BRENT:- Robert Brent, born 1682, was a son of Captain George Brent, born in England, emigrated to Virginia about 1660, and settled in Stafford County. He married Elizabeth Green of Bermuda. Their son, Robert, married July 8, 1702, Susannah Seymour, daughter of David of Bermuda. Robert had a son Robert, born 1705, died 1750. He married in 1731 Mary Wharton, daughter of Henry Wharton. Their son Robert, born 1733, died 1790, married Anna Maria Parnham, and their son Robert, born 1759, married in 1783 Dorothy Leigh. Their son William married Maria Fenwick and had three children: Robert, Joseph and Vivien. Joseph w r as of Charles County, Md.

SOURCE: Vol, X, No 1, May 1921 Genealogy: a journal of American ancestry