Mary Acy

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Mary married Charles Brown on 14 Aug 1647. Charles was born about 1620 in , , Suffolk, England; died about 16 Dec 1687. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 79DBE0731B7C45479908E55E703F79E7BDCF
• Alt. Death: 20 Feb 1717, Kingston, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA

Notes:

Beriah Brown perhaps was not a son of Charles Brown of Rowley, MA.

Most Internet sources indicate that this Beriah Brown is the son of Charles Brown, and was born in Rowley, MA, in 1648. I believe that there is some doubt that this is the case and that Beriah Brown may have been born overseas and immigrated directly to Rhode Island.

First of all, the question arises as to whether Beriah Brown lived previously in Massachusetts and was married there and had a child before moving to Rhode Island. It is possible from the dates that this occurred. If he had been born in 1648 in Rowley, he would have been about 25 years old when he married Sarah Harris. He would have been about 30 when they had a daughter, Sarah, and he would have been about 39 when he was first recorded in Rhode Island in 1687. Sarah, his wife, and Sarah, his daughter had apparently died sometime prior to 1687. There is mention in brother Gershom's will of a legacy to this Beriah's daughter, Sarah. Gershom died on 5 Dec. 1683, so this suggests that the daughter, Sarah, was still living in 1683. The supposed father, Charles, also died in 1687.

Alexander, Beriah's first son by his wife Abigail Phenix, was born in Rhode Island in 1684 (although at least one source indicates this marriage occurred in 1685). This would suggest that Beriah was already in Rhode Island by 1683 or 1684 although he is not recorded until 1687. If Beriah had been previously married in Massachusetts in 1673, then it is likely his wife and daughter (or at least his wife) would have died prior to that time.

There is some evidence that there was another daughter of Beriah whose name is not known. R. G. Huling mentions in his letter to John B. Peirce of 23 Mar 1883 that there was a second daughter married to John Barber. Could this have been Sarah?

Secondly, where was Beriah born and when? There are also several references to Beriah being an immigrant from England or Wales rather than someone who was born in Massachusetts and moved to Rhode Island, particularly in the correspondence between L.W. Brown and John B. Peirce (Town Clerk of North Kingstown) and between R.G. Huling and Mr. Peirce in which there are several references to Wales and Beriah's birth date of 1640. There is, however, no specific documentation referenced in these letters.

If Beriah had not been born in 1648 in Rowley and previously married to Sarah Harris, then the alternative scenario is that he was born in Wales about 1640 and came directly to Rhode Island. If this is the case, then he would have been about 45 when he married Abigail Phenix and a few years older when he started having children. This alternative scenario is also possible, although it seems likely that he would have married and tried to settle down at a somewhat earlier age.

In the absence of concrete information to determine which scenario is correct, I have decided to take the conservative route and removed the link between Beriah and the supposed parents Charles Brown and Mary Acye of Rowley. By taking this approach, his parents remain unknown and there are no other descendants of Charles and Mary in my data.

Died:
During Great Snowstorm

Beriah married Abigail Phenix about 1675 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. Abigail (daughter of Alexander Phenix and Abigail Sewall) was born about 1655 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; died in 1690 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; was buried in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA, Cem. NK048 - in the Meadows Office Park. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eleanor (Sheffield). Eleanor was born in 1663 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; died after 1717. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 33197505DAF5483589DD372BFAA2FAFD6DED
• Alt. Birth: 12 Jan 1653, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• Alt. Death: 1722, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

John married Abigail Browne on 31 Aug 1685 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. Abigail was born in 1665; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ebenezer married Mary Jewett on 29 Jul 1698 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. Mary was born on 11 Jun 1671; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ebenezer married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Nathaniel married Mary Wheeler on 4 Jun 1685 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. Mary died in 1731. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 4EBB31255E524345A5A04EB72C3C095FB121
• Comment 1: 1690, He was on "Canada vogage" where his brother, William, died.

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• _UID: 67B874EF3BE04ED298E437C19C99BB1E3F5F
• Alt. Birth: 1680, North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA

Alexander married Honour Huling in 1709 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. Honour (daughter of Alexander Huling and Elizabeth Wightman) was born in 1692; died in 1725; was buried in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA, Cem. NK096 - Beriah Brown Farm Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Marcy Tefft on 8 Sep 1728 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. Marcy was born in Unknown; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Lydia (Brown) before 13 Aug 1758. Lydia was born in 1694; died after 1757; was buried in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA, Cem. NK096 - Beriah Brown Farm Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 7B36E5A09A9C4C16B30A118170AD0E1F67F5

Mary married Joseph Carpenter on 18 Mar 1702. Joseph (son of Abiah Carpenter and Ann Weeks) was born in 1677; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 8E5983277A064CDEA00A455EBE8758DC01CF

Family/Spouse: John Barber. John was born in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Buried:
Unmarked Grave

Charles married Eleanor Sheffield on 30 Jun 1710 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. Eleanor (daughter of ? Sheffield and Eleanor (Sheffield)) was born in 1693; died in 1751; was buried in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA, Cem. NK048 - in the Meadows Office Park. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ebenezer married Mary Congdon about 1738 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. Mary (daughter of Benjamin Congdon, Jr. and Frances Stafford) was born on 10 Mar 1718 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; died in 1775-1776 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: E6394509036A4F6F83A16EF895D10D049971
• Alt. Birth: 16 Apr 1710
• Alt. Birth: 23 Apr 1710, North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA

Notes:

See attached sources.

Honor married Judge Samuel Hopkins on 23 Apr 1729 in , Kent County, Rhode Island, USA. Samuel (son of Joseph Hopkins, Sr. and Martha Whaley) was born on 6 Jan 1704 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; died on 4 Apr 1790 in West Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA; was buried in Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA, Cem. CY066 - Woodland Cemetery (Knotty Oak Cemetery). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 4295B1AD9E834071AA4A4E50AAEA37D53937
• Alt. Birth: 15 Nov 1713

Abigail married Samuel Phillips in 1733 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. Samuel (son of Samuel Phillips and Elizabeth (Phillips)) was born in 1700; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 5EB267DF4088437E94B6AD01DCEDCBE34E84

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(Research):Beriah Brown Papers, Sheriff, Washington County, R.I. Family papers, 1696-1874 Size: 3 linear feet Catalog number: MSS 109 Processed by: Rick Stattler, October 1992 Slightly revised, January 1998 ©Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division
Historical note:
Beriah Brown of North Kingstown (1714-1792) was sheriff of Washington County (originally Kings County) for most of 46 years. His grandfather, Beriah Brown (1648-1717), came from Rowley, Massachusetts to Kingstown toward the end of the seventeenth century, and was apparently not related to the illustrious Brown family of Providence. His son Alexander Brown (c1690-1758) also lived in Kingstown, and had seven children by his first wife Honor Huling, including the sheriff Beriah Brown.
Beriah Brown was first mentioned in public affairs in March of 1740/41, when he recovered three judgements from the last summer's court on behalf of plaintiffs. In 1745, he was chosen as town sergeant of North Kingstown, and the following year became county sheriff, a post he was to hold with scattered interruptions for the 46 years until his death.
The sheriff in early New England was, within his county, the foremost representative of the state, and was responsible for serving summonses, enforcing laws, arresting criminals and in general executing the orders of the court. Brown apparently did not work for a set salary; he collected sheriff's fees from the court, the plaintiffs and their lawyers, and was compensated by the state for any expenses he incurred. He was assisted in his work by a variety of deputies, appointed as he saw fit to act in his name. In practice, the main role of the sheriff was in the collection of debts brought before the court. Brown was charged with serving the writs, which instructed him to collect the stated sum or place the debtor under arrest. This often became intertwined with Brown's own personal finances, as he would frequently purchase debts from the creditors as an investment, or bring his own suits into court.
Apart from his duties as sheriff, Brown occasionally engaged in other business ventures. In 1748, he invested in a sloop, Elizabeth, which traded in the Caribbean for two years. In 1768, he became a leading investor in the Susquehanna Purchase, a controversial Connecticut-based settlement in the wilds of Pennsylvania, though his involvement seems limited to an organizational role from the safety of North Kingstown. During the Revolution, Brown supported the cause and mixed profit with patriotism, as he outfitted the privateer The General Mifflin to plunder the British fleet. In 1785, Brown's always complex network of debt and credit seems to have been shaken, as a warrant was placed for his own arrest, and his long-term business associate George W. Babcock was actually jailed. When Brown wrote his will in 1789, however, he still possessed extensive land holdings, as well as several hundred dollars, and innumerable notes payable.
Beriah Brown married twice. First, he wed Elizabeth Smith, who is scarcely mentioned in his papers, but who was the mother of his five children. In 1771, he then married Elizabeth Babcock (1725-1815). His oldest son, Beriah (1744-1819), usually called Beriah 2nd or Beriah Junior, followed to some extent in his father's footsteps, acting as a deputy and gaol-keeper from 1768 onward, receiving powers of attorney from his father in 1771, and generally assisting in public affairs, though he never held an official office. Beriah Senior's youngest son, Christopher (1751-1778), was less successful, running into extreme financial distress just before the Revolution, resulting in his imprisonment, and shortly thereafter his untimely death. Another son, Alexander (b.1748), apparently died young. Beriah Senior also had at least three daughters: Honor Gardner (b.ca.1740), Sarah Waite (b.1742), and Abigail Gardner (b.1746).
Bibliography:
Boyd, Julian Parks. The Connecticut Company: Connecticut's Experiment in Expansion (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University, for the Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, 1935)
Eakle, Arlene. "American Court Records" in The Source, ed. Eakle and Cerny (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing Co., 1984), 173-174.
Harris, George J. A Visitation to the Cemeteries of Ancient Kingstown (manuscript), 25-27.
Smith, Joseph J. Civil and Military List of Rhode Island, 1647-1800 (Providence, 1900).
North Kingstown, R.I. (Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1979)
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Scope and content:
The large majority of this collection pertains to Beriah Brown's duties as sheriff from 1746-1792. Most numerous are official writs, generally for debts that the sheriff was ordered by the court to recover. These are filed separately at the beginning of each folder. Also voluminous are documents regarding sheriff's fees due to Brown, often presented in the form of running accounts stretching over several years. There are many receipts, running in a vague spectrum from official to personal in nature, as much of Brown's work was done on commission.
There are a wide variety of other documents, only a sampling of which can be described here. There are documents giving Brown or his son power of attorney to manage a person's affairs, generally for the collection of debt. There are deputations (indexed here), deputies being basically subcontractors doing work for the sheriff on commission. There is extensive legal correspondence, mostly notes inquiring about debts, or desperate pleas from Brown's hard-pressed debtors. The collection also contains occasional warrants for crimes other than debt, including trespass or assault, though Washington County was generally a tame jurisdiction. There are also many of Brown's small notebooks, which detail the progress of various cases, as well as his personal affairs.
Scattered through the collection are many personal documents from Brown and his family. These are generally filed with the other papers, as the line between Brown's public and private lives was so blurred. Especially noteworthy are Brown's will from 1789, his 1771 marriage receipt, and the will and estate of his immigrant grandfather from 1717. All letters of a personal or family nature are filed separately, in box 6, folder 13.
Many of Beriah Brown Junior's papers are also scattered through the collection, especially from 1768 onward. His papers include sales at auction, attorney powers, some gaol documents and personal papers. There are several documents related to the wife of Beriah Jr., Amy Sherman, and her father Abiel Sherman, which have generally been filed in box 6, folder 14.
The papers were apparently passed on, along with the original family homestead, to Beriah Jr.'s son Beriah Brown 3rd (1768-1854), who contributed a few of his own personal papers, and then on to his daughter Amy Ann, who in 1828 married Isaac Hall. As late as 1880, the seventeenth century land of the immigrant Beriah Brown was in the hands of the heirs of Isaac and Amy Hall. Their daughter Anna P. Hall seems to be the last member of the family to contribute to the collection, and she also added some ancient papers of the Hall family, which are filed in box 6, folder 14.
There are several documents of interest to the student of African-American and Native American history, all filed with the main body of papers. The most interesting is an extensive case from 1779, in which a John Rice of North Carolina bought four slaves in Narragansett, only to discover it was illegal to move them out of state, at which point Brown was charged with selling them on Rice's behalf. There is also a large scrap of paper filed under 1778, on which Brown drafted a letter to the new government regarding Sipio, his slave, who had enlisted in the army. Brown claimed to be "willing to serve his country" but "wants his boy back".
In 1785, Brown drafted an advertisement for his runaway slave Pomp. A scrap note from 1786 indicates that Pomp worked in Scituate that year; he was presumably captured. Other items include an undated suit regarding a slave purchased by one Joshua Holmes, who later proved to be free; a deed dated 3/19/1785 from Beriah Brown Jr. to Beriah Brown Sr. of "one certain Negro named Pero aged about thirty-eight years"; a slave named Jim auctioned off in the estate of Charles Slocum in 1777; a receipt for "a Negro man named Jack" purchased by the sheriff in 1774; a 1765 reference to a slave that Beriah Brown Jr. received; and a 1761 mention of a writ to arrest a "Negro man named Quacco"; a July 4 1771 warrant against "Seaser, a Negro", suspected of assault; and a mention on March 11, 1771, of "Henry Harry, Indian"; a 1770 sentence of Hannah Sias, "Indian Woman", to be whipped for stealing; and an interesting 1780 case involves an "Indian woman" pauper named Abigail Westcott from Block Island. A careful review of the entire collection would undoubtedly yield more.
The following are the deputations issued by Brown, with years of filing.
Matthew Allen 1769
William Babcock 1785
Nathaniel Barber 1764
Thomas Brand 1784, 1787, 1789
James Brayman, Jr. 1787, 1788
Beriah Brown, Jr. 1769, 1773, 1792
Nathaniel Burdick 1757
Joseph Cross 1778, 1780, 1781
Phineas Edwards 1785, 1786, 1788, 1789, 1790
Ezekiel Gardner, Jr. 1778
Francis Gardner 1791, 1792
Parris Gardner 1782, 1783, 1784
Jonathan Hazard 1784, 1785, 1786, 1788, 1792
George Jones 1789, 1790
Thomas Kinyon 1746
John Lad 1753
Elias Lewis 1783
Joseph Maxson 1769
Robert Moore 1754, 1755, 1763
Peleg Peckham 1785
Peter Phillips 1767
Robert Potter, Jr. 1790
Robert G. Sand 1786, 1787, 1788. 1790-1792
John Sheldon 1746
Palmer Sheldon 1769
Samuel Stanton 1782, 1783, 1784, 1786, 1789
Joseph Thurston 1792
William Vincent 1762, 1764, 1772
Beriah Waite 1783
Samuel Wells 1790, 1791
Thomas Wells 1771, 1772, 1773, 1782, 1784
There are also several apprenticeship papers, as follows:
1741 Jonathan Bly to Beriah Brown
1745 Warrant for William Sweet, runaway apprentice
1762 Josias Ceaser to Beriah Brown
1774 Solomon Ceaser to Beriah Brown Jr.
There are several estate inventories in the collection, some taken by Brown or his deputies in an official capacity, and some from the family.
Year Folder Name
1696 Hall Abiel Carpenter of Pawtuxet
1712 1710-1719 Francis West, will and testament (son Peter deeded land to Alexander Brown).
1717 1710-1719 Beriah Brown (grandfather of the sheriff)
1739 1735-1739 --- Eldred
1746 Sherman Abiel Sherman (father of Beriah Jr's wife)
1758 A. Brown Alexander Brown (father of the sheriff)
1765 Hall Robert Hall
1772 1772 Several unnamed estates auctioned by Beriah Brown Jr.
1777 1777 George Sweet
1777 1777 Charles Slocum
1790 1790 Esek Thurber
Finally, these are a few interesting documents not mentioned elsewhere, all filed chronologically:
1751 Death warrant for execution of Thomas Carter, with receipt from hangman.
1751 A list of the sheriff's children in his own hand, on the reverse of a summons.
1759 Oath against bribery.
1770 An arrest warrant for nine men who forcefully freed prisoners from a South Kingstown jail.
1776 Release of Christopher Brown from jail; debt paid by his brother Beriah Jr.
1780 Tax bill from town of Exeter listing all rates paid
1785 Notice to town treasurers giving them 30 days to collect taxes or be jailed
1791 Death warrant for Thomas Mount and James Williams to be hung.
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Provenance:
The provenance of the bulk of these papers is unknown. In 1882-1884, "Selections from the Sheriff Brown Papers" were published in the Narragansett Historical Register, but these seem to have been culled from a different group of papers entirely; their present location is unknown except for three items donated in 1964. A letter by R.I.H.S. librarian Clarkson Collins in reference to that gift states that "we have had a large collection of Beriah Brown manuscripts for a long time and recently were given more." Several small additions to the main body of papers were added from a variety of sources, as follows:
#1875.13.1 A 1775 writ was donated by Horatio N. Knowles as part of a gift of "ten miscellaneous manuscripts".
#1944.62.8.1-4 Four Beriah Brown documents were donated by Frederick S. Peck as part of the massive Peck Collection: a 1757 bond, a 1771 letter from Mary Borden, an 1785 bond as sheriff, and a 1756 pay order from the Committee of War.
#1959.55.5.1- Mrs. Ralph M. Sommerville donated "Papers of the Brown and Hall families" along with several museum artifacts of Beriah Brown. The museum pieces, including Brown's watch, cane, cufflink and purse, can likely still be found in the R.I.H.S. Museum Department.
#1964.45.1-16 Albert S. Larrabee donated 16 items that he had found in an old desk. These included three of the items that had been published in 1882.
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Processing note:
The papers are generally filed chronologically, in groups through 1744, and then by single years through Beriah's death in 1792. There are many running accounts, or documents created over several years, and these are filed in five-year groups according to the bulk of their dates, a somewhat arbitrary but unavoidable arrangement. There are several folders reserved for special topics, but in general a chronological format has been maintained. There are several undated manuscripts, and the more interesting of these have been separated into box 6, folder 9. All severely damaged manuscripts and fragments are also in separate folders.
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Inventory:
Box 1 (1710-1759)
1. 1710-1719
2. 1720-1729
3. 1730-1734
4. 1735-1739
5. 1740-1744
6-10. 1745-1748
11. Records of the sloop Elizabeth, 1748-1750
12-18. 1749-1754
19. Records of the Committee of War, 1755-1763
20-22. 1755-1757
23. Estate of Alexander Brown, 1758 onward.
24-25. 1758-1759
Box 2 (1760-1769)
1-10. 1760-1767
11. Records of the Susquehanna Company, 1768-1769
12. 1768-1769
Box 3 (1770-1774)
1-6. 1770-1774
Box 4 (1775-1779)
1. 1775
2. Revolutionary War documents
3-7. 1776-1779
8. Records of the privateer General Mifflin, 1779-1781
Box 5 (1780-1786)
1-9. 1780-1786
Box 6 (1787-1874)
1-6. 1787-1792
7. 1793-1800, mostly the estate of Beriah Brown.
8. 1800-1874, papers of Beriah Jr., Beriah 3rd, Isaac Hall, Amy Ann Hall, etc.
9. Undated materials of interest
10. Miscellaneous undated material (child's notebook, poetry clippings, receipts, etc.)
11. Severely damaged manuscripts, as follows:
Will of Alexander Brown, 1758
Financial records of Christopher Brown (son of Beriah), November of 1777
Public sale of land of George Hazard, 1772
Note paper, 1762
Receipt of money owed by Brown to the Colony, 1752
Note paper, 1773
12. Manuscript fragments
13. Letters of family or personal nature
14. Estate of Abiel Sherman 1746, and guardianship of Amy Sherman 1746-1765
15. Hall papers, 1696-1740
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Subjects:
African-Americans - Rhode Island - Washington County
Brown, Alexander (ca. 1690-1758)
Brown, Beriah (1714-1792)
Brown, Beriah Jr. (1744-1819)
Capital punishment - Rhode Island - Washington County
Carpenter, Abiel (d.ca.1696)
Courts - Officials and employees - Rhode Island - Washington County
Exeter, R.I. - Taxes
General Mifflin (ship)
Hall Family
Inferior Court of Common Pleas - Rhode Island - Washington County
North Kingstown, R.I. - Social life and customs
Privateering
Sheriffs - Rhode Island - Washington Co.
Sherman, Abiel (1723-1746)
Susquehanna Company
United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Washington County, R.I. Court of Common Pleas.
West, Francis (d.1724?)
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Beriah married Elizabeth SmithNorth Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Smith and Sarah Stafford) was born in 1719; was buried in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA, Cem. NK096 - Beriah Brown Farm Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beriah married Elizabeth Babcock on 11 Dec 1771. Elizabeth (daughter of George Babcock and Susannah Potter) was born on 25 Jan 1725 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; died on 24 Sep 1815; was buried in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 1BE8FE393A874FF79068EBAED3324518341F

Sarah married Asa Baker in Feb 1732. Asa (son of Thomas Baker, Jr. and Mary Ward) was born on 17 Feb 1710; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Joseph Dolover on 29 Apr 1750. Joseph was born in Unknown; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 358B299D6F534344B9205B791A69C19F5F5E

Anna married Mitchell Case on 1 Mar 1743 in Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. Mitchell (son of Joseph Case, Jr. and Elizabeth Mitchell) was born on 29 May 1722 in South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: DAB10851604B46BFBE0898B9530D3EE22BDE

Mary married Sanford Case about 1743 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. Sanford (son of Joseph Case, Jr. and Elizabeth Mitchell) was born in 1718 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Martha married John Lee on 13 Mar 1739. John was born on 27 Mar 1716 in East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 6822DDEC344D4EE5BDFB31369722E60ACFF9
• Alt. Death: Aft 1747

Abigail married John Thomas before 1742. John (son of George Thomas and Alice Gorton) was born in 1710; died in 1741. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married John Tillinghast on 21 Sep 1742 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. John (son of Pardon Tillinghast and Mary Keech) was born in 1690 in East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA; died on 21 Oct 1777 in West Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: FE853C643A1146F4AE736FA7A3132A9756EC

John married Elizabeth Eldred in 1750. Elizabeth (daughter of James Eldred) was born in 1729 in , , Rhode Island, USA; died on 30 Sep 1809 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 2B3F5F350ABF4276B1EB1C85C4D1347E034A
• Will: 15 May 1786

Charles married Mercy Sweet on 31 Dec 1744 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. Mercy (daughter of John Sweet and Catherine Whitford) was born in 1723 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; died after 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 207DCA68921F4DE9A57335FAB0447C2F9C27

Samuel married Alice Joslin on 10 Mar 1744 in North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA. Alice was born on 9 Jun 1720 in East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 7F5064328ED74DA2948F40BCE2EBD37CF45B
• Migrated: Abt 1765, Dudley, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
• Comment: 1786

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Comment:
Mentioned In Will Of Brother Charles

Alexander married Amitta Smith on 22 Jun 1757 in Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA. Amitta was born in 1730; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Hannah Kidder on 17 Aug 1775 in Dudley, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. Hannah was born on 8 Nov 1731 in Dudley, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Charlton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA, Barefoot Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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