Roger Burlingame

Roger married Mary Barlingstone about 1663. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Arnold on 5 Dec 1706. Thomas (son of Richard Arnold and Mary Angell) was born on 24 Mar 1675 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 3 Feb 1727 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 Mar 1745

Notes:

"[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]