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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Author: Frank Grady Hall III
Hatch Dent was born in 1707 according to a disposition given by him in 1768. He was the son of John dent and his wife Catherine. About 1728, he married a lady named Anne Chapman. They lived on a portion of “Dent’s Inheritance” and were staunch communicants of Trinity Parish, Charles County, Maryland, where the births of each of their children were recorded.
In 1778, Hatch dent took the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity in St Mary’s County, Maryland before magistrate John Parnham.
Two of his sons distinguished themselves in the Revolutionary war. Captain Hezekiah Dent serve in McPherson’s Company and was assigned to the 12th Battalion in Charles County, Maryland. Hatch Dent, Jr was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant of the Flying Camp, Smallwoods Battalion. He was in the battle to capture New York from the British, was captured and was in prison with General Sullivan.
Hatch Dent, the father, died in 1781 and failed to list his living children in his will. His estate was settled by July 1782.
References: Newman, Harry Wright, “Charles County Gentry”, Baltimore, MD, 1971. Newman, Harry Wright, “The Maryland Dents”, Richmond, VA, 1963.
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