Welcome Arnold

1745 - 1798  (53 years)

• Name	Welcome Arnold  [1]
  Birth	24 Mar 1745  [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	25 Mar 1745  [4]
  Death	29 Sep 1798  [2, 3]
  Person ID	I16251	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	19 Nov 2017

  
  

  Father	Jonathan Arnold,   b. 18 Nov 1708, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 8 Dec 1796, Smithfield, Rhode Island (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Abigail Smith,   b. 10 Jun 1714, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 29 Jun 1801, Smithfield, Rhode Island (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F10177	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Patience Greene,   b. 13 May 1754, East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island d. 2 Nov 1809, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	11 Feb 1773  [4]
  Children	+ 1. Eliza Harriet Arnold,   b. 5 Oct 1796, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 30 Aug 1873 (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F10174	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Nov 2017

  
  

• Notes

  "[A] well-known Providence merchant who had participated in the Gaspee Affair in 1772." [Wikipedia] Also from Wikipedia: The Gaspee Affair was a very significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspee was a British customs schooner that had been enforcing the Navigation Acts in and around Newport, Rhode Island in 1772. It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packet ship Hannah on June 9 near what is now known as Gaspee Point in Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, and torched the ship. The event increased hostilities between the American colonists and British officials, following the Boston Massacre in 1770. The British had hoped to reduce tensions with the colonies by repealing some aspects of the Townshend Acts and working to end the American boycott of British goods. British officials in Rhode Island wanted to increase their control over the trade that had defined the small colony—legitimate trade as well as smuggling—in order to increase their revenue from the colony. But colonists increasingly began to protest the Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, and other British impositions that had clashed with the colony’s history of rum manufacturing, maritime trade, and slave trading. This event marked the first act of violent uprising against the authority of the British crown in America, preceding the Boston tea party by more than a year and moving the colonies as a whole toward the war for independence.

  
  

• Sources

  [S481] Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850: First Series, Births, Marriages, and Deaths by James N. Arnold. Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1891-1912. [S1713] Find a Grave page for Welcome Arnold. [S1662] North by South: The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold by Charles Hoffman and Tess Hoffman. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1988., year only. [S1615] The Greenes of Rhode Island, with Historical Records of English Ancestry by Francis Vinton Greene and Louise Brownell Clarke, based on the work of George Sears Greene. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1903.