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- (If you use any portion of these notes, please give credit to me, Lois Sorensen, and/or to other sources as noted herein.)
Possibly there was only one Joseph, and no one knows whether John I or John II was his father. (see note for Joseph b. 1650)
"New England Marriages Prior to 1700" by Clarence Almon Torrey lists a marriage of Joseph Remington & Unknown, on the basis of a child born 1680. There is a notation that the family lived in Jamestown, RI.
On 27 Feb 1679/80, a Joseph Remington witnessed land evidence concerning William Clarke of Portsmouth (RI) who sold land to Edward Lay of Portsmouth. It was land recovered against the estate of John Paine of Prudence Island, deceased.
Jamestown Proprietors Records, p. 4, states that Joseph Remington was admitted freeman of "this towne." The date is faded and the page is torn; it may have been about 1680. I did not find any later references to Joseph, other than the birth of a son John in 1680; so whether Joseph moved away or died soon after, is a mystery. He may have moved to Prudence Island or Newport, where a few Remingtons have been found in a later generation. Or, possibly he moved out of state and is ancestor of some of the Remingtons elsewhere whose early ancestry is as yet undiscovered.
There is the possibility that this Joseph is our ancestor, perhaps the grandfather of our Joseph who married Innocent Lake at Portsmouth in 1744. This is an intriguing possibility, because of the reoccurrence of the name Joseph in our family line.
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1654 - Aft 1680 (> 26 years)
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