Ancestry of
George Henry Bissell

Father of the American Oil Industry

Samuel Kent

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of George Henry Bissell — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 22 
  • Father:
  • John Kent Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Dudley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Dec 1698 
  • Birth Location:
  • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Oct 1772 
  • Death Location:
  • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Center Cemetery, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Abiah Dwight
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Feb 1721/1722 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Abiah Kent (Ahnentafel No:11 )

  Elihu Kent

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Samuel Kent

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 139, Birth record for son Elihu Kent.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 145, Marriage record for Samuel Kent and Abiah Dwight.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 145, Death record for Samuel Kent.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 145, Birth record for Samuel Kent.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/17/2018).
  • ⁶ Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Vol. 1, New York: John F. Trow and Sons (1874), 404-405, 110.
  • ⁷ Hopkins, Timothy, The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, Vol. 1, San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. (1903), 103.