David Bent

Notes:

The Bent Family, by Allen H. Bent, published 1900.

page 28-29.

#23 of Bent Family.

David (4) Bent (David (3), John (2), John (1)), blacksmith, was born in Framingham, March 30, 1730; died in Rutland, MA, Jan. 15, 1798, age nearly 68. The year of his marriage, or possibly before, he moved to Rutland, where he was an active and useful citizen. In addition to working at his trade, he had a large farm (160 acres at the time of his death) in the southern part of the town, a portion of it lying in what, in 1765, became the district of Paxton (incorporated as a town in 1775). The inventory of his estate included half of a pew in Rutland meeting-house and two-thirds of a pew in Paxton meeting-house. Rutland, it may be said in passing, is a fine old hill town in the very centre of the state. Jan. 3, 1775, he was chosen one of fifteen men who were to act as a Committee of Inspection to carry out the Acts of Congress. March 13, 1775, a military company was formed and David Bent was chosen captain. This company marched to Cambridge the day after the battle of Lexington and was out six days. From April 6, 1776, until March 13, 1780, when he resigned, he commanded a company in the 7th Worcester County regiment. Marched to Bennington in August, 1777.

Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 15, 1787, a cyclone swept over Rutland, doing much damage. The account in Sidney Perley's "Historic Storms of New England," says: "Seemingly gathering new fury, it continued down the side of a hill, struck a corner of Captain Bent's house and lifted the barn in the air, knocking it to pieces and throwing several large timbers a considerable distance. In the barn were four or five tons of hay, which was wholly lost. A blacksmith shop and part of a shed were entirely carried away, together with nearly two hundred apple trees; and much of the walls and fences was demolished."

The old house in which he lived is still standing, a two-and-a-half story building, east of Turkey Hill Pond, on the road from Rutland to Paxton, near the dividing line, and about 2 1/2 miles from the centre of either town. The big chimney, the little panes of glass, and the old floors held down by hand-made nails, have only recently(1898) been removed. The barn was divided several years ago and the blacksmith shop and out buildings have long since disappeared. The farm is still considered one of the best in Rutland.

Capt. David Bent married first, April 3, 1751, Lucy, daughter of Peter Moore of Rutland. He married second, Oct. 2, 1783, Martha, born Nov. 21, 1744, died July 9, 1817, daughter of James and Elizabeth Browning of Rutland.

Children of David and Lucy, all born in Rutland, MA: eleven

Children of David and Martha, born in Rutland:
#49 i. SAMUEL BROWNING, (5), B. Nov. 27, 1784.

David married Martha Browning on 02 Oct 1783 in Rutland,WorcesterCo,MA. Martha (daughter of James Browning and Elizabeth A. Davis) was born on 21 Nov 1744 in Rutland,WorcesterCo,MA; died on 09 Jul 1817 in Rutland,WorcesterCo,MA. [Group Sheet]

David married Living. [Group Sheet]

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.

Samuel married Catharine Avery on 13 Mar 1816 in Holden,, MA. Catharine (daughter of Joseph Avery and Mary Allen) was born on 03 Feb 1788 in Holden,, MA; died on 03 Oct 1865 in Hoyleton,, IL. [Group Sheet]

Samuel married Hannah Watson on 01 Jan 1807. Hannah was born on 13 Feb 1786 in Spencer, MA; died on 07 Sep 1813 in Rutland, MA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The Bent Family, by Allen H. Bent, pub. 1900.

page78-79

#111 in Bent family.

Mary Avery (6) Bent (Samuel B. (5), David (4), David (3), John (2), John (1)) was born in Middlebury, VT., Jan. 7 1819, and died Jan. 11, 1890, at Las Vegas, NM, while on the way to California to visit a daughter. She married, Sept. 19, 1838, Rev. Jonathan Blanchard who was born in Rockingham, VT., Jan. 19, 1811, and died in Wheaton, Ill., May 14, 1892. He was educated at Middlebury College, VT, Andover and Lane seminaries; taught school; lectured in the anti-slavery cause; was American vice-president of the World's Anti-slavery Convention in London, 1843; was pastor of the Sixth Street Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, OH., from 1838 to 1845; President of Knox College (founded in 1837), Galesburg, IL, from 1846 to 1860, and President of Wheaton Collge, Wheaton, IL., from 1860 to 1882; devoted much of his time to the Christian Association opposed to Secret Societies.

Mary Avery Bent left her home in the spring of 1835, when only sixteen years old, and , with a young friend, set out for the then distant State of Pennsylvania. The beginning of the following year found her principal of the Girls' High School in Harrisburg, where she first met her future husband, then on an anti-slavery lecturing tour. Securing her position in Harrisburg for her sister, she set out in 1837 for Montgomery, AL., where she taught a few months in the Female Seminary, and then returned to her Vermont home. The following fall, a nineteen-year-old bride, she bade farewell to her native hills and began her duties as a minister's wife in Cincinnati. She was a woman of true piety, gentle but resolute, and in her home, in the church, and in the reforms so ardently espoused by her husband, was always ready with her untiring energy and unfailing judgement.

Children, i to iv. born in Cincinnati, v. to xii. born in Galesburg, IL.:
i. Jonathan Edwards Blanchard, b. July 24, 1839
ii. Mary Avery Blanchard,b. Jan. 7, 1841.
iii. William Walter Blanchard, b. Dec. 16, 1842.
iv. Catherine Lucretia Blanchard, b. July 13, 1844.
*** v. MARIA ELIZABETH BLANCHARD, b. Oct. 30, 1846,
vi. Charles Albert Blanchard, b. Nov. 8, 1848.
vii. Williston Blanchard, b. Sept. 13, 1850.
viii. Nora Emily Blanchard (twin), b. April 3, 1853.
ix. Sonora Caroline Blanchard (twin), b. April 3, 1853.
x. Julia Waters Blanchard, b. April 16, 1855.
xi. Cyrus Louis Blanchard, b. July 11, 1857.
xii. Geraldine Cecilia Blanchard, b. Oct. 15, 1859.

Mary married Jonathan Blanchard on 19 Sep 1838 in Middlebury, VT. Jonathan (son of Jonathan Blanchard and Mary "Polly" Lovell) was born on 19 Jan 1811 in Rockingham, , VT; died on 14 May 1892 in Wheaton, DuPage, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The Bent Family in America, of the Descendants of John Bent who settled in Sudbury, MA, in 1638, by Allen H. Bent. pub. 1900.

page 79.

Maria Elizabeth Blanchard, b. Oct. 30, 1846; graduated from Wheaton College; m. Aug. 5, 1869, Ezra A. Cook, printer and book publisher, of Chicago, where she still lives (1900). Ten children.

Maria married Ezra Asher Cook on 05 Aug 1869 in Wheaton,,IL. Ezra (son of Rev Ezra Sprague Cook and M. Permelia Milke) was born on 05 Nov 1841 in New Windsor, Orange, New York, USA; died in Sep 1911 in Wheaton,, IL. [Group Sheet]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet]

Living married .. Unknown [Group Sheet]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet]