tend to funerals and at times to serve as night-watchmen. He was always on hand to do his part. He was captain of the Worcester Home Guard for two years. He died April 2, 1877, in Worcester. His widow (1883) is living at 10 Park street, Worcester, with her two children.

The children of Capt. Dana Hyde and Melinda Watson (Kent) Fitch were :

245. I, Sarah C. Fitch, b. Sept. 20, 1840, not m. (1882).

246. 2, Dana Kent Fitch, b. Sept. 2, 1846, d. Aug. 25, 1894, aged 47y. 11m. 23d. Not m. (1882).

Dana K. Fitch was a private in Capt. Robert Chamberlain's Co. F, Mass. Vols. He enlisted July 20, 1864, 100 days. He was 18 years of age when he was discharged. The above is taken from his certificate.

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JAMES DRAPER KENT, (Capt. Daniel, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, John, Richard), brother to the preceding and sixth child of Capt. Daniel by his 1st wife, Ruth (Watson) Kent, was born September 20, 1815, in Leicester, married 1st, March 24, 1841, Anna Maria Bourne of Boston, Mass., born September 11, 1815, in Boston, and was the youngest daughter of the late Abner and Abigail (Williams) Bourne. She died October 11, 1856, in Boston, Mass., of consumption, and was buried in New Bedford, October 13. He married 2d, December 15, 1857, Jennie Whiting Hollister, of Boston, born June 13, 1837, in Hartford, Conn., daughter of Whiting H. and Sarah A. (Buell) Hollister. Mr. Kent resided in Boston for quite a number of years and his occupation was that of insurance underwriter. He died in Boston, January 9, 1871, at 8 p. m., and was buried at New Bedford. His widow, Jennie Whiting (Hollister) Kent, married 2d, December 23, 1873, Charles F. Paine, born 1842, in Boston, and is a woolen merchant in New York, and son of David and Charlotte. (Hinckley) Paine. They had Gertrude Hollister Paine, born March 6, 1878, in New York.

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The child of James Draper and Anne Maria (Bourne) Kent

247. I, Maria Jane, b. Apr. 15, 1843, in Boston, m. John Roundy of Boston. She d. Dec. 25, 1866, aged 24y. 8m. 10. Their only child was John Roundy, Jr., b. Dec. 17, 1866.

"I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE.”

Mrs. Anne Maria Kent was born in Boston, September 11, 1815, and died in the same city, October 11, 1856. She was buried in New Bedford, by the side of her parents, October 13.

She was the youngest daughter of the late Abner Bourne,

Esq., of Boston. In the spring of 1841 she was married to Mr. James D. Kent, of Boston. One daughter is the fruit of this union, who survives her mother.

In early life Mrs. Kent was the favorite of the home circle, by her beauty of person, her frank and artless manner, and her affectionate disposition. She was thus somewhat peculiarly exposed to many temptations, but in the midst of them all she was led by Divine grace to feel the need of the heavenly wisdom, and with great energy of purpose, to consecrate herself in the service of the Saviour.

At the age of twenty she became a member of the Eliot Baptist church in Roxbury, then under the pastoral charge of her brother-in-law, the Rev. John. S. C. Abbott. In December, 1838, this relation was transferred to the Pine Street church in Boston, with which she retained an active, and most useful and happy connection, through life. Particularly did she identify herself with all its works and benevolence, being always ready, far beyond her strenght, to lend her most valuable aid in the Sewing Circle, and in all social efforts for the advantage of the Society, or for the relief of the poor. Her charities were

not indeed confined to those who were within her own ecclesiastical connection, but she entered with ready sympathy into the relief of suffering wherever found, and during some of her last years, and while already in the grasp of the disease to which she yielded her life, she interested herself in the plans of the Provident Association, and so long as her strength permitted she remained one of its most useful and conscientious visitors.

Her prominent traits were, perhaps, calm judgment, clear apprehension of character, firmness of purpose, devotion to her ideal of right, and true and unalterable friendship. Her piety has been that of a calm and reliant faith, mingled with much personal consciousness of ill-desert, and great humility, rather than that of fervid emotion and joyful confidence. Self-distrust and diffidence in all things were indeed, in her, peculiarly blended with self-reliance and determination in duty. The desire to make others good and happy, at whatever cost of ease and comfort to herself, was one of her most prominent characteristics in the eye of those who enjoyed her intimate acquaintance.

During her long and painful sickness, she rested with confidence upon Him in whom she had so long believed, and experienced the fullness of the promise, "As thy days, so shall thy strength be." Her chamber was a pleasant place, and while strength permitted she loved to hear the songs of Zion, and to listen to the cheerful conversation of friends, in whom, and in all that concerned them, and especially in what concerned the church, she retained to the last, a deep interest, though her hope and expectations was soon to be in the "Better Land," where she