Peter Dent

1664 - Bef 1710  (< 46 years)

• Name	Peter Dent
  Birth	1664	Westbury Manor, Hull's Neck, St.Mary's, Maryland
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 7 Mar 1710
  Notes	1692, Assistant clerk: Lower House of Assembly 1695, Settled: Somerset Co., MD 1702, Delegate for Lower House of Assembly When John Coode seized the government of the province in 1689 and endeavored to disarm the people, the Protestants united in an association fearing the ascendency of the papists, and presented addresses on the subject to the crown. Among the sners of these address we find the name of Peter Dent [third son of Co l. Thomas Dent], Deputy Collector of His Majesty's Customs in Somerset County, and Capt. John Dent of Cool Springs in Charles County. This Peter Dent who had removed to Somerset County on the eastern shore was also a signer of the petition against the removal of the seat of government from St. Mary's County in 1694. He was married to Jane Pittman Gray and Elizabeth Ballard. Mar. 1697 Edmund HOWARD sold to Peter DENT 93 acres 1710-11 Peter DENT willed the land except 93 acres to his daughter Rebecca DENT who married first David BROWN & James ANDERSON son of James & Rebecca ANDERSON, she removed to Chester Co., PA & in 1752 willed James ANDERSON, son of James and Rebecca ANDERSON to wife Rachel sons James and John. 1710-11 Peter DENT willed the land except 93 acres to his daughter Rebecca DENT who married first David BROWN and James ANDERSON, son of James and Rebecca ANDERSON. She removed to Chester Co, PA in 1752..
  Person ID	I15212	Lythgoe-Donaldson
  Last Modified	15 Jul 2010

  
  

  Father	Thomas Dent, Esq.,   b. 1630, Guisborough, E Riding, Yorkshire, England d. Bef 21 Apr 1676, Hull's Neck, St.Mary's, Maryland (Age < 46 years)
  Mother	Rebecca Wilkinson,   b. 1633, Yorkshire, England d. Aug 1726, Prince George's, Maryland (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	1651	Saint Mary, Maryland
  Family ID	F7009	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Jane Pittman Gray,   b. Abt 1664   d. Aft 1685 (Age ~ 22 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1684
  Family ID	F7019	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Ballard,   b. Abt 1664   d. Aft 1687 (Age ~ 24 years)
  Marriage	Aft 1686
  Family ID	F7020	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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