Ancestry of
Chester Arthur

21st U.S. President

Thomas Kent Jr.

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Chester Arthur — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 116 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Kent 
  • Mother:
  • Unknown -----   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
  • prob. England 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 14 Aug 1691 to 3 Aug 1696 
  • Death Location:
  • Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joan Penny
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Mar 1658 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Josiah Kent (Ahnentafel No:58 )

  • Notes: 
  • Published Gloucester vital records list the deaths of two Thomas Kents, one in 1691 and the other in 1696. This Thomas is surely one of those two Thomas's.

• Sources for Thomas Kent Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Gloucester Deaths, Page 186, [Death].
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Gloucester Births, Page 394.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Gloucester, Vol. 1, p. 394, Birth record for son Josiah Kent.
  • ⁴ Andrew, Lawrence C., Thomas Andrew, immigrant, Portland, Maine: Casco Print Co. (1972), Page 69, [Birth].
  • ⁵ Andrew, Lawrence C., Thomas Andrew, immigrant, Portland, Maine: Casco Print Co. (1972), Page 68.
  • ⁶ Briggs, L. Vernon, Genealogies of the Different Families Bearing the Name of Kent in the United States, Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill Press (1898), Page 159.
  • ⁷ Cutter, William Richard, American Biography: A New Cyclopedia, Vol. 10, New York: The American Historical Society, Inc. (1922), book's pages cut off at bottom, page numbers missing.
  • ⁸ Jackson, James R., ed., History of Littleton, New Hampshire, Vol. 3, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press (1905), 291.