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Thomas Arnold, of Ilchester & Providence

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Ilchester, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)
Death: March 24, 1674 (70-79)
Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, American Colonies
Place of Burial: Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Nicholas Arnold, of Ilchester and Alice Arnold
Husband of Phebe Arnold; Margaret Arnold and Phebe Arnold
Father of Thomas Jr 1625 Arnold, Jr.; Nicholas Arnold; George Arnold; Ichabod Arnold; Capt. Richard Arnold and 14 others
Brother of Thomasine Hacker; Joanna Hopkins; Margery Barnard; William ‘the settler’ Arnold; Agnes Arnold and 6 others
Half brother of Nicholas Arnold; Eleanor Arnold; Elizabeth Arnold, of Ilchester; Unnamed Arnold and Thomas Arnold (Not an Immigrant)

Occupation: Emmigrates 1635, Planter, Deputy (colony government representative)
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From The Parkhurst Genealogy:

Phebe Parkhurst married, second, Thomas Arnold, son of Nicholas Arnold and Alice Gully, circa 1640, in Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA (Arnold Genealogy p. 11). He was:

  • Born in Hollesley, Co. Suffolk, England, probably (NEHGR Vol. 69 (1915) p. 69; TAG Vol. 20 (1944) pp. 121-2). Died, 24 Mar 1674/5, in Providence, Providence Co., RI (Arnold Genealogy p. 11).
  • Adm Freeman: 13 May 1640, in Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA (NEHGR Vol. 33 (1879) p. 435). Reference: 11X.

NOTES

from reading http://archive.org/stream/englishancestry00some/englishancestry00so...
shows Thomas,son of Thomas, baptized April 18, 1599. sisters Eleanor and Elizabeth. If he was on Plain Joan, as reported by Savage, then the age (18) was given wrong. He would have had to have been born in 1616 for this age. Copied information (and as seen below)

His children by his first wife were

  • 1. Thomas, 18 b. May 3, 1625, d. young j
  • 2. Nicholas, 18 bapt. Jan. 15, 1627, d. young;
  • 3. Susannah, 18 m. at Boston, April 7, 1654, John Farnum.

By his wife Phebe he had

  • 4. Ichabod m born at Watertown, March 1, 1640-1;
  • 5. Richard, 18 b. at W. March 22, 1642-3;
  • 6. Elizabeth, 18 b. 1645, m. Samuel Comstock, and died 1745;
  • 7. John, 18 b. at W. Feb. 1$, 1647-8, d. at Providence Jan. 5, 1722;
  • 8. Eleazer, 18 b. at W. June 17, 1651, d. at Providence Aug. 29, 1722.

(The information continues with information about son Richard.) ______________________________________________________________________________________

Thomas is supposed (Savage's Genealogy Dictionary) to have come at age 30 to Virginia from London, England in the ship "Plain Joan" in May, 1635 and then to Watertown, MA where he was residing in 1640 [Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Angell, p. 12].

Prior to leaving England he had resided some time at Melcome Horsey and subsequently at Cheselbourne in Dorsetshire, England where he seated himself on an estate previously owned by his father.

He had 30 acres laid out for him on 7/25/1635 in Watertown, MA. On 5/13/1640 he was admitted as freeman. In 1648 in Watertown, George Parkhurst executed a deed to him.

It appears he was something of a nonconformist. In 10/1651, he was fined 20 shillings for "offense against the law of baptism." In 1654 he was fined 5 pounds for neglecting public worship for 20 days. In 1655, he was fined again for not attending public worship for 40 days.

He afterwards removed to Providence in 1654 , living near the North school house. It may be that he was at Watertown as late as April, 1657, but he was in Providence by October 1661 when he sold land in Watertown to John Whitney. The following October, he and his wife sold their house, barn and 16 acres of land in Watertown to John Wincoll.

On 5/18/1658, he was made a freeman of Rhode Island. In February, 1665 he was granted lot 83 in Providence in a division of lands. He was deputy for Providence in the RI General Assembly in 10/1666 again in years 1667, 1670-2. In 1672, he served on the Town Council.

His will recorded in Boston shows he owned nearly 10,000 acres of land at the time of his death.

THOMAS ARNOLD, son of Thomas Arnold of Cheselbourne, England, was one of the early settlers of Watertown, Mass., where he was repeatedly fined for offenses against the established religion. He was born at Cheselbourne, Dorset County, England, in 1599, and came to America in the ship "Plain Joan" in May, 1635, first landing in Virginia, and returning to Watertown. His first wife died either before or soon after reaching this country, and, about 1640, for his second wife, he married Phoebe Parkhurst, daughter of George and (______) Parkhurst, of Watertown.

In 1651 he was fined twenty shillings for an offense against the law concerning baptism; again, in 1654, for neglecting public worship twenty days, and again, in 1655, 10 for neglecting the same for forty days.

On 10/17/1661, while a planter of Providence, he sold his land in Watertown to John Whitney and removed permanently to Providence, R. I. On 10/20/1662, he and his wife Phebe of Providence sold to John Wincoll their house, barn, etc. and 16 acres of land.

He was chosen a member of the town council and was five times appointed deputy.

He died in September, 1674, leaving a large estate in lands. His nephew, Benedict Arnold, great-grandfather of the traitor, refers in his own will to "my stone built wind mill" in town of Newport, which, from its location, is believed to be the famous stone mill in that place [Thayer and Burton Ancestry, p. 19].

Genealogies of RI Families (from RI Periodicals) indexed by Carol Lee Ford lists Thomas' father as William Arnold of Hollesley, Suffolk, England, husbandman. It is noted here that "there have been various attempts to fix the parentage of Thomas Arnold and some controversy on the subject but the final and conclusive work on that subject seems to have been published by that able genealogist, G. Andrews Moriarty, Jr., in The American Genealogist, v. 20, p. 120.

Bond's Genealogy notes on p. 9 that Thomas sold his brother-in-law George Parkhurst of Watertown the dividend of 30 acres which "I bought," of 12/20, 1648, "our father, George Parkhurst and his wife Susanna."

He was probably a Baptist [Bond's Genealogies And History of Watertown, p. 9].



1616, November 22- Named in his father William's will, when Thomas was under age.

1635, May- Immigrated in the ship "Plain Joan", which landed in Plymouth Bay, MA.

1635, July- Settled in Watertown, MA by this time.

1640, May 13 Freeman of Watertown, MA.

1651- The History and Genealogy of Stukely Westcott by Roscoe L. Whitman states that Thomas Arnold moved to Smithfield (the section of old Providence, RI which was set off as Smithfield, RI in 1731 and as Lincoln, RI in 1871). Other sources state he moved to Providence, RI ten years later in 1661.

1651, October- Fined 20 shillings for an offence against the law concerning baptism.

1654, April 2- Fined 5 pounds for neglecting public worship for 20 days.

1655, April 2- Fined 10 pounds for neglecting public worship for 40 days.

1661, October 17- Moved to Providence, RI by this time.

1666, 1667, 1670, 1671, 1672 - Deputy to the General Assembly for Providence, RI.

1672- Town Council.

1687, September 1- His widow was taxed 6 pence.

His will recorded at Boston, MA shows he owned nearly 10,000 acres of land.



1616, November 22- Named in his father William's will, when Thomas was under age.

1635, May- Immigrated in the ship "Plain Joan", which landed in Plymouth Bay, MA.

1635, July- Settled in Watertown, MA by this time.

1640, May 13 Freeman of Watertown, MA.

1651- The History and Genealogy of Stukely Westcott by Roscoe L. Whitman states that Thomas Arnold moved to Smithfield (the section of old Providence, RI which was set off as Smithfield, RI in 1731 and as Lincoln, RI in 1871). Other sources state he moved to Providence, RI ten years later in 1661.

1651, October- Fined 20 shillings for an offence against the law concerning baptism.

1654, April 2- Fined 5 pounds for neglecting public worship for 20 days.

1655, April 2- Fined 10 pounds for neglecting public worship for 40 days.

1661, October 17- Moved to Providence, RI by this time.

1666, 1667, 1670, 1671, 1672 - Deputy to the General Assembly for Providence, RI.

1672- Town Council.

1687, September 1- His widow was taxed 6 pence.

His will recorded at Boston, MA shows he owned nearly 10,000 acres of land.



1616, November 22- Named in his father William's will, when Thomas was under age.

1635, May- Immigrated in the ship "Plain Joan", which landed in Plymouth Bay, MA.

1635, July- Settled in Watertown, MA by this time.

1640, May 13 Freeman of Watertown, MA.

1651- The History and Genealogy of Stukely Westcott by Roscoe L. Whitman states that Thomas Arnold moved to Smithfield (the section of old Providence, RI which was set off as Smithfield, RI in 1731 and as Lincoln, RI in 1871). Other sources state he moved to Providence, RI ten years later in 1661.

1651, October- Fined 20 shillings for an offence against the law concerning baptism.

1654, April 2- Fined 5 pounds for neglecting public worship for 20 days.

1655, April 2- Fined 10 pounds for neglecting public worship for 40 days.

1661, October 17- Moved to Providence, RI by this time.

1666, 1667, 1670, 1671, 1672 - Deputy to the General Assembly for Providence, RI.

1672- Town Council.

1687, September 1- His widow was taxed 6 pence.

His will recorded at Boston, MA shows he owned nearly 10,000 acres of land.



Admitted freeman 1640

October 1651 - fined 20 shillings for violations concerning Baptism.

4/2/1654 - fined 5 pounds for neglecting public worship for 20 days.

4/2/1655 - fined 10 pounds for neglecting public worship for 40 days and his land was levied to pay it.

(Bond's History of Watertown, Mass p. 9)

"Arnold was able to trace his ancestry back through seventeen generations to Ynir, King of Gwentland (c. 1100) who was a direct descendant of Wessex who was King of the Britons from 688 to 728."

-- Above from John Parkhurst Born May 2, 1760, at Weston, Massachusetts, His Ancestors By Gabriel H Parkhurst

Deputy in Providence for 5 years.

First settler of Woonsocket, RI.

The first notice that I find of this man is Jan. 6, 1634. (See N.E. Reg.,

Vol XIV, p. 347.) He was then 18 years of age. His first settlement in

Rhode Island was at Providence. He afterward settled in the valley of the

Moshassuck, near the lower Quaker Meeting-house. (See History.) His estate

was divided by the Council between his widow and his 5 remaining children.

Thomas Arnold, who came from Dorset, England in 1635. Thomas first settled in Watertown, Mass., but came to Providence Oct. 17, 1661.

Sailed to America on the "Plain Joan" on 5/15/1635.

Had about 10,000 acres at his death.

http://books.google.com/books?id=p6NXRxdssxoC&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq...



1616, November 22- Named in his father William's will, when Thomas was under age.

1635, May- Immigrated in the ship "Plain Joan", which landed in Plymouth Bay, MA.

1635, July- Settled in Watertown, MA by this time.

1640, May 13 Freeman of Watertown, MA.

1651- The History and Genealogy of Stukely Westcott by Roscoe L. Whitman states that Thomas Arnold moved to Smithfield (the section of old Providence, RI which was set off as Smithfield, RI in 1731 and as Lincoln, RI in 1871). Other sources state he moved to Providence, RI ten years later in 1661.

1651, October- Fined 20 shillings for an offence against the law concerning baptism.

1654, April 2- Fined 5 pounds for neglecting public worship for 20 days.

1655, April 2- Fined 10 pounds for neglecting public worship for 40 days.

1661, October 17- Moved to Providence, RI by this time.

1666, 1667, 1670, 1671, 1672 - Deputy to the General Assembly for Providence, RI.

1672- Town Council.

1687, September 1- His widow was taxed 6 pence.

His will recorded at Boston, MA shows he owned nearly 10,000 acres of land. __________________________________________________________________________

Thomas Arnold was the son of William Arnold, one of the original thirteen proprietors of Providence. His son (Captain) Richard (1642-1710) was father to, among others, Thomas (d. 1727) and John (1670-1756). Captain Richard Arnold was one of the first settlers of Woonsocket, building a saw mill there probably in the 1660s. His son John, also a miller, was a Quaker; he participated in organizing the Society of Friends in northern Rhode Island, and built the first frame house in Woonsocket in 1711. John's son William (1695-1766), whose papers make up a good deal of this collection, served as justice of the peace and constable to the town of Smithfield. He apparently also kept a tavern or at least retailed liquors in a store; there are several liquor licenses granted to him among his papers.

           The distinguishing marks of Thomas Arnold's life are less certain; however, the collection contains papers of several of his male descendants: his son Job (b. 1707), grandson Oliver (b. 1752), great-grandson Preserved (1788-1828), and great-great-grandson Preserved Whipple Arnold (1828-1919). Oliver married Elethan Harris in 1778; their children, in addition to Preserved, were Isaac (b. 1779), Sabra (b. 1786), and Martin (1783-1847). Preserved married Betsy Bowen Whipple; in addition to Preserved Whipple, their children were Cornelia and Louisa. Preserved Whipple Arnold married Annie Harris. 

http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss267.htm _________________________________________________________________________

Register of the Society of colonial wars in the District of Columbia, 1904

By Society of colonial wars. District of Columbia  p.106 _______________________________________________________________________________


baptism:Source Information details Source Name: Steere-Wade letters to Bonnie Meyer from Doris Schultz Repository: No repository specified for this source Name: Steere-Wade letters to Bonnie Meyer from Doris Schultz Author: Publisher: Call Number: Notes: REFN: Repository: No repository specified for this source ___________________________________________________________________________

see: http://www.plumdigital.com/2_webcards/wc87/wc87_381.htm

___________________________________________________________________________

This collection will be of interest primarily to genealogists. The bulk of the papers in the collection are of the Arnold family of Woonsocket and Smithfield, the descendants of Thomas Arnold (1616-1674). The scrapbooks contained, in addition to Arnold material, papers from several generations of the Holden family of Warwick. Specifically, they appear to be the papers of Colonel Randall Holden (1694-1766) and his descendants: one of his sons, known as "Captain" Randall (1726-1808), and three of Captain Randall's sons: a second "Captain" Randall, born in 1754 and died in Surinam in 1796; Stephen (1766-1841); and Joseph (dates unknown). The Holden papers give a little insight into the maritime and farming occupations of some of the male members of that family. From the Arnold papers, the researcher can obtain a fairly good idea as to the activities involved with William Arnold's career as a justice of the peace, and also of the land and property holdings of the family in northern Rhode Island.

           Examples of the documents generated during William Arnold's tenure as justice of the peace and tavern-keeper in the town of Smithfield are: deeds, arrest warrants, land surveys, powers of attorney, judgements, depositions, inquests, marriage certificates, and bonds. An item of special interest to genealogists is a list of marriages performed by William between 1733-1766. There are additional deeds, both in the loose papers and the scrapbooks, involving, among others, the following surnames: Holden, Arnold, Man, Capron, Lippitt, Greene, Rice, Harris (Harres/Harress), and Sprague. The balance of the collection is comprised of a small number of letters and maritime documents, and quite a few miscellaneous receipts and bills.

Box 1of 1 Series I: Scrapbook 1 Series II: Scrapbook 2 Series III: Arnold Family Documents

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Provenance:

           The collection was purchased from the Kingston Galleries, Inc., in 1967.

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Processing note:

           In the 1980s, this collection was partially processed by curator Harold Kemble, during which time it's possible that some of the papers in the original accession were mixed in with non-related Arnold papers that had come in with prior or later accessions. It was necessary to do genealogical research on the Arnold name and then, based on the findings, to separate the papers of the 1967 accession from all the others with which they were mingled. In some cases folders were re-labelled to more accurately describe contents and dates. It is believed that the papers now present in the collection were all part of the 1967 accession. The papers of William Arnold were sorted by type, and then arranged chronologically within the type.

http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss267.htm _________________________________________________________________________________ From Gary Kelb, correspondent, note of December 9, 2012

First, I am going to paste into this message the information about the FALSE relationship of William and Thomas Arnold. Basically, William's family, to include Alice Gully, are from Somerset. Thomas Arnold's family is from Dorset. They are not close, the guys are not half-brothers. The information provided is from Wikipedia under William Arnold. I realize this is not the most reliable source but I am convinced this is accurate. Thomas Arnold (My Thomas) was married to Phebe Parkhurst and thier family had a huge influence in R.I. lwith Wikipedia, I am including a couple of links that prove this family's relationship is independent of Somerset. If you see Somerset or the town of ILchester, it is William Arnold and not Thomas. This would be the "Joanna" listed in Thomas' family on the Sprague Project. Also, it was Thomas Arnold of Dorset who was presented (awarded?) the Arnold Coat-of-Arms. Here goes:

False pedigree of the Arnold family II

Published in the same issue of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register with the Arnold family record was another article giving a lineage for William Arnold going back 16 generations.[32] In 1870 the genealogist Horatio G. Somerby compiled this pedigree of the Arnold family for a client in New York based on his research in England. In this pedigree, William Arnold was shown to be a son of a Thomas Arnold and to descend from a 12th century King of Gwentland (in modern day Wales) whose name was Ynir. Mr. Somerby's manuscript was "compiled from Herald's Visitations, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Subsidy rolls, Wills, Parish registers, and other original documents."[32] A few years after this pedigree was published, John O. Austin incorporated some of it into his Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island.[23]

In 1902, Edson S. Jones, a descendant of Thomas Arnold of Watertown and Providence mentioned earlier, visited England in search of records pertaining to his family. Thinking that Thomas Arnold was connected with William Arnold (which, it turned out, he was not), he visited Northover and Ilchester, finding the original parish registers, as well as other important source documents.[36] He discovered that every entry in the Arnold record that could be compared with entries in the parish registers matched perfectly. [37] He also discovered that the Somerby pedigree of the Arnold family had serious discrepancies with original documents. As he checked the source documents from which Somerby supposedly compiled the pedigree, he found that some of the generations in the Somerby pedigree had been shuffled from the original documents, some members of the lineage came from unrelated families, and some place names seemed to have been totally made up.[37] It had earlier been believed that a Thomas Arnold was the father of William Arnold, and Somerby stated that this Thomas Arnold came from a place called Northover near Cheselbourne in County Dorset. No such place exists.[38] The Somerby pedigree of the Arnold family published in 1879 was riddled with misinformation, and it had been accepted as fact for over three decades by even prominent genealogists such as John O. Austin. Fred Arnold wrote in 1921, "The most regrettable feature in Somerby's work is, that in the absence of any English record, known here to disprove it, so reliable a genealogist as Mr. John O. Austin was led to accept and use it in his dictionary, although neither give any record evidence. Very rarely has Mr. Austin accepted another's statement, unless he has himself seen evidence to support it." [38] This fabricated research was not an isolated incident; Mr. Somerby had also been implicated in other fraudulent research and was out to please his clients regardless of the veracity of his work.[e]

The correct ancestry and English home of William Arnold

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Ilchester_...

http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.21wmf5/skins/common/images/magni...

Bridge located where Nicholas and Alice Arnold likely crossed the River Yeo in their move from Northover to Ilchester.

Edson Jones eventually published his findings on the Arnold family in 1915, demonstrating the accuracy of the Arnold family record, and then carefully revealing each inconsistency and factual error found in Somerby's pedigree.[37] In 1921, Fred Arnold summarized these findings and synthesized them into a coherent lineage of the Arnold family which is consistent with every known historical document,[f] and presented his findings to the Rhode Island Historical Society.[39] To summarize the work of both Edson Jones and Fred Arnold, William Arnold was the son of Nicholas Arnold of Northover and Ilchester in Somerset based on the Arnold family record and the Northover parish register. Arnold's mother was Alice Gully, and her parents were John and Alice Gully based on the same two documents.[40] These are the only known ancestors of William Arnold based on known historical records,[f] and the parents of Nicholas Arnold have not been identified in any historical document.[g]

The Somerby pedigree of the Arnold family indicated that the family had lived in many counties in both England and Wales.[h] This was not the case; the Arnolds and their associates all lived in a small area within southeastern Somerset. While in England William Arnold and his family lived in Ilchester. His parents had come from the village of Northover, scarcely one half mile (0.8 km) across the River Yeo to the north.[41] When Arnold's son Benedict mentioned his "Lemmington" farm in his will, he was referring to a New England property named after the village of Limington in old England; this village is less than a mile and a half (2.5 km) east of Ilchester.[42] A very short distance north of Limington across the River Yeo is the town of Yeovilton where William Hopkins, the husband of Arnold's sister Joanne, lived. Six miles (10 km) west of Ilchester is the village of Muchelney, the home of Arnold's wife Christian Peak, and five miles (8 km) south of Ilchester is Yeovil, the home of Stukeley Westcott, whose daughter Damaris married Arnold's son Benedict, and who may have accompanied the Arnolds on their voyage to the New World.[42][43][44] Thus, Arnold and all of his known kinsmen had lived within six miles (10 km) of each other in southeastern Somerset.

http://www.archive.org/stream/representativeme03jhbe#page/1336/mode... Representative Men of Southeastern Massachusetts. (It is an active book so back up one page for the first page.)

http://heraldry.historyroad.info/?p=2609

Passenger List: (Attached) No William there and record say he traveled on a different ship.:

Famous son, Capt. Richard Arnold, married Mary Angell, daughter of RI founder Thomas Angell. (There is also a document saying they had to pay a fine for fornication!)

I can't copy and paste anything from Ancestry.com but I could provide a list of family members so you can look at any list you have. I will provide the children of Thomas Arnold and Phebe Parkhurst: Thomas, Ichabod, Richard, Sarah, Elizabeth, John, Joanne (of RI and not Ilchester!), & Eleazer. Person ID I19528 Sprague Project Last Modified 19 Apr 2014 http://www.sprague-database.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I1...

________________________________________________________________________________ Will of Thomas: Thomas Arnold house to wife Phebe during her natural life. After her death the house will revert to her son John and be to him and his heirs. Also to her household goods, two cows, nine swine to be disposed of as she see fit. To daughter Elizabeth Comstock: 20 pounds in country pay of this county. To Thomas Arnold,son, house lot bought of Stephen Northup...seven cattle, one mare and a colt, and twenty and five sheep. Son John-lot bought from Benjamen Smith in the town of Providence in the row house lots...and more land/lots mentioned. Eliezer Arnold,son- signed p. 122 The Early Records of the Town of Providence, Volume 4

By Providence (R.I.). Record Commissioners

Citations:

  1. from TORREY: "ARNOLD, Thomas (1599-1674) & 1/wf _____ _____; in Eng, by 1625, by 1634?; Watertown/Providence {Sv. 1:66; Arnold (1931) 18; Reg. 69:68, 69; Austin: GDRI 240; Reg. 5:248a, 33:432}"
  2. from TORREY: "ARNOLD, Thomas (1599-1674) & 2/wf Phebe [PARKHURST] (1612-1688+); by 1640; Watertown/ Providence {TAG 20:120; Arnold (1948) 4; Reg. 27:364, 33:432; Snow-Estes 1:82; Austin: GDRI 4, 240; Pope's Pioneers 21; Parkhurst 10; Sv. 1:66; Cushing (ms) 43; Carter 268; Tingley-Meyers 23; Angell 12; Arnold (1931) 18; Batchelder 115; Converse (1905) 10; Cushing (ms) 354}"

Thomas Arnold (William), born say about 1599; died Providence, Rhode Island, in Sept. 1674; married (1) in England, a wife whose name is now unknown; married (2) in 1640, at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Phoebe Parkhurst, baptized in the Parish Church of St. Mary by the Quay, Ipswich, co. Suffolk, England, on Nov. 29, 1612, daughter of George and Phoebe Parkhurst of Ipswich, England and Watertown, Massachusetts. Thomas Arnold settled in Watertown before July 1635, when land was laid out to him in the Third Division. In 1648 he bought land there from his father-in-law, George Parkhurst, which he sold in 1655 to George Parkhurst, Jr. He was somewhat of a non-conformist, for in 1651 he was fined 20 shillings for an offense against the law concerning baptism, in 1654 he was fined 5 for neglecting public worship for twenty days and the following year he was fined 10 for neglecting public worship for forty days. He was at Watertown as late as April 1657, but in Providence by October 1661, when he sold land in Watertown to John Whitney. The following October he and his wife sold his house, barn and sixteen acres of land in Watertown to John Wincoll. In February 1665, he was granted lot 83 in Providence in a division of lands. He was Deputy for Providence to the Rhode Island General Assembly in October 1666; 1670; May, June and September 1671; and April 1672 (Rhode Island Colonial Records, v. 2, pp. 180, 336, 373, 411). Austin says he was Deputy also in 1667. He was a member of the Town Council in 1672. His Will, recorded in Boston, shows he owned nearly 10,000 acres of land.

1st Spouse:_____ _____2, m. England

Children:Thomas (Died as Child) (1625-) Nicholas (Died as Child) (~1627-<1637) Susanna (ca1629-)

2nd Spouse:Phebe Parkhurst1,2, b. abt Nov 1612; d. 1688; daughter of George and Phebe Parkhurst; m. 1640, Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Children:Ichabod (Died as Child) (1641-) Richard (1643-1710) Elizabeth (1645-1747) John (1648-1723) Thomas (ca1649->1693) Eleazer (1651-1722)

1. "An elaborate history and genealogy of the Ballous in America" by Adin Ballou, 1803 - 1890 Published: [S.l.] : Ariel Ballou and Latimer W. Ballou, c1888 (Providence, R.I. : E.L. Freeman) 2. Genealogies of Rhode Island Families; vol. 1, Adams - Slack; Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc.; 1983

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ARNOLD/1998-07/090152...



Unsure if these are the correct parents for Joseph. Some sources record mother as being Phebe. Looking for more information.


https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/26745476/person/32...

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Thomas Arnold, of Ilchester & Providence's Timeline

1599
April 18, 1599
Ilchester, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)
1599
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