Ancestry of
Charles Brent

(c1695–1756)

Charles Brent

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • (probable) Hugh Brent 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Katherine -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1695 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Lancaster County, Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Jan 1756 
  • Death Location:
  • Overwharton Parish, Stafford, Virginia 
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  • Notes: 

  • Claims that Charles Brent was the son of George Brent of Lancaster are false. George Brent mentions a son Charles in his will, but that Charles is too young to be this Charles. It is now believed that Charles Brent was a brother of George Brent and son of Hugh Brent. More evidence is needed to support this claim.

• Marriages for Charles Brent

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  • Spouse:
  • Hannah Innis
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1725

• Sources for Charles Brent

  • ¹ Genealogies of Virginia Families: from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 1, Adams-Chiles, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1981), 411-416.
  • ² Brent, Chester Horton, The Descendants of Hugh Brent: Immigrant to Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1642, (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1936)), 37, 54-59, lists Charles's father as Hugh Brent, but this is unproven.
  • ³ Hardy, Stella Pickett, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families Who Settled . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright (1911), 89-90, 396, gives incorrect parents for Charles.
  • ⁴ Johnson, E. Polk, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern . . ., Vol. 3, Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company (1912), 1662.