William Avent

William married Sarah Ward in 1782. Sarah was born in 1766 in Isle of Wight Co., Virginia; died in 1844 in Halifax Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Benjamin Ward Avent was born on 22 Jan 1796.
2. Elizabeth Avent was born on 13 Apr 1798.
3. Nancy Avent was born on 29 Jul 1800 in Nash Co., North Carolina.
4. William Avent was born on 4 Oct 1802 in Aventon, Nash Co., North Carolina; died on 24 Apr 1820 in Aventon, Nash Co., North Carolina.
5. Frances Avent was born on 26 Dec 1804.
6. Francis Avent was born on 4 Dec 1806; died before 1850 in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina.
7. Rebecca Avent was born on 22 Dec 1782 in Aventon, Nash Co., North Carolina.
8. James A. Avent was born on 7 Nov 1785 in Aventon, Nash Co., North Carolina; died on 6 Oct 1832 in Nash Co., North Carolina.
9. Mary Avent was born on 23 Jul 1787 in Aventon, Nash Co., North Carolina; died in Sep 1830 in Aventon, Nash Co., North Carolina.
10. Thomas Griffin Avent was born on 25 Apr 1790; died after 1860.
11. Priscilla Avent was born on 8 Jul 1793.

Notes:

The will of Peter Avent recorded in Northampton Co, NC Book I, p. 216, proved Sept. Court 1779,
shows Elizabeth Baker daughter of Peter Avent. Peter m. 1st Any Massie; Ch: William, Isham,
Joseph, Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth (Baker), Lucy (Truelove), Rebecca, Mourning (dau.),
Peter m. 2nd. Mary Tomlinson. No CH.

PETER AVENT:
Constable
Removed to North Carolina and married.
ABSTRACT: WILL, NORTHAMPTON CO., NC, 13 MAY 1779, filed: September court, 1779: son, William Avent,...son, Isham Avent...son, Joseph Avent...son, John Avent...son, Thomas Avent...daughter, Sarah Avent... daughter, Eliza Barker...daughter, Lucy Truelove...daughter, Mourning Avent...daughter, Rebecca Avent...wife's daughter, Lucretia Tomlinson...wife, Molly Avent...EX: William Avent and Lucas Tomlinson.

[Gregory Family Tree 2.FTW]

[Bakers of Harnett County.FTW]

The will of Peter Avent recorded in Northampton Co, NC Book I, p. 216, proved Sept. Court 1779,
shows Elizabeth Baker daughter of Peter Avent. Peter m. 1st Any Massie; Ch: William, Isham,
Joseph, Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth (Baker), Lucy (Truelove), Rebecca, Mourning (dau.),
Peter m. 2nd. Mary Tomlinson. No CH.

PETER AVENT:
Constable
Removed to North Carolina and married.
ABSTRACT: WILL, NORTHAMPTON CO., NC, 13 MAY 1779, filed: September court, 1779: son, William Avent,...son, Isham Avent...son, Joseph Avent...son, John Avent...son, Thomas Avent...daughter, Sarah Avent... daughter, Eliza Barker...daughter, Lucy Truelove...daughter, Mourning Avent...daughter, Rebecca Avent...wife's daughter, Lucretia Tomlinson...wife, Molly Avent...EX: William Avent and Lucas Tomlinson.

Peter married Amy Massie on 3 Jun 1742 in Brunswick Co., Virginia. Amy (daughter of Joseph Massie and Elizabeth Washington Lanier) was born between 1718 and 1720 in Brunswick Co., Virginia; died between 1776 and 1777 in Northampton Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[REGISTER OF ALBEMARLE PARISH, SURRY AND SUSSEX COUNTIES]
1739-1779, Gertrude R. B. Richards, 1958, p. 164, 214.

Death recorded in the Albemarle Parish register 1739-78, p. 164, that he died in Sussex Co., 31 October 1757, age 86. His son, William Avent being the informant.

[Barbara Baker Mead]

Per "Andrew Baker and his Descendants" by Frieda Sims Nelson:
Thomas Avent was born in Rouen, Normandy France in 1671 and died Oct 31, 1751 in Sussex, VA. He came to America in 1698 with the Huguenot Migration. Went first to England. Married Margaret Elizabeth Gooch, daughter. of Claiborne Gooch, son of Wm. Gooch and Ursula Claiborne, who was the granddaughter of Wm. Claiborne, Colonial Sec. of VA and governor of Maryland. Thomas Avent was a Colonel in the Colonial Wars, a large land owner, Justice of the Peace of Surry Co., VA from 1728 to 1741. Thomas is listed in Agnew French Protestant Exiles Vol. II, p. 175; Schooners Hess members of Original Regiment. The Avent Bible is on file with the National Huguenot Society of USA; R. A. Bruce, History of VA, Vol. 5,p. 438; Huguenot Society of London; Denizations and Naturalization of Aliens in England 1509-1603;Societe De L'Histoire du Protestantisme Francais Index A-G. The VA historical Mag. gives a history of the Avents. Also books: "McDowells and Connections" by John McDowell, 1918 and "Avents and their Kin" by Mamie Lee Avent Parker and Claude Hunter Moore 1961.
Hope this helps,
Barbara Baker Mead, gggggggggranddaughter of Thomas Avent, through his Grand daughter. Elizabeth

["The Avent/Avant Family"]
by Mrs. LaVerne Avant Carter 2207 Lionel Lane, Albany, Georgia 31702 dated Sept 20, 1970.

... Col. Thomas Avent.... was married to Margaret Elizabeth Gooch, the daughter of William Gooch and Ursula Claiborne Gooch. Col. Thomas Avent was the first Avent known to come to America... he was serving as a Colonel in the English Army... sent here with a regiment of English soldiers under his command to protect the white colonies against invasions by the Indians...His will listed the following children. William Avent, Peter Avent, Thomas Avent son of John Avent deceased, Mary Avent Vincent, Sarah Avent Fox, and someone named Athaliah Casiah Norris. He died in 1756. The will is recorded in Will Records of Sussex County, Virginia.

Glenn Longest Bray, Descendant of Harriet Primrose Avent.

[Mary H. Williams]

Colonel of the Militia in Sussex Co. Virginia records (Court Orders 1:212, 14 July 1755).
had patents for over 5000 acres of land in VA
Owned land in NC
Will of Thomas Avent, September 1756, Sussex County, VA, probated, 1757, Will Book A., p. 80. Devises land to his son, William Avent in Sussex Co., VA and in Northampton County, NC and also appoints him an executor. It appears that William Avent did not long outlive his father.
REGISTER OF ALBEMARLE PARISH, SURRY AND SUSSEX COUNTIES, 1739-1779, Gertrude R.B. Richards, 1958, p. 214.
SOME COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY FAMILIES OF NORTH CAROLINA, VOL. 1, Marilu Burch Smallwood, Washington, NC, 1964, pp. 7-9, 15, 21.
Thomas Avent was Justice, Surry County, Virginia 1741, and a Captain of the Militia: REGISTER OF ANCESTORS, THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, Richmond, 1979, p. 3.
VA. Records, 3 May, 1739...Thomas Avent refers to his importation "from Great Britain 38 years ago" (ie in 1701) and in which he states further that he has never before received the benefit of the Act of Assembly which allows 50 acres of land for every person imported from Great Britain. This record causes us to reflect that Thomas Avent must have imported himself from Great Britain and paid his own passage, as otherwise he would not have been entitled to 50 acres of land. Since John Nicholls listed him as one of his headrights in the 1714 patent, Thomas Avent must have made another trip back to England after 1701 and before 1714, and it seems very possible that he may have been an agent of factor for John Nichols since he was living on his plantation.
Death recorded in the Albemarle Parish register 1739-78, p. 164, that he died in Sussex Co., 31 October 1757, age 86. His son, William Avent being the informant.[Gregory Family Tree 2.FTW]

[Bakers of Harnett County.FTW]

[REGISTER OF ALBEMARLE PARISH, SURRY AND SUSSEX COUNTIES]
1739-1779, Gertrude R. B. Richards, 1958, p. 164, 214.

Death recorded in the Albemarle Parish register 1739-78, p. 164, that he died in Sussex Co., 31 October 1757, age 86. His son, William Avent being the informant.

[Barbara Baker Mead]

Per "Andrew Baker and his Descendants" by Frieda Sims Nelson:
Thomas Avent was born in Rouen, Normandy France in 1671 and died Oct 31, 1751 in Sussex, VA. He came to America in 1698 with the Huguenot Migration. Went first to England. Married Margaret Elizabeth Gooch, daughter. of Claiborne Gooch, son of Wm. Gooch and Ursula Claiborne, who was the granddaughter of Wm. Claiborne, Colonial Sec. of VA and governor of Maryland. Thomas Avent was a Colonel in the Colonial Wars, a large land owner, Justice of the Peace of Surry Co., VA from 1728 to 1741. Thomas is listed in Agnew French Protestant Exiles Vol. II, p. 175; Schooners Hess members of Original Regiment. The Avent Bible is on file with the National Huguenot Society of USA; R. A. Bruce, History of VA, Vol. 5,p. 438; Huguenot Society of London; Denizations and Naturalization of Aliens in England 1509-1603;Societe De L'Histoire du Protestantisme Francais Index A-G. The VA historical Mag. gives a history of the Avents. Also books: "McDowells and Connections" by John McDowell, 1918 and "Avents and their Kin" by Mamie Lee Avent Parker and Claude Hunter Moore 1961.
Hope this helps,
Barbara Baker Mead, gggggggggranddaughter of Thomas Avent, through his Grand daughter. Elizabeth

["The Avent/Avant Family"]
by Mrs. LaVerne Avant Carter 2207 Lionel Lane, Albany, Georgia 31702 dated Sept 20, 1970.

... Col. Thomas Avent.... was married to Margaret Elizabeth Gooch, the daughter of William Gooch and Ursula Claiborne Gooch. Col. Thomas Avent was the first Avent known to come to America... he was serving as a Colonel in the English Army... sent here with a regiment of English soldiers under his command to protect the white colonies against invasions by the Indians...His will listed the following children. William Avent, Peter Avent, Thomas Avent son of John Avent deceased, Mary Avent Vincent, Sarah Avent Fox, and someone named Athaliah Casiah Norris. He died in 1756. The will is recorded in Will Records of Sussex County, Virginia.

Glenn Longest Bray, Descendant of Harriet Primrose Avent.

[Mary H. Williams]

Colonel of the Militia in Sussex Co. Virginia records (Court Orders 1:212, 14 July 1755).
had patents for over 5000 acres of land in VA
Owned land in NC
Will of Thomas Avent, September 1756, Sussex County, VA, probated, 1757, Will Book A., p. 80. Devises land to his son, William Avent in Sussex Co., VA and in Northampton County, NC and also appoints him an executor. It appears that William Avent did not long outlive his father.
REGISTER OF ALBEMARLE PARISH, SURRY AND SUSSEX COUNTIES, 1739-1779, Gertrude R.B. Richards, 1958, p. 214.
SOME COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY FAMILIES OF NORTH CAROLINA, VOL. 1, Marilu Burch Smallwood, Washington, NC, 1964, pp. 7-9, 15, 21.
Thomas Avent was Justice, Surry County, Virginia 1741, and a Captain of the Militia: REGISTER OF ANCESTORS, THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, Richmond, 1979, p. 3.
VA. Records, 3 May, 1739...Thomas Avent refers to his importation "from Great Britain 38 years ago" (ie in 1701) and in which he states further that he has never before received the benefit of the Act of Assembly which allows 50 acres of land for every person imported from Great Britain. This record causes us to reflect that Thomas Avent must have imported himself from Great Britain and paid his own passage, as otherwise he would not have been entitled to 50 acres of land. Since John Nicholls listed him as one of his headrights in the 1714 patent, Thomas Avent must have made another trip back to England after 1701 and before 1714, and it seems very possible that he may have been an agent of factor for John Nichols since he was living on his plantation.
Death recorded in the Albemarle Parish register 1739-78, p. 164, that he died in Sussex Co., 31 October 1757, age 86. His son, William Avent being the informant.

Thomas married Margaret Elizabeth Gooch between 1700 and 1702 in Northampton Co., Virginia. Margaret (daughter of William Gooch and Ursula Claiborne) was born in 1685 in Scotts' Comfort, Charles Co., Maryland; died between Jul and 18 Aug 1756 in Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Elizabeth Washington Lanier about 1709. Elizabeth was born about 1690; died in 1761 in Brunswick Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Anne Unknown about 1665. Anne was born about 1640; died about 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Ursula Claiborne in 1683 in Scotts' Comfort, Charles Co., Maryland. Ursula (daughter of William Claiborne and Elizabeth Unknown) was born in 1650 in New Kent, Virginia; died about 1705 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Frances Unknown about 1688. Frances was born about 1667; died about 1730. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]