Mary Allen Robeson

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]

1. Charles Sprague Sargent was born on 7 Mar 1880 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 13 Feb 1959 in New York City; was buried in Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts.

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He graduated from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, but did not practice. He was active in the management of his father's Fall River factory.

He was disowned by the Quakers in 1840, over a decade after his parents were.

Andrew married Mary Arnold Allen on 2 Mar 1843 in Islesboro, Maine. Mary (daughter of Zachariah Allen and Eliza Harriet Arnold) was born on 9 Sep 1819 in of Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 25 Jul 1903 in Islesboro, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Born in Philadelphia, he became a prominent merchant and successful manufacturer in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1824 he established a factory at Fall River for the printing of calicoes.

"Both Anna and her husband Andrew were disowned from the New Bedford Monthly Meeting for 'absenting' themselves from meetings. Andrew was disowned 27th 10 mo. 1825. Anna was subsequently disowned 24th 5 mo. 1827." [Rhonda R. McClure, citation details below]

Andrew married Anna Rodman on 2 Jun 1810 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. Anna (daughter of Samuel Rodman and Elizabeth Rotch) was born on 5 Nov 1787 in Nantucket, Massachusetts; died on 17 Jun 1848 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Both Anna and her husband Andrew were disowned from the New Bedford Monthly Meeting for 'absenting' themselves from meetings. Andrew was disowned 27th 10 mo. 1825. Anna was subsequently disowned 24th 5 mo. 1827." [Rhonda R. McClure, citation details below]

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From Wikipedia:

Zachariah Allen (September 15, 1795 – March 17, 1882) was an American textile manufacturer, scientist, lawyer, writer, inventor and civil leader from Providence, Rhode Island. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Brown University where he graduated in 1813.

Allen became a textile manufacturer and in 1822 constructed a woolen mill in which he incorporated innovative fire-safety features and his own mechanical improvements. He also built the first hot-air furnace system for the heating of homes. In 1833 he patented his best-known device, the automatic cut-off valve for steam engines.

He founded the Manufacturers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company in 1835, the forerunner of the present day insurance company FM Global.

Allen was also a prolific writer of scientific texts and wrote numerous books and articles during his lifetime. [...]

His older brother Philip Allen served Rhode Island as governor [1851-1853) and later as a United States senator (1853-1859).

Zachariah married Eliza Harriet Arnold on 1 May 1817. Eliza (daughter of Welcome Arnold and Patience Greene) was born on 5 Oct 1796 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 30 Aug 1873. [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.

Peter married Martha Livezey on 15 Nov 1780. Martha (daughter of Thomas Livezey and Martha Knowles) was born on 3 Aug 1755 in Glen Fern, Roxboro, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died on 31 Jul 1789 in Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Elizabeth Rotch on 1 Jun 1780 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of William Rotch and Elizabeth Barney) was born on 9 Dec 1757 in Nantucket, Massachusetts; died on 2 Aug 1856 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman, along with her younger sister Mary, who never married, were the impetus to so many of the Rotches and Rodmans leaving the Society of Friends, most of them because of what happened to these two women. [...] Samuel Rodman, after the vote that revoked Elizabeth's and Mary's position as Elders, was so incensed by what had taken place that he 'tendered a resignation of his right of membership to the Mo[nthly] Meeting. He declined entering into the reasons which had led to this step, which must be well known to most who were present -- he said it was not a hasty one, but taken after mature deliberation, [and] he should only request a copy of the minute made on this subject.'" [Rhonda R. McClure, citation details below]

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• Alternate birth: 21 Mar 1740, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

Zachariah married Anne Crawford on 3 Jan 1778. Anne (daughter of Joseph Crawford and Susannah Bernon) was born on 25 Jun 1757; died on 3 Sep 1808. [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]

Jonathan married Catherine Farmer on 17 Feb 1747. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He died of palsy.

Thomas married Martha Knowles on 2 Jun 1748 in Abington, Montgomery, Pennsylvania. Martha (daughter of John Knowles and Ann Paul) was born on 24 Jun 1723 in Oxford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died on 2 Jan 1797. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 20 Dec 1724

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"Thomas Rodman...was lost at sea, off Newport, November 16, 1766. He was returning home from England, where he had gone to collect a large amount of money due him, and being rendered helpless by an attack of gout, was the only person unable to save himself." [The Hazard Family, citation details below.]

Thomas married Mary Borden on 5 Apr 1750. Mary (daughter of Abraham Borden and Elizabeth Wanton) was born on 10 Jan 1729; died on 19 Feb 1798 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: May 1729

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He was an early whale-oil entrepeneur. He and his sons' whaling businesses continued well into the 1800s.

William married Elizabeth Barney on 31 Oct 1754 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Benjamin Barney and Lydia Starbuck) was born on 23 Mar 1735 in Nantucket, Massachusetts; died on 14 May 1824 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 9 Dec 1707, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

David married Hannah Paddleford after 19 Feb 1731. Hannah was born in of Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 18 Jun 1751 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Padelford.

Joseph married Susannah Bernon on 23 Aug 1734. Susannah (daughter of Gabriel Bernon and Mary Harris) was born in 1716; died on 18 Feb 1802. [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.]

Jonathan married 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 birth: 10 Aug 1714, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island

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• Alternate birth: 28 Aug 1727, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island

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He was a merchant and a trader. He appears to have been lost at sea returning from a trip to the East Indies.

Samuel married Patience Cooke on 28 Apr 1747. Patience (daughter of Ebenezer Cooke and Patience Gorton) was born on 18 Jan 1728 in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island; died on 9 Jul 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan married Elizabeth Philippine Morris on 27 Oct 1721. Elizabeth (daughter of David Morris and Mary Philippine) was born on 22 Feb 1695. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1672, Cork, Ireland

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Arrived in America about 1686, with his mother and siblings. He was a member of the Pennsylvania assembly from about 1710 to 1732.

Edward married Rachel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Elizabeth Heath on 27 Nov 1710. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Heath and Susannah Woolrich) was born on 5 Aug 1688; died about 1725. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 23 Nov 1682, West Challow, Berkshire, England

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He emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1695, with his mother, his father having died just prior.

John married Ann Paul on 5 Jun 1705 in Oxford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ann (daughter of Joseph Paul and Margaret) was born between 1683 and 1684 in Somerset, England; died in 1750 in Merion, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elected Justice of the Peace of Newport, Rhode Island, May 1739.

Samuel married Mary Willett on 16 May 1723 in Flushing, Long Island, New York. Mary (daughter of Col. Thomas Willett) was born about 1710; died on 21 May 1756. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 29 Mar 1690, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

Abraham married Elizabeth Wanton. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Wanton and Sarah Freeborn) was born on 5 Jan 1690 in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 6 Mar 1704, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

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"Joseph appears to be the first Quaker of the Rotch family. It is suggested that he arrived from Salem to Nantucket in 1725, though within the Nantucket Monthly Meeting Records he is not mentioned until the Monthly Meeting held 26th 9 mo. 1733 when he and Love Macy declare their intentions to marry. According to the Nantucket register of births and other events, he was received 26th 9 mo. 1733. The following month, Jethro Folger and Nathaniel Coleman, having been tasked the previous month with examining the clearness of Joseph Rotch to be married, indicate that he has no impediments. This indicates that he is a Friend in good standing." [Rhonda R. McClure, citation details below]

Joseph married Love Macy on 21 Feb 1734 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Love (daughter of Thomas Macy and Deborah Coffin) was born on 20 Jun 1713 in Nantucket, Massachusetts; died on 14 Nov 1767. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 13 Apr 1699, Rhode Island
• Alternate birth: 13 Jun 1699, of Rhode Island

Benjamin married Lydia Starbuck on 31 Mar 1722. Lydia (daughter of Jethro Starbuck and Dorcas Gayer) was born in of Nantucket, Massachusetts; died on 2 Jun 1751. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 15 Sep 1704, Nantucket, Massachusetts

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• Alternate birth: Between 1651 and 1652, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts
• Alternate birth: 1652
• Alternate death: 3 Sep 1723, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts

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He was a blacksmith by trade.

Benjamin married Hopestill Leonard on 13 Nov 1695 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. Hopestill (daughter of Rice Leonard) was born on 15 May 1671 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 21 Feb 1754 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1673
• Alternate death: Aft 27 Aug 1729, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

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The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 (citation details below) says that they married "Hampton [no day or month] 1695" and that it was their intention that was recorded at Rehoboth.

William married Sarah Whipple on 22 Apr 1708. Sarah (daughter of Col. Joseph Whipple and Alice Smith) was born on 29 Mar 1691 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 4 Mar 1762 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; was buried in North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Gabriel Bernon Papers at the Rhode Island Historical Society:

Gabriel Bernon (1644-1736), a Huguenot and prominent merchant of an ancient family in La Rochelle, France, fled that country in 1686, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes led to his religious persecution. He arrived in Boston (via Amsterdam and London) in June, 1688, with the intention of establishing a settlement at Oxford, Massachusetts; a plan that had evolved through his meetings with other refugees when in London. Bernon's financial support made the settlement a reality for other French Huguenot families who sailed to America with him, but he chose to settle in Boston. The Oxford settlement was abandoned in 1696 after an Indian attack in which four of its members were killed. Attempts were made to re-establish Oxford in 1699, but it was abandoned permanently due to Indian threat in 1704.

After the first break-up of the settlement, Bernon relocated permanently to Rhode Island (in 1697). He stayed in Newport until about 1706, when he moved to Providence. He left Providence for Kingston in 1712 and lived there until 1718, then returned to Providence, where he stayed until his death in 1736.

He had re-established himself in trade soon after his arrival in the American colonies, becoming interested in shipbuilding, and the manufacture of such items as nails, salt, and pine rosin. His business successes attracted the attention of prominent persons in the colonies and in England, who attempted to assist him in establishing contracts with the English government for naval supplies. He also made use of some of the Oxford property by setting up a wash-leather manufactory there, and supplying glovers and hatters in Boston and Newport with that product.

Bernon's lasting mark on the history of Rhode Island, however, is in the area of religion. Charles W. Baird observes, "Bernon had been a member of the French Church, until his departure from Massachusetts...But in Rhode Island...he became a fervent and zealous member of the Church of England." He was active in establishing churches in each of the Rhode Island towns in which he lived at different times during his nearly forty years of residency: Trinity Church in Newport, St. Paul's Church in Kingston, and St. John's Church in Providence. These were Rhode Island's earliest Episcopal churches.

Bernon also is the ancestor to many of Rhode Island's oldest families, including Allens, Crawfords, Dorrs, Coddingtons, and Whipples. He was twice married, first to Esther Le Roy, whom he married in France in 1673, and who died in Newport in 1710; then to Mary Harris, whom he married in 1712. Each marriage produced one son in addition to several daughters; however, neither son survived to have children, so all of Bernon's descendants are through his female children. Bernon died in 1736 at the age of 92, and is buried beneath St. John's Church in Providence.

Gabriel married Mary Harris in 1712. [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]

Benjamin married Marcy Angell on 12 Apr 1693 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. Marcy (daughter of John Angell and Ruth Field) was born in 1675 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died after 9 Apr 1719; was buried in North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 3 Sep 1721

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• Alternate birth: 16 Mar 1696, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island
• Alternate death: 25 Feb 1758

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From Wikipedia:

Greene was made a freeman of the colony in 1718, and at the age of 32 was elected a deputy from Warwick in 1727, which office he held for five years. He was the clerk of the county court in Providence and speaker of the Rhode Island Assembly in 1734 and 1739. In 1728 he was appointed, along with John Mumford of Newport, to survey the boundary line between the Rhode Island and Connecticut colonies. When Governor John Wanton died in 1740, Richard Ward became the governor, and Greene became the new Deputy Governor, which office he held until his own election to governor in May 1743. This was one of the rare cases when a Rhode Island governor did not come from the island of Aquidneck where the towns of Newport and Portsmouth are located.

One of the important issues of Greene's first term in office concerned the boundary lines of the colony. Several geographic boundaries were adjusted, and the towns of Barrington, Warren and Bristol were added under Bristol county, and the towns of Tiverton and Little Compton were added to the towns on Aquidneck island in Newport County. Another major issue facing the colony was the war against France and Spain, for which the colony was expected to share in the defense of the Crown. When England declared war against France on 31 March 1744, the colony manned forts and reinforced them with guns and ammunition. Commodore Warren, with the aid of Rhode Island forces, laid siege to Louisbourg in Nova Scotia, which surrendered in June, surprising Europeans that the "strongest fortress of North America had capitulated to American farmers, machanics [sic], and fishermen." The colony also had a few war sloops at its disposal along with 15 privateers and was successful in capturing 20 ships and sending them to Newport.

During Greene's third term, the colony had divided into two hostile camps. The leaders of the two divisions were both future governors, Samuel Ward and Stephen Hopkins, with Greene siding with the Ward camp. Some of the divisive issues concerned war versus peace, paper money versus hard currency, and Providence versus Newport interests. Elections went back and forth between the two opposing sides, and amid the discord, Greene died while in office on 23 January 1758.

William married Catherine Greene on 30 Dec 1719. Catherine (daughter of Benjamin Greene and Susanna Holden) was born on 31 Mar 1698 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island; died on 28 Nov 1777. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ebenezer married Patience Gorton. Patience (daughter of John Gorton and Patience Hopkins) was born on 12 Dec 1700 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island; died on 3 Oct 1788 in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]