Surname Saturday - KENT (New Jersey)

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It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week. I am up to number 229,  who is the mother of #114 Philip Jacob Row (1752-1817).  I don't know who she is, and I don't know the names of them others of #231, #233, or #235 either.  The next name on my ancestral name list is #237, Mary Kent (1726-????), another of my 5th-great-grandmothers. [Note: The 5th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back to Mary Kent is:

1.  Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-....)

2.  Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3.  Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

 6.  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976)

7.  Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977)

14.  Charles Auble (1849-1916)
15.  Georgianna Kemp (1868-1952)

28.  Daniel Auble (1817-1894)
29.  Sarah Knapp (1818-ca1900)

58.  William Knapp (1775-1856)
59.  Sarah Cutter (1785-1878)

118.  Stephen Cutter (1757-1823)
119. Tabitha Randolph (ca 1750-1841) 

236. William Cutter, born about 1722 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; died 14 February 1780 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States. He was the son of 472. Richard Cutter and 473. Mercy Kelsey. He married  before 1744 in probably Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.

237. Mary Kent, born about 1726 in probably Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; died in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.

  

Children of William Cutter and Mary Kent are:

  

i. Stephen Cutter, born 10 February 1744/45 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States;

 died 21 June 1823 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; married Tabitha Randolph

about  1769 in probably Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.

ii. Richard Cutter, born about 1746 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; died 20
 August 1770 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; married Catherine Laing.

iii. Sarah Cutter, born about 1748 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; married
John Brown; born about 1734; died 23 April 1797 in New Jersey, United States.

iv. Mary Cutter, born about 1750 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States;

v. Hannah Cutter, born about 1753 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; married

William Bloodgood.

vi. Kelsey Cutter, born about 1756 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; died 07
March 1798 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; married Hannah Marsh 22 May
1777 in Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, United States; born about 1759 in Middlesex, New Jersey,
United States; died 08 January 1830 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.

vii. Samuel Cutter, born about 1761 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; died 01
May 1805 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; married Sarah Bloomfield before
1791 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; born 02 December 1769 in Woodbridge,
Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; died 02 January 1852 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey,
United States.

viii. Keturah Cutter, born about 1765 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; died 13

September 1794 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; married Joshua Rockhow;
born about 1760 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; died 14 February 1801 in
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.

My notes for Mary Kent say:

 "Mary Kent's parents are unknown.  It is possible that she was the daughter of Stephen Kent, and the

granddaughter of another Stephen Kent who resided in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey.

However, there are no records to prove this supposition."

 There were Kent families in the Woodbridge area of New Jersey in the early 1700s.  They are descended 

 from Stephen Kent (1605-1679) and Ann (????-1660).  Stephen was the son of Thomas Kent (1563-

1605) and Ellen Pyle, who settled in Newbury, Massachusetts. 

  

The English ancestry of this Kent family was discussed extensively in:

  

 Jane Fletcher Fiske, "The English  Background of Richard Kent, Sr. and Stephen Kent of Newbury,

Massachusetts, and Mary, wife of Nicholas Easton of Newport, Rhode Island," New England Historical and

Genealogical Register, Volume 162, Number 4 (October 2008), Pages 245-254, and Volume 163, Number

1 (January 2009), pages 51-65.

  

However, the line was not extended to the descendants.

  

A book that covers some of the descendants (but my Mary Kent is not included) is:

  

  L. Vernon Briggs, "Genealogy of Different Families Bearing the Name of Kent in the United States,"

Rockwell and Churchill Press, Boston, 1898.