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Captain Peleg Remington, I

Male 1736 - 1776  (40 years)


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  • Name Peleg Remington 
    Title Captain 
    Suffix I 
    Born 9 May 1736  Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 9 Jun 1776  At sea Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Buried Historical Cemetery 3, Post Rd., Pawtuxet Village, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I04525  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Stephen Remington,   b. Between 1689 and 1696, Portsmouth or Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 16 Dec 1785, Pawtuxet, Cranston, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 96 years) 
    Mother Lydia Rhodes,   b. Abt 1698,   d. Aft 15 Jun 1756  (Age ~ 58 years) 
    Married Aft 15 Jun 1720 
    Family ID F01573  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Waite Rhodes,   b. 25 Aug 1740, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Oct 1810, Pawtuxet, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 10 Jul 1757  Cranston, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5] 
    Notes 
    • Peleg & Waite were married by Joseph Harris, Justice. A copy of the official marriage record is among the papers in the Mary E. Rice Collection.

      I have estimated the birth years of some of the children. Russell is not found in most of the genealogies, but is in a family Bible record. Also, it is said that Charles had a twin named Deborah -- she must have died in infancy. I have no further information on either Russell or Deborah.
    Children 
     1. Thomas Remington,   b. 26 Sep 1758,   d. 15 Feb 1819, Pawtuxet, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years)
     2. Nancy Anna Remington,   b. Abt 1760, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Feb 1826, Otsego, Otsego Co., NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 66 years)
     3. Roseanna Remington,   b. Abt 1762
     4. Peleg Remington, II,   b. 22 Apr 1764,   d. Between 17 Jan and Apr 1838, Pawtuxet, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Phebe Remington,   b. Abt 1766
     6. Russell Remington,   b. Abt 1769
     7. Charles Remington,   b. 1772,   d. 8 Jan 1810, Sierre Leone, Africa Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years)
     8. Deborah Remington,   b. 1772
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F01707  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • "Descendants of Roger Williams" Book I, p. 153 says Peleg was lost at sea in 1776. There is a single gravestone in Pawtuxet Cemetery (WK #3) for him and his wife Waite Remington. This has been photographed for my collection.

      Information from Richard Allen Brownell, Sr.:
      Peleg's specific dates of birth and death were received in an email from Mr. Brownell.
      Peleg Remington was captain of a vessel in the Maritime Service and took the Oath of Allegiance to the Colonies in 1775.

      He is likely one of the two Peleg Remingtons listed for Warwick in the 1774 RI Census.

      A typewritten Remington genealogy given to Mrs. Dorothy White of the Roger Williams Family Association shows Peleg as a son of Stephen Remington & Lydia Rhodes. No specific documentation is provided.

      A note in the papers of the Mary E. Rice Collection, excerpted from a copy of a letter written by Mrs. Rice to Virginia Adair, a descendant of Peleg Remington: "Dear Mrs. Adair, I have found that Peleg Remington is the son of Stephen & (guess what) a Lydia Rhodes. I will continue to check this . . . "

  • Sources 
    1. [S012510] Descendants of Roger Williams Book I, Waterman & Winsor Lines, Dorothy Higson White, (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1991), 153.

    2. [S012398] RI Cemetery Database.

    3. [S012813] Email from Richard Allen Brownell, Sr., dated 20 August 2003.
      Extract from the Boston Evening transcript (An early genealogy reply column) Feb. 15, 1904, item #6977, LDS film # 0014735, Subject: 5. Remington. Captain Peleg Remington of Warwick, R.I., born May 9, 1736; married in Cranston, R.I., July 10, 1757, Waite Rhodes, daughter of Charles and Deborah (Greene) Rhodes. Wanted ancestry of Peleg Remington. He was lost at sea since June 9, 1776. He left six children, the eldest a son Thomas, a son Peleg Jr., and a son Charles, all sea captains. His first daughter Anna or Nancy,married Loudon Lippitt. "Westfield has given such valuable information in other lines of Rhode Island history, may be equally successful in these. H.W.W."

    4. [S012813] Email from Richard Allen Brownell, Sr., dated 20 August 2003.
      Extract from the Boston Evening transcript (An early genealogy reply column) Feb. 15, 1904, item #6977, LDS film # 0014735, Subject: 5. Remington. Captain Peleg Remington of Warwick, R.I., born May 9, 1736; married in Cranston, R.I., July 10, 1757, Waite Rhodes, daughter of Charles and Deborah (Greene) Rhodes. Wanted ancestry of Peleg Remington. He was lost at Sea since June 9, 1776. He left six children, the eldest a son Thomas, a son Peleg Jr., and a son Charles, all sea captains. His first daughter Anna or Nancy,married Loudon Lippitt. "Westfield has given such valuable information in other lines of Rhode Island history, may be equally successful in these. H.W.W."

    5. [S012587] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Cranston -- Marriages, 21.