Richard Arnold

1642 - 1710  (68 years)

• Name	Richard Arnold
  Birth	22 Mar 1642  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	22 Mar 1642	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island   [2]
  Alternate birth	22 Mar 1643	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Death	22 Apr 1710	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island   [1, 3, 5]
  Person ID	I19144	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2017

  
  

  Father	Thomas Arnold   d. Sep 1674, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Mother	Phebe Parkhurst,   b. Bef 29 Nov 1612   d. Aft 1688 (Age > 77 years)
  Family ID	F11847	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Angell,   b. Abt 1646   d. Bef Nov 1687 (Age ~ 41 years)
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Arnold,   b. 24 Mar 1675, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 3 Feb 1727, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 51 years)
  Family ID	F11846	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2017

  
  

• Notes

  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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990. [S648] New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation ed. William Richard Cutter. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913. [S1512] Pane-Joyce Genealogy by David Pane-Joyce. [S468] A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage. Boston: Little, Brown, 1860-64. [S648] New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation ed. William Richard Cutter. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913., date only.