FAMILY HISTORY: James TRENT, Sr., D. 1823

 
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Taken from "History of Bedford and Somerset Counties Pennsylvania", E. Howard 
Blackburn, Lewis Publishing Company, NY & Chicago, 1906, Vol. 2, page248:

The name of James Trent is found on the roll of one of the Bedford County 
Companies of Rangers on the Frontier.  He was probably the same James Trent 
who was the ancestor of the well known Trent family of Somerset County.

Taken from "History of Bedford, Somerset, and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania", 
Waterman, Watkins & Co., Chicago, 1884, page 462:

James Trent, (the grandfather of Samuel and Urias Trent, present residence of 
Somerset Township) was a native of England, and settled in what is now 
Somerset township just before the beginning of the revolutionary war.  His 
sons were Samuel, James, Steohen, Nathan, William, and George.  Samuel, the 
eldest sonof James was born in this township in 1792.  He followed farming; 
was also a contractor during the building of the Bedford and Somerset 
turnpike.  He died in Maryland in 1858.  Early in life he married Miss Mary 
Knupp.  he children born of this marriage were Harrison, Samuel, Daniel, 
Urias, Aaron, Moses, Nancy, Sarah, Mary and Barbara E.  During the late war 
Daniel and Moses served as volunteers in Somerset county organizations.  
Samuel and Urias are well-known farmers in the township at the present time.



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