John Sayles, II (immigrant)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 24 Jun 1670, Vineyard Island, Pawtucket, Providence Co, Rhode Island

Notes:

John Sailes name appears as a 25-acre man (so called) under date of 1646, and on The Roule of ye Freemen of Providence, 1655.
May 12, 1652, he bought land of Ralph Earle, that was Nathaniel Dickens, near West River. Same date, of William Wickenden, 2 poles square lying at the south side of Mr Sayles now home lot next unto the highway.

March 28, 1664, Daniel Williams petitioned for the right to make the same use of the highway between Mr. Sayles lot and Jane Powers lot as was granted Mr. Sayles. This highway is the present Power street.

April 28, 1654, he bought of Thomas Slow his right of 125 acres of upland, together with his meadow called Many Holes.

This meadow, Many Holes, was sold by his son John Sailes, Jun., Oct. 6, 1697, to his loveing Vncle Joseph Williams.

He was treasurer for the two towns on the main, 1653; General Assistant for Providence, 1653, '55, '57, '58, '59; Town Clerk, 1657; Town Treasurer, 1659; was No. 24 of those that drew lots.

Feb. 19, 1665-6; took the oath of allegiance
May 31, 1666, and witnessed the Roger Williams deed to the proprietors

Dec. 22, 1666. On the grand jury, 1669-71 ; member of the town council, 1670-71 ; and Deputy, 1669, 70, 71, 74-76. Was No. 25 of those that drew lots, April 12, 1675, and No. 18 in the drawing of May 24, 1675.

His homestead appears to have been just east of Mashapaug Pond, for on the 23d-of January, 1702-3, his son John Sailes, Jr., sold to Richard Phillips his dwelling house, with all his lands, etc., at a place called Mashapaug, containing about 122 acres, bounded west on Mashapaug Pond, south on Pawtuxet line, and east with a ridge of land (where the brook runs through the present Adelaide Grove), which was the bound between him and William Hopkins, reserving 2 poles square where several graves are contained and several persons are therein buried and lieing about 30 rods Norwestward from said dwelling house, with liberty of egress and regress.

The grave-stones of his wife, marked E. S. 1699, and his son, marked D. S. 1697, are still standing in this ground nearly opposite the Stonington R. R. Station at the foot of Earl st., 'on land now owned by Earl Carpenter & Sons. The house stood on the lot where Dr. F. N. Seabury now lives.

June 24, 1670, John Sailes, Sen., sold to Stephen Arnold a thirteenth of the island called the Vineyard at Pawtuxet, "which my fiather in law Mr. Roger Williams gave me."

Jan. 23, 1693-4, there was laid out to John Sailes, Jun., 35 acres, which he had of his grandfather Roger Williams, lieing east of his now dwelling house and bounded south with land formerly Robert Coles.

Nov. 10, 1702, Daniel Williams made a deed to John Sailes, Jun., of land which Roger Williams in his life time gave to his grand-son the said John Sailes.

John Sailes, Sen., married Mary Williams, the eldest daughter of Roger and Mary (Warnard) Williams, who was born at Plymouth the first week in August, 1633, and died 1699

The Narragansett Historical Register Vol 2

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JOHN SAYLES, son of John Sayles, of Manchester, England, was brought to this country, by his father, in 1635, at the age of two years, and, after living for a time at Portsmouth, RI, he came to Providence, where, about 1650, he married Mary Williams, daughter of Roger and Mary Williams, of Providence. In 1653 he was treasurer of the Assembly which met at Providence, May 16. In 1656 he 'entered an anker of liquor.' The same year he assisted Thomas Angell in rescuing a prisoner from the custody of a Massachusetts officer. In 1657 he was empowered 'to treat with the Indians that lay claim to the meadows of Lohusqussuck, and clear it for the town and the above mentioned be accommodated therein.' In 1677 he was fined twenty shillings for not attending grand jury. During the thirty years or thereabouts, from the time of his marriage till his death, he was at different times commissioner, town clerk, town treasurer, warden, grand juror, a member of the town council, and he was twelve times chosen assistant or deputy.
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Property:
June 24, 1670, John Sailes, Sen., sold to Stephen Arnold a thirteenth of the island called the Vineyard at Pawtuxet, ?which my fiather in law Mr. Roger Williams gave me.?

John married Mary Williams about 1651 in Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island. Mary (daughter of Calvinist Minister Roger Williams, (immigrant) and Mary Barnard) was born on 8 Mar 1633 in Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts; died in 1681 in Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island; was buried in Easton Lot, Middletown, Newport Co, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Sayles was born on 17 Jul 1652 in Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island; died in 1717 in Newport, Newport Co, Rhode Island; was buried in Easton Lot, Middletown, Newport Co, Rhode Island.
2. Phebe Sayles was born about 1662 in Providence Co, Rhode Island; died after 1690.
3. John Sayles, Jr. was born on 17 Aug 1764 in Providence Co, Rhode Island; died after 1720 in of, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island.
4. Elinor Sayles was born in abat 1672 in Providence Co, Rhode Island; died after 1700 in Kent Co, Rhode Island; was buried in Spring Greene Burial Ground, Warwick, Kent Co, Rhode Island.
5. Catherine Sayles was born in 1672 in Providence Co, Rhode Island; died on 21 Feb 1753 in Providence Co, Rhode Island; was buried in North Burial Ground, Providence Co, Rhode Island.