bQ 23 Jan 1658 at Sedbergh, son of John Dent. Piece 1246 #52/643; Piece 1285 #17/115 Reprimanded in 1682 ("John Dent of Sedbergh") for "absence from the National Worship" on p147/650 in the "Collection of Sufferings of Quakers". Also mentioned: George Mason, of Dent, Anthony Mason of Dent, James Dickinson of Sedbergh.....
Alternate birth: John Dent bp 19 Jan 1656 at Ravenstonedale (11m N Sedbergh, 15m N Dent), son of Thomas Dent of Bowderdale (2m W Ravenstonedale). FHL 97339 #39/234
First Quakers in Dent were brothers Thomas and George Mason in 1652. Meetings were regularly held at the homes of Alexander Hebblethwaite, William Mason, Thomas and Jason Greenwood, Anthony Mason, and Richard Harrison in the 1660s and 1670s. House bought at Loneing as a Meeting House in 1682, with a burial ground across the way. Another Meeting House built in 1703 at Lea Yeat (near Cowgill). After 1800, Quakers stopped meeting at Loneing, while Lea Yeat was discontinued in 1911.