Richard Arnold

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Mary Angell apparently wasn't! She and Richard were married shortly after being fined 40 shillings for fornication!!

Richard was Captain of the Militia and served in King William's War in 1697. He also was the Governor's Assistant 1681-1686; Deputy to Rhode Island's General Assembly; Speaker of the House of Deputies; and a member of the Providence Town Council.

About 1680 he began building saw mills.

Source: Thayer and Burton Ancestry, p. 19

RICHARD ARNOLD, son of Thomas and Phoebe (Parkhurst) Arnold, and one of the public men of his day, was born at Watertown, Mass., March 22, 1642. He came to Providence, RI, with his father, at the age of nineteen, and, soon after, married Mary Angell, daughter od Thomas and Alice (???) Angell of Providence. He was twice a member of the town council, nine times an assistant and thirteen times a deputy, the last two years, 1707-08, acting as speaker of the house of deputies. He was on the committee appointed to draw up an address of congratulations from Rhode Island to James II upon his succession to the crown. In December 1686, he was appointed by Sir Edmund Andros a member of his council, and attended the first meeting of the council held at Boston. In 1695, he was chosen, with two others, to run the northern line of the colony. He died April 22, 1710, leaving in his will a provision that his son, Thomas, should have the service of the Negro, Tobey, till the slave was twenty-five years of age, when Tobey should be given his freedom and also "two suits of apparel, a good narrow axe, broad hoe, and sickle."

Richard married Mary Angell on 24 Oct 1666. Mary was born in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Arnold was born on 9 Sep 1668; died on 27 Aug 1735.