Patience Waterman

Patience married James Greene 10 Apr 1740, Warwick, RI. James (son of Fones Greene and Rebecca Tibbetts) was born 2 Dec 1713, Warwick, RI; died 3 Sep 1802, Warwick, RI. [Group Sheet]

John married Anne OLNEY 1691. Anne (daughter of Reverend Thomas OLNEY, Jr. and Elizabeth MARSH) was born 13 Jan 1667/68; died 16 Oct 1745, Warwick, RI. [Group Sheet]

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Information on this marriage is noted in New England Marriages Prior to 1750.

Resolved married Mercy WILLIAMS 1659, Providence, RI. Mercy (daughter of Roger WILLIAMS and Mary BARNARD) was born 15 Jul 1640, Providence, RI; died Abt 1705. [Group Sheet]

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Information on Mercy's two marriages is noted in New England Marriages Prior to 1750.

Reverend married Elizabeth MARSH 3 Jul 1660, Providence, RI. Elizabeth was born 8 Jul 1646, Salem, MA. [Group Sheet]

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Her parents possibly were John Marsh & Susannah Skelton.

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The following notes are paraphrased from the book "Descendants of Roger Williams" by Dorothy Higson White:

When Richard Waterman arrived in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony on 29 June 1629, his reputation as a skillful hunter had preceded him. In addition to helping supply the people with good venison, he was appointed to inspect canoes by the Court at Salem, and he also served on a Petit Jury in 1636. Richard agreed with many of the ideas preached by Roger Williams, concerning religious and civil liberty. Because of this, he was among a group of eighteen or more men who were asked to leave the colony, along with their families.
"Providence Town Records quote Roger Williams in 1661 as having declared that in 1634 and 1635 he made treaties with the Narragansett Indians and bought land he called Providence 'for a shelter for persons destressed for Conscience.' He communicated this fact to his 'loving friends, John Throckmorton, William Arnold, William Harris, Stuckley West(cott), John Greene Sr., Thomas Olney Sr., Richard Waterman, and others who desired to take shelter with him. Roger Williams generously shared his purchase of land with twelve" others, who along with Roger are called The Original Proprietors of Providence. Several of them were baptized or re-baptized in the new colony and are co-founders of the First Baptist Church in America, an active congregation to this day.
Richard Waterman was one of the signers of the Compact of Providence of 27 July 1640, proposing a form of government. He also served on the Providence Committee of 18 May 1647 to form a government under the Charter that Roger Williams had brought back from England. At one point he was arrested and jailed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony over a border dispute, and found to be "erronious, hereticall, and obstinate."
There is some question as to whether Richard and family relocated to Warwick. He, along with Samuel Gorton and ten others, was one of the purchasers of the "Grand Purchase," the area which is now Warwick, West Warwick, and Coventry. This was bought from Myantonomy (Miantonomo) on 12 January 1642.
Of the men named as The Original Proprietors of Providence, we -- meaning Grandpa Norman Remington and thus I and my children -- are direct descendents of at least five them: Roger Williams, Richard Waterman, Stukeley Westcott, Thomas Olney, and John Greene. We are descended from the Watermans through the Whitford line.
(Read more about Richard Waterman's adventures and accomplishments in the above-mentioned book, pages 2-3, available online from the Roger Williams Family Association; also see other books and web sites to learn about Rhode Island's fascinating history.)

According to "The History of Warwick" by Oliver Payson Fuller, Cowesett farm #8 belonged to Richard Waterman, one of the 12 original purchasers of Warwick. As nearly as I can determine, this would be on the southwest corner of Route 3 (Cowesett Rd.) and Route 2 (Quaker Lane). Farm #3, on the opposite corner (northwest of the four corners), originally belonged to Robert Potter, but was purchased from his heirs in 1707 by Israel Arnold of Pawtuxet. A portion of this was purchased by the Remingtons, and in 1875 "is now owned by heirs of Jonathan Remington." The next plantation eastward also belonged to the Remingtons.

Richard — Bethia WAITE. Bethia died 3 Dec 1680. [Group Sheet]

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"The Fenner Family" gives her name as Bethia Rice.

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Did you know: When Roger Williams crossed the Seekonk River to found Providence, the Narragansetts greeted him with "What cheer, netop?" A common greeting in the 17th century, "What cheer?" or "What news of cheer do you bring?" is similar to a 21st century expression, "What's new?" "Netop" is a Narragansett word for friend. (source: RI Historical Society)

The following notes are from "Descendents of Roger Williams" by Dorothy Higson White, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1991:

"Roger's youth was spent in the parish of 'St. Sepulchre's, without Newgate, London.' While a young man, he must have been aware of the numerous burnings at the stake that had taken place at nearby Smithfield of so-called Puritans or heretics. This probably influenced his later strong beliefs in civic and religious liberty. During his teens, Roger Williams came to the attention of Sir Edward Coke, a brilliant lawyer and one-time Chief Justice of England, through whose influence he was enrolled at Sutton's Hospital, a part of Charter House, a school in London. He next entered Pembroke College at Cambridge University from which he graduated in 1627. All of the literature currently available at Pembroke to prospective students mentions Roger Williams, his part in the Reformation, and his founding of the Colony of Rhode Island. At Pembroke, he was one of eight granted scholarships based on excellence in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Pembroke College in Providence, once the women's college of Brown University, was named after Pembroke at Cambridge in honor of Roger Williams.
"In the years after he left Cambridge, Roger Williams was Chaplain to a wealthy family, and on 15 December 1629, he married Mary Barnard at the Church of High Laver, Essex, England. Even at this time, he became a controversial figure because of his ideas on freedom of worship. And so, in 1630, ten years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Roger thought it expedient to leave England. He arrived, with Mary, on 5 February 1631 at Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Their passage was aboard the ship 'Lyon' (Lion).
"He preached first at Salem, then at Plymouth, then back to Salem, always at odds with the structured Puritans. When he was about to be deported back to England, Roger fled southwest out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was befriended by local Indians and eventually settled at the headwaters of what is now Narragansett Bay, after he learned that his first settlement on the east bank of the Seekonk River was within the boundaries of the Plymouth Colony. Roger purchased land from the Narragansett Chiefs, Canonicus and Miantonomi, and named his settlement Providence in thanks to God."

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http://www.rogerwilliams.org

We are (at least) triple descendants of Roger & Mary, through two of their children, Mary & Mercy.

The following notes are from a manuscript at the Warwick Historical Society, Pawtuxet, RI (the original source is not clearly identified): "The first English missionary to the Indians of New England was Roger Williams, who preceded John Eliot by at least fourteen years. Williams began to study the languages in 1631 while at Plymouth and by 1633, according to Mr. Wood in the 'New England Prospect,' was the only English missionary and so good a[nd] proficient that he could converse with them (Ernst p. 251) . . . From 1631 to 1683 he was constantly doing missionary work among the New England tribes. While studying the language and telling them of Christ and his love, he built up a large and profitable Indian trading business; much of the profits he used for their peace and welfare (p. 252) . . . Williams was handsome and winning in appearance, generous and enthusiastic in temper, eloquent, religious, and philosophic (Ernst p. 368)."

The following is excerpted from "Materials Toward a History of the Baptists in Rhode Island," Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society of the 4th Series, Boston, Crosby Nichols & Co., 1854, @ [http://21tnt.com/morganedwards/#edwardsrhodeisland]:
"It is certain that he embraced the sentiments of the Puritans, and suffered on account thereof. (Hist. Of Mass., Vol. 1, page 39. Neal, Vol. 1, p. 140.) This sent him and many more to America. He landed at Salem [Boston] Feb. 5, 1631, and immediately was admitted a preacher in the independent church of Salem as an assistant to Mr. Skelton. Soon after he removed to the church of Plymouth, where he continued about three years, and was much thought of by the governor (Bradford) and the people, of whom the former gives this testimony: "Mr. Roger Williams (a man godly and zealous, having many precious parts) came hither, and his teaching was well approved, for the benefit whereof I still bless God and am thankful to him even for his sharpest admonitions, &c." But Mr. Skelton, of Salem, growing infirm, Roger Williams returned thither and soon succeeded him in the ministry. Here he had not been long a preacher before his favorite sentiment, liberty of conscience, gave offence to a small but the leading part of the congregation. Yet, this would have been borne with had he not further maintained that civil Magistrates as such have no power in the church, and that Christians as Christians are subject to no laws of control, save those of king Jesus. These were intolerable positions among the Massachusetts Magistrates, who, from the beginning discovered an itch for being kings in Christ

Roger married Mary BARNARD 15 Dec 1629, Essex, England. Mary was born Abt 1605; died 1676, Providence, RI. [Group Sheet]

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Roger & Mary were married at the Church of High Laver, Essex, England.

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He was one of "The Original Proprietors of Providence," along with Roger Williams, Richard Waterman, and others.

Thomas married Marie ASHTON 16 Sep 1629, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Marie (daughter of James ASHTON and Alice Unknown) was born Abt 25 Aug 1605; died Between 1645 and 1659. [Group Sheet]