Albert Nicholas Arnold

Notes:

ARNOLD, Albert Nicholas, clergyman, born in Cranston, Rhode Island, 12 February 1814; died in Cranston, Rhode Island, 11 October 1883. He graduated from Brown University in 1838, studied at Newton Theological Seminary, and on 14 September 1841, was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church at Newburyport, Massachusetts. From 1844 to 1854 he was a missionary to Greece; from 1855 to 1857 he was professor of Church History at Newton Theological Seminary; and in 1858 he became pastor at Westborough, Massachusetts, where he remained until 1864. He was then chosen professor of biblical interpretation and pastoral theology in the Baptist seminary at Hamilton, New York, and from 1869 to 1873 held the professorship of New Testament Greek in Baptist Theological Seminary at Chicago. Dr. Arnold published, in 1860, "Prerequisites to Communion," and in 1871 "One Woman's Mission."

Excerpt from a letter written January 1847 in Corfu, Greece, by his wife Sarah: "My dear husband has enjoyed almost uninterrupted health, and has been permitted, after two years hard study, to commence the preaching of the gospel, in the difficult language of the Greeks, and has been favoured with very good audiences."

Albert — Sarah Allin. Sarah (daughter of Mr. Allin and Amey Unknown) was born 1819; died 19 Mar 1895; was buried , Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI. [Group Sheet]

Nicholas — Lydia Rhodes. Lydia (daughter of Malachi Rhodes, IV and Waite Fenner) was born Abt 1775; died 2 Jan 1827, Cranston, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The RI Cemetery Database has his date of birth as c.1749.

Malachi married Waite Fenner 29 Nov 1767. Waite (daughter of Thomas Fenner and Mercy Mary Sheldon) was born Feb 1749/50; died 10 May 1777; was buried , Pawtuxet Burial Yard, Post Rd., Pawtuxet, Warwick, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Information on Waite's marriage and children came from "The Sheldon Magazine," Vol. I, June 1855, p. 8r.

Malachi married Deborah Wightman 27 May 1731, Warwick, RI. Deborah (daughter of George Wightman and Elizabeth Unknown) was born Abt 1708. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Malachi & Deborah were married by William Greene, Justice.

Notes:

According to "The Fenner Family,", p. 16, Thomas was married first to a widow, Mary Cloyn (I have roughly estimated her dates). After she died, he married Mercy Sheldon, by whom he had a daughter, Wait. As far as we know, he had no other children. After his death, his widow Mercy (Sheldon) Fenner remarried to Stephen Remington, a widower.

I don't know exactly when Thomas died, but it must have been before 10 Feb 1755, when a Cranston deed is signed by Stephen & Marcy Remington.

Thomas married Mercy Mary Sheldon Abt 1748. Mercy (daughter of Nicholas Sheldon, Sr. and Abigail Tillinghast) was born Abt 28 Jul 1709, Providence, RI; died 24 Nov 1802; was buried , Historical Cemetery 3, Post Rd., Pawtuxet Village, Warwick, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The Boyd Scott Remington genealogy chart at RIHSL has her birth date as 28 Jan 1709. Martha A. Benns's "Remington Family" book has Mercy married to the other Stephen Remington born in 1696. However, the preponderance of evidence indicates that is most likely incorrect.

Mercy (or Marcy/Mary) is mentioned as Mary Remington in the will of her sister Lydia (Sheldon) Arnold dated 3 August 1774.

Notes from the Mary E. Rice Collection, concerning Cranston land evidence: on 18 March 1784, Stephen Remington sold one lot of land in Pawtuxet to Rhodes Greene; "Marcy Remington, wife of the above-said Stephen," surrenders her dower right. On 10 Feb 1785, Stephen Remington sold land to Capt Josiah Haines. This document was signed by Stephen & Marcy Remington. (Cranston bk 4, p10)

About her name: the name Marcy was the common pronunciation for Mercy in those days, and as such is a phonetic spelling of the name, and thus has evolved into a given variation of the name. Mary was also used frequently as an alternative for both Mercy and Marcy, possibly as a nickname or as a result of transcription errors.

She died at age 93 years, 5 months, and 27 days.

I believe the following death notice may be for her, in the Columbian Centinel of 4 Dec 1802: "Remington, Mrs., d. in Pawtuxet, aged 91."

From the RI Cemetery Database:
REMINGTON, MARCY 1709c - 24 NOV 1802, WK003