Samuel Kent was born in 1794, in Kent, Putnam, New York, United States.
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.
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