Agnes (Gosling) Bent migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm
Note: There are no sources provided for her parentage. John Gosling and Dorothy Ward were previously listed as her parents, as the result of numerous merges. They have been removed as there is no confirmation to link them here.
Sir John Gosling, born 1535 in co. Hampshire, England, died 1595 in England, and his wife Ann Weare, born 1540 in Bedingham, Norfolk, England, died May 1639 in Cirencester, co Gloucestershire, England, would be Agnes Gosling parents [citation needed]
Agnes Gosling married on October 13, 1589, Robert Bent who was born in September, 1566 in Penton-Grafton, Hampshire, England, son of John and Edith Bent . [1][2]
Robert died aged 64 yrs 10 mos, in July, 1631 at Penton-Grafton. [1]
The widow Agnes followed their son John to America, on the ship Jonathan in 1639.
Her passage cost £17, besides £1 10s. for bringing over her goods and 10s. paid to the ship's surgeon. [1][3][4]
She died in May or June 1639 on board the ship, just outside Boston Harbor. Her body was brought ashore and buried presumably in Boston. [1]
A testimony in 1646, states she fell sick of the coast of Newfoundland Banks and left her whole estate to Richard Barnes and Elizabeth Plimpton. (V. 1: p. 13) [5]
Children of Robert and Agnes, born in Penton-Grafton:
John baptized on November 20, 1596 [2] ; died at Sudbury, Massachusetts on September 27, 1672 in his 75th year; married in England about 1624, Martha ___ ; migrated in his 42nd year. 1638. The original emigrant to America. [1]
Maria, baptized September 24, 1598; buried February 2, 1599. [1][2]
Dennis (sic ?Denise), baptized December 10, 1599 [2] ; married May 8, 1626, William Baker, and lived in New Sarum, Wiltshire, Eng. [1]
Agnes, baptized July 16, 1602 [2] ; married in Penton-Grafton, April 11, 1630, Richard Barnes, who died a few years after, leaving a son Richard, baptized February 20, 1631. Agnes married secondly in England, Thomas Blanchard, by whom she had a daughter Mary in 1638. On April 12, 1639, the family sailed from London for New England in the ship "Jonathan." Fifteen days out she died, and soon after her infant child Mary Blanchard died. Thomas Blanchard settled in Braintree, but afterwards moved to Charlestown and married again. [3][1]
Jane born ___ ;married in England, Robert Plimpton, and had Robert, Thomas, William, Jane, Elizabeth. The children Thomas and Elizabeth came to America and lived in Sudbury, Massachusetts. [1][3]
Source notes
The Registers of the Parish of Wayhill (p. 66) [2]
1566: Robert Bent son of John was baptized 29 September.
1589: Robert Bent and Agnes Gosling were married 13 October 1590.
1590: Margery Bent daughter of Robert Bent was baptized 28 March 1591.
1592: Richard Bent son of Robert Bent was baptized 7 May.
1596: John Bent son of Robert Bent was baptized 20 November.
1598: Maria Bent daughter of Robert Bent was baptized 24 September.
1599 Maria Bent daughter of Robert Bent was buried 2 February.
1599: Dennis Bent daughter of Robert Bent was baptized 10 December.
1602: Agnes Bent daughter of Robert Bent was baptized 16 July.
1631: Robert Bent was buried the 29 day of July.
Sources
↑ 1.001.011.021.031.041.051.061.071.081.091.10The 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, by Allen H. Bent, D. Clapp & Son, Boston, 1900
↑ 2.02.12.22.32.42.52.62.7 "The English Ancestors of John Bent," in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Published by The Society, Boston, MA, 1895, Volume 49, p 66, citing the Registers of the Parish of Wayhill: "1589: Robert Bent and Agnes Gosling were married 13. October"
↑ 3.03.13.2From the Great Migration to the Greatest Generation, by Wayne Blanchard, Lulu.com, 2013
↑The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, by New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vol. 32, 1874
↑ Middlesex County, MA: Abstracts of Court Files, 1649–1675. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), (Unpublished abstracts by Thomas Bellows Wyman, "Abstract of Middlesex court files from 1649," n.d.),
Acknowledgments
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Interesting tidbit: Peter Noyes (PGM) "took L80 from Mrs. Agnes Bent in Weyhill who wished to accompany Peter in due time.." pg.5. Sumner Chilton Power "Puritan Village; Formation of a New England Town", winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in History. :-) Just a side note: she doesn't cite a specific source for this specific fact but it must be 'buried' in her other references which are, obviously, numerous.
Gosling-1 and Gosling-154 appear to represent the same person because: Please merge Gosling-154 into LOWER number Gosling-1, to eliminate another duplicate of this woman. Thanks
Agnes (Agnis) Gosling and father vitals are recorded in Church Parish records in village of Penton-Grafton Hamphshire, England. Since there are no other Agnes Gosling, There may be no need to have two profiles and awareness of merging is still under discussion? It would be helpfull to know when record keeping at the parish originally started as there may not be records of John Goslings parents.