When Hezekiah Kent was born on 6 February 1700, in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Kent Jr., was 34 and his mother, Dorothy Brown, was 33. He married Lillis Humphrey about 1723, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 21 March 1786, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 86.
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English and Irish: habitational name from the county of Kent. The surname is also established in Ireland, where English bearers of this name settled in Meath, in the 13th century. The name has been Gaelicized as Ceannt.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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