Re: Giles Brent
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Giles Brent
Lois Hurt 1/14/02
Here is some info I have:
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Ingle's Raid, or The Time of Troubles (February 14, 1645 - December, 1646)
In 1644, when Governor Leonard Calvert was in England and Giles Brent was Acting Governor, . Brent had a falling-out with Richard Ingle, "a Protestant ship captain who had been trading for tobacco in Maryland and Virginia since 1642....Brent... inadvisably arrested [Ingle] briefly for treason against King Charles I, [who was] by then literally at war with Parliament. Ingle escaped trial, but early in the following year, he appeared in the Chesapeake armed with letters of marque from Parliament that allowed him to seize ships or goods belonging to supporters of the king. He may not have left England planning a raid on Maryland, but in Virginia he was told that Leonard Calvert, under a commission from King Charles, was going to seize debts owed to Ingle. At that point, if not before, Ingle began to plan an attack on Maryland, perhaps in collaboration with William Claiborne, who had just made an abortive attempt to reclaim Kent Island. In Virginia Ingle picked up a few men willing to participate in his plans.(22)
"On February 14, 1645, [Ingle] surprised the settlement at St. Mary's City, "burned the Catholic chapel and plundered the homes of Catholic settlers. Councillor Giles Brent was captured immediately. He was visiting the Dutch ship Looking Glass anchored in the river. Ingle seized the ship as a prize. Governor Calvert managed to collect and arm supporters and create some sort of fortification called St. Thomas's Fort, which was probably located on the properties of the Brents. (Giles Brent's town land property and that of his sisters were referred to in some documents as St. Thomas's Lot.) The rebels fortified Calvert's own house near the original St. Mary's Fort, which was evidently too decayed for use. From these two temporary strongholds, both sides foraged in the community for corn and cattle, and Ingle's men, along with Protestant rebels, looted and sometimes burned the homes of leading Catholics. Ingle even sailed to Kent Island and looted and burned Giles Brent's estate there. In late March or early April, 1645, "Ingle sailed for England...his vessel packed with plunder. He carried with him as prisoners Giles Brent; John Lewger, the Provincial Secretary; and two Jesuit priests, Father Andrew White and Father Thomas Copley.(23) "Governor Calvert fled to Virginia, and the Calverts came close to losing the colony entirely...The population of Maryland, perhaps 500-600 people at Ingle's raid, probably dropped to under 100, fewer than had come on Ark and Dove eleven years before. If Maryland was to recover, the province had to start anew.
During this time no mention is made of Mary Kittimaquund, but one can imagine the turmoil faced by a young Indian girl, taken from her own home and culture at the age of 7 and married to a man in his late thirties when she was 11. Now, less than two years later, she is 13. Is she taken prisoner on the ship with Giles? Is she left behind? The record doesn't say. By the time of the restoration, if not earlier, Mary's father died.
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In 1930 a crucifix was erected in Aquia, Stafford Co, VA to memorialize the first English settlers in the County, the Brents. "Colonel Giles Brent of Maryland and his Piscataway Indian wife settled at the mouth of Aquia Creek in 1647.(44)
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Descendants of Duncan I King Of SCOTLAND
. Giles BRENT Col. (Elizabeth REED , Catherine GREVILLE , Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY , Edward WILLOUGHBY , Robert WILLOUGHBY , Robert WILLOUGHBY , John WILLOUGHBY , John WILLOUGHBY , Elizabeth NEVILLE , John NEVILLE , Alice AUDLEY , Hugh AUDLEY , Ela LONGSPEE , William LONGESPEE , William "Longespee" Prince Of ENGLAND , Henry II "Plantagenet" King Of ENGLAND , Matilda (Maud) Empress Of GERMANY , Matilda "Atheling" Princess Of SCOTLAND , Malcolm III "Ceanmor (Longneck)" I King Of , Duncan I King Of ) was born 1600 in Of, Admington, Gloucestshire, England. He died 31 Aug 1671 in Of, , Stafford, Virginia.
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A HISTORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON’S RIVER FARM
River Farm's first English family was the Brents, a Catholic family who played an active role in the early colonial life of Maryland. Captain Giles Brent originally landed in Jamestown, Virginia but in 1638 returned from a trip to England accompanied by his sisters, Margaret and Mary, to settle in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. The family was related to Lord Baltimore, the King's proprietor in Maryland, and their life in the colony was closely associated with that of Lord Baltimore's brother, Leonard Calvert, the resident governor.
However, in 1647 – even before Lord Baltimore's letter reached them – the Brents, weary of the political battles with the Calverts and disheartened by religious dissension between Protestants and Catholics in Maryland, had already left the colony to settle near Aquia in Virginia. In 1653/54, Giles Brent received patents totaling 1,800 acres from Thomas, Lord Culpepper for his year-old son, Giles, Jr. Giles' wife was a princess of the Piscataway tribe of Native Americans who had been entrusted to Margaret Brent as a child by her father, a convert to Christianity. She was raised in the Brent household and at the age of 16 was married to Giles, 30 years her senior. The grant of 1,800 acres in their child's name was named Piscataway Neck and included the land which is now River Farm.
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Descendants of Giles Brent
1 Giles Brent b: 1606 d: August 31, 1671 in Stafford, VA
.. +Mary Kittamaguund, Empress of Pascataway b: Bet. 1633 - 1634 d: Abt. 1654 m: 1644 Father: Emperor of the Piscataways Kittamaguund
.. 2 Catherine Brent b: Abt. 1649 in Peace Plantation, Virginia d: Abt. 1670 in Calvert Co., MD
...... +Richard Marsham b: Abt. 1630 in Calvert, Maryland d: 1713 Father: Thomas Marsham
....... 3 Sarah Catherine Marsham b: Bet. 1658 - 1664 in Calvert Co., Maryland
........... +William Barton, Jr. Father: William Barton, Sr.
....... *2nd Husband of Sarah Catherine Marsham:
........... +? Smoot
....... *3rd Husband of Sarah Catherine Marsham:
........... +James Haddock m: Abt. 1670
....... *4th Husband of Sarah Catherine Marsham:
........... +Basil Waring, Sr. b: Bet. 1647 - 1654 in Calvert Co., Maryland d: December 1688 in The Cliffs, Calvert Co., MD m: Abt. 1679 Father: Sampson Waring, Capt. Mother: Sarah Leigh
....... 3 Katherine Marsham b: Abt. 1666 in Calvert Co., Maryland d: 1712 in Prince Georges Co., MD
........... +Samuel Queen
....... *2nd Husband of Katherine Marsham:
........... +Baker Brooke, Jr. b: 1666 d: 1698 m: 1689 Father: Baker Brooke Mother: Anne Calvert
....... 3 Mary Marsham b: Abt. 1668 d: Bet. 1712 - 1713
........... +Charles Beaven b: 1645 d: 1699 m: Bef. 1698
.. 2 Mary Brent b: Abt. 1654
...... +John Fitzherbert
.. 2 Giles Brent, Jr. b: 1652 d: September 1679
.. 2 Richard Brent b: Abt. 1650
.. 2 Henry Brent
.. 2 Margaret Brent
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