Notes for Giles BRENT, JR.

BIVIN Family Genealogy

Notes for Giles BRENT, JR.

In 1653/4, Giles, Sr. received patents totaling 1,800 acres from Thomas,
Lort Culpepper for his year-old son, GIles, Jr. ... The grant of 1,800
acres in their child's name was named Piscataway Neck and included the
land which is now [George Washington's] River Farm.

Giles, Jr. was never at eas with the locak Dogue tribe, or, it seems,
anyone else. It has been stated that his encounters with the native
tribe were a precursor to Bacon's Rebellion, and at home his treatment of
his wife was so violent that she obtained a legal separation in 1679, the
first in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Giles returned to England where
he died in September of that year. Piscataway Neck passed to a cousin,
George Brent, and through him to a brother-in-law, William Clifton, in
1739.
-- "A History of George Washington's River Farm", American Horticultural
Society [Internet Web page]