Jacob Kent was born in the town of Chebacco, Massachusetts near the town of Ipswich in present-day Essex. He was a military veteran of two wars and a co-founder of Newbury, Vermont. He married, first, Abigail Bailey in 1752, but she died in 1756. He moved Plaistow, New Hampshire, where he was Highway Surveyor and Schoolmaster. It was in Plaistow that he married Mary White. In 1760, Jacob Kent was commissioned by New Hampshire Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth as a Lieutenant in Colonel John Goffe's New Hampshire Provincial Regiment during the French and Indian War where he helped build the Crown Point Military Road from Fort Number 4 (near Charlestown, New Hampshire) to Crown Point, New York. Afterwards he and others from that war moved to Vermont and co-founded the town of Newbury. He commanded militia as a Colonel during the Revolution, acting in concert with Vermont and New Hampshire militia units to prevent the movement of British troops in the Connecticut River valley. Arriving with the militia too late to join the fighting, he was present at the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York. Jacob Kent was an important contributor to the founding of the town of Newbury and the state of Vermont, serving as Town Clerk and a member of the Vermont House of Representatives.
Jacob Kent was born in the town of Chebacco, Massachusetts near the town of Ipswich in present-day Essex. He was a military veteran of two wars and a co-founder of Newbury, Vermont. He married, first, Abigail Bailey in 1752, but she died in 1756. He moved Plaistow, New Hampshire, where he was Highway Surveyor and Schoolmaster. It was in Plaistow that he married Mary White. In 1760, Jacob Kent was commissioned by New Hampshire Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth as a Lieutenant in Colonel John Goffe's New Hampshire Provincial Regiment during the French and Indian War where he helped build the Crown Point Military Road from Fort Number 4 (near Charlestown, New Hampshire) to Crown Point, New York. Afterwards he and others from that war moved to Vermont and co-founded the town of Newbury. He commanded militia as a Colonel during the Revolution, acting in concert with Vermont and New Hampshire militia units to prevent the movement of British troops in the Connecticut River valley. Arriving with the militia too late to join the fighting, he was present at the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York. Jacob Kent was an important contributor to the founding of the town of Newbury and the state of Vermont, serving as Town Clerk and a member of the Vermont House of Representatives.
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