REBECCA KELLOGG {297} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6e.7c.8d>, dau. of Capt. Joseph {71} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6e.7c>, b. in Fort Dummer, Brattleboro, Vt., 8 Apr. 1729; m. 10 Feb. 1757, Maj. Elihu Kent,{6} b. in Suffield, 1 June 1733, son of Samuel Kent.

She d. 27 Aug. 1761; he m. (2) 9 Nov. 1763, Susanna Lyman; she d. 1 Feb. 1770; he m. (3) 2 Feb. 1774, Sybil Dwight; d. 12 Feb. 1814, aged 81; she d. 9 July 1822, aged 76.

He kept the inn about half a mile south of the village of Suffield, where the widow of Hezekiah Spence res. in 1876.

He was a minuteman in the revolution; he was plowing when the news of the battle at Lexington arrived in Suffield; left his team in the field and in an hour was on the way to Boston with a company of one hundred and fourteen men; his was the first company of revolutionary soldiers to pass through Springfield, Mass. The musket that he bore on that occasion is a highly prized heirloom, and is now in possession of Miss Emma C. King, of Xenia, Oh.

Children (born in Suffield):

Elihu Kent (Capt.) {888} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6e.7c.8d.9a>, b. 15 Dec. 1757; m. 1780 or '81, Elizabeth Fitch of Lebanon, Conn., b. 20 Sept. 1761. She was a descendant of Rev. James Fitch (one of the religious founders of the colony of Conn.), and of Maj. John Mason (one of its civil founders). He was a revolutionary soldier, enlisted in his father's company of minutemen and marched to Boston on the Lexington Alarm; served as fifer, promoted to Sergt., taken prisoner at Horse Neck and confined in the "Old Sugar House" prison in New York, where he suffered intensely. He res. in Suffield, where he was engaged in farming and kept a first-class hotel; d. in Suffield, 12 May 1813; she d. 28 Mar. 1850, aged 88; had five children.

Jonathan Kellogg Kent {889} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6e.7c.8d.9b>, b. 24 Sept. 1759; m. 31 Oct. 1787, Anna Phelps, b. 5 Oct. 1765; she d. 22 Jan. 1836; he d. 6 Aug. 1846; was a farmer and miller in Suffield; had seven children.

Martin Kent {890} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6e.7c.8d.9c>, b. 12 July 1761; m. 14 Apr. 1789, Abigail Hale; she d. 21 Apr. 1822; he d. 16 Nov. 1846; rem. in 1807 from Hanover, N. H., to Suffield and d. there.