Author: Althea H. McAleerPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Elm Grove Cemetery Inscriptions, North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Author: Althea H. McAleerPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Some Descendants of John Thomas of Jamestown, Rhode Island
Author: Hollis A. Thomas, MDPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475965710
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
In 1636, Roger Williams, recently banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of his religious beliefs, established a settlement at the head of Narragansett Bay that he named “Providence.” This small colony soon became a sanctuary for those seeking to escape religious persecution. Within a few years, a royal land patent and charter resulted in the formation of the “Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” which incorporated Williams’ original settlement and espoused his tenets of freedom of religion and separation of church and state. During the ensuing decades, thousands of Baptists, Quakers, Jews, and Huguenots relocated to Rhode Island from other New England colonies, the British Islands, and Europe in search of religious freedom. One such individual, John Thomas, an immigrant from Wales, made significant contributions to early settlements at Jamestown on Conanicut Island and at Wickford on the nearby mainland of Rhode Island. He was the first town constable of Jamestown in 1679, and later owned hundreds of acres of land in the towns of North and South Kingstown. This fully indexed work traces and sketches the lives of his descendants, many of whom were at the forefront of the great American westward migration, and represents the most comprehensive compilation of them to date. It is the result of twenty years of extensive research and includes detailed information from military pension archives, will and estate records, agricultural data, county histories, and migration patterns that far exceeds the standard for genealogical works of this scope and magnitude. It is important for us to remember those who helped shape our nation. This work provides valuable information for those who are interested in this family and its evolution in America.
Rhode Island Roots
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Graveyards of North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Author: Althea H. McAleerPublisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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South Kingstown, Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries
Author: John E. SterlingPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Daniel Stedman's Journal, 1826-1859
Author: Daniel StedmanPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Daniel Stedman was born 25 April 1787 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. His parents were Daniel McCoon Stedman (1766-1806) and Martha Braman (1768-1841). He married Freelove Reynolds (d. 1831), daughter of James Reynolds and Rachel Peckham, 22 December 1808. They had nine children. He also married Ann C. Fowler and Alice Potter Sheldon. He died 10 January 1859.
Charlestown, Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries
Author: Lorraine Tarket ArrudaPublisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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The Tillinghasts in America
Author: Wayne G. TillinghastPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Pardon Tillinghast, son of Pardon Tillinghast and Sarah Browne, was born in about 1622 in Severn Cliffs, Sussex, England. He married (Sarah?) Butterworth and they had three children. He married Lydia Taber and they had nine children. He died 29 January 1717/18 in Providence, Rhode Island. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Rhode Island and New York.
North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island
Author: John E. SterlingPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Samuel Eldred and Some of His Descendants
Author: Nelson Beardsley EldredPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The Eldred family originated in Saxon England. Samuel Eldred (1620- 1697) was born in Ipswich, England and immigrated to Massachusetts with his wife, Elizabeth Miller, in 1641. They settled first in Cambridge and then moved to Rhode Island in 1660. Samuel and Elizabeth were the parents of seven children. Descendants live in Rhode island and other parts of the United States.