Peter Bent

1629 - 1678  (49 years)

• Name	Peter Bent
  Born	Apr 1629	Penton-Grafton, Eng.   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Apr 1678	Eng.   [1]
  Person ID	I3967	Paul's Tree
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2018

  
  

  Father	John Bent,   b. Nov 1596, Penton-Grafton, Eng. ,   d. 27 Sep 1672, Sudbury, Ma  (Age 75 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Martha,   d. 15 May 1679, Sudbury, Ma
  Relationship	natural
  Married	Abt 1624	Eng.   [1]
  Family ID	F2018	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth,   d. Aft 1704
  Children	1. Peter Bent,   b. 15 Oct 1653, Sudbury, Ma  [natural]   2. Martha Bent,   b. Sudbury, Ma  [natural]   3. Elizabeth Bent,   b. 2 Dec 1658, Sudbury, Ma ,   d. 21 Feb 1683, Sudbury, Ma  (Age 24 years)  [natural]   4. Agnes Bent,   b. 19 Aug 1661, Marlborough, MA ,   d. 4 Jun 1729  (Age 67 years)  [natural]   5. John Bent,   b. 8 Jan 1663, Marlborough, MA ,   d. 20 Apr 1676, Cambridge, Ma  (Age 13 years)  [natural]   6. Zacheus Bent,   b. Abt 1667, Marlborough, MA ,   d. 20 Mar 1690, Sudbury, Ma  (Age 23 years)  [natural]   7. Patience Bent,   b. 28 Aug 1670, Marlborough, MA  [natural]   8. Hopestill Bent,   b. 17 Jan 1672, Marlborough, MA  [natural]
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2018
  Family ID	F2002	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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."

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] "The Bent Family in America" Allen Bent 1900.