Phebe Carr

John married Abigail Remington 15 Feb 1704/05, Jamestown, RI. Abigail (daughter of Daniel Remington and Sarah Parker) was born Abt 26 Mar 1686, Jamestown, RI; died 6 Mar 1763. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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

Alden G. Beaman gives her date of birth as 3 March 1686, as does the book "Descendants of Roger Williams," Book III, Sayles Line, p. 24. The exact date is not legible in the original Jamestown records (p. 14). It reads: "Abigail Remington daughter of Daniel born March 1686."

Abigail Remington, daughter of Daniel Remington, is mentioned as a kinswoman of Phebe Arnold in the 1697 will of Oliver Arnold of "Conenicut Island." Oliver's wife, Phebe (Cooke) Arnold, was Abigail's great aunt, sister of her maternal grandmother, Sarah (Cooke) Parker.

Some genealogies use the date of death, 6 Mar 1763, for another Abigail Remington, the one who married William Gardiner.

Notes:

I am taking the liberty of assuming that this marriage in the Jamestown vital records belongs to these two individuals. The time frame and the locale fit them both.

The marriage record at Jamestown reads: "John Carr & Abigail Remington both of this town" were married "ye 15 of 12th month 1704/05 by John Weeden, Warden." (At this time the 12th month was February and the 1st month was March. Dates from January through March used a split year.)

Caleb married Deborah Sayles Abt 1680. Deborah (daughter of John SAYLES, Jr. and Mary WILLIAMS) was born Abt 1659, Jamestown, RI; died Abt 1701, Jamestown, RI. [Group Sheet]

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Deborah's mother was a daughter of Roger Williams.

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Daniel lived in Jamestown, RI, according to "Representative Men of Old Families of Southeastern MA," V. I, p. 173.

Daniel married Sarah Parker Abt 1685. Sarah (daughter of Peter Parker and Sarah Cooke) was born Abt 1670, Shrewsbury, NJ; died Abt Mar 1685/86, Jamestown, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

(If you use any portion of these notes, please give credit to me, Lois Sorensen, and to other sources as noted herein.)
Sarah, under 18 daughter of Peter & Sarah (Cook ?) Parker, was mentioned in the 3 Oct 1727 Portsmouth will of Thomas Cook. It was her sister Penelope who married Daniel's brother Stephen.

Notes:

Caleb came to America as an 11-year-old with his brother, Robert, on the ship "Elizabeth & Ann" in 1635. They eventually settled in the area of Portsmouth and Newport, RI. Caleb was governor of the colony of RI, and it was during his tenure that he died by drowning.

Alden G. Beaman gives his date of birth as 9 Dec 1616 (London), but this does not agree with his age given on the ship's roster, 11.

His will was proved 6 Jan 1696 in Jamestown.

Governor married Mercy Vaughn Abt 1654. Mercy was born Between 1630 and 1632; died Sep 1675. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

According to the book on Roger Williams' descendants, John & Mary Sayles had six children and lived on Aquidneck Island. Some lists of their children do not include Mary, Anne, or Richard, the latter two probably having died young. The dates of birth of most of these children have not yet been confirmed. When the next book is published by the Roger Williams Family Association, more research will be possible.

John & Mary are buried near Easton's Beach, Middletown, RI.

John married Mary WILLIAMS 1650, Providence, RI. Mary (daughter of Roger WILLIAMS and Mary BARNARD) was born Aug 1633, Plymouth Colony, MA; died 1681, Middletown, Newport Co., RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

(If you use any portion of these notes, please give credit to me, Lois Sorensen, and to other sources as noted herein.)
According to Boyd Scott Remington's genealogy chart at RIHSL, John, Jr. was born in 1633 in Rowley, England. He defended Jamestown against the Indians on 28 August 1669, and was granted land in East Greenwich in 1677. He resided in Haverhill and Rowley, MA, and Jamestown & Warwick, RI.

According to Carl Boyer III in "Ancestral Lines Revised," and genealogist Gordon L. Remington, John Remington II was born 1623-1624. However, a more recent article by Gordon L. Remington places John's birth c 1630 (source: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 147, p. 371).

Alden G. Beaman's article "A Line of Descent from John Remington of Jamestown and Warwick" (RI Genealogical Register, Vol. 20, p.39) gives his year of birth as c. 1625.

According to genealogist Armand Lariviere, "John Remington, the founder of the Rhode Island branch of the Remington family, first settled in Haverhill, MA, and became a citizen of Portsmouth, RI in 1669."

In Haverhill, MA, in 1661 when 53 lots were drawn, John Remington is listed among the names. He is also among the recipients of land in July 1667, when he received 4 acres in Haverhill. (source: "History of Haverhill Since Settlement in 1640" pp. 92 & 106; on Family Archive CD #502)

Some of the following information is from:
Paul Remington's web site: http://www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/Paul-Remington/REMFAM/
"Some History and Genealogy on the Remington Line in England and America" by J. W. Remington
"History of Warwick" by Oliver Payson Fuller (at Rhode Island Historical Society Library)
"Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts" by Blodgett & Jewett

John Remington II, eldest child of John Remington I, was probably born about 1630 (ref: Gordon L. Remington). This John Remington is our ancestor. Boyd Scott Remington's ancestry chart gives his birth year as 1633. John, Jr. was with his family in Newbury in 1637 and in Rowley in 1638. In Rowley records he is mentioned as "junior" and in deeds as "carpenter." He most likely remained there with his father until 1649, when he married Abigail Acie/Acey, and then about 1654 he removed to Andover, where there is a record of him from 1654 to 1656. Around 1661 he settled in Haverhill, MA, but did not remain there very long, because shortly after 1664 he was identified as a member of the colony of Jamestown, RI. Later, in a deed dated June 2, 1670, he described himself as "of the Island of Quanonagutt" (probably phonetic spelling for Conanicut, native name for Jamestown, RI) in the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." This deed transferred a parcel of land in Rowley to Anthony Crosby.

[The record states that] "On August 28, 1669, he (John Remington) and two others (John Holmes & Michael Kelly) were named as Conservators of the Peace, and ordered to assemble the inhabitants of Conanicut Island, to consider what may be most suitable for their defense and preservation against any invasion or insurrection of the Indians."

Also, in 1677 it was ordered that a certain 5,000-acre tract of land in the East Greenwich area be divided into 100-acre lots, to accommodate inhabitants of the colony as needed. "And further this Assembly do enact, order and declare, for the services rendered during King Philip's War, the persons here named" . . . There follow the names of fifty persons [to receive land] among which is that of John Remington. [Note: likewise our ancestor Capt. Benjamin Gorton, whose daughter Maplet later married Thomas Remington, Jr., grandson of John Jr.] On 6 Sept 1687, John Remington, Junior is on a list for taxes under Gov. Andros, assessing estates of the Towne of Rochester in the King's Province. (Rochester is a former name for North Kingstown, RI.) My observation -- this John Remington could be his son, who married Abigail Richmond and lived in South Kingstown.

Around this time [John Remington II] removed to Warwick, RI, where he on Aug. 13, 1709 confirmed an earlier deed of May 24, 1695 in which he had given to his son Thomas Remington of Warwick "all my right which I had at Haverhill, Mass. and [said deed being somehow damaged and nearly illegible], being willing gift, should stand, therefore for love, etc." His son Thomas received a house and town lot at Haverhill containing four acres, also two orchards and 40 acres called "Fishing River." [Note: this son Thomas is our ancestor.] John Jr. died in 1709 in Warwick, RI. Many of his descendants remained in this spot five or more generations later.

Like his father John the first, John Jr. was a carpenter. His eldest son, John, was born 12 March 1651 in Rowley, MA; he resided in Newport and Kingston, RI, and died in Jamestown, RI (not sure about this). [This son John (the third) married Abigail Richmond. His brother, John Jr.'s third son, named Thomas, married Mary Allen; this couple are our ancestors.]

According to Carl Boyer III, in "Ancestral Lines Revised," p. 337, John II married second to Martha (Unknown).

See also:
http://www.bugthorpe.eril.net/Bugthorpe%20Village.htm
http://www.bugthorpe.eril.net/churches_in_the_garrowby_hill_group_of_paris hes.htm
"The Remingtons of Utah, Their Ancestors and Descendants," by Ward J. Roylance

John — Abigail ACIE. Abigail (daughter of William ACIE, Jr. and Margaret HAITON) was born Abt 1628. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

This marriage is listed in "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" ( by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1985), which gives the year of the birth of their first child as 1650, and locations of record as Rowley/Haverhill/Andover.

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The family lived in Shrewsbury, NJ, until at least 1680, but Peter was in Jamestown by 8 Dec 1694 when he signed a deed witnessed by Oliver Arnold (his daughter Phebe's first husband), Ephraim Turner, and Joseph Mory.

Peter married Sarah Cooke Abt 1663. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Cooke, III and Thomasin Unknown) was born Abt 1647; died Abt 1680, Shrewsbury, NJ. [Group Sheet]