Bent, Allan H. The Bent family in America. Being mainly a genealogy of the descendants of John Bent who settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1638, with notes upon the family in England and elsewhere. David Clapp and Son, Boston, 1900.
"Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2P2-LXY : accessed 30 August 2015), William F. Bent, 27 Jan 1866; citing Cemetery, Pugwash, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada, reference p9 n95; FHL microfilm 1,298,879.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William: