Brent

 " Descendants of Coll Giles Brent, Captain George Brent and Robert Brent, Gentlemen, Immigrants to Maryland and Virginia"

George came to Virginia and settled at Woodstock in Stafford County.  He married the daughter of Captain William Green and niece of Sir William Layton. By her he had George,  Nicholas and Robert; Marianne and Elizabeth. She died in childbed of another girl the s6th of March 1686. The said George the 27th March 1687, again married the second daughter of Lady Baltimore by her first husband, Henry Sewell, who was widow to Colonel William Chandler, by who she had many children, but only three lived, Henry, Mary and Martha, of whom she died in child-bed the 12th of March 1693-4.

The second son of the said George Brent, the son of Richard, died young. The third son of the said Gorge Brent, Henry, married Ann the daughter of  Henry Calvert, Esquire, sometime Governor of Maryland, by whom he had many children all of whom died  before himself, who died the ___ day of January, 1694, and his land descended to George Brent, Esquire, of Woodstock.

The fourth son of the  said George Brent, Esquire, named William, died unmarried, and Eward, the fifth son, died young at the College of Dousy in Flanders; but Robert, the sixth son, married Anne, the daughter of Edmond Baugh, of Penton, Worcestershire, and brought her into Virginia in the year 1686, settled in Stafford County, where he had many children by her, all of which died unmarried.

Having gone through the males, I shall go through the females.  Richard, the grandfather of George Brent, Esquire, of Woodstock, had only one daughter that married, Jane***, who married Thomas Cassie, Esquire, of Widefield in the county of  Gloucester, by whom she had William, Jane, Ann, and Elizabeth. She died in France in or about the Plot time -1680.  Where her children are I know not. The next of the females was Margaret, daughter of Richard and sister to Robert, Father of Falcatius, Lord of Stoke, who married Mr. Thomas Bartlett, of Evesham, by who she had Richard and what other I know not, The next was Mary, the daughter of Giles, the son of Richard Brent, son of aforesaid Giles, who married Mr. George Plowden, by whom she had several children. The eldest son named Edmund and is now alive; and Mary, her sister, married Mr. John Nutwell (should be Nuthall, or Nutthall), now alive.  These two were the sisters of William Brent, who went to England in 1708 in order to recover  the two Lordships of Stoke and Cossington, being heir-in-tail to said estates.  He married in London the 12th day of May, 1709, Sarah Gibbons, of Box Parish, the daughter of William Gibbons of Wiltshire, gentleman. He died soon after his marriage, November 26th the following, and left his wife with child of a son, of whom she was afterwards delivered, March 6th, 1710. His name is also William, and he is heir-in-tail to the estates in England and Virginia. His mother brought him over to Virginia January, 1717 and the 20th day of May thereafter was married herself to the Rev. Alexander Acott, rector of Overwharton Parish in Stafford County, Virginia and died 30 October 1733 (should be 29 October).

As to the daughters of George, the son of Richard aforesaid, the eldest, Ann, married James Clifton, Esquire, who lived in Lancashire, and had many children, among them whom were Cuthbert, Anne and Eliza. The second daughter died a maid. The first and third married.  The fourth, (viz): Mary married Giles Brent Esquire, the father of the aforesaid William, who went to England. The fourth died a maid. The sixth, (viz): Ursula, married Charles Umphraville, gentleman, by whom she had many children. They went to France.

George****, the first son of George Brent , Esquire of Woodstock, died unmarried September 2, 1708. Nicholas,, the second son, married Jane, the daughter of Captain Thomas Mudd of Charles County, Maryland in April, 1711, and died childless, December 18th following.

For other wives and family, please see: DESCENDANTS OF COLL GILES BRENT  for more documentation.