Penelope, {I3251} (b. )

Reference: 3251

Birth: 07 JUL 1840 Fowler, St. Lawrence, New York

Death: 13 AUG 1917 Coopersville, Ottawa, Michigan

Reference: 3252

Reference: 3253

Note: Database: Rhode Island Birth Records, 1636-1930
Combined Matches: 1

Name Relation Parent 1 Parent 2 Birth Date
Thomas Lawton Josiah Lawton Elizabeth Lawton 23 May 1751

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Page: Rhode Island Birth Records, 1636-1930

Source: (Birth)
Title: Rhode Island Families
Abbreviation: Rhode Island Families

Page: Database: Rhode Island Birth Records, 1636-1930

Birth: 23 MAY 1751 Westerly, Washington Co, Rhode Island

Reference: 3254

Census: Date: 1790
Place: Washington Co, Rhode Island
Note: have this electronically

Birth: 08 JUN 1750 Richmond, Washington Co, Rhode Island

Death: AFT 1800 Petersburg, New York

Reference: 3255

Reference: 3256

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Page: Rhode Island Birth Records, 1636-1930

Birth: 13 JAN 1724/25 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Death: AFT 1790

Reference: 3257

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Page: Rhode Island Birth Records, 1636-1930

Birth: 02 MAR 1727/28

Death: AFT 1790

Reference: 3258

Birth: Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Death: BEF 1784

Reference: 3259

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Families
Abbreviation: Rhode Island Families

Birth: BEF 1699

Death: 16 JUL 1763

Reference: 3260

Birth: 29 NOV 1699

Death: 11 FEB 1724/25

Reference: 3261

Reference: 3262

Birth: 05 JAN 1671/72 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Death: BEF 08 JUN 1736 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Reference: 3263

Note: 30th of 11th month, 1675

Source: (Birth)
Title: The Slocums of America
Abbreviation: The Slocums of America

Birth: 30 JAN 1675 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Death: BEF 12 MAR 1759 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Reference: 3264

Note: James enlisted in the troop of horse, formed to protect the
island. His great grandson, James Barker, in a family
manuscript calls his ancestor 'a very bold man'.

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Families
Abbreviation: Rhode Island Families

Birth: 1648 Newport, Rhode Island

Nickname: Captain//

Note: After being on the Grand Jury, he was called Captain

Occupation: Freeman
Date: 1675

Occupation: Deputy. Also in 1690, 1696, 1703, 1705, 1706, 1707, 1708,
1709, and 1716.
Date: 1678

Occupation: Grand Jury
Date: 1687

Occupation: Assistant. Also in 1696, 1698 and 1699.
Date: 1695

Religion: He with other members of Second Baptist Church received a deed
from their pastor, James Clarke, of the land and church
building. Mr. Clarke had bought the land some years before,
(Oct 23, 1697), from contributions of the members of his
church, taking the deed in his own name, and built the church
in the same year he purchased the land. He now, therefore,
deeded both land and building to eighteen members of his
church. The division of this church from the parent
organization occurred in 1656, the reasons therefore being thus
stated, "said persons conceived a prejudice against psalmody,
and against the restraints that the liberty of prophesying was
laid under, and also against the doctrine of particular
redemption, and against the rite of laying on of hands as a
matter of indifference." (Morgan Edwards gives the names of
the separators of the year 1656 as identical with the parties
to the deed of 1707, whereas some of the latter were not born
at the earlier date.)
Date: 23 JAN 1707

Death: DEC 1722

Reference: 3265

Probate: Date: 22 MAR 1687
Note: James and his son James were appointed overseers of John
Peabody's will.

Probate: Date: 24 AUG 1676
Note: He was a member of the Court Marshal held at Newport, for the
trial of certain Indians, charged with being engaged in King
Philip's designs.

Probate: Date: 04 FEB 1702
Note: He was on a committee of fourteen persons, appointed by the
proprietors to attend to division of common lands, and
continued a member of the committee till after 1715. He
received 18 acres as his share of lands.

Probate: Date: 1708
Note: He with others was chosen "to proportion and affix rates of
grain and other specie" which were to be received as pay for a
tax. They appointed a bushel of corn to be accepted as 2s,
barley at 1s 8d, rye 2s, 6d, oats 4d, wool 9d, wheat 3d.

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Families
Abbreviation: Rhode Island Families

Birth: 1656 Newport, Rhode Island

Death: 11 FEB 1735/36 Newport, Rhode Island

Reference: 3266

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Birth: 1639 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Occupation: Deputy.
Date: 1674

Occupation: Served on the grand jury.
Date: 1687
Place: Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Death: 28 JUN 1719 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Will: Date: 20 FEB 1719
Note: Proved July 15, 1719, names son Joseph, executor, overseer,
brother Isaac. To son Benjamin, 'house he now possesses, he
paying my grandson Isaac, son of Isaac deceased 60 pounds, at
age. To son Joseph, my dwelling house &c., with 100 acres, he
paying 30 pounds to my daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel
Dunn, 10 Pounds to my daughter Mary, wife of James Borden, and
10 pounds to my daughter Sarah, wife of Lawrence Clarke. To son
Daniel 5s. To son Joseph, rest of Movables.' Inventory: 135
pounds, 6s., 8d.,; pewter, money scales, mare, neat cattle, 33
pounds; sheep and lambs, 30 Pounds; swine, 2 Pounds.

Reference: 3267

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Birth: SEP 1649 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Death: 1719 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Reference: 3268

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Source: (Birth)
Title: Austin's Genealogical Dictionary
Abbreviation: Genealogical Dictionay

Page: Charles Edward Banks's Topographical Dictionary of English
Emigrants

Source: (Birth)
Title: Austin's Genealogical Dictionary
Abbreviation: Genealogical Dictionay

Page: Cranfield Parish Register

Source: (Death)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Page: Just had a year for death.

Source: (Individual)
Title: Rhode Island Families
Abbreviation: Rhode Island Families

Birth: 17 APR 1614 Cranfield, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England

Event: Date: 30 APR 1639
Note: Thomas and 28 others signed the following compact: 'We whose
names are underwritten, do acknowledge ourselves the legal
subjects of His Majesty King Charles, and in his name do hereby
bind ourselves into a civil body politic, unto his laws
according to matters of justice.'

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 04 AUG 1653
Note: Sold William Wodell 60 acres.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 21 JAN 1654
Note: Thomas bought of Henry Knowles, 9 acres, dwelling house, fruit
trees, etc. for a valuable consideration.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 16 APR 1657
Note: Thomas sold to Thomas Stafford a house, & etc. in Warwick.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 30 JUL 1660
Note: Thomas received a deed of lands in Narragansett from
Cadganaguant, Chief Sachem, who had 'formerly received several
kindnesses' from him.

Event: Type: Land Owner
Note: By grant and purchase, Thomas Lawton acquired extensive lands
both in Portsmouth and on the mainland. He had land near the
top of Quaker Hill and a tract of perhaps 40 or 50 acres near
the present Town Hall, extending from East Main Road to the
shore. His Hunting Swamp Farm was on the west side of East
Main Road about midway between Union Street and the town line;
and his Long Swamp Farm was east of East Main Road, and on the
west side of Wapping Road between Sandy Point Road and Braman
Lane, these aggregating about 160 acres. His holdings outside
of Portsmouth included 600 acres in Warwick, lands across the
Sakonnet River on Puncatest Neck, a house and lot in Martha's
Vineyard, land in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and in Shrewsbury
Township, New Jersey. In 1660 he received a deed to lands in
Narragansett from Cadganaguant, Chief Sachem, who had "formerly
received several kindnesses" from him.

Immigration: Date: 1638
Place: Came to Rhode Island from Cranfield Parish, England
Note: Conditions in England were restrictive. King James in 1604
announced that he would make the Puritans conform or harry them
out of the land. The still more arbitrary policy of his son,
Charles I, between 1625 and his beheading in 1649, gave new
dimensions to that exodus and resulted in the speedy planting
of a high-spirited and powerful New England. For eleven years,
1628-1639, no Parliament sat in England.

Puritan influence was strong in Bedfordshire. The King by
writ, without a parliament in 1635, assessed the county 3,000
pounds for ship-money, but in 1638 some 280 pounds were still
due from 660 persons. In February 1639, the county was ordered
to furnish 20 men for the campaign against Scotland. So
dissatisfaction with conditions of church and state was
probably a factor in Thomas Lawton's decision to leave England
for the new world.

For Thomas Lawton, America was the land of opportunity. His
choosing to settle in Rhode Island indicates that he believed
in religious and political toleration, and that he was not a
Puritan. He was a planter and a yeoman, cultivating his own
land according to Rhode Island records.

Occupation: Freeman
Date: 1655

Occupation: Commissioner. Also in 1656, 1658 and 1661.
Date: 1655

Occupation: Deputy.
Date: 1666

Death: 29 SEP 1681 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Will: Date: 06 JUN 1674
Note: Proved Sep 29, 1681. Executor son Daniel. Overseers, William
Wodell and George Sisson. 'I do hereby declare that although
Grace have not behaved herself towards me as a wife ought to do
towards an husband, yet for the manifestation of my care of
her, I do hereby give, bequeath unto her all the goods that are
yet remaining in my custody of those that were hers when I
married her and also one good feather bed and boulster; also 12
pounds per annum for life in lieu of all right she has. To son
Daniel farm now in his possession called 'Long Swamp Farm' and
confirmation of another farm called 'Hunting Swamp Farm', at
expiration of William Wodell's lease of it. To son Isaac a
farm at Puncatege and all rights at Martha's Vineyard. To
daughter Elizabeth Sherman, wife of Peleg, a quarter of a share
in Dartmouth, and a piece of land in Portsmouth. To daughter
Elizabeth, also all that my now dwelling house with land bout
it, and a pasture called 'Fifty Acres'. To daughter Ann
Slocum, 5s with what she has already received. To daughter
Sarah Sisson, 50 pounds. To overseers, 5 pounds apiece. To
daughters Elizabeth Sherman and Sarah Sisson the rest of real
and personal.

Reference: 3269

Probate: Date: 14 JUN 1676
Note: Thomas's wife Grace, having presented her many grievances to
the town often, and to the Assembly several times for due and
sufficient maintenance, she being much neglected in her
husband's absence, it was therefore ordered by the Assembly
that 6s per week shall be paid by his agent Daniel Lawton, and
an inventory of movable goods in her custody to be taken, which
inventory Daniel Lawton shall have. Grace to have the
privilege of chamber she is now possessed of, and use of
necessary movables, and the rights of her or any of her
children now or in future to any estate are not cut off.

Probate: Date: 20 APR 1677
Note: Thomas made an agreement with his stepson John Bailey, whereby
Grace, the present wife of Thomas Lawton, should receive 10
pounds per year from John Bailey, and Elizabeth Sherman,
daughter of Thomas Lawton, should have 3 pounds per hear (40s
being in money and the other 20s in good sheep's wool at 12d
per pound.) In consideration of these payments, John Bailey
was to have a lease of dwelling house, land and orchard 'for
term of time my wife Grace Lawton liveth without changing her
name by marriage.' The term of tenancy not to expire till one
year after death or marriage of Grace, the mother of said John
Bailey, and for that year the latter was to pay 13 pounds. On
the same date he sold John Bailey for full satisfaction, all
his household goods except a bedstead, chairs, etc.

Note: Elizabeth was added to the Cranfield (England) Parish register
on September 10, 1637. She was with her parents when they came
to America circa 1638.

Source: (Name)
Title: Legal Records
Abbreviation: Legal Records

Page: Cranfield Register

Birth: ABT 1616 Cranfield, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England

Immigration: Date: 1638
Place: from England

Death: 18 NOV 1654 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Reference: 3270