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Elizabeth "Betsey" Remington

Female 1785 - 1870  (84 years)


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  • Name Elizabeth "Betsey" Remington 
    Born 24 Dec 1785  Berkshire Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 7 Oct 1870  Apponaug, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Buried Warwick, RI Historical Cemetery 60, off Cowesett Rd. at Bald Hill Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I02404  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Jonathan REMINGTON,   b. 9 Sep 1758, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 May 1808, Lansingburgh, Rensselaer County, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years) 
    Mother Phebe UNKNOWN,   b. Abt 1758,   d. 8 Jun 1795, Cheshire, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 37 years) 
    Married Abt 1780 
    Notes 
    • It is possible that Jonathan & Phebe were married in RI, or in Cheshire or Adams, MA. The vital records of Cheshire were destroyed in a fire, and there are no early records of Adams, except the Cooke Collection at the Pittsfield Athenaeum.
    Family ID F00899  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Thomas Remington,   b. Abt 1781, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Nov 1853  (Age ~ 72 years) 
    Married 3 Jan 1803  Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Children 
     1. Benjamin F. Remington,   b. 29 Sep 1806, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Jan 1879, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
     2. Jonathan Remington,   b. Between 1809 and 1810, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1878  (Age ~ 69 years)
     3. Lydia Elizabeth Remington,   b. 8 Jan 1816, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 May 1888, Coventry, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
     4. Thomas M. Remington,   b. 2 Apr 1818, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 May 1860, Foster, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years)
     5. Albert Gallatin Remington,   b. 13 Jun 1820, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Feb 1897, East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
     6. John H. C. Remington,   b. 26 Dec 1824, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Apr 1853  (Age 28 years)
     7. Phebe Ann Remington,   b. Abt. 1804, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Nov 1870, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 66 years)  [Birth]
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2021 
    Family ID F01062  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos

    Birth record of my ancestor Maplet Remington and her sisters, with their parents' names, Jonathan and Phebe. Edward S. R. Remington was their half-brother, born to Jonathan and Sarah. Julia and Sally are Maplet's two daughters by her first husband. The writing at the top of the page identifies the original owner of this Bible as Samuel Bowering, Sergeant of Marinus Romulus. He came on this ship during the Revolutionary War. Somehow the Bible was acquired by Samuel Comstock and was passed down I suppose through his daughter-in-law Mercy (Angell) (Comstock) Remington to my relatives in Coventry, who eventually gave it to me.

  • Notes 
    • I have made an assumption that Betsey, Maplet's sister, is the Elizabeth Remington b. c1783, "daughter of Jonathan," who married Thomas Remington b. c1780, son of Benjamin & Phebe (Manchester) Remington. They were first cousins.

      In 1860 Elizabeth Remington, age 77, is living at Warwick, RI, next to Ferdinand & Abby Remington. In 1870 she is age 86 and still at Warwick (Apponaug Post Office); she is living with Levi & Elizabeth Baker. Apparently she died not long after this census was taken.

      The death record says "daughter of Jonathan," b. c1783. The RI Cemetery Database says c1784. Maplet's sister was born in December 1785, so assuming that the date of death is correct, and that the date of birth is correct in the family Bible, Elizabeth would have died just short of 85 years old. (There was another Jonathan Remington born in Scituate in 1743, but I have not yet discovered data on any family he may have had, such as a daughter named Elizabeth/Betsey.)

      Additional evidence is found in the will of Thomas's brother, Jonathan d. 1866, who mentions Betsey Remington, widow of Thomas Remington, deceased. This probably would have been Elizabeth, his sister-in-law; her husband had died in 1853. So Betsey was her nickname. Betsey is also the name written in the family Bible as one of Maplet's sisters.

      Elizabeth's birthplace as MA came from the papers of Mary E. Rice late of East Greenwich, RI, now deceased. This agrees with the data in the 1860 & 1870 Federal Censuses, which both have Massachusetts as Elizabeth's birthplace, and thus are additional support for her being Maplet's sister.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012445] Remington Family, Martha A. Benns, 13.

    2. [S012462] City of Warwick Vital Records, transcribed by Martha A. Benns.

    3. [S012398] RI Cemetery Database.

    4. [S012625] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Vol. 7, 401.