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Inventory, £515, 15s., viz : 2 oxen. 16 cows. 10 hicifers, 2 steers, G yearlings, bull, 1×0 sheep, 13 hogs, 2 silver tankards, 2 porringers, 2 cups. 9 spoons 526. suver buckle and waist girdle, 2 gua4, 2 pur of pistols, 9 silver hilted swords, separe oak table, oval oak table, 7 leather chairs. 6 chairs wooden bottoms, 3 chairs flag bottoms, 6 Turkey work chairs, 6 chairs covered with serge, tracy work ! carpet, clock, andlirous, bellows, 91 books, history, ke. SI, brass, pewter, wearing apparel 230. silver hauled cane, negro man £45, woman $15, country bills, E20, &c. Among the rooms named were : kitchen, garret, hall, roon a ijoining below stairs, h df chamber, kitchen chamber, lon; room, &c.
1740. Mar. 12. His widow And made a deposition regarding Peleg Sanford's two marriages, de. she calling herself aged abont seventy-eight years.
He and his wife were buried on the homestead farin.
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j b. 1614. Dec. 2.
VII. ( ESTHER.
5 b. 1649,'Nov. 23.
Rehoboth, Mass , New London, CL
6 b. 1653, Nov. 17.
Bwanzey, Mast.
m. 10-2, May 30. id. 1212, Apr. 6.
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1. Sarah,
1662
1. Mary. 1672. Nov. 2. Heury. 1674, Feb. 9. s Henry, 1675.
4. Dorothy,
S. ( MART, b. 1678. Jun. 16.
1 d.
II. ( MARTHA,
5 b. 1680.
III. ( THOMAS, § b. 1681.
IV. ( SARAH, § b. 1683.
¿ a.
No Issue.
I. ( ARSE, m. 1707, JOSEPR CARPENTER,
1 b. 1655. Oct. 16.
of Joseph & Ann (Simpkins)
Carpenter.
1. Willett, 1714, Jun. a. 3. Ann, 1716, Sep. 24. 3. Puebe, 1713, Ang. Cy.
4. Joseph. 1,20, J .... 15.
5. Andrew. 1722, Dec. 1. 6. Thomas, 1726. Apr. 15. 7. Frar.cis, 1729. Nov. S. 8. James, 1731, Mar. 3. 9. Willett 1736, Jan. 5.
No issue,
III. ( FRANCIS, m HART TATLOR.
( b. 1693. Jun. 25. t d. 1776, Oct. 6.
( b. 1678.
¿ d. 1:09, Apr. 17.
of
Taylor
1713-16-17-18-19-20-21-23. Kings Town. Town Clerk.
1722-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31-32-33-34-35-36. North Kingstown. Towa Clerk.
1723-24-96-30-32-34-36-37-59. Deputy.
1724-26. Clerk of Assembly.
1720-27-29-20-59-60-61. Assistant.
1736, Feb. He was voted £20, by the Assembly, toward building a bridge across Queens River, to be paid him on completion.
1736-37-39. Speaker of House of Deputies.
1740, Dec. 2. He was appointed on a committee to represent and manage the affairs of the colony, before the commissioners who were to hear and determine the boundaries between Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
1747. Hle was a member of Redwoo i Library, which was incorporated in this year.
1776. Feb. 12. Will-proved 1776. Ex. kinsman Francis Carpenter. He gave his homestead farm to Francis Carpenter, making him his residuary legatec.
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He and his wife were buried in the family burial place on his own farm.
IV. ( THOMAS,
§ b. 1690, May 18.
7 d. 1725, Sep. 24.
Worth Kingstown, R. L.
UNMARRIED.
1724, Jan. 28. Will-proved 1725, Oct. 15. Ex. brother Francis Willett. To brother Francis, farm on Boston Nerk, and all my lands, messunges and tenements, but if he have no issue then to my two cousins (i. e. nephews), viz : Willett Carpenter, son of my sister Mary Carpenter and William Peasc, son of my sister Martha Pease, equally divided. To mother, £20, for life, paid by my brother from profits of estue. To sisters Mary Carpenter and Hartlis Pease, £10, eich. To brother Francis, rest of personal estate, money, goxls and chattels, movabics or immovables. ,
V. MARTHA, m.
1 b. 1698, Mar. 6.
SCHON PRASH,
5b
of William
Pease.
1. William 3. Francis, 8. Ann. L. Judith, 5. Hirths, 6. Bimna, 7. Mary.
41.
.No issue.
§ b. 1690, Sep. 21.
IL { MARY,
m. 1710. 1 b. 1685, Oct. 16.
JOSEPH CARPENTER,
¿d. 1776, May 3. of Joseph & Ann (Simpkins)
Carpenter.
( b. 1689, Sep. 20. ( d. 1700, Feb. 9.
? d. 1776, May 3.
North Kingstown, R. L.
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1 b. 1458. Oct. 37.
Que ces County, N. Y.
m.
1 b.
of
He held the office of Sheriff of Queens County, Long Island, it is sa id, but there is little found on the n cords as to how, and the possibility is admitted that the children usually scented to have mess bare been descendants instead of Themis Widest, of Flushing, who married HEY, Sep. 1. Sarah Corne # Certainly Thomas Willett, of Flushing, had a grandson named Elbert, who married in 1:01, Joanna Varick and had a son Falward.
WILLIAMS.
ROGER, .וב MART.
Sb. 1599 ± 1 d. 1083
Plymouth, Solem. Mass
[Providence, R I.
d. 1670 +
1621, Jon. 35. London. He was elected scholar in Sutton's Hospital, and three years after took an exhibition there. Years later Mrs. Sadleir (daughter of Sir Edward Coke) appended the following note to one of Roger Williuns' letters to herself. " This Roger Williams, when he was a youth, would 10 a short band take sermons and speeches in the Star Chamber, and presented them to my dear father. He. seeing so honeful a youth, took such liking to bini that be sent him into Sulton's Hospital," &c.
16'5. Jul. 7. He entere:l Pembroke College, Cambridge.
1627, Jan. He took the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
1630, Dec. 1. He embarked at Bristol in ship Lion.
1631, Feb. 5. ITe arrived in Boston. Winthrop in noting the event calls him "a godly minister."
1631, Apr. 12. Salem. He was settled as minister.
1031. Plymonth. He went there in the summer, and became assistant to the pastor Mr. Ralph Smith.
1633. Salem. He returned in the autumn to this place, and became assistant to Rev. Mr. Skelton, and on the death of the latter (the next year) became pastor.
1635, Apr. He was summoned before the court at Boston, his offence being that be bad taaght publicly that a magistrate ought not to ten ier an oath to an unregenerate man, &c., and " he was heard before all the ministers and very clearly confuted." as Gov. Winthrop relates.
1635, Oct. 9. The General Court sentenced bim to banishment. " Wherens Mr. Roger Williams, one of the Ellers of the church of S dem, bath broscheri and divulged new and dangerous opinions against the authority of magis. trates, as also written letters of defamation, both of the magistrates ani churches here, and that before any conviction, and yet muintameth the same without any retraction ; it is, therefore, ordered that the sani Me Williams shall depart out of this jurisdiction within six weeks now next engning." &". He received permission to remain till spring, but the Court hearing that he would not refrain from uttering his opinions and that many people went to his house, "taken with an apprehension of his Godliness," and that he was pre- paring to form a plantatiou about Narragansett Bay : resolved to send bim &, England.
1636, Jan. A messenger was sent to Salem to apprehend bim, but when the officers " came to his house, they found he had gone three days before. but whither they could not learn." He wrote. thirty-five years after his banishment, " I was sorely tossed for one fourteen weeks in a bitter winter season, not knowing what bed of bread did mean." He obtained from Massasoit a grant of Land on the erst bank of the Seekonk River, and com- menced to plant, when he was advised by Governor Winslow that he wast within the limits of Plymouth colony. He accordingly embarked in the spring or early summer, with five companions, landed at State Rock (as unce called) to exchange grectr ys with the Indians, and then pursued his way again by boat to the site of his new settlement on the Moshassack River, which for the many " Providences of the Most Holy and Only Wie, I called Providence." Thuis same year his moliation, at the request of Massachusetts, prevented u coalition of the Pequots with the Nartag insetts and Mohegans. He wrote of this service in Later years : " Three days and nights my business forced une to lodge and mix with the bloody Pequot ambassadors, whose hands and arms methought recked with the blood of my countrymen tuurdered and massacred by them on Connecueast river."
1638, Mar. 24. Ile took a derd Irom Canonirus and Miantonomi of the lands already purchased and settled upon, being " the lands and meadows upon the two fresh rovers called Moushansick and Wanaskatuckett," Se. the ways of this purchase. " I spire i no cost towards them in tokens ami presents to Canonicus and all his, m my years before I e que in person to the Narra- gansett ; and when i cone I was welemme to the of t prince Canonirus, who was most shy of all faghis to its last tre ath." " Here, all over the colony. a great number of weak and distressed would, etttere I amd flving hither tro # Of England and New England, the Most High and Only Wise bath, at his infinite wisdom, provided this country and Lare corner as a sacfier for the juror and persecuted according (, their wveral per - tstons " (T'nes word+ were written years after ba co.mog, waeg the settlement w is an assured Que.)
16 N, 0.9. 4. He derdet to his loving friends and neighbors an equal privilege with Linisch in his recent purchase, the consideration named being E.P.
16.9. Ile was taptized by Ezekict Holliman, and then baptized bim
and otl. er L. For a few years to mited as pastor of First Baptist church.
I. ( MARY,
[ b. 16 3, Aug. 1 d. 1681.
{m. 1070 ± (JOEX SAYLES,
[ b. 1033.
J. 1691. of
Bayles.
IL. ( FREEBORN,
5 b. 1035, Oct. 1 d. 1710. Jun. 10.
m. (1)
THOMAS HART,
b. 1 d. 1671. J b. 1640.
of Edward & Margaret ( )
Hart.
m. (J) 1083. Mar. 6.
WALTER CLAREE.
d. 1714, May 23.
of Jeremiah & Frances (Latham) Clarke.
ITI. ( PROVIDENCE,
[ b. 1638, Sep.
d. 1680, Mar.
Newport, R. L
UNMARRIED.
1676, Ang. Under this date the town records of Providence state " By God's Providence it season. ably came to pass that Providence Williams brought up his mother from Newpurt in bis sloop, and cleared the town by his veset of all the Indians, to the great peace and contentment of all the in- habitants."
1080. Taxed 163.
1696. MAV 14. Inventory, taken by Parton Tillinghast and Daniel Williams, £22, 12 ... 34., viz : $ pairs of stillyards, 2 pairs of brass scales and a best of weights, small gia. pistol, 25 gallons rum 178. G.d. s will money, silver spoon and cap 5), Ite, 20 papers, broken parcel of six. heals of thise. Jews-harps, buttons. about 4000 pins, 5 Berminda baskets, knives, scissors, knitting needles, stik crape. bible, lex mercatory, sua dist, half hour glass, razor, old pewter and lia vessels, &c
1697, Sep. 1. Taxel 21., Od " Estate of deceased Providence Willians." (Tavel at Providence.)
JIV. [ MERCY, 5 6. 1640. Jul.
| 10. (1) 1659 ±
{ RESOLVED WATERMAN, [ b. 1639.
1 d. 1670.
of Richard & Bethiah (
Waterman.
(SAMUEL WINSOR,
1 d. 1705, Sep. 19. of Joshus
Winsor.
V. DANIEL,
m. 16.G. Dec. 7. [Nich.
fb. 1643, Feb. 1 d. 1712, May 14
Providence, R. L
REBECCA POWER (w. of ) d. 1727.
of Zachariah & Jon ( Arnold) Rhode.
1061, Feb. 24. He and his brother Joseph were eich grante I a full purchase right on the same term . as the original porelrisers, on acco i it " of soon : courtesies " received from their father by the pru- prietors of Providence. None others were to be so accommodated."
1665, Feb. 10. He bad lot il in a division of lands.
JGHd, Jun. 1. He took outh of allegiance to Charles II.
1425-79-4-1709. Juryman.
IGTG. Dec 2. flis marriage was recorded by his father (then Town Clerk) as "the first marriage since Go mercifully restored the town of Providence."
1670, Jul. 1. Taxed 12s., Get. In the same year he was on a committee to levy a rate
1650, Jun. .. Surveyor of Highway4.
1685. Mir. 6. He bought of Valentine Whitman a house and lot.
1657, Sep. I. Taxed 134., Gd. " Daniel Williams, with estate of deceased Nicholas Power." 1607-09. Hay Warden.
1700. Dec. 24. He having had a controversy with William Hawkins concerning a Falling Mill, which I they had built in partnership on Hawking' landt, the matter was left to arbitfat a>. It wa- awardel that he should pay William Howkin' Es, and sid midl ant appartenances should remain in bands of Daniel Willi wus for thirty vean and then to revert to Willien Hawkin- or heirs. If m .; was not kept suitable for service or was idle two years, it reverted to Hawkins.
1710, Ang. 21 He wrote a letter to town of Providence, saying at his father that he " gave away his ! lands and other colate to them that he thought were most in want, until he gave year ! " " . not desire to say what I fasse done for both father and mother. I judged they wanted for nothing that was convenient for ancient people," &c. In a postcript he ad, - : " If rutrans- man but the. opportunity as he had, ment of this town would have been his tenants I believe."
1712. May 9. He decided con Providence for his settlement, hand at Descolonnes, the words being! taken from his own mouth at his request and put in writing by Mr. Richard Watermann, and his Bene's being taken from his soon after, he fest not opportunity to finish it, as was testified by Richar. i Waterman. On the same date be angle droits to his son Roger of Szeres and dwelling houses, an other Land, provided he disturb not his mother Relever of her reasonable privilege. de. Sauthe deri was made to som Joseph ot Inumt on Woon isquatucket River, &e, and ales dsc.ling house alat Starres, always provided les dotle his part lowapt robed of his brother Daniel as need requirethe. To daughter Pastiener, he derded & aries, negro geri Ant, I cowe, ami gimm . she hath in this- and trunk. There deeds were confirund the next month by tus son Peleg, who theu ratified ww Lis brutbery are slau:r.
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Queens County, N. Y. | 1. Falward, 1724.
9. Marinus,
1740, Jul 31.
Clowes.
4. Son
5. 9m. 6 S.m.
7. Dangkter,
8 Daughter,
9. Daughter,
10. Daughter,
11. Daughter.
.
Albany, N. Y.
II. { ELBERT,
$ b. 1.03.
1 d. 1703.
1 h.
III. ( ISAAC,
i d. 1758.
m.
Ho was lost at sen.
WILLIAMS.
1. Mary,
1652. Jul. 11.
3. Jolın,
1654, Aug. 17.
3. Isabel. 4. Phebe, 5. Eleanor. 1671. 6. Catharine, IGil. .
1. Jobın.
3. Mary, 1603 3. James, 1666. 4. Thomas.
(No issue by 2d husband.)
1. Richard, 1660. Jan. a. Mercy, 1663 ± 3. Jobb, 1660. 4. Resolved, 1657 ± 5. Wait, 1068 ± (3d husband) 6. Samuel, 1677. Nov. 18.
7. Heunab, 8. Joshua, 1692, May 25.
I. ( MARY.
m.
5 b.
1 d. 1740 +
( b. 1675. Jan. 18.
EPENETUS OLNEY. . 1 d. 1740, Sep. 18. of Epenetas & Mary ( Whipple)
Olney
1 James. 2. Charles, 3. Joseph, 4. Anthony, 5. Mary. 6. Amey, 7. Anne, 8. Martha, 9. Freeborn.
Providence, Johnston, R. L.
II. ( PELEO,
m.
1 d. 1766, Feb.
b.
ELIZABETH CARPENTER, 3 d. of Timothy & Hannab (Burton)
Carpenter
1740, Apr. 14.
He deeded son Peleg for love, de., two parcels of lan.1, 118 acres.
1740, Dec. 11.
He deeded son Silna for love, &c., 150 acres, part in Glocester and part In Scituate.
1541. Jun. 13. He deeded son Robert for love, &c., haif of 496 acres, &c.
1744. Jul. 4. He derded son Timothy for love. &c .. 102 acres in Scituate.
1251, Oct. 31. Hle deeded son Daniel for love, &c., half of 520 acres, and other half to son Robert
1779. Jun. 12. Inventory, 5084. viz : an ov, 3 cows, a heifer, a two year, 3 pigs, 12 sheep. Administration to son Robert. (Reference is made to an agreement made in 1731, Apr. 8. in writing.)
j b. 11240, May. m. 1220, May 1. I ELIZABETH WALLING, id.
Providence, Scituate, R. L.
III. ( ROGER.
1 d. 1703. Jan. 50.
of Jamey
Walling.
1728, May 30.
Hle soil tor E13 to Nathan Wade, 50 acres in original night of honored father Dauiel Williams.
1754. Nov. 4.
Scituate. Hr soldi for £60 to Christopher Arnokt of Warwick, a forty foot lot west side of Town St., in Providence.
1742. Sep. 50. He sold for Es to Jabez Bowen, part of house lot that was my honored grandfather Roger Williams'.
1. 12. Jul. 2. He and while Enzabeth wold for $500 to Nehemiah Sprague, lot on east side Town St., in Providence.
1752. Mar. 11. He sold for free to son-in-law Jonathan Tourtelot of Glovester, and Elizabeth his wife, a forty foot lot.
1752, Apr. 14. He deesed for base, Se, to son-in-law Dari Thayer of i. D.a. and Belcera his wife, 2 acres in Providence 1700. Jan. 12. Hle, being deprived of his rason in the Intbir part of F .. . e, was place-t umler guardian, an I bwving but two children, viz : Elizabeth, wife of Jonathan Tourteilen aud Rebecca wife of Daval Thayer, they divided the cala'e by quit claun dee is at the above date.
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ARLETTA CLOWKS,
[h.
of
Itis sou Marinus was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War, and became Mayor of New York
I. ( EDWARD,
4h. 1701. .4. 196
13 Daughter,
13. Daughter,
1. 8on, 3. Son. 3. Mary, 4. Anoe
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1. Elizabeth, 3. Rebecca, 1735, Apr. 20.
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. Hle w14 appointed Agent to England to secure a charter, pro- orrdling by way of New York.
I68. Jun. Ho embarked, and on the voyage wrote ble " Key to the Indian Languages." In his dedicatons he says, " A little key may open a busy where the a bunch of keys."
1614, Sep. 17. He landlord at Boston on his return, having secured the charter as well as a safe conduct through Massachusetts, He was met by his neighbors on his way to I'nividence, they coming in fourteen canoes on the Seekonk.
1617-18-61-65-70-71-72. Assistant.
1649, May 25. He was granted lewe to sell a little wine or strong water to natives in their sie kurs4.
He was also given leave to suffer a native his hired household ervant, to kill fowl for bim on Ius hill at Narraganutt about his house.
1650. Sep. 2. Taxed C1, 14., tel.
1631, Nov.
He went again to England, with John Clarkc.
1659. He published in Lamdon, " Experiments of Spiritual Life, and Health and their Preservation," which he dedurtted: "To the truly honor- alle the Lady Vane." Hesis of this work that he wrote it " in the thickest of the naked Indians of America, in their very wald houses and by their barbaros tires."
He wrote to his wife while abrand. " My dearest love and companion in this vale of tears," congratulating himself and her upon her recovery from recent illness: " I send thee, though in winter, a bandtai of flowers made up in a little posy, for thy dear sel and our dear chibiren to look and smell ou, when I, as grass of the field, sand! be gone and witbered."
1633, Apr. 1. He wrote a letter to his friends and neighbors iu Providence and Warwick, trom Sir Henry Vane's at Bellean in Lincom-hire, relative to the confirmation of the chatter secured by Vane's mediation, charging them to dwell in peace, &c., and in a postscript adds : " My love to all my Indian friends."
1654. He returned from England carly in the summer.
1654. Jul. 12. In a letter to Juba Winthrop written from Providence, he says: "Sir, I have desires of keeping home. I have long hall sereples of selling the natives aught but what may bring or tend to civilizing. It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and with some persons, to prac- tice the Hebrew, the Greck, Latin, French and Dutch. The Secretary of the Council, Mr. Milton for my Dutch I read hin, read me many more languages. Grammar rules begin to be estecmed a tyranny," &c.
1654-35-56-57. President of the colony.
1675. Freeman.
1608-59-61. Commissioner.
1667. Deputy.
16:0-78-79-80. Town Council.
1675-76. Town Clerk.
1676, Aug. 14. As he was one of those " who staid and went not away " in King Philip's war, he had a share in the disposition of the Indian captives whose services were sold for a terin of years.
1670, Jul. 3. He cal's himself " near to four score years."
1692, May 6. He wrote Gov. Brwistreet, calling himself " old and weak and bruised (with rupture ind colie; and luneness on both my feet. " He pro- ceeds: " By my fireside I have recollectel the discour-es, which (by miny urious journeys I have ball with the seittere.l English at Narragansett before the war and since. I have re loced them unto these twenty-two bea.is ! tenclosed, which is near thirty sheets of my writing. I would send them to | the Narragansetts and others; there is no controversy in ther, only in eu- deavour of a particular match of eich poor sinner to his maker." He asks advice as to printing it, and alludes to news of shaft-bury and Howard's beheading and contriry news of their reprieve, &c. "But these are but miblunaries, temporaries and trivials. Eternity, O Eternity, is our business." 1633, Jan. 16. He signed a deed.
1643. Apr. 25. He died previous to this date, as shown by deed of William Carpenter, wherein he calls himself last survivor of the thirteen proprietors of Pawtuxet lands ( Roger Williams having been one of them).
1587, Sep. I. Taxed 1a, Gd., estate of Roger Williams, deceased.
Ile was buried on his own land (north east of the junction of Benefit and Lowen streets).
1713 Jun. 23Administration to widow Relweeks Inventory 9918, 10., via : wearing apparel, money and bills 041, for, pewter, table, chure, looks, warming pan, still, rye, Indian com, wbaceu, porh. Invf. 2 negro elaltren 510, sheep, young eatthe, 4 oxen, 10 cows, a horse, &c.
1725, Jan. 12. Will-proved 172%, Jan. 1. Widow Rebecca. Ex. son Peles. To son Providence. command of negroes Jack and Hope, but to be employed partly toward reflet of way son Dareel, and it Providence die belage Danud, then son Policy to have command of negroes for same use. M de ceases of sans Providence and Daniel. negened to be freed if they prove good and profitable servants To daughter Patienter Ashton, negro Jenny, but not to be a servant for life except the commit some fault that may give just cause, or sono other like reason, " so I kave it with my daughter Patirace to deal Christinu hke by her." To sons Roger and Daniel, rest of estate equally.
VI. ( JOSEPH, ( b. 1643, Dec. 12.
Providence, R. L
m. 1669, Dec. 17. 1 d. 1724, Aug. 17.
( b. 1645.
( LIDIA OLNET, 1 d. 1724, Sep. 9. of Thomas & Mary (Small) Olney.
1665, Feb. 10. He had lot 43 in a division of lands.
1676. He served in King Philip's war, as his gravestone testifies.
1679, Jul. 1. Taxed Gs., 3d.
1683-84-93-96-07-98-1713. Deputy.
1081-85-86-87-89-01-93-04-1713-14-15. Town Council.
1687, Sep. 1. Taxed 74., 10d.
1687. Rat ible estate, 2 oxen, a horse, a steer, 6 cows, 4 three years, 4 two years, 3 yearlings, n colt, 10 acres pasture, 316 shares meadow.
1698-90-1700-1-2-3-4-5-6-7. Assistant.
1699, Oct. 25. Ile was appointed on committee, by Assembly, to inspect into the transcription of all laws of the colony, in performance of His Excellency the Earl of Bellomont's request
1717, Oct. 26. Will-provedl 1724, Oct. 12. Exx. wife Lydia. To son Thomas, 3:0 acres at Rocky Hill where he dwelleth, and other land. To son Joseph. 130 acres at Mashapauge adjoining house where he dwelleth, ako. To son James. 200 acres at Rocky Ilil, and 130 acres at Mashapauze, add- joining my house, wih dwelling house, orchant, &c., but wife Lydia to have use of outward room. wherein [ now dwell, for life. To wife, bed and beitiling. To son James, all the rest of morable estate and cattle, he providing for his mother all things she needs and that are necessary for an ancient woman.
Inventory, £35, 4s., 2d . viz: wearing apparet, cane, pewter, books, warming pan, churu, 3 bedstends, 6 coms, a calf, a case of bottles. His son James took administration on his father's estate.
1734, Sep. 3. Will-proved 1724, Oct. 12. Widow Lydia. Ex. son James. To him, all estate. Inventory, £16, 10s., 6d.
He and his wife, and many descendants, were buried on his homestead farm ; the graveyard being now within the limits of Roger Williams Park, Providence.
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Providence, Ii. I.|
IV. ¡ DAMEI
(d. 1788 +
1 b.
V. PATIENCE,
1 d. 1764 (-)
171G. Mar.
( WILLIAM ASHTON.
In
+ b. 16 0.
+ d. 1765. Apr. 19.
of James
VI. PROVIDENCE,
/ d. 176) +
1 b. 1000.
1. Joshtan. 2. William, 3. Thomas, 4. Il Ixcera.
Ashton. Providence, Smithtiek, IL. I. 1. Elizabeth.
1 b.
ELIZABETH,
Id: 1760 +
of
1225. Dec. 24 Ile sold Jolin Smith (son of Benjamin, for $6, is., 64., lot of 15 acres in original right of honored uncle Pr evidence Williams.
1:40. May 9.
Smithtield. Hle and wife Elizabeth sold for $150 to Daniel Mowry, GO acres southwest corner of homestead farm.
1:49. Mar. 10.
He sold Richard Steere for 522 one-quarter right in the original right of uncle Providence Williams.
1:30. May 14 Glacester. He soll land to Thomas Arnold.
1264, Ort. Smithfell. Dr. Stiles relates that he siw Providence Williams at Squire Aldrich's. He says, " Providence Williams, now superannuated. has one child, a poor daughter. He himself was once rich in find, until a'bout seven years ago be sad all and is suisded by the town." He mentions that his age was seventy-three years.
1269.
Elizabeth. wir to Providence Williams, executed a release of certain land that had been sold by Providence Williams in 1741.
VII. JOSEPH,
: d. 1739. Mar. 4.
m. 1716. Feb. 19.
SARAU WHITMAN.
, b. 1696. Jan. 26.
7 4. 1:19, Oct. 27.
of Valentive & Sarah (Bartlett)
Whitman.
He " was killed by the Spaniar.is near the bay of Camperchy," as is stated on Town records of Scituate.
17.18. Sep. 26. Will-proved 17:9. Jun. 2. Exs. Joseph Wilkinson and Charles Tillinghast. To son Begoni, £100. To wife Sarah, £100. To Nous Brnoni and Goli th, all the rest both rent and personal.
Inventory, £1,221, 7a., vi :: a bail, yoke of oxen, 7 cows, 2 steers, 2 beifers, 5 yearlings, 6 calves, 14 sheep, 2 lambs, 6 hogs, a mare, bonds £1,218. 94., &d., Inom. &c.
bible. 2 spoons, &c. To Golinh's wife Susannab, a mare, gold beads, &c. To granddaughter Sarah Williams, wearing apparel, but if she die then two danghter+in law to have, viz : Abigail and Susannah Williams. To grandson Joseph, son of Benoni, land. To grandson Roger, son of Goliab, rest of land and house.
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