Individual Details

Colonel Giles Brent

(5 Apr 1652 - 2 Sep 1679)

Events

Birth5 Apr 1652Westmoreland Co., VA
Marriage1671Mary Brent
Event1676
Death2 Sep 1679Middlesex county, VA

Families

SpouseMary Brent (1652 - )
ChildWilliam Brent (1679 - 1709)
FatherGiles Brent (1606 - 1671)
MotherMary Kittamaquund (1632 - 1654)
SiblingRichard Brent ( - )
SiblingMargaret Brent ( - )
SiblingMary Brent (1650 - )

Notes

Marriage

m. 1671, his first cousin, Mary BRENT (q.v.) dau. of George and Marianna (PEYTON) BRENT, of Defford.

Event

Under a commission from Nathaniel Bacon Jr., created general by the assembly in 1676, he raised a body of troops to march against the Indians, but on learning that Bacon had been denounced as a rebel by Gov. Berkeley marched, instead, against his general. His troops, however, would not follow him and disbanded.