Direct Descendant of Roger Williams Roger Williams [1602-1683]

Mary Williams Sayles

• BIRTH 8 Mar 1636 Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• DEATH 1681 (aged 44–45) Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
• BURIAL Easton Lot Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 19727534 Photos by MRC & Scout

The Death Date on Mary Sayles is 1681. An examination of the first gravestone photo clearly reveals that the two times the number "1" is used in the 1681 date, they are identical in form. An even more vivid photo of her headstone confirming the last digit as a "1" can be seen at the Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission website. Here is the written transcription of the information on the gravestone found on the RIHCC website:

Roger Williams== (c. 21 December 1603 – between 27 January and 15 March 1683)[1] was a Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with American Indians, and he was one of the first abolitionists.[2][3]

Williams was expelled by the Puritan leaders from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for spreading "new and dangerous ideas", and he established the Providence Plantations in 1636 as a refuge offering what he called "liberty of conscience". In 1638, he founded the First Baptist Church in America, also known as the First Baptist Church of Providence.[4][5] He studied the Indian languages and wrote the first book on the Narragansett language, and he organized the first attempt to prohibit slavery in any of England's North American colonies.[3]

Transcription
"HEAR LYETH Ye BODY
OF MARY SAYLES
WIFE OF JOHN
SAYLES WHO DIED
IN Ye YEAR 1681
AGED 45 YEARS"

Parents
Roger Williams 1600–1683
Mary Barnard Williams 1609–1676

Spouse
John Sayles 1633–1681

Siblings
Freeborn Williams Clarke 1635–1710
Providence Williams 1638–1686
Mercy Williams Waterman Winsor 1640–1705
Daniel Williams 1641–1712
Joseph Williams 1643–1724

Half Siblings
Freelove Williams 1636–1707
Daniel Williams 1640–1712

Children 8x
Freelove Williams 1636–1707
Mary Sayles Holmes 1652–1717
John Sayles 1654–1727
Deborah Sayles Carr 1656–1728
Phebe Sayles Greene 1658–1744
Isabel Sayles Hicks 1659–1735
Elinor Sayles Greene 1671–1714
Catherine Sayles Olney 1672–1753

Notes

Direct Descendant of Roger Williams Roger Williams [1602-1683]

References

[1] http://www.rogerwilliams.org/biography.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Baptist_Church_in_America

[4a] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19727534/mary-sayles

[4b] http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Sayles&GSfn=M...

[5] RI Historical Society entitled Baker-Cranston by R. W. Bake, picture of the original stone taken before 1940 in a bound manuscript

[6] https://rihistoriccemeteries.org/ *Sayles, Mary [Williams], Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries (Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission

Additional Data

1. MARY, b. Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, August 1633, died 1684; married JOHN SAYLES in 1650; six children. John and Mary Sayles lived on Aquidneck Island and are buried near Easton's Beach, Middletown, Rhode Island.