Person talk:John Kent (6)

Death date [21 July 2011]

I removed the alternate birth date of 7 Feb 1641 and the death date of 30 Jan 1717.

The Newbury vital records clearly show that John the son of Richard was born 1645. According to Source:Briggs, Lloyd Vernon. Genealogies of the Different Families Bearing the Name of Kent in the United States, p. 249, the John b. 1641 based on his age at death, was the son of James, known in Newbury records as John, Sr. It looks like these two different John Kents were combined by a hasty merge. Ironically, the 7 Feb 1641 date is not given as a birth record in Newbury vital records, but as a death record of "John, s. John", so probably doesn't actually appear to apply to either one of these two John Kents of Newbury.

The marriage to Sarah Woodman goes with the son of Richard also. Besides making sense age-wise (oldest of the two Johns married first, which was to Mary Hobbs), the names of the children of John and Sarah, especially Emma, show that this was the son of Richard and Emma Kent. For example, see Briggs (cited above), p. 234. This is not conclusive, but is very probable.

This John, s/o Richard, b. 1645, was not the John who died 30 Jan 1717-18, a. 77. That calculates to a birth about 1640-1641 and goes with John, s/o James, and husband of Mary, who is married in the same cemetery with him.

I don't believe the death date for this John Kent is known, but as his son is called John Jr. in the birth records of the son's children, when the son would have been the 3rd John if all the various John Kents were still alive, and since John Sr. did not die until 1717, one might assume that the reason John 3rd got promoted to John Jr. was because his father, this John, probably died bef. 1696. --Jrich 10:13, 21 July 2011 (EDT)