Ensign Hopestill Bent

Ensign Hopestill Bent
Birthdate:	January 17, 1672
Birthplace:	Marlboro, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
Death:	August 18, 1725 (53) Wayland, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts, British Colonial America
Place of Burial:	Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:	Son of Peter Bent and Elizabeth Anna Bent Husband of Elizabeth (Brown) Bent Father of Martha Bent; Peter Bent, of Sudbury; Thomas Bent; Hopestill Bent; Sara Bent and 3 others Brother of Peter Bent; Martha Bent; Elizabeth Bent; Agnes Johnson; John Bent and 3 others
Occupation:	keeper of Bent Tavern, Sudbury

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About Ensign Hopestill Bent

Ens Hopestill Bent Memorial Photos Flowers Edit Share Learn about removing the ads from this memorial... Birth: Jan. 17, 1672 Marlborough Middlesex County Massachusetts, USA Death: Aug. 18, 1725

Malborough births: BENT, Hopstill, s. Petter and Elizabeth, Jan. 17, 1672.

Sudbury marriages: BENT, Hopstill and Elizabeth Brown, Nov. 27, 170[torn].

Wayland deaths: BENT, Hopestill, Ens., Aug. 18, 1725, in 55th y. GR1 _______________________________

Hopestill BENT (Peter2, John1), of Sudbury, married Nov. 27, 1701, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Brown of Sudbury, and died Aug, 18, 1725, aged 53. He saw service in the disastrous Canadian Campaign of 1690, in the first of the French and Indian wars, and on his tombstone in the old burial ground in what is now the town of Wayland is called an ensign. He received a grant of land that is now the town of Bethel, Maine. He as a tavern keeper and also had a good orchard of apple trees where forty three barrels of cider were found that suggests he sold cider for for a living.

Children of Hopestill and Elizabeth: MARTHA, b. Sept. 15, 1701; d. Dec. 22, 1722. PETER, b. May 17, 1703. THOMAS, b. July 29, 1706. HOPESTILL, b. Nov. 4, 1708. SARAH, b. April 22, 1711; m. July 10, 1729, Jeremiah Wesson of Sudbury. ELIJAH, b. Aug. 15, 1713. MICAH, b. April 39, 1716. ELIZABETH, b. June 14, 1720. (NEHGR, July, 1894)

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 Elijah Bent (1713 - 1797)*

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Inscription: HERE LIES BURIED ye BODY OF ENSIGN HOPESTILL BENT WHO DIED AUGU. 18 1725 IN ye 55 YEAR [OF HIS AGE]

Burial: North Cemetery Wayland Middlesex County Massachusetts, USA

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Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000; @R1@ Birth year: 1671; Birth city: Marlboro; Birth state: MA

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Ancestry.com U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012; @R1@

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Heritage Consulting Millennium File Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003; @R1@

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@R3278403@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=155143700&pi...

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Ensign Hopestill Bent's Timeline

1672	January 17, 1672	Birth of Ensign Hopestill Bent Marlboro, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
1701	September 15, 1701	Birth of Martha Bent Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1703	May 17, 1703	Birth of Peter Bent, of Sudbury Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1706	July 29, 1706	Birth of Thomas Bent Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1708	November 4, 1708	Birth of Hopestill Bent Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
1711	April 22, 1711	Birth of Sara Bent Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1713	August 15, 1713	Birth of Elijah Bent Sudbury, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts
1716	April 29, 1716	Birth of Micah Bent Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1720	June 14, 1720	Birth of Elizabeth Bent Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States

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