Ancestry of
Brewster H. Shaw

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John Kent Jr.

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Brewster H. Shaw — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 752 
  • Father:
  • John Kent 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Woodman   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1666 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Apr 1721 
  • Death Location:
  • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Dudley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 May 1686 
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Kent III (Ahnentafel No:376 )

  Samuel Kent

• Additional marriages for John Kent Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Rebecca Somerby

• Sources for John Kent Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 142, Death record for John Kent.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 142, Birth record for son John Kent.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 145, Birth record for son Samuel Kent.
  • ⁴ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1990, Vol. 7, p. 28.
  • ⁵ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1994, Vol. 11, p. 204.
  • ⁶ Dudley, Dean, History of the Dudley Family: With Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, &c., Number 1, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1886), 344.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • ⁸ 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.