Robert Leete

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• Alternate birth: of Great Eversden, Cambridgeshire, England

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"[H]e was granted a degree of Bachelor of Arts [...] 1544-5, Master of Arts in 1548. He was a Fellow of Saint John's College about 1545, and was so designated in a deed of 1551." [John Brooks Threlfall, citation details below.]

Robert married Alice Grundy on 6 Apr 1573. Alice was born about 1545; died after 17 Feb 1598. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1643

Phebe married George Parkhurst between 1611 and 1612. George (son of John Parkhurst and Sara) was born about 1588 in of Ipswich, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1688

Phebe married Thomas Arnold before 1 Mar 1640. Thomas was born about 1604; died in Sep 1674 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Rev. Thomas Carter in 1638. Thomas died on 5 Sep 1684 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He served many terms as a deputy to the Rhode Island general assembly and as an assistant governor. On 6 May 1685 he was on a committee to draw up an address of congratulation to James II on his peaceable succession to the throne. On 22 Dec 1686 he was appointed a member of the council of Governor Andros (of the short-lived Dominion of New England). He was on the Providence town council 1700-01, and in 1707-08 was a speaker of the house of deputies.

Richard married Mary Angell after 24 Oct 1666. Mary (daughter of Thomas Angell and Alice Ashton) was born about 1646; died between 23 May 1685 and 21 Oct 1694. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Graduate of Harvard, 1660; schoolteacher; town officer; later, minister at Lancaster and Groton.

Samuel married Eunice Brooks in 1672. Eunice (daughter of John Brooks and Eunice Mousall) was born on 10 Oct 1655 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Elizabeth Burlingame on 5 Dec 1706. Elizabeth (daughter of Roger Burlingame and Mary Barlingstone) was born on 9 Jan 1684; died on 5 May 1752 in Smithfield, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married John Jameson on 5 May 1709. John (son of William Jameson and Sarah Price) was born on 27 Oct 1686 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 18 Nov 1709
• Alternate death: 29 Dec 1796

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In 1778 he was a private in Capt. Amos Arnold's company, Col. Mathewson's regiment; participated in the expedition to Newport. [SAR record, quoted on his Find a Grave page.]

Family/Spouse: Abigail Smith. Abigail (daughter of Benjamin Smith and Marcy Angell) was born on 10 Jun 1714 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 29 Jun 1801 in Smithfield, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 18 Oct 1769, Preston, New London, Connecticut

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Also called Margaret Jennison; Jemison.

Margaret married John Benjamin on 3 Jan 1740 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. John (son of John Benjamin and Phebe Larabee) was born on 31 Oct 1714 in Preston, New London, Connecticut; was christened on 6 Jan 1715 in First Church, Preston, New London, Connecticut; died on 7 May 1791 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 25 Mar 1745

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"[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.

Welcome married Patience Greene on 11 Feb 1773. Patience (daughter of Samuel Greene and Patience Cooke) was born on 13 May 1754 in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island; died on 2 Nov 1809 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; was buried in North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Said to have served in General Waterbury's brigade of the Connecticut militia during the Revolution, and to have been killed "near Horse's Neck, Connecticut" (West Greenwich).

John married Grace Waite on 29 Jun 1775 in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island. Grace (daughter of Thomas Waite and Bridget) was born on 4 Jun 1756 in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was the twin sister of Richard James Arnold, subject of the book North by South: The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold by Charles Hoffman and Tess Hoffman (Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1988). The publisher's descriptive copy follows:

In 1823, Richard James Arnold, descendant of a Quaker family involved in the movement to abolish slavery in Rhode Island, married Louisa Gindrat of Bryan County, Georgia, and acquired a plantation called White Hall--thirteen hundred acres of rice and cotton land and sixty-eight slaves. Over the next fifty years, Arnold led two distinct, if never entirely separate lives, building through successive Georgia winters a profitable southern "paradise" rooted in human bondage, then returning each spring to his business interests and extended family in Rhode Island.

Organized around a surviving plantation journal kept during two winters and one spring, North by South encompasses Arnold's career as a rice and cotton planter as it uncovers the increasingly difficult social and moral disguises that enabled him to move freely through two worlds.

Eliza married Zachariah Allen on 1 May 1817. Zachariah (son of Zachariah Allen and Anne Crawford) was born on 15 Sep 1795 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 17 Mar 1882 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; was buried in North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 25 Dec 1775, Preston, New London, Connecticut
• Alternate death: 29 Jun 1841, Greene, New York

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Also called Augustus Rufus Benjamin.

Rufus married Catharina Groat in 1796 in Windham, Greene, New York. Catharina (daughter of John Groat and Sara Bowman) was born on 9 Aug 1779 in Claverack, Columbia, New York; was christened on 22 Aug 1779 in Reformed Church, Claverack, Columbia, New York; died after 20 Jun 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Andrew Robeson on 2 Mar 1843 in Islesboro, Maine. Andrew (son of Andrew Robeson and Anna Rodman) was born on 14 Oct 1817 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jul 1874 in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married secondly, 9 Nov 1850, James Van Steenberg.

Family/Spouse: Philip Howard. Philip was born on 27 Mar 1801; died on 7 Oct 1871; was buried in Woodstock Cemetery, Woodstock, Ulster, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Charles Sprague Sargent on 26 Nov 1873. Charles (son of Ignatius Sargent and Henrietta Gray) was born on 24 Apr 1841 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 22 Mar 1927 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He came to Kingston, NY in 1887, and was a turner in the W. P. Crane mills in Rondout.

Family/Spouse: Catherine Devall. Catherine was born in 1848; died in 1918; was buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, Ulster, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The New York Times, 16 Feb 1959, page 29:

Charles S. Sargent of 960 Park Avenue, a partner in Hornblower & Weeks, stockbrokers at 40 Wall Street, died Friday in Doctors Hospital, after a short illness. His age was 78.

Mr. Sargent, who graduated from Harvard in 1902, had been associated with Kidder, Peabody & Co.

He was a director of the American Express Company, the American Machine and Metals Company, United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc., the Associated Dry Goods Corporation, the Metropolitan Fire Reassurance Company, and the National Aviation Corporation.

Born in Brookline, Mass., he was the son of Charles Sprague Sargent, Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard and Director of Arnold Arboretum, and Mary Robeson Sargent.

Mr. Sargent was a Mason. His clubs included the Harvard of New York, the Knickerbocker, Links and Ejwanok Country of Manchester, Vt.

Survivors include his widow, Dagmar; three sons, Charles S., Jr., Winthrop, and John T.; a daughter, Mrs. H. M. Havemeyer, and a sister, Mrs. N. B. Potter.

Charles married Dagmar Wetmore on 9 May 1912 in Grace Church, New York, New York. Dagmar (daughter of William Boerum Wetmore and Annette Wetmore) was born on 24 Jan 1888; died in Nov 1984 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Hasbrouck Hudler. John (son of Walter C. Hudler and Rachel C. Shaw) was born on 23 May 1873; died on 8 Nov 1945 in Kingston, Ulster, New York; was buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, Ulster, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"John Sargent, Former Doubleday President, Dies at 87." The New York Times, 8 Feb 2012:

John T. Sargent, who as president and later chairman of Doubleday & Company oversaw its expansion from a modest-size family-controlled book publisher to an industry giant with interests extending into broadcasting and baseball, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.

The death was confirmed by his son, John T. Sargent Jr., the chief executive of Macmillan, the publishing company.

Mr. Sargent, who was already working for Doubleday when he married Neltje Doubleday, granddaughter of the company's founder, Frank Nelson Doubleday, in 1953, was named president and chief executive in 1961. At the time, the company was largely a trade book publisher; it also ran a book club, a New York bookstore and a modest printing concern.

Over the next 17 years, in partnership with Nelson Doubleday Jr., grandson of the founder, Mr. Sargent worked to expand all of those enterprises, largely succeeding in spite of a divorce in 1965 and an insurrection by a minority of the company's shareholders, led by his former wife, who wanted it to go public.

By 1979, the year after he left the presidency and was made chairman, Doubleday was publishing 700 books annually. The company had bought a textbook subsidiary and the Dell Publishing Company, which included Dell paperbacks. It was operating more than a dozen book clubs, including the mammoth Literary Guild; more than two dozen Doubleday bookshops across the country; and four book printing and binding companies.

In addition, Mr. Sargent led the company's expansion into radio and television broadcasting and film production. As chairman, he was involved in the company's purchase of the New York Mets in 1980.

The Doubleday company eschewed publicity and the prying of journalists. "The Sphinx Called Doubleday" was the headline on a 1979 article about the company in The New York Times, which described its publishing ethos this way: "There is no class of book that is considered a 'Doubleday book,' nor is there any book that would automatically be judged unsuitable for the Doubleday imprint. Generally speaking, the house frowns on books loaded with sex, it would be unlikely to publish an anti-Kennedy book since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is an editor there, and it doesn't exhaust itself trying to lasso serious literature."

The company may have been known for its secretive ways, but Mr. Sargent was visible among the New York elite, both during business hours and after. A strapping man, dapper and sociable, he was a voracious reader, an erudite speaker and, at one time, a poetry editor who worked with Theodore Roethke, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, who became a friend and, according to family lore, spent more than one night sleeping in the Sargent bathtub after an evening of imbibing.

He dined with his famous authors — who included Daphne du Maurier, Peter Benchley, Alex Haley, Leon Uris and Stephen King — and other notable friends; attended A-list parties with socialites like Brooke Astor; frequented the opera; hobnobbed with movie stars. He was a friend and frequent escort of Mrs. Onassis, and hired her as an editor at Doubleday.

"The guy liked dressing up in a tux and going out," his son said. "The publishing world was his world, and the social aspect was part of it. It all folded together."

John Turner Sargent was born on June 26, 1924, and spent his early years in Cedarhurst, on Long Island. (No one in the family knows where, exactly, he was born, his son said, and his birth certificate has not yet been found.) His grandfather was the well-known botanist Charles Sprague Sargent; his father, Charles Jr., worked in finance. He went to St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and spent a year at Harvard before joining the Navy. Prevented from fighting overseas because of a punctured eardrum, he spent the war years "loading bombers in Florida," his son said.

After his discharge he worked briefly for Time magazine and then began at Doubleday, writing book jacket copy, in the late 1940s. Over the next several years he read manuscripts, sold syndication and subsidiary rights, worked as an advertising manager and editor and was business manager of several publishing divisions. As president of the company, he succeeded Douglas Black, who had succeeded Nelson Doubleday Sr.

Mr. Sargent met Ms. Doubleday, a painter who now lives in Wyoming, when he was 28 and she was 18. After their divorce she waged a long battle, enlisting some other shareholders, to get the company to sell shares to the public, but her mother, her brother and her former husband all lined up against her and the effort failed. The company was finally sold to the German conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1986.

A longtime colleague of Mr. Sargent, Samuel S. Vaughan, who served the company as editor in chief and publisher, died on Jan. 30.

In addition to John Jr., Mr. Sargent's survivors include a daughter, Ellen; six grandchildren; his wife, the former Betty Nichols Kelly, whom he married in 1985; and two stepchildren, Elizabeth Lee Kelly and James Hamilton Kelly.

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John Turner Sargent Sr. and Neltje Doubleday are 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of the Rev. John Ward (1606-1693) and his wife Alice (1612-1680).

John married Neltje Doubleday on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. Neltje (daughter of Nelson Doubleday and Ellen George McCarter) was born in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Harry F. Edinger on 11 Mar 1933 in Kingston, Ulster, New York. Harry (son of Floyd Goodman Edinger and Jane E. Kennedy) was born on 20 Aug 1909 in Kingston, Ulster, New York; died on 13 Feb 2004; was buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, Ulster, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CEO of Macmillan Publishers.

His philanthropic activities include longtime service on the board of directors of Graham Windham, more recently called simply Graham, a nonprofit foster care agency providing services to needy children and families in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1806, Graham, the oldest non-sectarian childcare agency in the United States, was originally the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York, co-founded by Eliza Hamilton after her husband Alexander Hamilton, himself an orphan, was killed in the famous duel with Aaron Burr — a grandson of John Sargent's 6X-grandfather the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Thus Aaron Burr's first cousin six times removed has served for years on the board of Eliza Hamilton's orphanage.

He is also the author, under the anagrammatic pen name "S. T. Garne," of two children's books, One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book (1992) and By a Blazing Blue Sea (1999).

John married Constance Lane Murray on 21 Sep 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Judith Nell Harned on 31 Jul 1965 in Christian, Kentucky. Judith (daughter of Dr. Fred Turnley Harned, Jr. and Mary Gertrude McCallum) was born on 30 Sep 1943 in Christian, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]