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Zenas Kent

Birthdate:
Birthplace: West Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts
Death: October 23, 1822 (65)
Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, United States
Place of Burial: Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Daniel Kent and Sarah Kent
Husband of Anne Kent
Father of Zenas Kent; Anna Hanchett and Roswell Kent
Brother of Ezekial Kent; Sarah Kent and Justus Kent

Managed by: Jessica Marie German
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Immediate Family

About Zenas Kent

DAR Information:

KENT, ZENAS

  • Ancestor #: A065088
  • Service: CONNECTICUT Rank: PRIVATE
  • Birth: 5-28-1757 WEST SPRINGFIELD MASSACHUSETTS
  • Death: 1812 MANTUA OHIO
  • Service Description: 1) COL.HUMPHREY
  • Spouse Created: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, Updated: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, By: Conversion 1) ANN PLUMB
  • http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/default.cfm

MRS. LUCY HARRIS SMITH. 43261

Born in Ravenna, Ohio.

Wife of Alvin Trotter Smith.

Descendant 0f Lieut. David Doty and of Zenas Kent.

Daughter of Samuel D. Harris, Jr., and Joanna Doty, his wife.

Granddaughter of Samuel D. Harris and Lucy Kent (1791-1870), his wife; David Doty and Marie Antoinette Chapman, his second wife.

Gr.-granddaughter of David Doty and Hannah Southard (1746~ 1814), his wife, m. 1764; Zenas Kent and Ann Plum, his wife, In. 1785.

David Doty, (1741—1817), was lieutenant 0f Burral’s Connecticut regiment 1776 when he was appointed wagon master general of Gates’ army. He was born in Wareham, Mass. ; died in Sharon, Conn.

Also Nos. 6281, 20461, 29788.

Zenas Kent, (1757-1822), served as private in the Connecticut line, Capt. John Harmon’s company at Germantown and Valley Forge. He died in Mantua, Ohio.

Also Nos. 778, 34913, 37848.

Bibliographic Information:

  • Title Lineage Book, Volume 44 of Index of the Rolls of Honor (ancestor's Index) in the Lineage Books of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volumes 1 to 160, Daughters of the American Revolution
  • Author Daughters of the American Revolution
  • Publisher The Society, 1917
  • Original from Cornell University
  • Digitized Mar 31, 2014
  • Page 100
  • https://books.google.com/books?id=3YtAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&d...
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Zenas Kent's Timeline

1757
May 28, 1757
West Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts
1786
July 12, 1786
Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States
1788
October 30, 1788
Middletown, Middlesex, CT, United States
1798
1798
1822
October 23, 1822
Age 65
Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, United States
1822
Age 64
East Lawn Cemetery, Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, United States