Person:Hopestill Bent (4)

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Hopestill Bent
b.17 Jan 1672 Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
d.18 Aug 1725 Wayland, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1653
  1. Peter Bent1653 -
  2. Martha BentAbt 1655 -
  3. Elizabeth Bent1658 - 1683
  4. Agnes Bent1661 - 1729
  5. John Bent1663/64 - 1676
  6. Zaccheus BentAbt 1667 - 1690
  7. Patience Bent1670 -
  8. Hopestill Bent1672 - 1725
Spouse and Children
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m. 27 Nov 1700
  1. Martha Bent1701 -
  2. Peter Bent1703 -
  3. Thomas Bent1706 - 1775
  4. Hopestill Bent1708 - 1772
  5. Sarah Bent1711 -
  6. Elijah Bent1713 - 1797
  7. Micah Bent1716 -
  8. Elizabeth Bent1720 -
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Facts and Events
Name[2][3] Hopestill Bent
Gender Male
Birth[1] 17 Jan 1672 Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Military[3][6] 1690 Canada Expedition
Marriage 27 Nov 1700 Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Brown
Death[3][4][5] 18 Aug 1725 Wayland, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[3] North Cemetery, Wayland, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. ↑ Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1908)
    p. 27.

    BENT, Hopstill, s. Petter and Ellizabeth, [born] Jan. 17, 1672.
    [Note: by typical practice 1672 would mean 1672/73. An online index entry says the birth record is page 57 of first book, date 17 Jan 1672, but first book is not online. Age at death, 55th year, age 54, would favor 1671/72.]

  2. ↑ Bent, Allen H. 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. (Boston, Mass.: David Clapp & Son, 1900)
    p. 13, 18.

    Hopestill Bent [#8], s/o Peter Bent [#2] and Elizabeth ["maiden name not ascertained"], b. Marlboro 17 Jan 1672, d. Sudbury 18 Aug 1725, m. 27 Nov 1700 Elizabeth Brown.

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Find A Grave: North Cemetery, Wayland, MA, in Find A Grave
    Ens Hopestill Bent.

    HERE LIES BURIED
    Ye BODY OF ENSIGN
    HOPESTILL BENT
    WHO DIED AUGU.
    18 1 7 2 5
    IN Ye 55 YEAR.

  4. ↑ Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records and Indexes, 1663-1907. (Genealogical Society of Utah: Microfilm of records at town hall, 1958)
    p. 296.

    BENT, Hopestil, [died] Aug. 18, 1725.

  5. ↑ Wayland, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Wayland, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston, Mass: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910)
    p. 130.

    BENT, Hopestill, Ens., [died] Aug. 18, 1725, in 55th y. GR1

  6. ↑ Served in the disastrous Canadian campaign of 1690 as an ensign in the Massachusetts militia.
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