 'greate 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 16 miles directly west of Boston. He was one of the original settlers of the 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. ... in 1656 he was one of the petitioners for the town of Marlboro', but it is unlikely that he ever lived there. It was to find a home for his son that prompted him to join the petitioners ..."
From "The English Ancestors of John Bent, of Sudbury" Felton NEHGR V49
1895:
"The difficulty which exists in establishing the English homes of many of the early emigrants to New England does not confront us in the case of John Bent. His name occurs on the list of passengers sailing in the ship Confidence from Southampton, 24 April, 1638, now on file in the PRO in London. The record is as follows: 35 John Bent of Penton in the County of South Husbandman. Martha his wife; Robert, William, Peter, John and Ann their children; all under ye age of xii yeares."
From "The Bent Family in America" Allen Bent 1900:
"John Bent, first of the name in America, was b. in Penton-Grafton Eng. in Nov., 1596, came to America in his 42nd year and settled in Sudbury, MA, where he remained until his death, Sept. 27, 1672 at nearly 76. He
married in England about 1624, Martha ___, who died in Sudbury, May 15, 1679, well along in years.
The Bent family arrived in MA on the ship, the "Confidence", a 200 ton ship, that departed on April 24, 1638, of London, departed Southampton, England for New England. The ship's list included John Bent, 35, husbandman, of Penton, Hants; his wife, Martha; Ann Bent, daughter, under the age of 12; John Bent, son, under the age of 12; Peter, son, under 12; Robert, under the age of 12; William, under the age of 12.
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