11 Facts About Margaret Brent

Margaret Brent was the first woman in the English North American colonies to appear before a court of the common law.

Margaret Brent was a significant founding settler in the early histories of the colonies of Maryland and Virginia.

Margaret Brent helped ensure soldiers were paid and given food to keep their loyalty to the colony, thereby very likely having saved the colony from violent mutiny, although her actions were taken negatively by the absentee colonial proprietor in England, Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, and so ultimately she paid a great price for her efforts and was forced to leave the colony.

Margaret Brent was one of six daughters of the Lord of Admington and Lark Stoke, Richard Brent, and his wife Elizabeth Reed.

Fulke Margaret Brent returned to England, but the other three stayed on in Maryland.

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Margaret Brent obtained the first recorded land grant in St Mary's, a 70.

The Margaret Brent sisters had land entitlement letters from Maryland's Proprietary Governor, awarding them land portions equal in size to those of arrivals in Maryland in 1634.

Margaret Brent received credit or headrights for the five men and four women servants she had brought with her, and additional headrights for indentured servants she later imported.

Margaret Brent had appointed his brother as governor and to manage his lands.

In 1658 Mary Margaret Brent died, leaving her entire estate of 1000 acres to her sister.

Margaret Brent died at "Peace", in the newly created Stafford County, Virginia in 1671.