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Samuel Browning Bent

Male 1784 - 1858  (74 years)


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  • Name Samuel Browning Bent 
    Born 27 Nov 1784  Rutland, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 04 Dec 1858  Middlebury,, VT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I101  B03 Thomas Hore, b1649, Chilham, Kent, England
    Last Modified 23 Nov 2018 

    Father David Bent,   b. 30 Mar 1730, Framingham, MA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Jan 1798, Rutland,,MA age nearly 68 Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Martha Browning,   b. 21 Nov 1744, Rutland,WorcesterCo,MA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 09 Jul 1817, Rutland,WorcesterCo,MA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 02 Oct 1783  Rutland,WorcesterCo,MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F112  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Catharine Avery,   b. 03 Feb 1788, Holden,, MA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 03 Oct 1865, Hoyleton,, IL Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Married 13 Mar 1816  Holden,, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Catherine Bent,   b. 17 Feb 1817, Rutland, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     2. Mary Avery Bent,   b. 07 Jan 1819, Middlebury,, VT Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jan 1890, East Las Vegas,, NM Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)  [natural]
     3. Hannah Watson Bent,   b. 05 Jun 1821, Middlebury, VT Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     4. Joseph Avery Bent,   b. 22 Apr 1823, Middlebury, VT Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     5. Maria Allen Bent,   b. 05 Apr 1825, Middlebury, VT Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     6. George Bent,   b. 29 Mar 1827  [natural]
    Last Modified 23 Nov 2018 
    Family ID F111  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Hannah Watson,   b. 13 Feb 1786, Spencer, MA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Sep 1813, Rutland, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 27 years) 
    Married 01 Jan 1807 
    Children 
     1. Martha Maria Bent,   b. 12 Jan 1808, Rutland, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     2. Elizabeth Rebecca Bent,   b. 14 Jan 1810, Rutland, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     3. Samuel Watson Bent,   b. 27 Oct 1811, Rutland, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
    Last Modified 23 Nov 2018 
    Family ID F596  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • The Bent Family History, by Allen H. Bent, pub. 1900.

      pages 42-43.

      #49 of Bent Family.

      Samuel Browning(5) Bent (David (4), David (3), John (2) , John (1)), who was named after his uncle, Lieut. Samuel Browning (1740-1783), was born in Rutland, MA., Nov. 27, 1784, and moved in 1818 to Middlebury, VT., where he died Dec. 4, 1858, age 74. He was a manufacturer of machine cards. He married first, Jan. 1, 1807, Hannah, born in Spencer, MA., Feb. 13, 1786, died in Rutland, MA., Sept. 7, 1813, daughter of Oliver Watson, Jr. (1743-1826), a Revolutionary soldier. He married second, March 13, 1816, Catherine Avery, born in Holden, MA., Feb. 3, 1788, died in Hoyleton, IL., Oct. 3, 1865, daughter of Rev. Joseph Avery (1751-1824), (***see below), who graduated from Harvard in 1771, and preached in Holden from 1774 until his death. Mrs. Catherine Bent, who is described as a woman of remarkable beauty, both in person and in mind, lived after the death of her husband with her daughter in Tarrytown, NY., but died while on a visit to her son.

      (***) Rev. Joseph Avery m. 1777, Mary Allen, dau. of James Allen, tailor, of Boston, by his 2nd wife, Mary Adams, an elder sister of the Revolutionary patriot Sam Adams.

      Children of Samuel Browning and Hannah Watson, all born in Rutland, MA:
      i. Martha Maria, b. Jan. 12, 1808.
      ii. Elizabeth Rebecca, b. Jan. 14, 1810.
      iii. Samuel Watson, b. Oct. 27, 1811.
      iv. infant son, b. and d. Sept. 5, 1813.

      Children of Samuel Browning and Catherine Avery, i. born in Rutland, MA; ii. to vi. b. in Middlebury, VT.
      i. Catherine, b. Feb. 17, 1817.
      #111 ii.MARY AVERY, b. Jan. 7, 1819, m. Rev. Jonathan Blanchard.
      iii. Hannah Watson, b. June 5, 1821.
      iv. Joseph Avery, b. April 22, 1823.
      v. Maria Allen,. b. April 5, 1825.
      vi. George, b. March 29, 1827.

      US SONS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION, membership application 1889-1970, #66401
      b. date 1784 d. date 1858
      Submitted by Charles Albert Blanchard, SAR #2111, Jonathan Blanchard 2111; Mary Avery Bent 2111, Samuel Browning Bent 2111.