Caleb Greene

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I have made an assumption that Caleb was born in West Greenwich.

Caleb married Lucetta Nichols 15 Apr 1830, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI. Lucetta (daughter of Ambrose Nichols and Susannah Whitford) was born 21 Nov 1808, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI; died 31 Aug 1837; was buried , Greene-Waite Lot, Rt. 102, West Greenwich, RI. [Group Sheet]

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I have a photocopy of the original birth entry, which follows her parents' marriage entry in the West Greenwich town records.

She is mentioned in her grandfather Carmi's will (proved in 1843), where her name is given as Lucitta, and in her mother's will written in 1865, by which time Lucetta had died.

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I have a photocopy of the original marriage entry at West Greenwich.

A note in the family Bible has the date of marriage as 25 April 1830.

Gideon married Mary Tillinghast 25 Dec 1794, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI. [Group Sheet]

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I have a photocopy of their original marriage entry at West Greenwich.

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Ambrose & Susanna and their family lived on Plain Meeting House Rd., West Greenwich.

Ambrose married Susannah Whitford 31 Dec 1807, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI. Susannah (daughter of Carmi WHITFORD and Barbary BAILEY) was born 28 Jun 1788, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI; died 8 Dec 1870, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI. [Group Sheet]

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Her birth record states: "Susannah Whitford the first Daughter of the aforesaid Carmi Whitford by barbary his wife was born the 28th of June AD 1788." I have a photocopy of this, and one of her will which was copied into the West Greenwich town record book. Her date of death is recorded in the Comstock-Remington-Tibbitts-Battey-Whitford family Bible. It says she died at age 82 y 5 m 10 d.

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I have a photocopy of the marriage entry from the West Greenwich town books.

William married Sarah Hall 24 May 1762, West Greenwich, RI. Sarah (daughter of Christopher Hall and Rosannah Matteson Sweet) was born 31 Mar 1745; died Abt Feb 1794. [Group Sheet]

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Her will mentions by name her father, late husband, ten sons and three daughters.

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They were married by Philip Greene, Justice.

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Several generations of Whitfords are buried, with their spouses, in Coventry Historical Cemetery #135 on Harkney Hill Road, directly across from the historic Maple Root Baptist Church. There are two cemeteries next to each other; the Whitford graves are in the one situated toward the west, which is the older one of the two, commonly known as Maple Root Cemetery. In one lot there are six stones standing in a row, representing three consecutive generations beginning with the ones for Carmi and his wife Barbary, then Jeremiah's and Sally's, then the two for Charles and Harty. I have pictures of the stones individually, as well as the whole group. There is a saying carved on Jeremiah's stone: "Dear husband, you have passed away, and left me here so lonely, But I hope to meet you in that heavenly land where we shall part no more." Some of the next generation are also buried nearby.

Pictures of these gravestones are posted on the family tree at our web site [www.thesorensens.net].

I believe Carmi's farm was up on the hill near the intersection of Rt. 3 and Interstate 95, where a motel is now. This is where my great-grandmother lived as a child.

Carmi's will was proved in West Greenwich on 28 Jan 1843. In it he mentions his father Nicholas; wife Barbara (Barbary); and sons Caleb B. and Jeremiah (our ancestor), the youngest; daughters Susannah Nichols and Phebe Potter; and granddaughter Lucitta Nichols.

An online genealogy shows this family group with two more children: John, b. c. 1800, and Lucietta, b. c. 1805. However, these names are not found on the page with the birth records of the other four children, and are not named as children in the will.

The 1850 census of Oneida County, New York shows a Lucetta Whitford, age 45, born in RI, along with Warren Tillinghast, 38. However, she was not of Carmi's family; she was Lucetta Tillinghast, daughter of Elder Pardon Tillinghast. Lucetta had married William M. Whitford on 5 Sept 1824, probably at East Greenwich. Warren was probably her younger brother.

Carmi married Barbary BAILEY 24 May 1787, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI. Barbary (daughter of William BAILEY, Jr. and Phebe OLIN) was born 16 Sep 1765, East Greenwich, Kent Co., RI; died 19 Dec 1846, East Greenwich, Kent Co., RI; was buried , Maple Root Cemetery, Harkney Hill Rd., Coventry, RI. [Group Sheet]

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Barbary and her sister Comfort married two half brothers, Carmi and Reuben Whitford. Barbary's gravestone has been photographed along with her husband's. Some records show her name as Barbara; the gravestone says Barbary.

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I have a photocopy of their marriage entry from West Greenwich. It reads: "These May Certify all persons whom it may Concern that Carmy Whitford of Westgreenwich and Barbary Bailey of East Greenwich was Lawfully Married May the 24 AD 1787 By me James Wightman Elder"