Grace
Kent
Born about in Calvert County, Province of Maryland
Ancestors 
Daughter of Absolom Kent
and Mary (Wadsworth) Kent
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died after
after about age 60
in Frederick County, Maryland, United States of America
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Biography
Grace was born about 1716. She was the daughter of Absolom Kent and Mary Wadsworth. She passed away after 1776.
Research Notes
Several family historians have postulated that the maiden name of Grace, wife of John Veatch, was Masters. Those same researchers place Robert Masters (d. 1715/6 PGCo.) as her father. Neither of these two claims are supported with any evidence.
On the contrary, there is evidence found to support the theory that Grace, wife of John Veatch, may be the daughter of Absolom Kent.
In 1726, William Kent, brother of Grace, named John Veitch as his brother-in-law and guardian of his son. William’s sister Priscilla Kent married Thomas Wilson (who was Grace’s guardian after their father’s death).
However, it’s also possible that it was William Kent’s other sister, Mary, who married John Veitch.
Widow Grace Veatch appears in the 1776 census, living in Frederick County with her children. Her age is given as 60 years. If correct, it would make her too young to be the Kent sister married to John Veatch.
More research is needed.
Sources
- Will of Absolom Kent, "The Maryland calendar of wills, Wills from 1713 to 1720, Vol IV", Jane (Baldwin) Cotton, Korn & Pollock, Inc., Publishers, Baltimore, Md., 1914, Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016, Archive.org, [online database], Absolom Kent, image 344 of 630, (https://archive.org/details/marylandcalendar04cott/page/n343/mode/2up?q=Kent).
- Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus, "Maryland Records, Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church from Original Sources, Volume I", Internet Archive (Online: archive.org, 2008), [Original published: Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus, "Maryland Records, Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church from Original Sources, Volume I", (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company, 1915), p. 215]
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