Peter Bent (1629 - 1678)

Biography
Peter Bent was born in Apr 1629 in Penton-Grafton, England to John Bent (1596 - 1672) and Martha Blanchard (1598 - 1676) and died in May 1678 in England.

Facts
He arrived with his father in 1638 in New England North America. He was a proprietor of 51 acres. He was one of the petitioners with his father of the incorporation of Marlboro, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. He built a grist mill in Stony Brook (now Southboro, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA). He contracted to build a bridge across the Sudbury River “for hose and man and laden carts to pass over” in 1661.

Lineage
John Bent (1596 - 1672)

m. Martha Blanchard (1598 - 1676)

Peter Bent (1629 - 1678)

m. Elizabeth Unknown ( - )

Hopestill Bent (1672 - 1678)

m. Elizabeth Brown (1677 - )

Thomas Bent (1706 - 1725)

m. Marty Stone (1718 - 1775)

Louis Bent (1740 - 1783)

m. James Glover (1734 - )

Louis Bent Glover (1762 - 1800)

m. Sally Nurse (1705 - 1819)

William Nelson Fairbanks (1818 - 1854)

m. Abby Augusta Reed (c.1826 - 1899)

Helen Suzette Fairbanks (1841 - 1921)

m. Frederic Crowninshield (1845 - 1818)

Helen Suzette Crowninshield (1868 - 1941)

m. Carl August de Gersdorff (1865 - 1944)

Chevaliere Josephine de Gersdorff (1896 - 1975)

m. Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1892 - 1970)

Chevalier Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (1921 - 2014)

m. Sally Sterling Quinn (b. 1941)

Chevalier Quinn Josiah Crowninshield Bradlee, KJ (b.1982)