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Rev. David Simmons
1748 - 1786 (37 years)-
Name David Simmons [1] Prefix Rev. Birth 28 Jun 1748 Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts [2, 3] Gender Male Death 7 Jun 1786 Drowned in the Taunton River, Massachusetts [4] Person ID I22601 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of GFS Last Modified 22 Nov 2020
Father Constant Simmons, b. Abt 1710 Mother Lydia Phillips, b. Abt 1720 Marriage 12 Apr 1739 Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts [2, 5] Family ID F13542 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Lillis Richmond, b. Mar 1746, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island d. 2 May 1808, Bristol, Ontario, New York (Age ~ 62 years) Marriage 2 Nov 1768 Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts [1, 6] Children + 1. Richmond Simmons, b. 1 May 1773, Massachusetts d. 26 Jan 1845, Bristol, Ontario, New York (Age 71 years) Family ID F13602 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 19 Jan 2019
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Notes - Ordained a Baptist minister in 1781, he founded the Baptist church in Freetown, Massachusetts two years later.
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Sources - [S479] Little Compton Families, from records compiled by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour. Little Compton, Rhode Island: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967. Fifth edition, Baltimore: Clearfield, 1997.
- [S5174] Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, on ancestry.com.
- [S2855] History of the Simmons Family from Moses Simmons, 1st. (Moyses Symonson) by Lorenzo Albert Simmons. Lincoln, Nebraska, 1930., year only.
- [S2854] Find a Grave page for Lillis Richmond Simmons.
- [S2855] History of the Simmons Family from Moses Simmons, 1st. (Moyses Symonson) by Lorenzo Albert Simmons. Lincoln, Nebraska, 1930.
- [S2854] Find a Grave page for Lillis Richmond Simmons., says 8 Nov 1768.
- [S479] Little Compton Families, from records compiled by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour. Little Compton, Rhode Island: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967. Fifth edition, Baltimore: Clearfield, 1997.