William MANCHESTER

Male Abt 1654 - 1718  (64 years)

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  • Name William MANCHESTER 
    Birth Abt 1654  Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 15 Oct 1718  Tiverton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Person ID I00982  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Thomas MANCHESTER,   b. Between 1615 and 1620, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1691, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Margaret WOOD,   b. 1630   d. Abt 1693 (Age 63 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1650 
    Family ID F00380  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary COOK,   b. Abt 1654, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft Jul 1725, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 71 years) 
    Marriage Between 1672 and 1675 
    Children 
     1. William Manchester,   b. Between 1675 and 1680   d. Bef 1760 (Age < 84 years)
     2. Mary Manchester,   b. Abt 1677   d. 1729, Tiverton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years)
     3. Deborah Manchester,   b. 5 Oct 1677
     4. Elizabeth Manchester,   b. Abt 1678   d. Bef 1729 (Age < 50 years)
     5. Sarah Manchester,   b. Abt 1680   d. Aft 1741 (Age > 62 years)
     6. Margaret MANCHESTER,   b. Abt 1682
     7. Rebecca Manchester,   b. Abt 1684
     8. John MANCHESTER,   b. Between 1685 and 1695, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1766 and 1774 (Age 81 years)
     9. Susanna Manchester,   b. Between 1686 and 1693   d. Abt 1774, Tiverton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
     10. Amey Manchester,   b. Abt 1687
     11. Thomas Manchester,   b. Abt 1704   d. Dec 1788 (Age 84 years)
    Family ID F00379  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • "William Manchester was admitted freeman of Portsmouth 9 Apr 1675 (records of the town of Portsmouth). He was one of the purchasers of Pocasset in the Plymouth Colony (now Tiverton and Little Compton, RI) in March 1679/80. He was an inhabitant at the organization of Tiverton 2 Mar 1692/93 (Tiverton T.R., vol. 1). He held numerous town offices from representative to the General Court of Massachusetts to fence viewer." (excerpted from "The Manchester Family of Rhode Island" by Alden C. & Rita C. Manchester, published in "Genealogies of RI Families, Vol. I," p. 676; also Family Tree Maker CD 108)

      The cause of death, according to Court Files, Suffolk, 12614: he "fainted away in his field."

  • Sources 
    1. [S012554] Jane Fletcher Fiske, Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island, Vol. I, (Boxford, MA; 1987), 65.

    2. [S012437] Sears, Francis Richmond, LL. B., "The Carr Ancestry of Richmond Carr of Portsmouth, Rhode Island", Genealogies of RI Families, Vol. I, (Family Tree Maker CD 180), p. 676.
      Sears, Francis Richmond, LL. B., "The Carr Ancestry of Richmond Carr of Portsmouth, Rhode Island," Genealogies of RI Families, Vol. I, (Family Tree Maker CD 180), p. 676.