"He may be the Richard Kent 'of Wallop, husbandman,' who married at Winnall, Hampshire (just outside Winchester), on 19 November 1618, Mary Drew, also of Wallop. Although Richard would have been over thirty at that date, his three daughters were all under 21 when they were named in the will of their cousin Richard in 1638, and thus born after 1617. A Mary Kent, not otherwise identified, was buried at Romsey, Hampshire, 27 March 1631. The Romsey registers show other Kents living there at the time, but Romsey was the home of Richard's mother, Ellen (Pyle) (Kent) Osgood, and also of the family of his sister Mary and her husband Nicholas Easton, with whom Richard came to New England. If Richard Kent's first wife was the Mary Kent buried 27 March 1631, then both he and Nicholas Easton, his brother-in-law, were widowed before their emigration. The fact that Richard in his will singled out his brother Stephen's daughter Mary for a bequest suggests that her name had significance; namesakes of testators or their spouses were often remembered in wills of the period."
