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Note for: William Greene, ABT 1768 - AFT 1 JUN 1850 Index
Individual Note: William is age 82 in the 1850 Federal Census, living at East Greenwich, RI, with Warren & Hitty Remington and Dexter & Ruth Remington.
Could he also be the William Greene, age 93, living at Providence in 1860? He is with Sarah Crapeman (?) age 43 or 63 (?).
Was he William Fones Greene, found in the RI Cemetery Database? (GREENE, William Fones 1768 - 1 Feb 1863 PV003) This Greene family needs more research. One online site has the wife of William Fones Greene as Abby Sheldon, not Elizabeth.
William & Elizabeth may have had another daughter, one named Sophia, b. 1797, d. 8 Nov 1865, md. Mr. Greene. (see RIVR, NS, V. 8, p. 301)
Also, I am not sure that Ruth belongs in this family group. Her death record says her parents are William & Elza. However, Elza may have been an abbreviation for Elizabeth. Also, it was not uncommon for two sisters to marry two brothers (Warren & Dexter Remington).
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Note for: Louisa Unknown, ABT 1838 - BEF 1858 Index
Individual Note: I have made an assumption that Louisa Remington, age 22, living with the family in 1860, is Alonzo's first wife; he later married Emily and had a son named Louis (or a daughter named Louisa, depending on which census data to believe).
However, Louisa could actually be Emily Louise Tillinghast. This needs more research to confirm.
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Note for: Mary Unknown, ABT 1778 - AFT 1 JUN 1860 Index
Individual Note: In the 1860 Federal Census, Mary Mowry is age 82, living with James & Mary Remington at East Greenwich. I have made an assumption that she is the mother of Mary (Mowry) Remington.
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Note for: Esther B. Remington, ABT 1824 - 26 OCT 1911 Index
Individual Note: I am making an assumption that Esther B. Remington, age 46, living with Peleg & Delanie in the 1870 Federal Census at Providence, is their daughter. (needs more research)
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Note for: Sarah Unknown, ABT 1762 - BEF 21 OCT 1843 Index
Individual Note: Sarah's name was obtained from the RI Death Index records of sons Dexter and Warren. She is not mentioned in Benedict's will, so it can be assumed that she had died.
Assuming that she was Benedict's wife when he applied for and received his Revolutionary War Pension, she was age 58 on 22 Aug 1820, when he gave a sworn statement.
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Note for: Ruth Greene, BET 1801 AND 1802 - 25 AUG 1866 Index
Individual Note: Ruth Remington is still living at East Greenwich in the 1860 Federal Census. With her is Almyra Briggs, age 48.
For the time being, I am making an assumption that she is a sister of Mahitable Greene, who married Dexter's brother Warren. Mahitable is a daughter of William & Elizabeth Greene. The death entry for Ruth says she is a daughter of William & Elza Greene. Elza may have been an abbreviation for Elizabeth. This Greene family needs more research.
If Ruth is in fact a daughter of this family, she may have been either a twin to Phebe, or else born in 1802.
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Note for: Charles Remington, ABT 1811 - ABT AUG 1828 Index
Individual Note: REMINGTON Charles, son of Phinehas, aged 17 years, killed by a jamb between two boats, at Charleston Bridge, Mass. (American of Sept. 2, 1828)
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Note for: Daniel Jackson, 23 JUL 1753 - 10 DEC 1833 Index
Individual Note: Notes from the web site of New England Historic Genealogical Society (newenglandancestors.org):
Daniel served in Sergeant in Gridley’s regiment Massachusetts Artillery, May-December ,1775, and in Knox’s regiment Continental Artillery, December 1775, until taken prisoner at Fort Washington, New York, 16 November 1776; exchanged 10 December 1776. The following sketch for his service in the Revolutionary War appears in Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (8:661-2).
Daniel Jackson, Lieutenant. Col. John Crane’s (Artillery) Regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; also, 2d Lieutenant, Capt. David Briant’s co., Col. Crane’s Regt.; muster rolls for March Sept., 1777; appointed March 1, 1777; also, 2d Lieutenant, Capt. Henry Burbeck’s co., Col. Crane’s Regt.; muster rolls for Oct.-Dec., 1777; also, Col. Crane’s Regt.; return of officers for clothing; receipt for said clothing, dated Boston, May 26, 1778, and signed by Col. Crane; also, same Regt.; return of officers for clothing, certified at Boston, Sept. 25, 1778; also, Lieutenant, Col. Crane’s Regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780, to Dec. 31, 1780; also, 1st Lieutenant, Col. Crane’s Regt.; list of officers who continued in service, as returned by Thomas Vose, Captain and Adjutant, dated Boston, Jan. 19, 1781; also, certificate dated Boston, July 12, 1781, signed by Thomas Walley and others, Committee, certifying that John Gridley and said Jackson served in Col. Crane’s (Artillery) Regt. and were entitled to wages for the last 3 months in 1780; Lieut. Col. John Popkin certifies that said men were in actual service at date of certificate; also, 1st Lieutenant, Col. John Crane’s (3d Artillery) Regt.; receipt given to Capt. Lieut. Knowles, signed by said Jackson and others, for subsistence money for June, 1782.
Daniel transferred to Corps of Artillery, 17 June 1783, and served to 3 November 1783. He was granted a Bounty Land Warrant 18 April 1796 which was later assigned to Jeremiah Mason; he later applied for a Soldier’s Pension 31 March 1818. [iii] After the war he went into the mercantile business in Watertown with his good friends, Captain Thomas Vose, and Capt. John George who were both Original Members of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. Daniel took his third degree in the Lodge of Saint Andrew, A.F.&A.M., Boston, 3 November 1797. He served as a Major in the 2nd Artillerists and Engineers, 4 June 1798, and in the Artillerists, 1 April 1802. He resigned 30 April 1803. Daniel served as the Warden of the State Prison in Charlestown, Massachusetts, for a number of years. He was termed ‘Esquire’ in Middlesex County deeds. Daniel was an Original Member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati from 1783 until 1833, and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati: 1803; 1807 through 1811; 1820-1831. He also served as the Society’s Vice President in 1832 and 1833.
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Note for: John Hobby, 1 DEC 1749 - 4 MAY 1802 Index
Individual Note: From the web site of New England Historic Genealogical Society:
The following sketch for his service in the Revolutionary War appears in Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (8:21).
John Hobby, Boston. List of men subscribing to regulations for formation of an Independent co. to be raised in Boston; officers of said Boston Independent co. commissioned in Council Dec. 7, 1776, Maj. Gen. John Hancock to serve as Colonel, Col. Henry Jackson to serve as Lieutenant Colonel; also, Private, Gen. John Hancock’s (Boston Independent) co. commanded by Lieut. Col. Henry Jackson; arrived at camp April 17, 1777; discharged May 5, 1777; service, 21¼ days; company marched from Boston to Rhode Island; also, Lieutenant, Col. Henry Jackson’s regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Feb. 1, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; also, Lieutenant, Capt. Thomas Cartwright’s co., Col. Jackson’s regt.; pay roll for Feb., 1778, dated Gulph Mills, Pa.; also, same co. and regt.; pay rolls for June-Aug., 1778; reported as in command of a company of grenadiers in July and Aug., 1778; also, Lieutenant, in command of a company, Col. Jackson’s regt.; pay rolls for July and Aug., 1778, dated Providence, for Sept., Nov. and Dec., 1778, Jan., and March, 1779, dated Pawtuxet; also, Captain Lieutenant, Colonel’s (1st) co., Col. Jackson’s regt.; muster roll for April, 1779, dated Pawtuxet; reported furloughed April 24, 1779, by Gen. Glover (also given Col. Jackson) for 30 days; also, Captain Lieutenant, in command of (1st) co., Col. Jackson’s regt.; company return dated Camp at Providence, July 9, 1779; also, same co. and regt.; pay roll for July, 1779, dated Camp Providence; also, Col. Jackson’s regt.; return of officers for clothing, dated Castle Island, Sept. 23, 1779; also, Captain Lieutenant, in command of Colonel’s co., Col. Jackson’s regt.; pay roll for Oct., 1779; also, Lieutenant, Col. Jackson’s regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780, to Dec. 31, 1780; also, return certified at Camp near Morristown, April 30, 1780, of officers and men belonging to Col. Lee’s, Col. Henley’s, and Col. Jackson’s Regts., and men belonging to Massachusetts in Col. Henry Sherburne’s regt., who were incorporated into a regiment under the command of Col. Henry Jackson, agreeable to the arrangement of April 9, 1779; rank, Lieutenant; residence, Boston; appointed Feb. 1, 1779; promoted to Captain Lieutenant April 24, 1779; also, Captain Lieutenant, in command of Colonel’s co., Col. Jackson’s regt.; pay rolls for April-July, 1780; also, Captain, Col. Jackson’s regt.; return of officers, dated Boston, Dec. 7, 1780; also, Captain, Maj. Porter’s detachment from 3d Mass. regt.; returns of effectives between July 11 and July 31, 1783.
He was later retained in Colonel Henry Jackson’s Continental regiment, November 3, 1783, and served to June 20, 1784. John and Hannah Hobby acknowledged the Covenant, First Church, Falmouth (later Portland), Maine, 17 September 1786. John Hobby of Portland, merchant, bought a lot of land there for £150 on 22 July 1788, from Eliphalet Dana of Portland, trader [ii] ; John Hobby of Portland, Esquire, bought a tenement there on 2 December 1791, from Samuel and Sarah Shelton of Boston [iii] ; John was appointed United States Marshal for the District of Maine, 19 April 1793; served through 1798. John was elected a member of Portland Lodge, A.F.&A.M. in 1795. Financial misfortune began overtaking him in 1800, as shown when he, with his wife, Hannah, consenting, were obliged to sell several lots of land in Portland for $1,000. on December 2 to Robert Boyd of Portland; Lucy Hobby was a witness. [iv] His creditors closed in on him soon after, and later, on 29 November 1801, he wrote a letter to his brethren of the Cincinnati from the Portland jail informing them that he had been in prison six months for debt and was ‘in very poor health and low spirits’. They secured his release speedily. Francis Dana of Cambridge, Esquire, for $1.00 cancelled all his rights in a mortgage he held on the house and grounds of John Hobby, Esquire, late of Portland, deceased, on 15 May 1802, so that John’s widow, Hannah, could continue living there. Mr. Dana did this because of his ‘warm friendship for them both’. John and Hannah had bought the house and grounds from him on a mortgage, October 5, 1793. [v] Hannah wrote the Society 14 January 1803, that she had three children to support. The United States of America (in the person of the United States Marshal of the District of Maine) recovered judgment in court from Hannah Hobby, widow of and administratrix on the estate of John Hobby, Esquire, late of Portland, deceased, of $5,960.00 on September 8, 1804. The government collected $2,098.50, all Hannah possessed, on 16 October 1804. [vi]
John was an Original Member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati from 1783 until 1802. He was granted a Bounty Land Warrant 16 April 1792. [vii] His obituary appeared in The Columbian Centinel, 12 May 1802.
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Note for: Molly Morse, ABT 1760 - BET 1785 AND 1790 Index
Individual Note: 1780 MORSE Molly of Southborough, and Andrew Adams, in Southborough, Dec. 10, 1780 (int., Dec. 25, 1780). Marriage Northbridge
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Note for: Elizabeth Palmer Randall, ABT 1816 - AFT 1 JUN 1880 Index
Individual Note: The marriage reference says her name was "Eliphalet Randall, d. of Job, of Cranston." (newenglandancestors.org) I think it likely that her name was Elizabeth, and was misread in the transcription.
A family tree at Rootsweb's Worldconnect has her name as Elizabeth Palmer Randall, so I have added her middle name as Palmer, pending verification. Her great-grandmother was Bethiah (Palmer) Randall (see notes for her). "Elizabeth P. Randall" is mentioned by name as a granddaughter in the 5 Jan 1835 will of Patience Randall of Cranston, RI. The will also mentions a son named Job. (RI Genealogical Register, Vol. 10, p. 52, Cranston Wills)
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Note for: George Nelson Jenckes, 16 MAR 1821 - 15 JUL 1877 Index
Burial:
Place: Jenckes Lot, Mathewson St., Graniteville, RI
Individual Note: In the 1850 Federal Census, George N. Jencks is living in North Providence, RI, with his wife Eliza, son George, and (probably) mother Susan. In the 1870 Federal Census, George & Eliza are living in the Olneyville section of Johnston (now Providence), RI. In the household are Eleanor, 21; Josephine, 18; Daniel, 15; and Mary Sweet, 64.
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Note for: Susan Briggs, 8 FEB 1793 - 21 JUL 1851 Index
Burial:
Place: Rockland Lot, Plainfield Pike, Scituate, RI
Individual Note: In the 1850 Federal Census, "Susan Jencks" is age 56, living with her son George, and his wife and son in North Providence, RI.