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Chronological Summary:
Hezekiah Dent {Hatch3,John2,John1}
Last Update: July 1999
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2 Aug 1747 [Charles Co MD (Ch Co)]: Hezekiah Dent, son of Hatch and Ann Dent, born «Trinity Par Vestry Prcdgs (TPVP)» [Trinity Par was not formed until 1752 from King and Queen Par, so birth was recorded in the TPVP over 20 years after the fact] |
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[c1772 Chas Co: Hezekiah Dent married Catherine Poston (Catherine, dau of William and Priscilla Poston, born 24 Jun 1755 in Trinity Par «TPVP»] |
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Son |
22 Mar 1773 Trinity Par Chas Co: Alexander Poston, son of Hezekiah and Catherine Dent, born «TPVP» [in his will William Poston {father of Catherine} named his grandson Alexander Poston Dent a legatee «Ch Co Will Bk (ChW) AF7:13»] |
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6 Apr 1773 Trinity Par: Catherine Dent {wife} died «TPVP» |
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13 Feb 1774 Trinity Par: Hezekiah Dent married Martha Burch «TPVP» |
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22 Dec 1774 Chas Co: Jestinian Cooksey Sr of Chas Co, planter, sold to Hezekiah Dent of Chas Co, now [tobacco] inspector, for £75, part of "Simpkin Coat Back" and "Cooksey's Duck Pond, containing 50A; Sarah, wife of said Jestinian Cooksey, relinquished her right of dower «Ch Co Deed Bk (ChD) S3:670» |
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Son |
6 Feb 1775 Trinity Par: Hatch, son of Hezekiah and Martha Dent, born «TPVP» |
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30 May 1777 Trinity Par: Hezh [Hezekiah], son of Hezekiah and Martha Dent, born «TPVP» |
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5 Jul 1777 Chas Co: enclosed in a letter from Col J[osias] Hawkins to Gov Thomas Johnson was a list of company officers within his 12th Battalion [eastern Chas Co], with recommendations for vacancies; the list included 1st Lt. Benjamin Lesly Corry (to be captain), 2nd Lt. Hezekiah Dent (to be first lieutenant), and Ens. Francis Posey (to be second lieutenant) «MD State Papers, The Red Books, 1170, XVIII, 88, and 1171, XVIII, 90» |
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1777 Chas Co: Hezh. Dent on county-wide militia list as [1st] Lieutenant in Capt Benj. Lasly Corry's Company of Militia, 12th Battalion [published in Clements and Wright, "The Maryland Militia in the Revolutionary War"] |
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[Early 1778 Chas Co: Hezekiah Dent did not appear on lists of oaths of fidelity to State of MD «ChCP X3:641-651»; also did not appear in lists of "straggler" oath takers recorded throughout ChCP Bk Y No 3] |
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2 Feb 1778 Chas Co: ... took oath of fidelity to State of MD before magistrate Joshua Sanders [of Bryantown Hd] «ChCP X3:641-651» |
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1 Aug 1778 Chas Co: letters of administration were granted on the estate of John Dent, late of Chas Co decd, to Margret Dent his widow, and at her request Hezekiah Dent {his brother} "was Joind"; they gave bond of £1000, with Oliver Burch and "Peter Dent of Newport in Charles County" as their securities «Chas Co Will Bk (ChW) AF7:198» |
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24 Aug 1778 Chas Co: goods and chattels of John Dent decd appraised by Thos Rd Cooksey and Zach. Chunn in the amount of £180.11.0½; inventory included a negro woman Moll; John Parnham [physician] and Benja Cawood jun signed inventory as greatest creditors, and Thomas Hatch Dent {eldest son} and Anne Dent {eldest dau} signed as next of kin. 21 Nov 1778 Chas Co: inventory presented in court by Margret Dent and Hezekiah Dent, administrators. «ChW AF7:251» |
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29 May 1779 Chas Co: Margaret Dent and Heza Dent, administrators of John Dent, late of Chas Co, decd, passed the final account on the deceased's personal estate in court; securites were given as Oliver Burch and Peter Dent of Newport «ChW AF7:357» |
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20 Feb 1780 Trinity Par: John Chapman, son of Hezekiah and Martha Dent, born «TPVP» |
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19 May 1781 Chas Co: in his will Hatch Dent Senr devised ... «ChW AF7:665» |
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Dau |
26 Feb 1782 Trinity Par: Orpah Burch, dau of Hezekiah and Martha Dent, born (died 28 Feb 1782) «TPVP» |
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1790 Trinity Par: Capt Hezekiah Dent a household head in census with following in household: 2 males 16&> [himself, unknown], 4 males <16 [sons Hatch, Hezekiah, John Chapman, Wilfred], 4 females [wife Martha, dau Martha, 2 unknown], and 21 slaves |
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