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Mr. and Mrs. Kent give their leisure hours to ethnological and genealogical research, in which they have a common interest and pleasure. Some of her ancestral lines on the paternal side she has traced, beyond a doubt, to the "Mayflower," and evidence at hand seems to show that she is descended from nine members of the Pilgrim band that landed on Plymouth Rock in December, 1620, namely. Elder Brewster and his. wife Mary, William Mullines (or Molines) and his wife, John and Priscilla (Mullines) Alden, William White and his wife Susanna, and their son Resolved White.

More than sixty of her New England ancestors in the colonial period served as military officers, magistrates, Representatives, Deputies, and founders of towns. Among them (to note but a few) may here be mentioned Major (also Colonel and Chief Justice) Francis Fulham, the Rev. Joseph Emerson, Lieutenant John Sharpe, Lieutenant Stephen Hall, Lieu- tenant Griffin Craft, Lieutenant Moses Crafts, the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, the Rev. Edward Bulkeley, Captain Christopher Hussey, Robert Vose, Lieutenant James Trowbridge, Robert Taft, and Thomas Cregson, Assistant of the Colony, first Treasurer, and first Connnissioner for the Union with other New England Colonies. Three were in the Revolution, Captain Joseph Hall serving throughout the war. Captain Christopher Hussey, above mentioned, was appointed by the King (Charles IL), September IS, 1671), a member of the King's Council and Court of Judicature of New Hampshire, and so served until the appointment of Cranfield as Lieutenant-governor in 1682.

Her mother's ancestry also includes many distinguished families.

Mr. and Mrs. Kent reside in Worcester, where he is Register of Deeds for Worcester District. His recently published book, "Land Records; A System of Indexing," is the first book ever written x)0 this intricate subject. Mr. Kent is a member of the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, Worcester Club, Tatnuck Country Club, Economic Club, and Society of Antiquity.

ARRIET NEWELL FLINT.— Mrs. Harriet N. Flint came of the good old Puritan stock that peopletl the shores of Massachusetts in the early days of the seventeenth century. She was the sixth child and third daughter of Thomas and Phebe (Cummings) Evans, and was born in South Reading, now Wakefield, Mass., August 29, 1815. She died in Wakefield, Decemlier 31, 1896, the last survivor of her father's family of nine children.

The house of her birth was a modest and ancient-looking domicile on the northerly side of Salem Street, which was many years ago removed to give place to the residence erected by her brother, Lucius B. Evans, and nf)W owned and occupied by his son, Harvey B. Evans.

Mrs. Flint on her father's side was descended from Nathaniel Evans, who with his father, Henry Evans, came from Wales about two and a half centuries ago, and .settleil in that part of Maiden afterward annexed to the town of Reading and now known as the village of Greenwood. On her mother's side Mrs. Flint was connected with some of the leading families of Woburn. The early life of Mrs. Flint was surrounded with good influences, and she was taught to cherish high ideals and to do good to others. Receivetl into the Baptist church at the age of sixteen, she remained steadfast in her faith during her long and active life. Her education was obtained in th(! public schools of her native town. Her eager mind and studious habits enabled her to accumulate a valuable store of information, which, united with her native connnon .sense and good judgment, carried her successfully through the varied experiences and responsibilities she was in later years called upon tf) meet.

In 1840 the subject of this sketch left her home to become the wife of Charles Frederick Flint, of North Reading, whose acquaintance she had made while teaching school in that village. Mr. Flint was a worthy representative of an old and honoraljle family, being a (k'-scendant in the sixth generation of Thomas Flint, an early settler at Salem Village, and a nephew of the Rev. Timothy Flint, of Lunenburg, a pioneer in American letters. He was