Benjamin Smith

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• FamilySearch ID: LZP7-NSX
• Initiatory (LDS): 28 Jun 1935, SGEOR

Benjamin married Mary Winsor on 26 Nov 1738 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Mary (daughter of Reverend Joshua Winsor and Mary Barker) was born on 18 Dec 1718 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died on 30 Apr 1830 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; was buried in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Smith was born on 14 Feb 1740 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died on 31 Mar 1798 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
2. Susanna Smith was born on 20 Nov 1742 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died before May 1771 in Rhode Island, United States.
3. Mary Smith was born on 16 May 1745 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
4. Alice Smith was born on 15 Dec 1747 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died on 10 Mar 1824 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; was buried in Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Scituate #209, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
5. Benjamin Smith was born on 20 Oct 1753 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died on 27 Dec 1781 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; was buried in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
6. Daniel Smith was born in 1755 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died on 27 May 1835 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; was buried in Burrillville, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
7. Christina Smith was born about 1751; died about 3 May 1823 in Killingly, Windham, Connecticut, United States.

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• FamilySearch ID: MJSP-197
• Initiatory (LDS): 13 May 1940, PROVO

John married Martha Mowry on 8 May 1718 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Martha (daughter of Nathaniel Mowry and Johanna Inman) was born after 1690 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died on 21 Sep 1778 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: G6FF-542
• Initiatory (LDS): 21 Feb 1883, SGEOR

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• FamilySearch ID: LRQZ-L9S
• Initiatory (LDS): 15 Apr 1937, SLAKE

Notes:

SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island_ ( A lbany, N.Y., 1887; reprinted. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1 97 8) p. 222.

Death: Place now called North Providence. Genealogies of Rhode Island Fa m ilies from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1 98 3), 2:17.

SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," Submitted to the Whipp l e Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003.

SOURCE: Will, dated 20 Jan 1749, proved 25 May 1751. Abstracted in Lucil l e B. Beaman, "Abstracts of Providence, Rhode Island, Wills," Rhode Isla n d Genealogical Register, vol. 4, no. 2 (Oct 1981), p. 156.

SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber (REWeber at sprague-d a tabase dot org) to Weldon Whipple, 23 Oct 1997)

Benjamin married Mercy Angell on 12 Apr 1693 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Mercy (daughter of John Angell and Ruth Field) was born on 10 Feb 1675 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died on 3 Sep 1721 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; was buried in North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LRQZ-PYH
• Initiatory (LDS): 22 Sep 1899, SGEOR

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SOURCE: "John Smith, the Miller, of Providence Rhode Island: Some of H i s Descendants," by Charles William Farnham, in Genealogies of Rhode Isl an d Families from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub . Co , 1983), 2:17.

SOURCE: Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-19 1 0 (Boston: NEHGS, 1992), p. 134.

SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," Submitted to the Whipp l e Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003.

SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber (REWeber at sprague-d a tabase dot org) to Weldon Whipple, 23 Oct 1997). Gives name as Mary (Me rc y) Angell.

SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to the Whipple Web Site , 2 0 N o v 1997. Gives name as Mercy Angell.

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• FamilySearch ID: LKVP-NHN
• Initiatory (LDS): 9 Jan 1889, MANTI

Nathaniel married Johanna Inman on 28 Aug 1666 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Johanna (daughter of Edward Inman and Elizabeth Hopkins) was born on 28 Aug 1646 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States; died in 1718 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LRL9-WXG
• Initiatory (LDS): 5 Oct 1995, SLAKE

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• FamilySearch ID: LLW3-5BY
• Initiatory (LDS): 4 Nov 1906

Notes:

SOURCE: Charles M. Whipple, Jr., Sons and Daughters of Jesse: A 360 Ye a r History of the Whipple Family (Oklahoma City: Southwestern Press, 197 6) , p. 12.

SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island _ ( A lbany, N.Y., 1887; reprinted. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co ., 1 978) p. 222

SOURCE: "John Smith, the Miller, of Providence Rhode Island: Some of H i s Descendants," by Charles William Farnham, in Genealogies of Rhode Isl an d Families from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub . Co ., 1983), 2:6.

SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consistin g o f Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and E l iza b eth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 44.

SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," Submitted to the Whipp l e Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003. Gives death 1682.

Death: Place from "Sam" Behling's Whipple Home Page, http://www.geocitie s .com/Heartland/Meadows/7116/whipple.html, 3 Oct 1997.

Birth: Date (1640) from http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/4113/W h ipple.html. Russ Bruce (russbruce at aol dot com), in email to Weldo n W h i pple dated 23 Jan 1998, gives date as 1639.

SOURCE: "Direct Descendants of John Smith, Jr.," email from N. Com b s t o Weldon Whipple, 6 Jul 2007. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 16 36 -17 50.

SOURCE: "Direct Descendants of Sarah Whipple ," email from N. Comb s to W eldon Whipple, 20 Feb 2012. Confirms information Submitted previo u s ly , except that birth place is given as of Providence, Providence, RI ; m a rriage is given as about 1660.

John married Sarah Whipple in 1659 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Sarah (daughter of Captain John Whipple and Sarah) was born on 2 Feb 1642 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; was christened on 6 Feb 1642 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; died after 12 May 1710 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: L5LK-M61
• Initiatory (LDS): 13 Feb 1918, SLAKE

Notes:

SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island_ ( A lbany, N.Y., 1887; reprinted. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1 97 8) p. 221.

SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consistin g o f Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and El izab eth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 44.

SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple Jr. to Weldon Whipple, 26 Jan 200 5 . Extends Sarah's death date to sometime after 12 May 1710. Charles wri te s:

The (Aft 12 May 1710) death date for Sarah is taken from The Early Recor d s of the Town of Providence, 21 vols, collected and compiled by the Rec or ds Commissioners (Providence: Snow & Farnham, city printers, 1892 -191 5 ) XX:380-81. This wt the occasion of the distribution of her second hus ba nd's property after his death. She is described as "aged and unable t o ha ndle her own affairs." Ostensibly, her own death was not long afte r that.


SOURCE: "Direct Descendants of Sarah Whipple ," email from N. Comb s to W eldon Whipple, 20 Feb 2012. Cites John Smith, The Miller of Provide nce , RI (adds birth date and place).

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• FamilySearch ID: LZ83-8HY
• Initiatory (LDS): 1 Mar 1898, SGEOR

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Summary of the life of JOHN ANGELL
Information was taken from Roots Web:

John was born ca 1646 in Providence, Rhode Island. In Providence on Janu a ry 7, 1669/70, John was married by Thomas Olney to Ruth Field, who resi de d in Field's Point, two miles below Providence on the west side of th e ri ver. Ruth was the daughter of John Field and his wife, whose name i s unkn own, and she was born in Providence ca 1649.

Family tradition has it that John was a man of large frame and possess e d of great physical strength. A great-grandson, Enoch Angell, state d a fa mily tradition on February 13, 1820 that "My great grandfather, Jo hn, wa s said to be a man of enormous strength, having on one occasion ni ne bush els of pears on his old mare, and she would not carry them, he to ok the m on his own back and carried them, which seems incredible. He sai d he on ce attempted to carry four bushels of salt up stairs, but the sta irs brok e down and he was injured by the fall."

John took the oath of allegiance in June 1668. He was admitted freema n o f the town of Providence October 16, 1670.

For a few years he cultivated the Daniel Jenckes farm, five miles from P r ovidence, towards Lime Rock, on the Lewisquisit turnpike, after whic h h e moved to Providence where he continued in the farming business thro ug h life.

John was permitted to pay a small fee to exchange the 60 acres of land w h ich his father gave him on the plain between John Field's meadow on Sma ll brooke and Wanasquatuckett River for land elsewhere on the common Octo be r 27, 1666.

As opportunity presented itself, John made useful purchases of land an d h ousing, obviously with an eye to providing for his five sons. On Janu ar y 6, 1693/4, John purchased 89 acres of land in Providence from Willia m S mith, cordwainer of Providence, who shortly thereafter left town. H e purc hased 58 acres and housing from Pardon Tillinghast on Mary 3, 1695 . Neith er of these deeds was recorded until a decade later when John pas sed th e land on to his sons.

John purchased 56 and a half acres from Elisha Arnold on June 1, 1702. L a nd laid out to John Angell on November 9, 1702 included 50 acres near C ap tain Arnold's new mill with an allowance for a highway, and land Joh n ha d bought from Thomas Harris, as well as 10 acres John had from Willi am Ho pkins on exchange for six and a half acres in the Neck.

John presented a bill to the Providence Town Council on June 1, 1674, co m plaining about the lack of a highway near Thomas Walling's land. A high wa y was laid out past his property on May 20, 1717.

He was one of the soldiers credited with military service under Capt. Da n iel Henchman and paid £1.15.02 in a list of August 20, 1675. He was pa i d £3.12.00 for service in King Philips war, credited in Capt. Samuel Wa ds worth's Company August 24, 1676. He was one of the twenty-seven who "s tai d and went not away" during the Indian troubles. As such as was entit le d to share in the disposition of the Indians captured during the war . H e was among those who determined the fate of the Indians left in town , co ndemning them to slavery for varying periods of years, depending o n thei r ages. His share for his service was four Indian servants. He wa s one o f the twenty-one responsible men named to lead ten men in reconna issanc e patrols in an order given by the Council of War for Providence.

On May 30, 1667 he was one of twenty-five men who swore allegiance to Ch a rles II. As a loyal subject, inhabitant and freeman, he performed his c iv ic duties for the town and colony. These included appointments to serv e o n the General Court of Trials at Newport and as a petit juryman. In t hes e appointments, his occupation is designated as weaver. John witnesse d th e deeds of many of his neighbors and did a fair amount of work on th e pro bates of his neighbors.

Despite twice failing to appear when called to the General Court, onc e i n 1678 and once in 1681, at a town meeting on March 16, 1675/6, Joh n wa s chosen a Deputy to the General Assembly. The next year, he was cho sen c onstable for the town of Providence. He was a way warden in 1701 an d serv ed in the place of the Town Sergeant that same years.

Neighbors and family relied on his judgment as he served on Coroners' in q uests and as bondsman when relatives died. John joined with eleven othe r s of the Coroner's jury in judging that Samuel Belloo, son of widow Han na h Belloo, had gone into the river by the mill in Providence to wash hi mse lf, and was by a Providence of God drowned, June 10, 1669. As one o f th e men on the Jury of Inquest January 8, 1716/17, John joined in th e verdi ct that the female child found dead in the house of Mr. Obadiah B rown whe re one Mary Rootingburgh had dwelt, who acknowledged that the ch ild was b orn of her body at night under an apple tree some few rods fro m the house , had died as a result of the mother's want of suitable hel p in the tim e of her travail. On February 26, 1716/17, he and others agr eed that, hav ing viewed the body of Samuel Wright and finding no harm do ne to him, tha t "he being an aged man It Pleased God to Take his Life aw ay."

John served with his brother-in-law Richard Arnold and nephew Edward Smi t h as bondsman for his sister, Amphillis Smith, when she took the admini st ration of the estate of her deceased husband Edward Smith on January 9 , 1 693/4. John served with Samuel Wilkinson as bondsman for Deborah Wilk inso n when she took administration of the estate of her deceased husband , Joh n Wilkinson on May 18, 1708. He also served as one of the appraiser s of t he estate.

In the second decade of the 18th century, John Angell witnessed the dee d s of many of his neighbors. He witnessed twice for Edward Hawkings, Jr . w hen he sold land to Joseph Mowry, for John Steere, for James Angell w he n he sold to Joseph Smith, and for John and Nicholas Lappan to Walte r Phe teplace.

John also did a fair amount of work on the probates of his neighbors. Wi t h Zachariah Field, John took the inventory of James Mathewson on Octob e r 17, 1682. He took the inventory of the estate of Samuel Wright on Apr i l 13, 1717 and the inventory of John Smith on May 26, 1719. A horse o f hi s appears in the inventory of Captain John Dexter ca 1716.

On January 15, 1704 John Angell, Sr. of Providence for good affection to w ards his son John Angell," and also for his settlement and well being, " d eeded to John his the house and 58 acres on both sides of Woonasquatu cke t river which he had purchased from Pardon Tilinghast. On the same da y, J ohn provided for his eldest son Thomas Angell, giving him for good a ffect ion and for his settlement and well being, a mansion house, and 8 9 acre s between Nonpluss Hill and Clemence's Meadow, which he purchase d of Will iam Smith, and ten acres of land he bought of William Randall . On April 8 , 1705 he deeded son Daniel a parcel of land of 80 acres o n the eastern s ide of Woonasquatucket River, with housing, fences, etc . which he had pur chased in pieces from Thomas Harris, Elisha Arnold, an d William Hopkins.

On June 16, 1713 John was taxed with son James, 5s., 6 d. On December 1 4 , 1716 he called himself aged about seventy years, testifies that in 16 67 , he was desired by his uncle, James Ashton, to take care of his 60 ac r e lot.

Considering the number of probates John worked on, it is odd that he nev e r got around to writing a will of his own. He died intestate in Provide nc e July 27, 1720. His widow and son, Hope were granted administration o n h is estate on September 30, 1720. The inventory included a negro woma n abo ut whom nothing else is known. His wife Ruth died sometime after 17 27.

Whereas Mr. John Angel of Providence in the Colony of Rhoad Island and P r ovidence plantations in New England who departed this Life on the 27t h da y of July anno Dom: 1720: dyed Intestate and Left a Considerable mov eabl e Esstate behind him: which by the Law of the Colony aforesd fell in to th e care of the Town Councill of Providence above sd and where as mri s Rut h Angel Relick widdow of the said John Angel: and his son Hope Ange l of P rovidence afore sd hath desired to have administration Granted unt o the m upon said Esstate: and have Exhibeted an Inventory of the said Es stat e before the Towne Councill avoe sd which was by them accepted appro ved a nd allowed: and have also Given in bond with sureties for theire tr ue an d faithfull performeance of theire sd administration

These are there fore to order and fully Impower you the said Ruth Ange l a nd Hope Angel to take into your Care Custody and possession all and s ingu lior the move able Esstate Goods Cattle and Chattles that belonged t o th e sd John Angel att the time of his death and the debts due to sai d Essta te and on the same to administer In order to discharge his debts : and t o act and doe in all Casses Relateing the premisses: as far fort h as th e law Impowereth an administeratrix and an administrator to doe

Govem att a Town Cuoncill held att Providence above said the: 30th da y o f september in the seaventh yeare of his majestyes Reign George Kin g of G reate Brittan &c: Anno Dom: 1720:

John married Ruth Field on 7 Jan 1669 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Ruth (daughter of John Field and Ruth Fairbanks) was born on 7 Jan 1649 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died on 19 Sep 1726 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; was buried in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: 979J-T8J
• Initiatory (LDS): 2 Dec 1903, SLAKE

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• FamilySearch ID: 9HRQ-TFP
• Initiatory (LDS): 8 Jun 2001, LANGE

Roger married Mary Johnson in 1639 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Mary (daughter of John Johnson and Margaret Schudder) was born on 31 Jul 1614 in Herne Hill, Middlesex, England; was buried on 29 Jan 1679 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: L5VD-ZSS
• Initiatory (LDS): 18 Jun 1997, ARIZO

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• FamilySearch ID: K8SP-1LQ
• Initiatory (LDS): 30 Oct 2001, BOUNT

Edward + Elizabeth Hopkins. Elizabeth was born on 3 Jul 1619 in Yeovilton, Somersetshire, England; died in 1654 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: L8MK-5J2
• Initiatory (LDS): 10 Feb 1938, LOGAN