Isaac Kent Sr (1719 - 1784)

Born 27 Sep 1719 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Rachel (Beal) Kent — married 25 Oct 1739 in Cohasset, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 29 Dec 1784 at age 65 in Round Hill, Annapolis, Nova Scotia

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Biography

Isaac was born in Hingham, second precinct about 1719. He was the son of Ebenezer and Hannah Kent.^[1]

He married Rachel Beal 25 Oct 1739 at Hingham.^[1]

After 1744 Isaac moved his family first to Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay. He moved for a second time to Nova Scotia 1760 to get grant of land.

"Isaac and Rachel Kent took up this challenge and became part of a group now known as the "Planters" or the "New England Planters." Their trip is described in "Planters and Pioneers" by Esther Clark Wright.

On May 17, 1760, 25 heads of families, making with wives and children 45 passengers, were embarked at Boston on board the "Charming Molly". There were also on board 10 oxen,11 cows, 2 horses, 10 sheep, 1 "sow bigg with piggs", 6 lambs, and seven small cattle. The vessel, one suspects, was not so charming when she arrived at Annapolis. On June 19 the "Charming Molly" again sailed from Boston with ten more settlers for Annapolis."

Isaac appears in the 1770 census of Annapolis, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia with 1 man [himself], 3 boys [Arod, John, Zara], 1 woman [Rachel] and 1 girl [Hannah], all Protestant, 5 Americans, 1 Acadian. In this census, Acadian refers to persons born in Acadia, ie. Nova Scotia.^[2]

Isaac wrote his Last Will and Testament on 14 May 1784, mentioning his wife Rachel, sons Isaac, Arod, John and Zarah and daughters Rebeccah Brown, Anne Longley, Abigail Beals and Hannah Kent.^[3]

Children:

1. Rachel, b. 1740, d. ca 1746
2. Isaac, b.1742
3. Susanna, b. 1744, d. 1751
4. Elizabeth, b. 1746, d. 1747
5. Rebecca, b. 1748, m. _ Brown
6. Anna, b. 1750, m. Israel Longley
7. Abigail, b. 1752, m. Abel Beals
8. Arod, b. 4 Oct 1754
9. Zara (Zarah), b. 4 Oct 1754
10. John, b. 1757
11. Caleb, b. 1759, d. 1759
12. Joshua, b. 1759, d. 1759
13. Hannah, b. 1764, d. unmarried.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Thomas T Bouvé; Edward Tracy Bouvé; John Davis Long; Walter Lincoln Bouvé; Francis Henry Lincoln; George Lincoln; Edmund Hersey; Fearing Burr; Charles Winfield Scott Seymour; Hingham (Mass.). (1893). Pub. by the town. Vol II, p.404
2. ↑ Census Returns, Assessment and Poll Tax Records 1767-1838, Census Returns, 1767-1787, 1770 Census
3. ↑ Recorded in the probate records of Annapolis County on 29 Dec 1784.

See also:

• FamilySearch Person: FR8-KGZ
• A Genealogy of Our Beals Family
• Genealogies of the different families bearing the name of Kent in the United States [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
• Briggs, L. Vernon. Genealogies of the different families bearing the name of Kent in the United States, together with their possible English ancestry A.D. 1295-1898. Boston: Rockwell & Churchill Press, 1898.