Joseph Arnold (Rhode Island farmer)
Joseph Arnold | |
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| Born | 16 September 1710 possibly Newport, Rhode Island |
| Died | 29 August 1776 probably Exeter, Rhode Island |
| Occupation | Deacon |
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| Children | Abigail, Josiah, Joseph, Stephen, Samuel, Josiah, Patience, Mary, Peleg, Oliver, John, Caleb, Anna, Edmund, Dorcas, Hannah |
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| Relatives | Grandfather: Attorney General Joseph Sheffield; great grandfather: Governor Benedict Arnold; great great grandson: Senator Stephen A. Douglas |
Joseph Arnold (1710–1776) was a pre-revolutionary resident of
1860 presidential election. He was an ancestral link between Douglas and many prominent early Rhode Islanders such as Governor Benedict Arnold and two founders of the Rhode Island colony, Samuel Wilbore and John Porter
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Life
Born 16 September 1710, possibly in
Royal Charter of 1663.[3] His maternal grandfather was Rhode Island Attorney General Joseph Sheffield, for whom Arnold was undoubtedly named.[3]
Arnold's mother likely died at an early age, since she had only three children, and never cosigned any land records with her husband.
Arnold was a farmer and landowner who lived in
1860 presidential election.[7]
Arnold died on 29 August 1776 "of camp fever while visiting his sons in camp with his sister Mary."[1] His death was recorded in the diary of Jeffrey Watson, one of his contemporaries.[5] Two of his sons, Caleb and Edmund, served in the military during the American Revolutionary War.[1]
Ancestry of Joseph Arnold
The three early generations of Joseph Arnold's ancestry are documented in John O. Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island.[8] The connection between the Arnolds and the Sheffields was published by Katharine Waterman in 1953.[9]
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See also
- Stephen A. Douglas ancestry
- Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
References
- ^ a b c d Waterman 1953, p. 81.
- ^ Waterman 1953, p. 78.
- ^ a b Waterman 1953, pp. 80–1.
- ^ a b Arnold 1935, p. 106.
- ^ a b Schunke 1980, p. 8.
- ^ a b Arnold 1935, pp. 106, 133–6.
- ^ Arnold 1935, pp. 221–3.
- ^ Austin 1887, pp. 242–245.
- ^ Waterman 1953, pp. 1–8.
Bibliography
- Arnold, Elisha Stephen (1935). The Arnold Memorial: William Arnold of Providence and Pawtuxet, 1587–1675, and a genealogy of his descendants. Rutland, VT: Tuttle Publishing Company. OCLC 6882845.
- ISBN 978-0-8063-0006-1.
- Schunke, Marjorie W. (July 1980). "The Diary of Jeffrey Watson". Rhode Island Genealogical Register. 3: 1–17.
- Waterman, Katharine U. (1953). "A Lost Woman Digged Out of Oblivion". Rhode Island History. 12: 75–81.