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Historical Highway MarkersMary KittamaquundE-90-a
Mary was the only child of Kittamaquund, paramount chief of the Piscataway tribes when Lord Baltimore's settlers arrived in Maryland in 1634. In 1641, seven-year-old Mary became the ward of Maryland governor Leonard Calvert and his sister-in-law Margaret Brent. Three years later Mary was married to Margaret Brent’s 38-year-old brother, Giles Brent, who likely intended to gain control of Piscataway lands through the alliance. The Brents moved to Virginia to lands near here in 1647, where Giles and Mary had at least three children. Giles Brent remarried in 1654, but there is no record of Mary’s death.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Clayton Coleman Hall, editor. Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633-1684. New York, 1910, reprinted 1946. James Henretta, "Margaret Brent: A Woman of Property", in Henretta et al, America's History, Third Edition, Worth Publishers, Inc., 1997. W. B. Chilton, compiler. "The Brent Family" in Genealogies of Virginia Families from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 1. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981. |