Bridget

• Name	Bridget   [1, 2]
  Birth	of Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I17896	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of FW
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2018

  
  

  Family	Thomas Waite,   b. 16 Sep 1716, Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island
  Marriage	8 Jul 1745  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Grace Waite,   b. 4 Jun 1756, Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F10986	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2018

  
  

• Notes

  G. Andrews Moriarty (citation details below) calls her Bridget Crandall, which is obviously interesting to us -- Hopkinton is one town over from Westerly, founded by TNH ancestor John Crandall. But there seems to be no consensus on what her maiden name actually was. Several online sources notwithstanding, she was probably not Bridget Brownell, a descendant of Ann Marbury Hutchinson.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2348] The Benjamin Family in America by Gloria Wall Bicha and Helen Benjamin Brown. 1977. [S481] Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850: First Series, Births, Marriages, and Deaths by James N. Arnold. Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1891-1912. [S2353] G. Andrews Moriarty, "Thomas Waite of Portsmouth, R.I., and Some of His Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 73:291, Oct 1919.