Person:John Kent (6)

The following is based on a very useful rootsweb posting. I believe some or all of this information is also found in the "Ancestors of William James and Francis Stephenson Hutchins" by Richard D. Sears.

Administration of the estate of John Kent, Sr., of Newbury, deceased, was granted to John Kent, Jr. of Newbury, shipwright, eldest son of John Kent, Sr., mariner. The widow refused the administration. The inventory is labeled as the estate of Mr. John Kent, late of Newbury, mariner, whose decease was at Casco bay, August 10, 1703.

A quit claim deed from James Kent, Peter Tappan and his wife Sarah, Stephen Swett and his wife Mary, Nathan Morrill and his wife Hannah, Rebecca Kent alias Hart, Samuel Hazeltine and his wife Emme of Bradford, Thomas Morrill and his wife Judith of Salisbury in favor of their brother, John Kent of Newbury.

Deed Essex County, 8 Apr 1691: John Kent, Jr., Newbury, mariner to Samuel Sewall of Boston and his wife Hannah, land laid out to John Kent Jr by virtue of his father Richard Kent Sr. Wife Sarah released her dower rights.

1. ↑ Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1911)
   1:259.

   Kent, John, s. Richard, July 20, 1645. [July 10. S.dup.]

2. ↑ Briggs, Lloyd Vernon. Genealogies of the Different Families Bearing the Name of Kent in the United States: Together with Their Possible English Ancestry, A.D. 1295-1898. (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill Press, 1898)
   234.

   John Kent, "probably" son of Richard [see deed abstracted elsewhere on this page], b. Newbury 20 Jul 1645, m. 13 Mar 1666 Sarah Woodman.