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]