The Gentry Family in America: 1676 to 1909, Including Notes on the Following Families Related to the Gentrys: Claiborne, Harris, Hawkins, Robinson, Smith, Wyatt, Sharp, Fulkerson, Butler, Bush, Blythe, Pabody, Noble, Haggard, and Tindall

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"It is a tradition in the family that Nicholas Gentry and his brother Samuel Gentry were British soldiers, who came to America at the time of the Bacon Rebellion." Such soldiers were discharged in 1683, and Nicholas and Samuel Gentry became land-owners in New Kent (later Hanover) Co., Virginia in 1684.
 

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