Husband: Captain John DENT
Birthdate: February 13, 1755
Birthplace: Loudoun County Virginia
Death date: September 20, 1840
Place of death: Monongalia County Virginia
Burial: September 1840 - Old Zoar Cemetery,Monongalia County Virginia
Father: George DENT (1727-1757)
Mother: Elizabeth Harrison (1733-    )

Marriage date: June 13, 1780
Marriage place: Charles County Maryland

Wife: Margaret EVANS
Birthdate: December 7, 1763
Birthplace: Loudoun County Virginia
Death date: November 23, 1851
Place of death: DENT's Run,Monongalia County Virginia
Burial: November 26, 1851 - Old Zoar Cemetery,Monongalia County Virginia
Father: Colonel John Evans (1737-1834)
Mother: Rebecca Martin (1738-1827)

Children

Child No. 1: Elizabeth DENT
Sex: F
Birthdate: December 26, 1781
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
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Spouse: Rawley Martin (1782-1857)
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Child No. 2: John Evans DENT
Sex: M
Birthdate: January 24, 1783
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
Death date: March 10, 1868
Place of death: Putnam County Il
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Spouse: Rebecca Hamilton (1786-1832)
Marriage date: March 18, 1804
Marriage place: DENT's Run,Monongalia County Virginia
Spouse: Mary Cowen (    -    )
Marriage date: July 9, 1839
Marriage place: Putnam County Il

Child No. 3: George Washington DENT
Sex: M
Birthdate: November 18, 1784
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
Death date: July 30, 1805
Place of death: New Orleans. La
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Spouse: Sarah Chapman (1785-    )
Marriage date: June 9, 1804
Marriage place: Monongalia County Virginia

Child No. 4: Dudley Evans DENT Sr.
Sex: M
Birthdate: March 1, 1787
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
Death date: April 18, 1843
Place of death: Elizabeth,Wirt County Virginia
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Spouse: Mahala Berkshire (1794-1860)
Marriage date: September 29, 1812
Marriage place: DENT's Run,Monongalia County Virginia

Child No. 5: Nancy Ann DENT
Sex: F
Birthdate: May 23, 1789
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
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Spouse: Captain Felix Scott (1786-1858)
Marriage date: 1808
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Child No. 6: Nimrod DENT
Sex: M
Birthdate: June 18, 1792
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
Death date: January 2, 1864
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Spouse: Susan Graham (1802-1867)
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Child No. 7: Margaret DENT
Sex: F
Birthdate: April 1, 1794
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
Death date: July 12, 1872
Place of death: Henry County IL
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Spouse: John Rochester (    -    )
Marriage date: June 16, 1812
Marriage place: Monongalia County Virginia
Spouse: Peter Smith (    -    )
Marriage date: April 7, 1842
Marriage place: Putnam County Il

Child No. 8: Enoch Martin DENT Sr
Sex: M
Birthdate: May 21, 1796
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
Death date: November 18, 1872
Place of death: Wenona Illinois
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Spouse: Judith Gapen (1799-1876)
Marriage date: February 14, 1817
Marriage place: Monongalia County Virginia

Child No. 9: James Evans DENT
Sex: M
Birthdate: August 15, 1798
Birthplace: - Monongalia County Virginia
Death date: 1874
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Spouse: Dorcas Berkshire (1797-    )
Marriage date: February 19, 1820
Marriage place: Monongalia County Virginia

Child No. 10: Dr. Marmaduke DENT
Sex: M
Birthdate: February 25, 1801
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
Death date: February 10, 1883
Place of death: Preston County West Virginia
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Spouse: Sarah Price (1809-    )
Marriage date: August 2, 1827
Marriage place: DENT's Run,Monongalia County Virginia

Child No. 11: Anarah Cathrine DENT
Sex: F
Birthdate: April 8, 1803
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
Death date: April 1, 1892
Place of death: West Virginia
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Spouse: Peter Fogle (1799-    )
Marriage date: December 30, 1822
Marriage place: DENT's Run,Monongalia County Virginia

Child No. 12: Rawley Evans DENT
Sex: M
Birthdate: February 28, 1808
Birthplace: DENTs Run Monongalia County Virginia
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Spouse: Maria Miller (1811-1832)
Marriage date: October 3, 1831
Marriage place: Monongalia County Virginia
Spouse: Nancy Barker (1815-1876)
Marriage date: September 17, 1834
Marriage place: Monongalia County Virginia
 
 
Notes:
* Captain John DENT wrote on his application for a Revolutionary War pension that he was born February 13, 1755, in Loudoun county, Virginia. In the spring of 1776 when he was 21 years old, he crossed the Blue Ridge, Shenandoah, and Allegheny mountains into the virtually unsettled wilderness ofMonongalia county, Virginia (now West Virginia). He no doubt followed much thesome route across the mountains that George Washington had pioneered 20 years before. A year before he made this pioneering trek, the battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts had signalled the beginning of the American Revolution.
* In April of 1777, a year after his arrival in Monongalia county, John DENT enlisted as a private under Capt. David Scott in the Thirteenth Virginia Regiment of Militia to fight in this war. John DENT's service in the American Revolution is described in Gleanings of Virgina History by William F. Boogher:
* "Marched to Ft. Pitt, then to Ft. Kittanning, where he remained two months. In the fall of 1777, as Sergeant, with twelve men, marched to a point near Wheeling, where they built a fort. In the spring of 1778 was appointed lieutenant of Capt. Jacobus Sullivan's company, under Gen. Mclntosh; marched toBeaver Creek, where they built a fort. In the fall of 1778 marched to Tuscaroahriver, where they built Fort Lawrence, February. 1779, marched to Fort Pitt. where he commanded seventy-five men to harass the Indians. In the Winter of 1779-80 he returned to Fort Mc Intosh, where he was in command, by order of Col. Gibson, of cavalry company in pursuit of deserters, where he remained until November 1780, when he resigned," (The forts mentioned were on or near the upper Ohio river where it is the boundary between West Virginia and Ohio.)
* A pension certificate dated September 4, 1834, shows John DENT entitled to a pension of $320 per year beginning March 4, 1831, for his military service in the American Revolution. The DENT family always lived in Monongalia county - a sparsely settled, thickly forested wilderness in the valley of the Monongahela river. They were among the first settlers in the area. Quoting from The Making of Morgantown by James Calahan:
* "These pioneers left the ease and security of well ordered settlements to encounter the perils of unknown forests inhabited by wild beasts, and rivers unspanned by bridges, to found a civilized community in the heart of the wilderness untrodden by civilized man and remote from the settlements of the East. Armed with axe and rifle and with intense individualistic spirit, but bound by certain community of interests, they built theirlog cabins and promptly turned to the conquest and subjugation of the primeval wilds which the Indians had sought to retain unconquered.
* John owned a large amount of land at Granville, about six miles from Morgantown. It was on DENT's run (creek) which was named for him. Here he built a house later known as"the old DENT homestead. He was a member of the Virginia Assembly, justice ofthe peace, and according to tradition, the first sheriff of Monongalia county.
* John DENT died September 20, 1840, at his home in Monongalia county,West Virginia. He was 85 years old. Margaret DENT, widow of John, died there on November 23, 1851. She was 87 or 88 years old.
* John and Margaret (Evans) DENT were the parents of twelve children, all of whom were born in Monongalia county, West Virginia. Their names and birthdates are taken from the family Bible. The names of their spouses are taken from the DENT family lineage in Colonial Families of the United States of America, (Vol. 3 pp. 152-153 as submitted by Alfred Barbour DENT.
* DENT, Lt. John
* Monongalia Co., Va. 28 Aug. 1832 appeared JOHN DENT, a resident of said county, aged 77 and made declaration to obtain benefits of provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. He enlisted as a private soldier for three years in the said county of Monongalia in the month ofApril 1777 with Capt. David Scott of the 13th Virginia regiment of Continental troops, commanded by Col. John Gibson, Lieut. Col. Richard Campbell and Major Taylor-that in the same month, he marched to Fort Pittand from there to Kittanning to a fort on the east bank of the Allegheny River about 50 miles above Fort Pitt, where he and his company remained about two months...
* ...that in the spring of 1778, Col Gibson received intelligence thatGeneral McIntosh was marching to Fort Pitt and sometime in the spring Genl. McIntosh arrived and in about three weeks afterwards he waspresented with a Lieutenants commission without any application on hispart. That he was then attached to Capt. Jacobus Sullivan's company thatduring the summer or early part of the fall of 1778 he with the troops under Genl. McIntosh descended the Ohio River to Big Beaver Creek near towhich the troops erected a fort and named it after the commanding officer, that during the fall of 1778, Genl. McIntosh, with said department, the 8th Pa. reg. and several regiments of militia marched to Tuscarora, a tributary of the Muskingum River where Fort Laurence was built, where he remained until about the first of Feb. 1779...... /s/John DENT
* John DENT was inscribed on the roll at the rate of $320 per annum on 28Nov. 1832. On 27 Sept. 1841, his wife Margaret DENT, a resident of Monongalia Co., Va., and aged 78, made a declaration to obtain the benefits of her husband, John DENT. She was married to John DENT in June 1780 and he died on 20 September 1840.
* Capt. John DENT, aged seventy eight years in May, next, a resident ofsaid county and to me personally known, after being duly signed, doth depose and say that in the year 1778, he was a Lieutenant in the 13thContinental Regiment of Va. Troops, that during the fall of that year, he saw a regiment of Va. militia in the service under the command of Col.John Evans, who is now a resident of this county, that the said regiment marched to Beaver creek on the Ohio River and assisted to build Fort McIntosh near the mouth of said creek, and from thence marched to Tuscarawa a branch of the Muskingum, where they assisted to Build Fort Lawrence, that he does not know what time the said regiment entered the service, but believe they were discharged in December of that year.
* /s/ John DENT (before Geo. McMeely, a Justice of the peace for Monongalia County.