Thomas REMINGTON, III

Male 1723 - 1808  (84 years)


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  • Name Thomas REMINGTON 
    Suffix III 
    Born 19 Aug 1723  Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died 12 Apr 1808  [2
    Buried Warwick, RI, Historical Cemetery 60, off Cowesett Rd. near Rt. 2 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I02550  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Thomas REMINGTON, II,   b. Abt 1685, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Sep 1723, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 38 years) 
    Mother Maplet GORTON,   b. 1690, Warwick, Kent County, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 18 Aug 1723  (Age > 33 years) 
    Married 28 Dec 1710  Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Family ID F00160  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Abigail ELDREDGE,   b. Abt 1723,   d. 14 Apr 1766, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 43 years) 
    Married 14 Dec 1744  Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
     1. Hannah Remington,   b. 11 May 1746, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Apr 1766, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 19 years)
     2. Thomas Remington, IV,   b. 24 Oct 1747, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Aug 1817  (Age 69 years)
     3. Maplet Remington,   b. 16 Jun 1749, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Dec 1841  (Age 92 years)
     4. Sarah Remington,   b. 29 Jan 1750/51, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Jan 1828, Providence, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
     5. Benjamin Remington,   b. 2 Sep 1752, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jul 1837  (Age 84 years)
     6. Mary Remington,   b. 26 Mar 1754, Warwick, Kent Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Between 18 Jun 1798 and 26 Mar 1812  (Age 44 years)
     7. John Remington,   b. 2 Nov 1756, Warwick, Kent Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jan 1840, North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
     8. Jonathan REMINGTON,   b. 9 Sep 1758, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 May 1808, Lansingburgh, Rensselaer County, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years)
     9. James Wolfe Remington,   b. 28 May 1760, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1784, "lost at sea" Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 23 years)
     10. Henry Remington,   b. 28 Jul 1764, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Jun 1841  (Age 76 years)
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F00765  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Sarah Crawford,   b. 23 Sep 1734, Providence, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Jul 1826  (Age 91 years) 
    Married 7 May 1786  Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F01102  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos

    Thomas Remington was appointed guardian for his brother Stephen Remington who was "adjudged non compos mentis" by the Warwick Town Council. Thomas agreed to take care of Stephen's financial assets. The document is signed by Thomas Remington (house carpenter of Warwick), Daniel Remington (ship carpenter of Warwick), and Stephen Remington (labourer of Warwick), 11 March 1744.

    Signatures of Thomas Remington and his uncle Daniel Remington, 11 March 1744.

  • Notes 
    • (If you use any portion of these notes, please give credit to me, Lois Sorensen, Remington researcher, and to other sources as noted herein.)

      A Remington family Bible record says that this Thomas Remington was one of triplets, the other two of whom died young. This Bible belonged to Mrs. Mary E. Remington, wife of James D. Remington, great-grandson of Thomas. However, Fuller's "History of Warwick" says that his son Thomas was one of triplets.

      He is undoubtedly the Thomas Remington who in March 1744 agreed to take over management of the estate of his brother Stephen Remington, laborer of Warwick, who was "non compos mentis." The original document is witnessed and co-signed by Stephen and Daniel Remington, probably Thomas Jr. and Stephen's uncles.

      Thomas was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, along with some of his sons. Oliver Payson Fuller, in his book "The History of Warwick, RI," says four of the Remington brothers (sons of Thomas III, likely the four oldest) were in the American army during the war of the Revolution. According to the manuscript "Revolutionary War -- Burial Place & Service of RI Patriots," found at the Knight Library in Providence (now at Providence Central Public Library), Thomas was a Private in the Pawtuxet Rangers in 1778. It says he was buried in the family lot on the Remington Farm, north side of Cowesett Road near Quaker Lane (Route 2).

      This historical cemetery is located behind the Stop & Shop plaza at the intersection of Cowesett Rd. and Bald Hill Rd./Quaker Lane/Rt. 2. Thomas's gravestones (headstone and footstone) have been photographed.

      In the RI Genealogical Register, Vol. 17, pp. 204 & 205, there is a list of graves at or near this location. It refers to "the Remington farm now owned by George Dawley," and mentions an Arnold family burial plot northwest of his house, and another cemetery "on the Remington farm north of the house." This is where Thomas & Abigail are buried. This lot has about 15 marked burials, Remingtons and Arnolds, plus some unmarked graves.

      According to early records described in "Family Notes" (formerly at Knight Library, now at Providence Central Public Library), this family's "Remington Farm" extended from Cowesett Rd. (at Quaker Lane) northward to the next road (probably the location of present-day Rt. 117) for a mile, then eastward a 1/2 mile, so that it was rectangular in shape. This was on the east side of Quaker Lane. According to Oliver Payson Fuller's "The History of Warwick, RI," it was Cowesett farm #2 on the old plat map laid out in the 1600s; it was originally owned by John Smith, and later by the heirs of Lieut. Eliza Collins, and subsequently by Samuel Barnes of Swansea, from whom it was purchased by Thomas Remington II (who died in 1723 at age 41).

      Also on Cowesett Rd. but west of Quaker Lane (Rt. 2) was the "Col. Waterman Place," where our ancestors Capt. John & Mercy Waterman are buried (near the corner of Kulas & Cedar streets). This was on the south side of Cowesett Rd., roughly across from where Evelyn's Villa and the Cowesett Inn are today. Across from the Waterman place was the Arnold farm (the area where Pep Boys and the Ricci home are now located), purchased from Robert Potter's heirs by Israel Arnold of Pawtuxet in 1707.

      An entry in Elder John Gorton's pastoral journal notes that he preached 23 Sept 1764 on I Peter 4:18 at Thomas Remington's [house]. Editor Cherry Fletcher Bamberg writes, "Although Thomas and Abigail Remington, who lived at Cowesett, were not official members of the church, they hosted occasional meetings and had a substantial running account with Elder Gorton in the mid-1760s. Purchases included needles of silk, thread, flour, 'Bisket,' snuff, wooden plates, and sundries" (p. 56). Gorton was a tailor by trade, but also a merchant who sold various foods, household items, and sundries.

      In his will, dated 11 June 1798 proved 9 May 1808, Thomas Remington of Warwick, yeoman, gave to his [second] wife Sarah the household furniture, all she brought with her "at the time of our marriage," and all she has acquired since, a cow, heifer, etc. His son Thomas received lands in Coventry, with buildings thereon, he to pay legacies to his brothers John & Jonathan and to sisters Maplet Rice, Sarah Holden, & Mary Rice. Sons John and Jonathan were each given $10, as they already had their share [perhaps when they moved to Berkshire County, MA]. Each of his three surviving daughters was given $100 and the household furniture after the death of their [step] mother. Henry was given $240 and land; Benjamin received his father's mansion house and clock and all remaining of the homestead farm and rest of all his possessions, he to be executor.

      Death notice, transcribed in Arnold's "Vital Record of RI" Vol. XIX p. 85: Providence Phenix - Deaths: "Thomas Remington d 12 Apr 1808 in his 85th year."

      RI Cemetery Database: Thomas Remington, 2nd, h/o Abigael Eldrege, c.1724 - 12 Apr 1808, 85th yr

  • Sources 
    1. [S012454] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Warwick -- Births and Deaths, 193.

    2. [S012455] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Vol. XIX, Providence Phenix -- Deaths, 85.

    3. [S012451] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Warwick -- Marriages, 96.

    4. [S012451] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Warwick -- Marriages, 97.

    5. [S012423] Elder John Gorton and the Six-Principle Baptist Church of East Greenwich, RI, Cherry Fletcher Bamberg, (Greenville, RI: RI Genealogical Society, 2001), 327.