Resource: Charles County gentry : a genealogical history of six emigrants, Thomas Dent, John Dent, Richard Edelen, John Hanson, George Newman, Humphrey Warren, all scions of armorial families of old England who settled in Charles County, Maryland, and their descendants showing migrations to the South and West Washington D.C.: The author, 1940, 335 pgs. by Harry Wright Newman Page 2; Charles County Gentry [ in a reference regarding Thomas DENT] "On May 26, 1673, he appeared at the Land Office in St. Mary's City and proved rights to additional land. 'Came Thomas Dent of St. Marie's County, Gent., and proved his rights to 600 acres, it being due to him for transporting Jerman Shyn, John Moderman, John Akers, John James, William Rutter, Charles Wheeler, Edward Crouch, Mary Evans, Sarah Case, Ann Ffetherston, Elizabeth Danset, and John Dent into the Province to inhabit;."