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Brewster H. Shaw

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Cephas Kent

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Brewster H. Shaw — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 188 
  • Father:
  • John Kent III 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Apr 1725 
  • Birth Location:
  • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Dec 1809 
  • Death Location:
  • Dorset, Bennington, Vermont 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Maple Hill Cemetery, Dorset, Bennington, Vermont 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Spencer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 May 1747 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Cephas Kent (Ahnentafel No:94 )

  Alexander Kent

• Sources for Cephas Kent

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, pp. 137-138, Birth records for children of Cephas and Hannah Kent.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 138, Marriage record of Cephas Kent and Hannah Spencer.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 138, Birth record for Cephas Kent.
  • ⁴ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A064970.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/23/2015).
  • ⁶ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #24389, Membership application for Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
  • ⁷ 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), 63.