Samuel Kent, Jr. (1661-1740) was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the third of four children born to Samuel, Sr. and Frances (Woodward) Kent. By the 1670s, Kent's parents had moved, first to Brookfield, Masachusetts, and then to Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1679, Samuel, Jr. was among the first settlers of Suffield, Massachusetts, where he married Abigail Dudley. The couple had several children. Samuel Kent, Jr., died in Suffield in 1740, nine years before the town became part of the neighboring colony of Connecticut. (Hezikiah Sheldon, Documentary History of Suffield, Colony and Province Massachusetts Bay, New England, 1660-1749, 1879, p. 37
In 1734, Samuel Kent, Jr. sold an enslaved girl named Kate to Israel Williams of Hatfield, Massachusetts.
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