1Allen H. Bent, The Bent Family, NEHGR Vol. 48, p. 289 (Jul 1894).
"3. JOHN2 BENT (John1) bought in 1662 land on west side of the old Connecticut Path, in what is now the town of Framinham. The first petition for the incorporation of this township was headed by Corporal John Bent, who was chosen one of the tythingmen at the second town meeting in 1701, and in Framingham he died in Sept. 1717, aged about 82. He was twice married, first July 1, 1658, to Hannah, daughter of John Stone of Camvridge, and second to Martha, daughter of Matthew Rice. The three children are by the first wife:
i. HANNAH, b. May 6, 1661; m. Feb. 25, 1681, John, son of John Adams of Cambridge.
7. ii. JOHN, b. Nov. 29. 1689.
8. iii. DAVID, about 1691.".
1Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, p. 45 (1907).
"HORACE M. ALDRICH. George Aldrich (1), the immigrant ancestor of the Rhode Island and Mendon families of Aldrich and of Horace M. Aldrich, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was born in England, about 1605, and came from Derbyshire in 1631 wirh his wife. He married in England, November 3, 1629, Katharine Seald. He was a tailor by trade. They settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and belonged to the church there about 1636. He was admitted a freeman December 7, 1636. His wife testified June 18, 1670, that she was sixty years old. In 1663 he was one of the first seven persons to arrive in the township of Mendon, Massachusetts. He sold his land at Braintree to his friend, Richard Thayer, of Braintree, June 9, 1663. He died at Mendon, after the re-settlement following King Philip's war, March 1, 1682. He wife died January 11, 1691. His will was dated at Mendon, November 2, 1682, and proved April 26, 1683. He bequeathed to wife, to children Joseph, John, Jacob, Mary, Sarah Bartlett, Mercy Randall and Martha Dunbar. The children: Abel, born 1633; Joseph, born June 4, 1635, see forward; Mary, born June 16, 1637, died 1683; Miriam, born June 29, 1639, died May 10, 1652; Experience, born September 4, 1641, died February 2, 1642, at Braintree; John, born April 2, 1644., married Sarah Thompson and (second) Sarah Leach; Sarah, born January 16, 1646, died February 17, 1685; Peter, born April 14, 1648; Mercy, born June 17, 1650, married ------- Randall; Miriam, died March 16, 1652; Jacob, ancestor of the Mendon family, born February 28, 1653; Martha, born July 10, 1656.".