Captain Nehemiah Rhodes

1732 - 1801  (~ 69 years)

• Name	Nehemiah Rhodes
  Title	Captain
  Born	Between 9 Aug 1731 and 1732	Providence or Cranston, RI   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	22 Jan 1801	Cranston, Providence Co., RI   [2, 3]
  Buried	Historical Cemetery 35, Cranston, RI
  Person ID	I02421	Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	William Rhodes,   b. 14 Jul 1695, Providence, RI ,   d. 11 Nov 1772  (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Mary Sheldon,   b. 1705,   d. 24 Nov 1767  (Age 62 years)
  Married	18 Dec 1721	Providence, RI   [1]
  Family ID	F00301	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Abigail Thomas,   b. Abt 1743,   d. 12 Jan 1800  (Age ~ 57 years)
  Married	14 Nov 1762	Newport, RI   [3, 4]
  Notes	Kent County Vital Records p. 361
  Children	1. Sarah Rhodes,   b. Abt 1765,   d. 10 Aug 1854, Cranston, RI  (Age ~ 89 years)   2. William Nehemiah Rhodes,   b. 29 Dec 1768, Providence or North Providence, RI ,   d. 1853  (Age 84 years)   3. Anstis Rhodes,   b. 1772,   d. 1849  (Age 77 years)   4. Abby Rhodes,   b. Abt 1774,   d. 23 Dec 1848  (Age ~ 74 years)
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018
  Family ID	F00907	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  A slave of Nehemiah Rhodes, named Richard Rhodes, entered the army in 1781 to obtain his freedom. During the Revolution he assisted in the capture of the British General Prescott at Portsmouth. James Arnold's VRs have Nehemiah's year of birth as 1731. RHODES Capt. Nehemiah, at Cranston, suddenly, at an advanced age, Jan. 22, 1801. Death, Providence "Of Nehemiah's Edgewood lands, the three sisters each received a portion of the seventy-eight acre farm bordering Providence River, with Sally receiving the south lot, Anstis the middle lot, and Abby the north lot containing the family homestead. William received a parcel at the corner of Broad Street and Park Avenue, and Anstis another tract immediately west of her brother, bounded by the present corner of Park and Warwick Avenues. In 1853 the heirs of Abby Thornton (the children of her sister Anstis Greene) sold Alien Shaw her share of her father's estate; in 1860, the heirs of Sally Rhodes Remington Greene sold her share to Joseph S. Winsor." (source: findagrave.com)

  
  

• Sources

  [S012510] Descendants of Roger Williams Book I, Waterman & Winsor Lines, Dorothy Higson White, (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1991), 21. [S012398] RI Cemetery Database. [S012510] Descendants of Roger Williams Book I, Waterman & Winsor Lines, Dorothy Higson White, (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1991), 59. [S013329] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Newport Marriages.