Sarah Smith

Sarah married Chad Brown about 1730 in Rhode Island. Chad was born on 13 Oct 1705 in Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island; died after 1741 in of, Glocester, Providence Co, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dorcas Brown was born about 1730 in Providence Co, Rhode Island; died after 1759.
2. Elisha Brown was born in 1732 in Rhode Island; died after 1780.
3. Mary Brown was born on 12 Dec 1740 in Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts; died on 22 Sep 1808 in Farmington, Ontario Co, New York.

Elisha married Experience (aka Patience) Mowry about 1702 in Smithfield, Providence Co, Rhode Island. Experience (daughter of Nathaniel Mowry and Joanna Inman) was born about 1680; died after 1710 in of, Smithfield, Providence Co, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 10 Jun 1695, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island

Notes:

Other-Begin:
p.240-242 Samuell Comestock sells to Jonathan Whipple for 25 pounds, 60 acres with all Meadow grounds, through which tract there is a common highway marked out by the surveyor of the Town of Providence. Near Wallings farm, bounded by John Browns land, corner of John Smiths land (deceased). "Sufficiently Saved & Kept harmeless .... Dowryes, Power & Thirds of Elizabeth his now wife" 10 Jun 1695. Witnessed by Thomas Olney, William Olney.

John married Sarah Whipple about 1662 in Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island. Sarah (daughter of Captain John Whipple, (Immigrant) and Sarah Hutchinson, (Immigrant)) was born on 28 Feb 1642 in of, Pawtucket, Providence Co, Rhode Island; died after 12 May 1710 in Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 12 May 1710, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island

Notes:

Other-Begin:
p.380-381 Sarah Arnold, Widdow & Relict of the late deceased Richard Arnold on the one Party & Richard Arnold, John Arnold, & Thomas Arnold Sones of the aforesd Richard Arnold.
Whereas she received by last will & Testament of Richard Arnold two lotts in Providence with Orchard & dwellinghouse, but she cannot because of age improve said to any advantage, relinquishes to Richard, John, and Thomas, Executors, provided they pay her 8 Pounds on or before the 29th of May in every year during her natural life, or the lotts revert back to her. 12 May 1710. Signed Sarah (her X mark) Arnold, Richard Arnold, John Arnold, Thomas Arnold. Witnessed by Jos. Jenckes junr., Samuell Comestock. Recorded Jun 3, 1710.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 1667, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island
• Other-Begin: 16 Mar 1711, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island
• Will: 31 Mar 1718, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island

Notes:

Other-Begin:
Gerhom Walling became his apprentice in 1667.

Events leading to this:
October of 1666 Thomas Walling (Gerhom's father) was found guilty of assault on Robert Colwell and paid a bond of 20 pounds, but he failed to appear in court and forfeited his bond. It turned out that he had run away with Colwell's wife Margaret White, whom Colwell subsequently Divorced.

The Early Records of the Town of Providence also tell a story of trouble:

For asmuch as Thomas Walling, formerly inhabitant of this Towne of providence; hath departed this towne, the Towne being doubtfull of his return to take care for the Releife of the wife and child which he hath left in the Towne: This to signiffie unto all persons, that the town hath seized into their handes and Secured, all the estate of the said Thomas Walling......

There are several entries about the absence of Thomas. Mary
petitions the town to be relieved of the care of an apprentice named Daniel Comstock, as she can no longer care for him. During the same year she also apprentices her own son Gerhom to Nathaniel Mowry. The entries about the apprenticeships are dated 1667, the same year as the Divorce of Margaret and Robert Colwell. Mary dies in 1669 and Thomas reappears to marry Margaret Colwell.

In Apr 1668, Thomas Walling joined in a partnership of a land purchase of 2000 acres from the Indians with Edward Inman, Nathaniel Mowry's grandfather.

(see notes of Ann (Tucker) Comstock Smith)


Other-Begin:
Vol.XVII p.424-425 16 Mar 1710/11. Dividing run between John Sayles & Nathaniell Mawrey between their homestead farms. Signed by both. Witnessed by Samuell Comestock and Richard Phillipps. Recorded Aprill the 6th 1711 by Tho. Olney, Clerk.

Will:
Vol.XVI, p.50-52. Samuel Comstock, Jr. and John Mowre appraised the estate of Jathaniel Mawrey who died 24 Mar 1718. Date of appraisal was 31 Mar 1718. Nathaniel's son Joseph was Executor.

Nathaniel married Joanna Inman on 28 Sep 1666 in Providence Co, Rhode Island. Joanna (daughter of Edward* Inman, Sr (immigrant) and Elizabeth* Hopkins, (immigrant)) was born on 16 Sep 1646 in Shawomet Settlement, Providence Co, Rhode Island ; died in Mar 1717 in Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: Between 1682 and 1702, Wesquadmosett Purchase, or Sayles Hill, Providence Co, Rhode Island
• Other-Begin: 27 Dec 1695

Notes:

Marriage(s) need to be verified. (see note of her brother John)

Property:
large chunks of her father's properties divided amongst children.

Other-Begin:
1695, December 27: Edward Inman Sr. witnessed the deed of his daughter, Joanna Mowry and her husband, Nathaniel Mowry 1695 (ERP V:107).
"The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1633" by Robert Charles Anderson; New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; 1995 (974.A549 LAPL) (F7.G74 1995 CSL)

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wrandall&id=I2096

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: North Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island

Notes:

John Whipple (c. 1617 - 1685)[2] was an early settler of Dorchester in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who later settled in Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, where the family became well established.

The first mention of Whipple's name in colonial records was in October 1632 when he was ordered to pay a small fine to his master, Israel Stoughton, for wasting powder and shot.[2] In 1637 he received a grant of land in Dorchester, and in 1641 he and his wife joined the church there. During the next 17 years, he raised a large family in Dorchester, where eight of his 11 children were baptized.[2] In 1658 he sold his homestead and lands in Dorchester and moved with his family to Providence, where he was received as a purchaser on 27 July 1659.

In February 1665 he was given a lot in a division of lands, and the following year took an oath of allegiance in Providence.[2] In 1666 he served as a deputy to the General Assembly, a position he held for seven of the next 11 years.[2] In 1669 and again in 1670 he was paid for allowing the Providence Town Council to meet at his house,[3] probably referring to his tavern for which he was later granted a license in 1674.[2] He held a number of positions in Providence, including treasurer in 1668, surveyor in 1670 and 1671, selectman in 1670 and 1674, and moderator in 1676.

The year 1675 brought the most devastating event to afflict Rhode Island for the entire colonial period when King Phillips War erupted, bringing the bulk of its destructive force on the Rhode Island colony. All of Warwick and Pawtuxet were destroyed, and much of Providence was as well. As the war wound down in 1676, Indian captives were given as slaves to those residents who remained during the war, and on 14 August 1676 Whipple was so entreated as being one of those "who staid and went not away."[2]

Whipple wrote his will on 8 May 1682, and it was proved three years later on 27 May 1685. His wife had died in 1666, aged about 42,[1] and he and his wife were buried on their own land, but were later moved to the North Burial Ground after its opening in 1700.[2]
(Wikipedia)

Residence:
Eighteenth-century settlement was sparse with most
of what is North Providence today divided into five farms
held by Richard Pray, John Smith, Epenetus Olney, John
Whipple and Thomas Angell. The earliest surviving dwellings
are one-and-a-half-story, gable- or gambrel-roofed struc
tures with massive brick chimneys dating from the middle of
the eighteenth century.

Historic and Architectural Resources
of North Providence, Rhode Island:
A Preliminary Report
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PRELIMINARY SURVEY REPORT
TOWN OF NORTH PROVIDENCE
APRIL 1978
http://www.preservation.ri.gov/pdfs_zips_downloads/survey_pdfs/north_providence.pdf

John married Sarah Hutchinson, (Immigrant) about 1641. Sarah was born in 1624 in Dorcester, Braintree, Essex, England; died in 1666 in Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island; was buried in North Burial Ground, Providence Co, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1631, "Lion," Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts
• Residence: Bef 1646, Lynn, Essex Co, Massachusetts
• Property: 1658, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island
• Property: 23 Nov 1660, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island
• Property: 4 May 1661, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island

Notes:

Property:
Event: Land Purch 15 JAN 1658 Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island,,
?Note: bought a home and four acres from Robert Crowell 6
?Event: Land Sale 19 MAR 1658/59
*Note: sold the house and four acrece purchased in 1658 to Thomas Olney, Sr. of Providence

Property:
Land Purch 23 NOV 1660
Henry Neale of Braintree, carpenter, sold to Mowry everything
he had in Providence, including his house, which had been
purchased from Daniel Comstock


Property:
Vol I, p.58-59 4 May 1661 Anne Smith, widow, formerly wife unto John Smith and also unto Samuel Comstock sold to Roger Mawrey the house and home share of land (4 acres) which formerly belonged to John Smith, mason, and was purchased of the said John Smith by her husband Samuel Comstock. Land bounded on the North with home share of Robert Colwell and on the South by Roger Mawrey.

Roger married Mary Johnson about 1639. Mary (daughter of John Johnson and Mary Heath) was born about 1620 in England; died in 1678 in Rehoboth, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: Bef 1671, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island

Notes:

Property:
Early Records of the Town of Providence
Vol. III:206-7 7 Mar 1671 Deed of sale. Stephen Paine of Rehoboth sold to Samuel Whipple three house lots, with a dwelling house, and all of the out housing standing upon the lots, which Stephen Paine purchased from Mary Mowry, executor of the estate of her deceased husband Roger Mowry. One lot originally belonged to Daniel Comstock, one to John Smith, and one to Richard Prey, all of Providence. Also one right of commoning, one 25 acre right of commoning both reaching westward as the seven mile line. [Rec. 21 Sep 1671]

(this is the land purchased by her husband Roger Mowry from Ann Comstock Smith in 1661)

The Early Records of the Town of Providence:
Vol I, p.58-59 4 May 1661 Anne Smith, widow, formerly wife unto John Smith and also unto Samuel Comstock sold to Roger Mawrey the house and home share of land (4 acres) which formerly belonged to John Smith, mason, and was purchased of the said John Smith by her husband Samuel Comstock. Land bounded on the North with home share of Robert Colwell and on the South by Roger Mawrey.

discussion from http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~katy/comstk/b290.html

When Mary Mowry, widow of Roger & Administrator of his estate sold property to
Stephen Paine of Rehoboth [senior] in New Plimouth Colony, there was a better description of the property of Samuel Comstock. Mary Mowry sold three house Lotts or home Shares, one originally belonging to Daniel Comstock, another belonged to John Smith, the third belonged to Richard Prey. The lots with housing are in"the north part of ...Towne of Providence. Bounding on the south side the home share of Lawrance Willkenson; the north with a home share formerly belonging to Edward Inman, on the East with the Common, or high way & on the west End with the high way, or Towne streete. She also sold to Stephon Paine, one puchase Right of Commoning within the limits of the Towne of Providence, reading so far west ward as the seven mile line and a 25 acres right of Commoning reaching so far West as the said seven mile, and the lands that belonged to the said two Rights of Comming on the East side the seven mile line which was not devided before my said husband Roger "Mawrey" his decease.
1 Sep 1671
Early Record of Providence, Vol. III, p.209-213

2 Sept 1671 Stephen Paine of Rehoboth of Plimouth, sold to Samuel Whipple of Rhode Island & Providence Planatation, three house lots or home shares with dwellings and out houses, in the north part of the Town of Providence. Bounded on the South with the home share of Lawrence Wilkenson, the north by Edward Inman, the East by the Common, or highway, and on the West with the high way, or Town Street. They were purchased by me of Mary Mawrey, Executrix of her deceased husband Roger Mawrey. One of the lots originally belonged to Daniel Comstock, former inhabitant, another to John Smith, inhabitant of Providence, the third did belong to Richard Prey of Providence. Vol. III, p.206-209

John Smith, the Mason, had sold his house lot to Samuel Comstock in 1654. In 1661, Anne, widow first of Samuel, then widow of John Smith, son of the John, the mason, had sold it to Roger Mowry in 1661.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: Bef 1648, Providence Co, Rhode Island
• Residence: Jun 1648, Warwick, Kent Co, Rhode Island
• Residence: Sep 1648, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts
• Residence: Oct 1651, Providence, Co, Rhode Island
• Other-Begin: Mar 1652, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island; signed Oath of Allegiance
• Property: Between 1666 and 1682, North Smithfield, Providence Co, Rhode Island
• Property: 14 May 1666, North Smithfield, Providence Co, Rhode Island; Inman Plantation, 2000 acres
• Property: Sep 1666, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island
• Property: Apr 1668, North Smithfield, Providence Co, Rhode Island
• Property: May 1669, North Smithfield, Providence Co, Rhode Island; Inman Plantation, 500 acres
• Other-Begin: Jun 1674, Wesquadmosett Purchase, or Sayles Hill, Providence Co, Rhode Island; silver mine
• Other-Begin: Between 1675 and 1678, Newport, Rhode Island; during King Philips War
• Property: Between 1682 and 1702, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island
• Other-Begin: 27 Dec 1695

Notes:

March1989
EARLY RHODE ISLAND SETTLERS

EDWARD INMAN

Ruth L May
Edward Inman arrived in Providence before 1648, a mature person and in possession of enough money to purchase land. He was probably married by 1644 and the name of his first wife remains unknown. He is one of those men who signed the 25 acre agreement at Providence twice. The first signatures were entered in 1645.
In June 1648 he was at Warwick; in the fall of the same year the birth of his oldest son, John, was recorded at Braintree, MA. By October 1651 he was back in Providence, and on 7 March 1651/2 was one of twelve men signing the Providence Oath of Allegiance. The Oath renewed the signers' allegiance to the Commonwealth, a period when England under Cromwell was without a king or a House of Lords. It was a time when there were great tensions between the towns in Rhode Island concerning what form their government ought to take, which town would have most power, and what their relationship with England should be. The men of Providence were determined to maintain their independence.

Edward Inman became a freeman in 1655, and was a Commissioner at the General Court held at Portsmouth in March 1658. He was a Deputy for Providence in 1666, 1667, 1668, 1672, 1674, and 1676-1678. He often served as a juryman at the General Court at its meetings in Portsmouth, Newport, and Warwick.

In the earliest years he lived at the northern edge of Providence near the Moshassuck River, with Roger Mowry, Thomas Harris, Richard Pray, Robert Col well, James Bradish, John Smith (perhaps the miller), George Way, and John Clausen as neighbors. In 1663 he and Thomas Hopkins gave bond to the town of Providence for any money used in the relief of Joanna Hazard.

On 17 December 1664 he was one of seven men chosen to levy the rate for taxes. In early 1665 he drew lot no.73 in the division of land on the east side of the seven mile line. On the same day it was ordered that Edward Inman's land about 1½ miles beyond Loquaqussuck be recorded,"it being upon the first brook that runeth into the Pawtucket River." His name is mentioned twice in the letters of Roger Williams, once in 1661 in regard to the death of John Clausen and again in 1677 as "a person with the right to dispose of all or parts of the Narragansetts, Coweset and Nipmuk lands."

On 14 May 1666, Edward Inman and John Mowry (son of Roger Mowry) purchased 2000 acres of land from William Minnion of a Punkapog , chief sachem of the Massachusetts Indians. In May 1669 Edward Inman purchased another 500 acres from William Minnion and this deed was ratified by King Philip, Joseph Minnion's widow, Keapam and William Minnion's uncle, Jeffrey. The deeds covered a large part of what is now North Smithfield. Subsequent deeds show that 3500 acres be came a part of what was known as the Inman Plantation or Inman's Purchase.

In September 1666 he sold his house and eleven acres of land in northern Providence to Stephen Paine of Rehoboth, Mass., and that year his daughter Joanna married Nathaniel, son of Roger Mowry.

By April 1668 Nathaniel Mowry, Thomas Walling, and John Steere had become partners of Edward Inman and John Mowry. In 1672 James Blackmar, William Buckman, and John Buckman of Rehoboth also bought land in the Purchase from Edward Inman and John Mowry. From 1666 to 1682 the only land purchases in most of North Smithfield were controlled by Edward Inman and his associates.

He apparently did not seek the consent of Providence concerning the purchase, for the deeds were recorded at Newport and it was not long before tensions between Edward Inman, his associates, and the men of Providence began to surface. King Philip's War probably delayed any settlement of their problems. It appears that only John Mowry and Thomas Wailing of those associates remained in Providence during the war. Edward Inman must have spent this time in Newport, for it was there that he married (second) Barbara Phillips, widow of Michael Phillips.

Edward Inman was a glover by trade, as was Barbara's oldest son, John. Her youngest children probably moved with the family to a home at what the Indians called Wesquadmosett in the area of what later became Sayles' Hill.

In June of 1675 the second precious metal mine (silver) in the Colony was recorded. The Crown had no interest in it and it was located somewhere in the Wesquadmosett Purchase. Edward Inman, Stephen Arnold, William Hopkins, John Mowry, James Blackmar, John Whipple Jr., Benjamin Buckman, and John Buckman signed the agreement as equal partners.

At a Providence Town Meeting in 1682, Arthur Fenner, Richard Arnold, William Hopkins, John Whipple Jr., and Thomas Olney Jr. were empowered by the town to resolve the problems between the town and Edward Inman and his associates. During the next twenty years a large portion of the Purchase was divided between John and Edward Inman, Jr., sons of Edward Inman, and his step-children, John, Richard, and James Phillips, and Mice (Phillips) Clarke and the large family of Nathaniel and Joanna (Inman) Mowry. His energy must have turned to his trade, land, and family, because his name disappears from Providence politics. His home at Wesquadmosett was sold to John Sayles in 1702 and in August of 1706 he was called deceased.

Children:

i. JOANNA, b. ca. 1644, d. 1718; m. in 1666 NATHANIEL MOWRY, son of Roger.

ii. JOHN, b. 18 July 1648; d. 6 August 1712; m. ca. 1669 MARY WHITMAN.

iii. EDWARD, b. 1654; d. June 1735; m. ca. 1678 ELIZABETH BENNETT.

iv. ? FRANCIS (Prov. Rec. XV:155-6).

References: John O. Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (rep. ed., Baltimore, 1978); Richard LeBaron Bowen, The Providence Oath of Allegiance and Its Signers (Providence, 1943); Early Records of the Town of Providence (21 vols.); Thomas Steere, History of North Smithfield (Providence, 1881); Walter Nebiker, History of North Smithfield (North Smithfield, 1976); Roger Williams, "A Lost Tract," Rhode Island Historical Tracts, no.14; Rhode Island Land Evidence, Vol 1 (Baltimore, 1970).


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Property:
From many land deals, during this period the only land purchases in most of North Smithfield were controlled by Edward Inman and his associates.
John Mowry
Nathaniel Mowry
Thomas Walling (or Wailing)
John Steere
James Blakmar
William Buckman
John Buckman of Rehoboth


Property:
Purchased with John Mowry (son of Roger Mowry)


Property:
sold house, 11 acres to Stephen Paine of Rehoboth, Mass.



Property:
In April 1668, Thomas Walling was a partner in Edward Inman's purchase of 2000 acres of land from "the Indians" in the area that is now North Smithfield, Rhode Island.

Thomas Walling was neighbor of Samuel Comstock. Also was fined for fornication with Ann Smith, possibly the Ann Smith who was Samuel Comstock's mother and widow of John Smith.

Thomas Walling m (1) Mary Abbot and (2) Margaret White


Other-Begin:
In June of 1675 the second precious metal mine (silver) in the Colony was recorded. The Crown had no interest in it and it was located somewhere in the Wesquadmosett Purchase. Edward Inman, Stephen Arnold, William Hopkins, John Mowry, James Blackmar, John Whipple Jr., Benjamin Buckman, and John Buckman signed the agreement as equal partners.

Property:
At a Providence Town Meeting in 1682, Arthur Fenner, Richard Arnold, William Hopkins, John Whipple Jr., and Thomas Olney Jr. were empowered by the town to resolve the problems between the town and Edward Inman and his associates. During the next twenty years a large portion of the Purchase was divided between John and Edward Inman, Jr., sons of Edward Inman, and his step-children, John, Richard, and James Phillips, and Mice (Phillips) Clarke and the large family of Nathaniel and Joanna (Inman) Mowry.

Other-Begin:
1695, December 27: Edward Inman Sr. witnessed the deed of his daughter, Joanna Mowry and her husband, Nathaniel Mowry 1695 (ERP V:107).
"The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1633" by Robert Charles Anderson; New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; 1995 (974.A549 LAPL) (F7.G74 1995 CSL)
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wrandall&id=I2096

Edward* married Elizabeth* Hopkins, (immigrant) on 16 Sep 1646. Elizabeth* was born about 1625 in of, Yeovilton, Somersetshire, England; died before 1674 in Providence Co, or Newport Co, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
source for Elizabeth Hopkins:
1: Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Book: 974.5D26a

2: The Descendants of John Mowry of Rhode Island: Book: 929.273 M872; 1646, September 16: Joanna, a daughter of Edward and Elizabaeth (Hopkins) Inman

Notes:

Married:
source: The Descendants of John Mowry of Rhode Island:
Book: 929.273 M872; 1646, September 16: Joanna, a daughter of Edward and Elizabaeth (Hopkins) Inman