Elizabeth A. Davis

Elizabeth married James Browning about 1721 in Rutland,WorcesterCo,MA. James was born in 1671 in Ardiston Parish,Scotland; died on 03 Feb 1749 in Rutland,WorcesterCo,MA. [Group Sheet]

James married Living [Group Sheet]

Martha married David Bent on 02 Oct 1783 in Rutland,WorcesterCo,MA. David (son of David Bent and Mary Drury) was born on 30 Mar 1730 in Framingham, MA; died on 15 Jan 1798 in Rutland,,MA age nearly 68. [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]