Margaret Brent

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  • CHAN.DATE	28 NOV 2006
    CHAN.DATE.TIME	21:22:46
    EVEN.TYPE	info
    EVEN.Comment	daughter of Richard Brent, Esq., of Gloucestershire, England, came to Maryland in 1638. Gov. Leonard Calvert relied greatly upon her, and made her his attorney and at his death in 1648 his administratrix; keenly alive to her rights, she claimed the right to vote in the assembly "for herself and also as his Lordship's attorney." Some years later she went with her sister Mary to "Peace," her brother Col. Giles Brent's estate in Westmoreland county (now Stafford) Virginia. She made her will in 1663. IV--Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons link: http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/1998/brent.html