Kent family.

Remember Kent (1775-1855) was born on June 11, 1775, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, to Ezekiel and Ruth (Gary/Garey/Geary) Kent. He was descended from Joseph Kent of England, an emigrant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645, who settled in Swansea, Mass. Remember Kent removed to Calais, Vermont, in 1798, and a year later married Rachel Bliss, who had also come there from Rehoboth. The couple settled and farmed at a crossroads which would become known as Kents Corner, near the center of the town.

Ira Rich Kent (1803-1898), known as Ira, was the third of Remember and Rachel (Bliss) Kent's eight children. Ira's siblings were Remember, Jr. (1799-1881); Rachel Bliss (1800-1897); Abdiel (1805-1887); George (1805-1885); Ezekiel (1811-1893); John Van Rensselaer (1813-1892); and Samuel Newell Kent (1817-1835). Ira Kent was primarily a farmer. From about 1837 to 1860, he and his brother Abdiel ran several businesses together as "I. & A. Kent" at the brick tavern at Kents Corner, a stage stop en route to Canada. The enterprising and increasingly prosperous Ira and Abdiel also ran a saw mill, a harness-making business, a starch factory, a haulage business, a woolen mill and hotel in Craftsbury, Vt., and a store in Woodbury, Vt.

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