Captain Peleg Remington, II
1764 - 1838-
Name Peleg Remington Title Captain Suffix II Birth 22 Apr 1764 [1] Gender Male Death Between 17 Jan and Apr 1838 Pawtuxet, RI 
[1, 2] Burial Historical Cemetery 3, Post Rd., Pawtuxet Village, Warwick, RI Person ID I04528 Sorensen-Remington Family Tree Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Father Captain Peleg Remington, I, b. 9 May 1736, Warwick, RI d. 9 Jun 1776, At sea (Age 40 years) Mother Waite Rhodes, b. 25 Aug 1740, Warwick, RI d. 25 Oct 1810, Pawtuxet, Warwick, RI (Age 70 years) Marriage 10 Jul 1757 Cranston, RI [3, 4] Notes - Peleg & Waite were married by Joseph Harris, Justice. A copy of the official marriage record is among the papers in the Mary E. Rice Collection.
I have estimated the birth years of some of the children. Russell is not found in most of the genealogies, but is in a family Bible record. Also, it is said that Charles had a twin named Deborah -- she must have died in infancy. I have no further information on either Russell or Deborah.
Family ID F01707 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Sally Unknown, b. Jan 1764 d. 16 Feb 1792 (Age 28 years) Marriage Abt 1786 Family ID F01716 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Family 2 Lydia Rhodes, b. 27 Jul 1765 d. Abt 1794 (Age 28 years) Marriage Abt 1793 Children 1. Peleg Remington, III, b. 27 May 1794 Family ID F04276 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Family 3 Phebe Field, b. Abt 1775 d. Abt 1798 (Age 23 years) Marriage 24 May 1795 Providence, RI Notes - Marriage recorded at Providence's West Side Church: Peleg Remington & Phebe Field, of William, 24 May 1795.
Children 1. Mary Remington, b. Abt 1796 2. John P. Remington, b. Abt 1798 d. 30 Jun 1870, Warwick, RI (Age 72 years)Family ID F04277 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Family 4 Mary Tower, b. 22 Oct 1775 d. 25 Apr 1872, Pawtuxet, RI (Age 96 years) Marriage 9 Sep 1799 [1] Children 1. Sally Remington, b. 20 Feb 1801, Pawtuxet, RI 2. Captain Samuel Tower Remington, b. 10 Mar 1806, Pawtuxet, RI d. 10 Oct 1880 (Age 74 years)3. Mary Tower Remington, b. 8 Sep 1808, Pawtuxet, RI d. 31 May 1890, Chelsea, MA (Age 81 years)4. Waitey Rhodes Remington, b. 1 Jan 1810, Pawtuxet, RI d. May 1864, New York, NY (Age 54 years)Family ID F01709 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
- Peleg & Waite were married by Joseph Harris, Justice. A copy of the official marriage record is among the papers in the Mary E. Rice Collection.
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Notes - Some genealogies have his death month as January, while others say April. The gravestone says April; however, since this was his birth month, it could be a mistake. The age at death supports January as the birth month.
From the records of the First Baptist Church of Providence, RI: Peleg Remington June 27, 1805, E (experience?) Nov. 16, 1806, L (letter?) To Pawtuxet church. (This may or may not have been this particular Peleg)
Peleg may have had a wife named Amy Field between Sally (Unknown) and Mary Tower. Warwick Deaths, Vol. I (at Warwick City Hall) records the death of a John P. Remington on 30 June 1870, age 72, son of Peleg Remington & Amy Field. She may have died in childbirth, after which Peleg married Mary Tower in 1799. I have not been able to discover another Peleg of this time period who could have been the father of John P., but certainly there may have been one (needs more research).
There is also a marriage recorded at Providence's West Side Church: Peleg Remington & Phebe Field, of William, 24 May 1795. This, of course, adds to the confusion, suggesting that perhaps a clerk or informant wrote Amy instead of Phebe in the Warwick death record, as the mother of John P. However, it may have been another Peleg who married Phebe Field, as the Providence Phenix reported the death of a Mrs. Phebe Remington in her 46th year, 4 Feb 1822, at Cranston.
The RI Cemetery Database has his year of birth as c. 1765; Red MacDougall's online family tree at [redfish@netrevolution.com] and at Rootsweb's Worldconnect shows his date of birth as 22 April 1764 (in Pawtuxet); the Roger Williams book says about 1760.
Please read the notes for his four possible (?) wives. This needs further research.
It was not unheard of for a man to be married four times. Benjamin Remington of Cowesett had four wives, and his brother Jonathan (my ancestor) had three. No doubt there are many other examples.
He may be the Peleg Remington who signed a petition to establish a Masonic Lodge at Pawtuxet, 26 Apr 1805, at Col. Bowen's house.
He was probably the Peleg Remington who was a witness in a US Supreme Court case in 1807, Smith v. Carrington:
http://supreme.justia.com/us/8/62/case.html
- Some genealogies have his death month as January, while others say April. The gravestone says April; however, since this was his birth month, it could be a mistake. The age at death supports January as the birth month.
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Sources - [S012509] Charlemagne Tower, Tower Genealogy. An Account of the Descendants of John Tower, of Hingham, Mass., (Cambridge, MA: John Wilson & Son University Press, 1891), 206.
- [S012510] Dorothy Higson White, Descendants of Roger Williams Book I, Waterman & Winsor Lines, (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1991), 153.
This book says he died in April, but his age at death supports the January date found in the Tower Genealogy. The gravestone says April. - [S012510] Dorothy Higson White, Descendants of Roger Williams Book I, Waterman & Winsor Lines, (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1991), 153.
- [S012587] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Cranston -- Marriages, 21.
- [S012509] Charlemagne Tower, Tower Genealogy. An Account of the Descendants of John Tower, of Hingham, Mass., (Cambridge, MA: John Wilson & Son University Press, 1891), 206.