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V. ( Axx, m. 1088, Jan. 10, JOHN RATUBONE, 4 b.
1 b.
+ d. 1:53 +
I d. 1723.
of John & Margaret (
1
Rathbone.
.
1. Nathanel,
2. Thomas, 1641. Jan ==
Dodge.
3. Ebenezer, 4. Hezekiah, 5 Don as. 6. Tristram,
1694, May 15
1. Margaret,
1698. Jan. 12.
2. Mary, Hi-7. Jan. 24.
1650, Jul 27. He said to Arthur Penner, 6 acres oppland and two spots of meadow. On the same date, he sold Nicholas Power his home lot, ly- Ing next to widow Sayles' lot.
1650, Ang 13. He sold Ralph Earle, of Ports mouth, for full satisfaction, all rights in all my housing, lands, &c., in Providence.
1055. Frerman.
1060 Newport Ile probably moved here about this time.
16833. May 26. In a deed of this date. fromn John Sayies to William Hawkins, he mentions that the land conveyed had formerly belonged to Jon Tyler, afterward, wie to Nathaniel Dick- eus (and by latter sokl to Idph Earle, who sold it to Sayles).
1671. Jan. 30. He was allowel 4s., for service done for the colony, to be paid out of Thomas Flounder's (sinte.
1671, May 8. Juryman. 1677. Feb. 28. Ile sold to certain Hebrews, land now included in the Jewish Cemetery, at New- port.
1090. Taxed 5s.
1690. Oct. 18. Will-proved 1723, Jan. IG. Exx. wife Sarah. . To eldest son Thomas, a 60 acre lot und 20 acre lot. To daughter Dorcas Dodge, 20 acres she lives on. The rest of children are left to care of wife Sarab, to whom all otimer| estate is given-land, housing and cattle, and at i her death, what is lett to go to children uupro- vided for-and not named in the will.
1705. Jun. 15. Sarah Brown. widow of Nathan- iel Dickens. and her two sons, John and Roger Dickens, sold to Thomas Rathbone, for £17, 10a., certain land that Nathaniel Dickens, by will, gave wife Sarah, tor lite, and at her death to sous John and Roger.
1720, Mar. 7. Will - proved 1729, Jan. 16. Sarah Brown. Exs, husband Thomas Brown! and son John Dickens. She mentions the fact that her former hasband, Nathaniel Dickeus. had given ber land on which she dwells, to be at ber dispersal to children, and that she had pos- I Bessed land for twenty-eight years. To bushaud ! Thomas Brown, she gives tor lite, half the land where she dwells and half of land in Cow Neck, and at his death, all said land to son John | Dickens (who was to have the other half of lands at her death).
The wills of Nathaniel Dickens, and his widow Barah, were probated on same day. Her second husband, Thomas Brown, died in 1723, a few months after her. (His inventory was taken 1723, May 9.)
(MARY,
of
1729, Jun. 2. Administration to son David. Inventory, £111, viz: 4 oxen, 3 cows, 5 yearlings, 40 sheep, 5 hogs, mare, colt, wearing clothes £5. cash £1, 3s., beds, &c.
New Shoreham, R. I.
IL. ; TRISTRAM,
m. tos0. Jan. 7. f DORCAS DICKENS,
§ b. 1647. ? di. 1733, Aug. 18. 1 b. 1664.
7 d. 1757. Feb. 18. of Nathaniel & Joan ( ) Dickens.
1678. Freeman.
2. Eliz beth, 1633, May 1. 3. Mary.
4. Samuel, 1601, Sep. 2.
1. Jhrey. 1029, Oct. 1
2. Jonathan,
1691, MaY =
3. John,
4. Joshua,
16:0. Frb. 19
5. Benjamin,
1.01. Feb. 17.
6. Anu. 1703, Vn ). 7. Nathaniel, 1704. Frb. 6 8. Thomas. 1Tuv, Mar 2
1
+ b.
I. ( DORCAS, )m. 1680, Jan. 7. ( THISTRAX DODGE,
1 b. 1664. 7 d. 1237. Feb. 19.
6 b. 1647.
+ d. 1723, Aug. 18. of Tristram
III. ( THOMAS,
m. 1003, Dec. 25,
5 b. 1668.
1 d. 1718, Sep. 4.
1 b 1674.
New Shoreham, R. I.
3. Mary,
1701. Jul. 5. 1703. Aug 5.
1632, Jan. 10. Freeman.
1720. Feb. 9. Administration to widow Sarah. Inventory, £189, 7s., viz : purse and apparel £17, 2 beds, pewter, gun, 300 lbs. cheese, 6 cows, yoke of oxeu, bull, 2 yearling, 4 calves, 2 mares, 12 swine, &c.
1. John,
2. Mary,
1644, Jan. 1.
1647, Oct. #1
1690, Dec. 35.
+ b. 1657.
-
1 b.
JOSErI.
¿ d. 1731. 1 b.
na. RACHEL, ¿d. 1731 +
Kings Town, East Greenwich, R. I. 1670. Ile was on the jury in case of murder of Walter House, the said jury being called by authority of the government of Connecticut
1679. Jul. 20. He and forty-one other inhabitants of Narragansett seut a petition to the King, praying that he " worki put an end to these differences about the government therot, which bath been so fatal to the prosperity of the piace ; animosities still arising in people's minds as they stand affected to this or that government"
1687, Sop. 1. Taxed 5s. 31 24
1720, Jul. 5. Will-proved 1731, Mar. 97. Exx. ! wife Rachel. He calls himself very ancient. I To son John, 54. To daughter Lydia Parker. 1. To son William, az. To daughter Mary Ifaling, Is. To daughter Abigail Nifes, us. To wife all my whole estate, and after both our deaths to grandson Willmm King. son of daughter Abigail, wife of Nathaniel Niles. Inventory £65, 7s. Gd., viz: s cow, 2 shoats, bed, wheel, &c.
DOLOVER.
67
I. (JOSKru. { d. 1700.
1700, May 4, He was summoned with others, by the Assembly to answer the charge in court of being eng qui in'a riot.
1709, May 1. Will-provedl 1709. Jun. 13. Ex. brother William Dolover. Overcer William Hall. To sister Rebecca Card, wite of Peleg. (20. To sisters Lydia Parker, and Sarah Johnson, wile of Joseph Johnson, of Rhode Island, and Mary Dolover, 220 each. To brother William Dolover, my wood boat, canoe, sails, anchor, and cable. The farm and neck in Warwick to be sold to pay legacies and brother William to have the rest. To overseer, 40s., to buy a ring.
II. JOUN,
( b 2 d.
East Greenwich, R. I.
-
1710, Jun. 13. He sold William Hamilton, of East Greenwich, half of 40 acres.
III. ( REBECCA,
+ d.
( P'ELEG CARD, , b.
. d.
of
Card.
IV. ( LYDIA,
7 d.
§ b.
d. of
Parker.
V. ( SARAB, m
¿ d. 1731 +
2. Stephen,
JOSEPH JOHNSON,
¿ d. 1731,
of John & Mary (
Johnson. Kings Town, R. I.
4. Joseph,
VI. ( WILLIAM, § b.
5. Gideon, 6. Daniel,
7. Nathaniel.
VIL ( MARY,
5 b. 1d.
D.
-- HULING,
{ d.
of
Holing.
VIIL ( ABIGAIL, m. (1)
KING,
*[ b. 1 d.
of
King.
m. (2)
jb.
NATHANIEL NILES,
1 d.
of
Niles.
DUNGAN.
WILLIAM,
d. 1636.
m. FRANCES WESTON(widow) ) b. 1611. ed 1677, Sep.
Latham.
(She m. (3) Jeremiah Clarke, (4) William Vaughan.)
London, Middlesex Co., Eng. He was a perfumer. His residence was in St. Martin's in the Fields. He never came to America though his descend- anta are numerous here. A manuscript account of the Barker family gives some light ou bis family. 1 " Frances, the wite of Wmn. Vaughan died Sept. 1677, in the 67th year of her age. She was! daughter of Lewis Latham, she was sometime! the wife of Lord Weston, then wife to William Dangan, by whom she had one son and three daughters. " Ifer son Thomas Dungan married and settled in Pennsylvania, and was the first ! Baptist minister in them paris. Her Jan chter : Barbara married to James Barker, of Rhode ! Island. Atter William Dungan died she married Mr. Jeremiah Clarke and came over to New England with her four children above mentioned. She bad by her hosvan 3 Clarke five sons ; after he died she married to Mr. Vaughan."
1636. Sep. 13. Will-proved 1656, Oct. 5. Exx. wife Frances. Overseers, Mr. Thomas Gibbon. and Mr. Samuel Smith, To cach chill $70, viz : 1 to Barbara, William, Frances, and Thomas Dungan ; to be paid at fuil age or marriage of | each. Ifany child dic. the survivors to bave hits ! or her part. To wife, the government of children's portions and all other iny estate during widowhowl If she marry again she to ! give good security to the over-ers for true and i pure payment of leg wie to cinldren. To wife, i all other my estate whatsoever, be it in grundis. chattels, leases, ready money, platte or other my substance whatsoever. To overseers 104. spicco to buy thein riags.
1654. Jan. 18. His widow being now the wife of Rev. William Vaughan, enterol into an agree- pent with her son, Walter Clarke, through his guardians John Cranston and James Barker, who are called his " brothers-in-law." (John Cranston had married Walter Clarke's own sister, and James Harker bad marriot Walter Clarke's half sister.)
By this agreement Walter Clarke was to have dwelling house where Mrs. Vangnan lived, garden, orchard and contain lande watch way his inheritance, but pm-wason to ir und by hus mother till Sept, such, or till tobacco was curedl The house where Captain John Cranston lived
I. ( BARBARA, m. 1644, (JAMES BARKER,
I d.
( b. 1623.
1 d. 1702.
of James
Barker.
4. Sarab, 5. Joseph, 6. Peter,
7. Christianna
8. William, 1662.
1. Frances, 1649, Sep. 29.
2. Elizabeth, 1652, Aug. 3. Mary, 1654, Aug.
4. John, 1656, Jan.
'5. Sarab, 1658, Feb.
6. Randall, 1660, Apr.
7. Margaret,
1663, Jan.
8. Charles, 1666, Mar. 22.
9. Barbara, 1668, Jul. 2.
10. Susanna,
1670, Dec. 8. 1673, Oct. 16.
IV. ( THOMAS,
d. 1688.
im.
(ELIZABETH WEAVER,
( b.
d.
of Clement & Mary (Freeborn) Weaver.
4. Jeremiah,
1656. Freeman.
1671. Juryman.
16.7. East Greenwich. He was named with forty-seven others who took grant of 5,000 acres to be called East Greenwich.
1678. Sergeant
1678-81. Deputy.
1680. Newport. Taxed £1, 22. Gd.
1631. Constable,
1682, Jun. 28. He deeded his cousin (i. e. nephew) Thomas Weaver, of Newport, 100 acres in East Greenwich, for love, &c.
1692. 9-p. 25. He and wife Elizabeth sold John Bailey, late of Portsmouth, 50 acres in Newport, buildings, gardens, &c., for $140.
1084. Cold Spring. He moved there this year and established a Baptist church, of which he was the first pastor. Morgan Filwards gives the following account of him. " In 1684, Thomas Dungan removed from Rhode Island and settled at a place called Cold Spring. Bucks Co., between Brutol and Trenton." Anter alluding to the breaking up of the church in 1702 (an old grave yard alone inarking the site of the church in 1770, when Edwards wrotel, he further says of Mr. Dungen, " The Rev. Thomas Dungan. the Ist Baptist minister in the Province, now ( 1700), exists in a progeny of between 609 and 200." He tel's us that the children of Thomas Dungan married as follows :
1. William, m. -- Wing of Rhode Island, and had five chiktren. 2. Clement. no issue. 3. Thomas. m. - Drake, and lind nine children. 4. Jeremiah, 11. = D)make, and had eight children. 5 Elizabeth, In. - West and hrad four children. 6. Mary, m. - Richards, and hud three children. 7. Jobn, no issue. 8. Rebecca, m. - Doyle, and had three children. 9. Sarah, m. - Korrel, and had six children.
168%. !le baptized and ordained Elias Keach, son of the famous Benjamin Keach of London.
1. Elizabeth, 2. Janes,
1648.
3. Mary.
II. ( WILLIAM,
jb.
j b. 1690 ±
IIT. ( FRANCES,
{ d. 1697.
m 1648,
5 b. 1612.
RANDALL HOLDEN,
¿ d. 1692, Aug. 23. of
Holden.
11. Anthony,
fb
Newport, R. L, Cold Spring, Pa.
1. William,
2. Clement,
3. Thomas,
5. Elizabetb, 6. Mary, 7. John,
8. Rebecca, 9. Surab.
§ b.
6 b.
- PARKER,
( b.
1. Reuben,
5 b. 1677, Oct. 3.
3. Sarah.
{ d. 1709 +
( b.
fb. i d.
of Lewis
1 b.
5 b. 1629 ±
Kings Town, K. I.
-
٠
Was to be his, as appeared by dord ; Mr4 Vanghan was to pay all debis, 'and for that
arf1. and she also had corriain land, the house -! hold gomais, ate, for hereit and the rest of Jeremiah Clarke's children other than Walter. William Dungin's widow was barwol in New- port Cemetery, the stone bearing the following inscription. "" Here Lveth ye Buddy of Mrs. Frances Vaughan, Alius Clarke, ve mother of ye ouly children of Capt'n Jeremiah Clarkr. Shr died, ye 1 week in Sept. 1077 in ye onthe year of her age."
DUNN.
RICHARD, m.
d. 1690 +
4 b.
id.
.
Newport, R. I.
1655. Freeman.
1680. Taxel £1, 12s. 2d.
1631-1705-7-8-9-11. Deputy. 1702. Jan 12. Ile was one of the proprietors in common lane's.
I. ( RICHARD,
In.
HANNAIT,
+ b. 1675.
1 d. 1234. Dec. 28.
of
1690 Freeman, (ile was called Richard, Jr., at this date.)
He held the title of Captain.
II. { SAMUEL ..
[ m. (1) 1702. Oct. 14.
SARAH BAILEY,
m. (2) 1718, Nov. j b.
LANS CLARKE, d.
of
Clarke.
III. ( NATHANIEL, m.
6 b. 1671.
+ d. 1735, Feb. 28.
New Shoreham, R. I.
1. Richard, 1698
2. Istuic,
1702.
(ELIZABETH LAWTON, j b. 1674, Mar. 12.
2 d. 1741, May 19.
of Daniel & Rebecca (
1
Lawton.
1717, Feb. 3. He had a suit brought against him by William Dyer, for debt and damage of £80.
He was buried in the town burial ground, as was his wife also.
DURFEE.
THOMAS,
1 b. 1643. d. 1712.
t. (1)
6 b.
m. (2) [of Abiel.
DELIVERANCE TRIPP, (". ; d. 1721.
of William & Mary (
Hall.
Portsmouth, R. I.
1664, Oct His petition for remittance of fine laid upon him at last Court of Trials. for breach of bond, in October last, was denied by Assembly.
1679 He was thirty six years old, at .גם ( ANS ALMY,
this time.
1690. Taxed &#.
1687-88. Constable.
1689, Jan. 30. He needed son Thomas, for love, &c . my dwelling house, and land belonging to it, situate in a place calle | Common Fence, near Pacaseu River, 8 acre- in extent.
1698. Aug. 2. Upoa petition of himself and wife Deliverance, late widow to Abiel Tripp, of Portsinouth. for contiru:ing ferry between Rhode ! Island and Bristol, upon the heir of said Abel Tripp, it was enacted by Assembly, that the feny be stated upon said Thomas Durfee aud his wife, till the heir of said Ahiet Tripp, come | of age, which will be alwrit seven years, and! that John Borden. be permitted to keep said ferry on equal privilege with said Durfee, both being obliged to carry all Magistrates, Deputies. Jurymen and all other persons upon his Majes- ty's service in the colony, and the post. terriige free, and to pay 64, cach, yearly, into the Gen- eral Treasury, all others being prohibited from i Using and folios ing the employ without license from the Assembly.
1710. Feb 4. Will-proved 1712, Jul. 14. Exx. wife Deliverance. To wife, housing and land fn Portsmouth, for life and then to daughters Patirice Tallman and Deliverance Durfee. equally. To elet son Robert, Sa., having at- Trady settled certain land's in Freetown upon him. To son Thomis, Je .. he having bad al-i ready. To son William, So. he having had more than 240. To youngest son Ben min. 50 acres, in Tiverton To wife Deliverince, a pegro called Jock, for life, and at her death. the value of said negro, equally, to two daughters. To grandson Richard, che son of Richard. To grandes Thomas, sos ot | Richard. W gepres. in Tiverton, To Ane Patter, i wife of Williams Potter, Et. To wife Deliver- aner and two daughters, rest of land .. To wite, all mwvalde estate.
1718. Apr. N. Will - proved 1221. Feb. 13. Willow Deliverance. Ex. om Abict Tripp. To dangeister Patience Talman, two iron pots, ani iron kotle. all my enps, leatherchiefs, aprons and shift-, only one to Im berind in, and a redar tuh and the rowing lent. To daughter Deliver- ance Darice, bed, de. I now firem, at my sin- in-law Tallinan's, and all movaldes at my son Abiel Tripp's, ouly what I have given in son Abirl. alrende.
Inventory. 032, 5%., Gl, viz pire and apparel €15. ir Gr. touch- 10., the rowing boat and an oll aw C1. spinning wheel, warming pan, pew- ter. looking shop, -pice mortar, 11 yards of drugget, angir lax, &c.
I. ( ROBERT, DI.
1 d. 1718.
( b. 1604, Mar. 30 .*
d. 1748, Nov. 15. of John & Mary (Gorton)
Sanford.
4. Peleg.
(She in. (2) - Thomas.)
1718, May 7. Will-proved 1718. Jun. 2. Exx. wife Mary. To her, all movable estate, and house and land in Freetown, for life. To son Peleg, half of house and land at decease of wife. To daugh- ters Mary and Elizabeth, the other half of house and land at decease of wife. To gon Thomas, a house. To children, viz : Thomas, Jolin. Benjamin, Peleg, Mary and Elizabeth, a parcel of land at Pocasset, on the Rhode Island side, equally, to all said children.
II. ( RICHARD, b. ¿ d. 1700.
( b. 1667. Nov. 29.
1 d. of Christopher & Elizabeth (Cornell) Almy.
(She m. (2) Benjamin Jefferson.)
1700, Apr. 10. Inventory, C16, 5a, shown by widow Ann. Wooden and earthern things £1, Ge, glass, pewter, iron and brass £1. 11s., looking glass, linen, beds and bedding £9, clothes £2, 154 , swine 10s., feathers 12x, saudile, pillion, &c.
III. ( THOMAS, 6 b.
d. 1729. Feb. 11.
j b. 1669. Mar. 28.
ASS FREEBORN,
¿d. 1729 (-). of Gideon & Sarah ( Brownell) Freeborn.
1707-9-13. Deputy.
1715, Oct. 13. He and wife Aun, mertenged certain land, for $350.
7. Gideon,
1704, Jam 15.
1706. Jun. 8.
II. Elizabeth,
1720. Ort. 13. Hle answered the suit of Stephen Brayton, for impounding an ox-saying that said ox Was unruly, and broke into his meadow with other cattle.
1728, Mav 25. Ile deeded to son Gideon, for love. &c., my farm called Common Fence Farm Point, being the most north eastern part of Rhode Island, 60 acres.
1724, May 29. He decded to son Thomas, for love. &c , 14 acres, And two months later, 25 acres.
1729. Feb. 9. Will-proved 1229. Feb. 24. Ex. son Gideon. To son Gideon, four parcels of lands viz : the land where house standeth, called the homestead, where I now dwell, a piece calle I Spink's ground, a parcel called the Wind Still Hill land, and another piece called Jennings' land. In consid- eration of this legacy, Gideon was to give a need to testator's son Job, of the fract called Common Fence Farm, formerly deedest son tejden, by his father, and if Gideon failed to give deed within a month of testator's decease, the said four parcels were to be for wom Jon. When Job is of age and jumsevery deart of tarms, he and my son Thomas, are to come to an equal division of all lands in Com -! mon Fence, both aforementioned larm and that which I have gives already to Thomas, by two deody of gitt. The house and rest of Finds in Common Fence Farm, to be equally shared by sons Thomas and Job. Certain land was to be sold by escritor and money equally divwird i) seven daughters, viz : Ann Estes, Sarah Densis, Patience, Mary, Martha, Susanna and Elizabeth Durfee. To daughters Marv, Susanna and Elizabeth, a farger to each, their sisters, Patience and Martha, having already received each a led. To five married daughters, all pewter, brass, iron pots and rest of household guents undisposed of, and to each, a good cas, and to them while unmarried, the privilege of eastwand chamber to live in, To soas Gileon, Thomas and Job, the rest of cattle, horses, sheep and swinc. husteundry year and other movables.
Inventory, [350, 12a., viz: wearing apparel $23. 106, pocketirwik, razor, spectacles. &c. CI9, hooks SI, money seales, his tailor's shears, goose, box iron, heaters, stillvardis, spinning wheel, half a pair of worsted combe, negro mom and bed 940, poultry $3, 5%, hore kind 039, neat eattie and hay CISM, Ha .. sheep gre. 10%., swine 911, 10c, &c. The rooms named, were: outward room. bed room, kitchen, lud chamber, outward room chamber, garret and cellar.
His son Job, being under age, choose his uncle, Gideon Freeborn, for guardian, and his daughter Elizabeth, choose her uncle, William Anthony.
IV. [ WILLIAM, f b.
1 4. 1727.
{ m. (1)
ANS. m. (3) MARY.
3 d.
of
id.
of
1697, Jun. 11. Hr and wife Ann. soid Willnun Barrington, 10 actrs, for €50. 1699. Tiverion. He had ear mark for rattle recorded.
1737. Frb. 10. Will-proved 1737, Jun. 24. Ex. moms Samuel and Jourph. To wife Marv, the in-| door movables, with certain exceptions, money, two cows, maru, twenty sheep, n wine, «x bw ..
Freetown, Mass.
1. Thomas,
2 Jobo,
3. Benjamin, 1605, Jan. 30.
5. Mary,
6. Elizabeth,
1. Richard,
2. Mary,
3. Thomas,
4. Ano,
5. Hope,
6. Amcy,
Portsmouth, R. L. 1. Ann. 1691. Aug. 25.
2. Sarub.
1693, Mar. 1.
3. Freeboro, 1695, Dec. 15.
4. Patience. 1699, Jun. 12.
5. Mary, 1701. Jan. 22.
6. Martha. 1702, Feb. 20.
8. Thomas, 1717. Jun. 18. He petitioned Assembly, tor a good and sufficient highway, to be laid out to his farm, at Common Fence Point, he having already applied to the committee of town of Portsmouth, but not| 9. Susanna, obtained it. The Assembly ordered the committee to lay out within one month's time, a good, lawful | 10. Job. and pasaable highway, fit for horses and carts to pass and repass.
Newport, R. I.
1. Clarke, 1720. 1724. Feb. 11.
3. Gilleon,
3. Charles,
1:26, Feb. 26.
of Joseph
Bailey.
4. Gideon, 1700, Mar. 26.
3. William, 1715.
1. Samuel, 2. Joseph,
3. Pavil.
4. Aluguil,
b
Newport, R. I. | 1. Son,
1092.
MARY SANFORD,
í b.
Portsmouth, Tiverton, R. I.
Tiverton, R. I.
.
It is assumed that Anu Potter, to whom he gave! legacy, was his daughter, though he does not directly asy so.
begTo woman, use of dwelling house, half the orchant and garden spot. To son Sonuel, certain land and housing in Tiverton, and land in Dartmonth. To son Joseph, land in Tiverton and Dartmouth. To cadla son, a negra boy and gone, and to them, all the block of cattle. Sc., and outdoor movables, they paying their sister Abigad, 50 and Isa good inds. To son David, is, he already having had CI,(0), in the farm where he lives. To write the keep of a horse, de, by executors, and they to and her with firewood, cut at her door, twenty bushels of course, two hundred pounds pork and two hundred pounds beef, yearly.
Inventory, CTI7. d., Md, vit: nepo woman and two negro boys $200, plate, silver money &c. SIUN. La 2%. bible dictionary and other smocks CI, &s. 2 guns, cane, ? feather beds, pewter, cider, 27 grese, fowls, 14 swine, 200 sheep, 80 lamies, 4 oxeu, 4 steers, ? cows, 2 bulls, 2 heifers, 5 yearlings, 8 horse kind, &r.
Real estate, lands and housing £1,700.
V. ( ANN,
j b. 1 J.
WILLIAM POTTER, j b. ¿ d.
of Nathaniel & Elizabeth ( ) Potter.
Tiverton, Newport, R. I.
1. Thomas,
3. Daughter,
1755, Mar 14. A division of lands in Freetown, was made at this date : said lands having been given by last will of Benjamin Durire, late of Newport, deceased, to his son Thomas, and three grandsons. To Thomas Durtee, son of said Benjamin, 138 acres. To grandson William Durfee, 138 acres. To heirs of grandson Joseph Hix, deceased. 220 acres. To grandson Jaines Durfee, 70 acres. (2d WIFF.) 1b. / d. 1723 ±
VII. ( PATIENCE,
3 m. 1708. Sep. 23, ( b. 1694, Jan. 28.
( BENJAMIN TALLMAN,
td. 1759.
of Peter & Joan (Briggs)
Tallman.
1. Benjamin, 1710, Jun. 19. 2. Mary, 1712, Aug. 2. 3. Deliverance,1715, Feb. 4. 4. William,
5. Patience, 1721, Apr. 6.
EARLE.
RALPH,
jb 1 d. 1678.
{ JOAN,
{ d. 1690 +
Portsmouth, R. L.
1638. He and others, were admitted in- habitants of Aquidneck, having submitted thetn- scives to the government, that is or shall be es- ta blisbed.
1639, Apr. 30. He and twenty-eight others signed declaration of allegiance. " We, whose names! are underwritten, do acknowledze ourselves the ; legal subjects of his Majesty, King Charles, and ! in his name, do bereby bind ourselves into al civil body politicke, unto hiis laws according to matters of justice.
1640. Jan. 7. It was ordered that he and bis co-partner, Mr. Wilbur, shall serve the town with good sufficient stuff, viz : weil sawn boards i at &#. the hundred, and half inch boards at is., to be delivered at the pit by the waterside.
1640, Mar. 21. He sold William Baulstone, cer- tain land.
1647. He was chosen to keep an inn, to tell beer and wine, and to entertain strangers.
1649. Treasurer.
1649. Overseer of the Poor.
1651, Jan. 16. He, with three others, was chosen to apportion a tax.
He was again elected Treasurer, this year.
1651, May 31. He deeled Nicholas Hart, of Portsmouth, and Jonu, his wife, 8 acres and message, for valuable consideration.
1652. Jun. 24. Hle sol! William Arnold, of Prov- idence, land formerly owned by Francis Wes. loo's wife, Margaret, near Pawtuxet Fails.
1674. Apr. 11. He and another. were chosen to Oversee the work of the prison. &c.
1655. Freeman.
1635. May Juryman.
1655, May 27. He was appointed by the Court of Commissioners, to keep a house of entertain ment. A convenient -iga wa- to be set out att the most perspicuous place, to give morice 10 strangers.
1658. Dec. 13. He sold William Cadman, 20
1667. Aug. 10. He joined a troop of bone (after- wards becoming Captain).
At about this time he commenced suit asdust Richard Lont and Jaar's Richards, of Hartford. prawmors of land there, claimme that he had wirshaved the land of Underbill, in 1CS. for £10.
16. Apr. 2. Grand Jury.
1671. Jun. 7. He was apywintel with there, tu. sit as a Navial Court, to iry " two Indians, now imprivmed upon criminal charge "
1673. Nov. 19. Will-recorded 1675, Jan. 14.
I. ( RALPH. m. 1659 (-) ¿d. 1716. í b. (DORCAS SPRAGUE, 1 d. of Francis & Lydia ( ) Sprague.
1658, May 11. Portsmouth, R. I. Freeman.
1659, Oct. 26. Francis Sprague, of Duxbury, conveyed to his " son-in-law, Ralph Earle, of Rhode Is- land," &c., 16 share of land at Coakset and Acushena. At about this time Ralph moved to his new lands, and henceforth was of Dartmouth.
1688. Jon. 13. Dartmouth, Mass. He deeded son Ralph, for love, &c., half of westermost island called Elizabeth Island, to be his after my deceasc.
1689, Oct. 20. He deededi son William. 100 acres in Dartmouth
1692, Jun. 10. He and wife Dorcas, deeded youngest son Joseph, for love, &c., 200 acres in Dartmouth, and salt marsh, bad of father Sprague.
1699, Jul. 24. He deeded son William, for love, &c., Ji of the island, called by the Indians Pocata- bunka, being the westermost island.
3717. Jan. 6. Administration to son John Earle.
II. [ WILLIAM, 1 b. Portsmouth, R. L, Dartmouth, Mass., Portsmouth, R. I.
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MARY WALKER, id. of John & Katharine ( ) Walker.
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1654, Apr. 2. He and wife Mary, sold James Sands, their interest in 14 acres, that came by right of Jate widow Walker ; the land having come by marriage of Mary Walker (daughter of widow), to Wil- liam Earle.
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