Ran across an articles "Grantees and Settlement of Hampton NH" by V. C. Sanborn in Essex Institute Historical Collections, 53 (1917) in which he writes (in a footnote on page 239): Kents were plentiful in Hampshire and Wiltshire. Vide will of Richard Pyle of Over Wallop in Hants., dated 26 Jan 1623-4, proved in P.C.C. 12 May 1626 (37 Ridley), mentioning "John Kent, my sister Osgood's son, Stephen and Thomas Kent, his brothers." William and Richard Kent were overseers of Pyle's will. I think Over Wallop was probably the habitat of Richard Kent, senior [Lin's note: that is, the Richard Kent of Newbury who was married to Emma]. It lies within the Wiltshire border, just across from Boscombe in Wilts. where lived a family of Kent, originating in Over Wallop. For Kent of Boscombe, vide Wiltshire Notes and Queries, vol. VV, pp. 228-35. The registers of Over Wallop should be searched,--they begin in 1550; also the wills at Winchester, which would doubtless reveal much. Cf. also notes of John Osgood, post, showing another Over Wallop connection. A Hampshire Lay Subsidy, 175/485, 7 James I (1609-10), showa at Nether Wallop Richard Kent, and at Over Wallop John Kent, John Kent "of Thongam", John Kent "farmer", Peter and Henry Osgood, John and Richard Pyle, and Philip Whiteare. <end of quote> My question, were the Over Wallop registers and wills at Winchester ever searched for Kents and were the results published? Citation, anyone? Also, of interest to someone on the essex-roots-list probably, the next article in the journal was Henry Wyckoff Belknap's "The English Ancestry of the Clements Family of Haverhill, Mass." I copied both if anyone is interested, email me. Lin -- Lin Wright ethelind@athens.net -- ethelindw@aol.com -- ethelind@arches.uga.edu