Person:John Kent (77)

Name^[1]	Lieutenant John Kent
Gender	Male
Alt Birth^[2]	Abt 1699
Birth^[1]	Abt 1703
Marriage	30 Jan 1728/29	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesto Elizabeth Foster
Marriage	14 Aug 1746	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesto Hephzibah Hubbard
Death^[1]	8 Dec 1775	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Alt Death^[2]	10 Dec 1775	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Burial^[3]		Riverside Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Estate Inventory^[1]	19 Dec 1775	Estate £644.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 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)
273-74.

"The following John Kent I have been unable to locate; some students claim he belonged to the Charlestown branch of the Dedham family, others that he descended from the Newbury branch:

Lieut. John Kent came to Conn. from Mass. abt. 1727 (supposed from Charlestown?). The first mention made of him in the Middletown records was Mch. 28, 1728, when 'John Kent Corker' bought a lot of land of Daniel Starr. He mar. 1st, Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Thos. and Margaret Foster of Middletown, Jan. 30, 1729. She was b. Jan. 14, 1708, and d. Mch. 25, 1746, aged 38. Mr. Kent mar. 2d. Hepsibah, dau. of Abigal and Robert Hubbard of Middletown, Aug., 1746. She was b. Jan. 10, 1704, and d. Oct. 21, 1771, aged 68. Lieut. John Kent d. Dec. 8, 1775, in his 70th year. Inventory Dec. 19, 1775: Estate £644. No sons named in the distribution of his estate, only daughters Elizabeth and Agnes Kent heirs, and Anna and Hannah."
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Volume 070 Part 1 Middletown, in Connecticut, United States. Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. (Ancestry.com (database on-line), 2013)
358.

"Foster, … John, Lt., [s.] Dec. 10, 1775, Æ 76 [2S-1:75]"
↑ Lieut John Kent, in Find A Grave.