John Kent Junior

1645 - 1703  (58 years)

• Name	John Kent Junior
  	Cooper [2, 10] The Junior behind his name refers to the fact that he was the oldest John Kent in Newbury, not that his father was John. [4]
  Birth	20 Jul 1645	Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [2, 6, 8, 10]
  Freeman	25 Feb 1668 (22 years)	Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [2, 10]
  He took his oath before Robert Pike.
  Oath	1678 (32 years)	Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [3]
  In 1678, John Kent Jr too the oath of Allegiance at Newbury, Massachusetts.
  History	17 Oct 1691 (46 years)	Plymouth Colony merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony forming the Province of Massachusetts Bay
  Death	10 Aug 1703	Casco Bay, Province of Massachusetts Bay (now Maine)   [8]
  Person ID, Branch	I1601	Roy Line
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Parents: From Dale (1899) "Joshua Coffin, in his notes on the Kent family, vol. 15, page 273, New Eng. His. & Gen. Reg., says in the History of Newbury are several errors not chargeable to the printer. Thus, on page 307 are some mistakes in the families of John Kent, Sr., and John Kent, Jr., which may be thus corrected." He calls John Kent, Sr., the one who m. Mary Hobbs, and John Kent, Jr., the one who m. Sarah Woodman, and the records of these families as above given are as he corrected the m. Cannot say whose son John, Jr., was." [6]

  
  

Spouse / Partner	Sarah Woodman,   b. 12 Jan 1641/42, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 12 Apr 1718 (Age 76 years)
Marriage	13 Mar 1665/66	Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]
Age at Marriage	He : 20 years and 8 months - She : 24 years and 2 months.
Children	3 sons and 6 daughters
1. Sarah Kent,   b. 30 Aug 1667, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]     2. John Kent,   b. 23 Nov 1668, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]     3. Richard Kent,   b. 17 Jan 1672/73, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]     4. Mary Kent,   b. 24 Oct 1674, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] >   5. Emma Kent,   b. 20 Apr 1677, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 7 Sep 1735, Tewksbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 58 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] ▻ Samuel Haseltine  m. 1 Jan 1701 +   6. Hannah Kent,   b. 10 Sep 1679, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 3 Feb 1735/36, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 56 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] ▻ Nathan Merrill  m. 6 Sep 1699     7. Judith Kent,   b. About 1682, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 2 Sep 1751, South Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, U.S.A. (Age 69 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]     8. Rebecca Kent,   b. 20 Feb 1684/85, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]     9. James Kent  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
Family ID	F917	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
Last Modified	4 Aug 2025




• Pedigree

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• Event Map		Birth - 20 Jul 1645 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Marriage - 13 Mar 1665/66 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Freeman - 25 Feb 1668 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Oath - 1678 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Death - 10 Aug 1703 - Casco Bay, Province of Massachusetts Bay (now Maine)  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S801] Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, volume VII (T-Y), (Boston: New England Historic Genealogy Society, 2011). [S1130] Briggs, L. Vernon. Kent Genealogies, (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill Press, 1898). [S2105] Brown, Asa W. "Materials for the History of Newbury", (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume VII, 1853). [S638] Coffin, Joshua, A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury, (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1845). [S1827] Coffin, Joshua, List of Some Descendants of Edward Woodman who Settled at Newbury, Mass. A. D. 1635, (Newburyport, Massachusetts: Union Job Office, 1855). [S1577] Dale, Edward Irving. History and Genealogy of the Kent Family: Descendants of Richard Kent, Sen. Who Came to America in 1633, (Spencer, Massachusetts: Edward Irving Dale, 1899). [S641] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 volume II, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911). [S1276] Fiske, Jane Fletcher. "The English Background of Richard Kent Sr. and Stephen Kent of Newbury, Massachusetts, and Mary, Wife of Nicholas Easton of Newport, Rhode Island", (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 163, January 2009). [S621] Hoyt, David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton volume I, (Providence, Rhode Island: Snow & Farnham, 1897). [S1274] Leonard, Lewis Keeler. Seven Hundred Ancestors , (Privately Published, 1975), Chapter LIII Woodman. [S794] Moriarty, G. Andrews, "Genealogical Research in England - The Woodman Family", (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume XCVII, 1943). [S808] Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register, volume III, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1861). [S91] Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriage Prior to 1700, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985). [S798] Woodman, Cyrus, The Woodmans of Buxton, Maine, (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1874). [S396] Woodman, J. H., A List of the Descendants of Mr. Joshua Woodman, who settled at Kingston, N.H., about 1736, (Brunswick, Maine: J. Griffin, 1856).