Humphrey Kent

Origins

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kent-380

Humphrey Kent was born about 1602, probably at London, England, a son of John Kent.

From a GoogleGroups post by Shawn Potter:

Peter Wilson Coldham, "Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-1778" says Humphrey Kent, 5 year old son of John Kent, merchant tailor of the Parish of St. Sepulchre, was admitted to Christ's Hospital [grammar school for orphans] on March 18, 1607. Coldham says Humphrey Kent petitioned to leave Christ's Hospital on October 17, 1617, to join his mother [who presumably had remarried] in Virginia. Humphrey Kent sailed to Virginia aboard the "George" in 1619, married Joan [a "Tyger" bride] in about 1624, and had a daughter named Mary Kent, who married John Epes, eldest son of Francis Epes.[1][2]

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Family

https://soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com/fvwKmBil/peter-arundell-...

Virginia M. Meyer and John Frederick Dorman, editors, "Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia: 1607-1624/5, (Published by the Order of First Families of Virginia, 1987, 3rd edition), pp 384-5.

"Humfrey Kent came to Virginia in 1619 aboard the George, the ship carrying the official party of the new Governor, Sir George Yeardley. Kent's wife, Joane, came in the Tyger, 1621, which carried some of the "Maids for Wives;" she may have been one of them. In Jan. 1624/5 the couple was living at Percy's Hundred on the south side of the James River. This plantation, originally known as Flowerdieu Hundred [named for the maiden name of the wife of Governor George Yeardley], had been acquired by Abraham Peirsey [Percy] from the Yeardley family before 1624.
Living with Humfrey Kent and his wife at Peirsey's Hundred was Margaret Arundell, aged 9 years, no doubt a young kinswoman of Richard and Elizabeth Arundell who were listed at Jamestown, 1624/5, in the muster of Sir George Yeardley. The three Arundells had come to Virginia in the Abigaile, 1620-21.

Children of Humphrey and Joan:[1]

1. Mary Kent; m John Epes, eldest son of Francis Epes

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Humfrey Kent emigrated from England to United States through Jamestowne, Virginia in 1619. "This was 12 years after the founding of Jamestowne by the London Company (later the Virginia Company). His wife, Joane, came two years later. Mary Kent was their only child." Reference "Say, Aren't You John Wayne," page 5. "The Epes and Kent lines are designated as First Families of Virginia." "Say, Aren't You John Wayne?" Page 6.

Familysearch.org has six children listed for the couple??...

• https://soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com/fvwKmBil/peter-arundell-...
• Jamestown muster 20 January 1624/5

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Immigration: to the Virginia Colony on the ship “George” in 1619