Richard ‘the Malster’ Kent

Detached Joseph Kent, Joshua Kent, Richard Kent Jr. and [Hatte Blejer May 2019]. They belonged elsewhere.

Not the same as Richard Kent, of Kent Island

Mentioned in “Kent Island“ section from History of Newbury, Massachusetts 1635-1902 by John James Currier A History of Newbury, Massachusetts 1635-1902.

"Richard Kent sr malster and [his son or cousin] Richard2 Kent jr came to New England in the ship Mary and John Robert Say res master They arrived in Boston in May 1634 and went with Rev Thomas Parker and others to Ipswich where they remained until the spring of 1635 when they removed to Newbury Stephen brother and James possibly brother of Richard Kent sr came to Newbury about the same time."

However, there is no proven family connection between this Richard Kent and the brothers James and Richard Kent “JR” of Kent Island in Newbury.

Disambiguation

https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=pjmpjm&id=I9333

"In Essex County and most of Mass. in 1600s it was not unusual to have a Jr. who WAS NOT the son of the other of the same name. Jr., III, etc. were many times used to distinguish between two men with the same name and reflected their relative age NOTa relationship. They could be cousins or totally unrelated. To complicate matters there were apparently two Richards: Richard and Richard Jr. The one referred to as Richard Sr. died June 14, 1654 Newbury VR (Deaths) to 1849, Essex Institute Salem, 1911. The one referred to as Richard (the Sr. was already dead) died Nov 25, 1689 Newbury VR (Deaths) to 1849, Essex Institute Salem, 1911. Savage (Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England) seems to indicate that when Richard arrived on the Mary and John in 1634 he arrived with another of the same name, possibly a cousin."

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Family

Source for below is We Relate provides a good overview with primary sources for Richard Kent.

Two wives:

(1) Mary Drew, mother of Rebecca (bc 1622), Sarah (bc 1624), and a third child (bc 1626, not mentioned in his 1654 will)
(2) Emma, mother of John.

He married Mary Drew on 19 Nov 1618. He married Emma before 1645.

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ID: I977 Name: Richard Kent Surname: Kent Given Name: Richard Suffix: Sr. Sex: M Birth: 1590 in England Death: 14 Jun 1654 in Newbury, Essex, MA

Note: Richard Kent came to Ipswich in 1634 on the Mary and John. He was a malster. Change Date: 24 Jun 2002 at 17:09:12

Marriage 2) Dorothy Emma Shorte [SIC] b: ABT 1590 in Gillingham, Kent

Children

• Rebecca Kent b: 1612 in Newbury, Essex, MA [SIC]

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Arrived in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1634 on "the good ship Mary-and-John" from England. Richard Kent, Sr. and his wife, Emma, moved to Newbury in 1635 and resided on Kent Street until his death.

http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Newbury/aDeathsK.shtml verifies his death on June 14, 1654.

References

• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Richard_Kent_%281%29 cites
• Richard Kent Sr., in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015) 192. "Kent, Richard Sr.: [Origin] Over Wallop, Hampshire; [Emigration] 1634 on Mary & John; [resided] Ipswich, Newbury [GM 2:4:140-42; NEHGR 162:254-54, 163:51-65]."
• Richard1 Kent, in Fiske, Jane Fletcher. The English Background of Richard Kent Sr. and Stephen Kent of Newbury, Massachusetts, and Mary, Wife of Nicholas Easton of Newport, Rhode Island. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Oct 2008; Jan 2009) 163:62-65. "6. Richard Kent (ThomasA, RichardB, ThomasC, JohnD) was born about 1586, son of Thomas and Ellen (Pyle) Kent. He died at Newbury, Massachusetts, 15 June 1654. He was called 'Richard Kent Sr.' to distinguish him from Richard Kent the younger (not his son), who came on the same ship in 1634 to New England."
• Richard Kent, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011) 4:140-42. "MIGRATION: 1634 on the Mary & John (on 26 March 1634, 'Richard Kent' was enrolled at Southampton as a passenger for New England on the Mary & John [Drake's Founders 70])."
• Richard Kent, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862) 3:12. "Richard (Kent), Ipswich 1634, came that yr. with ano. of the same chr. and surname, perhaps a cous. in the Mary and John, freem. 4 Mar. 1635, rem. with first sett. to Newbury 1635, left in Eng. Sarah, and other ds. of wh. one, Rebecca, had m. in Eng. Samuel Scallard, and aft. his d. she came, and, perhaps, brot. d. Mary, wh. m. 4 Dec. 1666, John Rolfe; and the mo. m. Oct. 1647, John Bishop; but here, says Coffin, he had John, b. 20 July 1645; and he d. 11 June 1654."
• Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1911) 2:633. "Kent, … Richard, sr., [died] June, 14, 1654. [June 15. (court record, Essex Co. Quarterly Court.)]

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