Malachi Rhodes, IV

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]

Malachi married Betsey Sheldon Aft 1777. Betsey (daughter of Benjamin Sheldon and Sarah Greenwood) was born Abt 1750. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

I believe she must be the Mary Aborn that testified at the Revolutionary War pension hearing for Jonathan Remington, our ancestor. At that time, 1850, she said she was age 82 and living in Pawtuxet. She mentioned that her grandmother's husband was the uncle of Jonathan & John Remington. She would have been referring to Mercy (Sheldon) (Fenner) Remington, wife of Stephen Remington; Stephen was their uncle. (see full text below)

In the 1850 Federal Census, Marcy Aborn is age 81, living at Cranston, RI.

"I, Marcy Aborn of Pawtuxet, Cranston, in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island, on oath do testify and say that I am now in the 82nd (Eighty Second) year of my age -- and was born in the village of Pawtuxet. I have a distinct recollection that during the war of the Revolution a great many troops were stationed in that village. Among the troops stationed here there was a part of a regiment of Artillery to which John Remington and Jonathan Remington, two brothers, belonged. John was a Lieutenant and Jonathan was a Sergeant. I do not remember the name of the Captain -- I recollect of hearing the name of Captain Carlisle -- and also of Captain Garzia -- mentioned -- and according to the best of my recollection, Colonel Elliott was their Colonel.

"The reason why I recollect John and Jonathan Remington being here with the troops is that they were in the habit of visiting at the house of my grandmother where I used to often see them and they used to talk to me. I was then a child about 10 years of age -- between 9 and 10. My Grandmother's husband was their uncle.

"And I further testify that the said Jonathan Remington afterwards married the Widow Potter. After his death she married a Mr. Greene -- Edward Greene -- and is now his widow and living in the town of Cranston in this State.

"I cannot remember how long the said artillery were stationed here, but it was some time. Marcy Aborn

"The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, Providence County, Sc. (?) In Cranston in Said County this Twentieth Day of August A.D. 1850 personally appeared Marcy Aborn and made oath that the facts & statements contained in the foregoing affidavit signed by her in my presence are true. And I further certify that she is a respectable person and a credible witness. Before me, Edwin Metcalf, Justice of the Peace."

Marcy — Joseph Aborn. Joseph (son of Anthony Aborn and Lydia Burrows) was born 9 Feb 1765; died Between May and Jun 1841. [Group Sheet]

Peleg — Mary Aborn. Mary was born Abt 1776; died 20 Nov 1806; was buried , Pawtuxet Burial Yard, Post Rd., Warwick, RI. [Group Sheet]

Lydia — Nicholas Arnold. Nicholas was born 16 Feb 1767, Cranston, RI; died Abt Apr 1814, Cranston, RI. [Group Sheet]

Waity — Wickes Gardiner. Wickes was born Abt 1780. [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth — Sion Arnold Rhodes. Sion was born 11 Apr 1791; died 14 Jan 1849. [Group Sheet]

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]