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George Henry Bissell

Father of the American Oil Industry

John Kent

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of George Henry Bissell — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 88 
  • Father:
  • Richard Kent 
  • Mother:
  • Emma -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Jul 1645 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Aug 1703 
  • Death Location:
  • Casco Bay, Maine 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Woodman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Mar 1665/1666 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Kent Jr. (Ahnentafel No:44 )

  Richard Kent

  Hannah Kent

  Judith Kent

  Rebecca Kent

• Sources for John Kent

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Birth record for daughter Hannah Kent.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1990, Vol. 7, p. 28.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2009, Vol. 163, p. 65.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1861, Vol. 15, p. 273.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. IV, I-L, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2005), 141.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 521.
  • ⁷ Dale, E. I., and Edward E. Kent, History and Genealogy of the Kent Family: Descendants of Richard Kent, Sen. Who Came to American in 1633, Spencer, Massachusetts: E. E. Dickerman (1898), 4.
  • ⁸ Merrill, Samuel, A Merrill Memorial: An Account of the Descendants of Nathaniel Merrill, An Early Settler of Newbury, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts: n.p. (1928), 203, 205.
  • ⁹ Tenney, Horace A., Genealogy of the Tenney Family: More Particularly of the Family of Daniel Tenney, and Sylvia Kent, His Wife . . ., Madison, Wisconsin: M. J. Cantwell, Book and Job Printer (1875), 60.
  • ¹⁰ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 137.