Peter P. Remington

Male 1783 - 1864  (81 years)

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  • Name Peter P. Remington 
    Birth 7 Apr 1783  Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 24 Aug 1864  Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Person ID I09851  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father John Remington,   b. 6 Jan 1744/45, Jamestown, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 May 1807, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Mother Sarah Hopkins,   b. Abt 1752   d. 26 May 1792, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years) 
    Marriage 30 Dec 1772  Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5, 6] 
    Notes 
    • James N. Arnold's VRs has the marriage date as 31 Dec 1772 (Vol. 7, p. 361.
    Family ID F01567  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Rualmy Coffin Tilley,   b. 1789   d. 1 Feb 1851 (Age 62 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1810 
    Children 
     1. Mary Tilley Remington,   b. 29 Aug 1811, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Oct 1887, Pawtuxet, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
     2. Peter P. Remington,   b. 1815   d. 1815 (Age 0 years)
     3. Sarah Hopkins Remington,   b. 30 Dec 1820, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jul 1897, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    Family ID F03850  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Peter P. Remington's name and/or signature appears in many Newport wills during the 1800s. For example:
      witness to will of John Shaw 24 Aug 1812
      witness to will of James Center 21 Jan 1814
      witness to will of Mary (Tilley) Swinburne 2 Nov 1828 (his wife's aunt)
      witness to will of Joseph Sanford 1838
      "friend" in will of Mary Dayton 1842
      "executor" in will of Myra Allen d. 26 June 1844
      "executor" of will of Jonathan Bailey 1848

      Peter P. Remington was Overseer of the Poor in Newport, 1840 and 1842; perhaps other years, too. (source: documents indexed online by Jamestown Historical Society)

      In the 1850 Federal Census, P.P. Remington 67 & his wife Rualmi C. 62 are living in Newport, RI, with Sarah Lawton 15.

      In 1851-1852, after his wife died, Peter was boarding with his son. (source: "Lydia's Letters, 10 More" compiled by Margie Brown and Virginia Remington Rich)

      In the 1860 Federal Census, Peter P. Remington is age 78, and living with his daughter and son-in-law, Sarah H. & Samuel Carr, and their family, at Newport, RI.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012445] Martha A. Benns, Remington Family, 46.

    2. [S012685] Alden G. Beaman's RI Vital Records: New Series, Vol. 11, 332.

    3. [S012562] Alden G. Beaman's RI Vital Records: New Series, Vol. 13, 160.

    4. [S012682] RI Death Index.

    5. [S012878] William M. Clemens, Early Marriage Records of the Hopkins Family in the US, (1916, Wm. Clemens).

    6. [S013329] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Newport Marriages.