Thomas Remington
Abt 1734 - Bef 1789 (~ 55 years)-
Name Thomas Remington Born Abt 1734 Gender Male Died Bef 20 Dec 1789 Person ID I04764 Sorensen-Remington Family Tree Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Father Daniel Remington, Sr., b. Abt 1692, Portsmouth or Warwick, RI 
, d. Abt 16 Sep 1786, Warwick, RI (Age ~ 94 years) Mother Ann Gorton, b. 19 Feb 1695/96, Warwick, RI Married 16 Feb 1722/23 Warwick, RI [1] Family ID F01318 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Freelove Nichols, b. 7 Aug 1740, d. Aft Apr 1771 (Age > 31 years) Married 16 Aug 1759 East Greenwich, RI Notes - The marriage registration in East Greenwich vital records says the officiant was Giles Peirce, Justice. However, whoever recorded it may have made an error, since the marriage is in Elder Gorton's personal journal, where the entry states that he married them. The date in East Greenwich VRs is 23 Aug 1759.
Unfortunately this marriage was not a success. "In April 1771 Freelove Remington petitioned for divorce from Thomas Remington, 'late of Warwick, mariner.' She told how he changed after marriage: ' . . . the fatal Knot being Ti'd the Smilling Affability of the Lover and Friend was converted into the Stern Severity of a Tyrant' and he treated her with 'implacable Fury' (Kent County Superior Court, April 1771, Judicial Archives at Pawtucket, RI). She alleged that he abandoned her in Jan. 1765 and ever after lived in adultery. The petition was granted" (quoted from "Elder John Gorton and the Six-Principle Baptist Church of East Greenwich, RI" by Cherry Fletcher Bamberg, p. 208).
Children 1. Anne "Nancy" Remington, b. 3 Nov 1761, East Greenwich, Kent County, RI , d. 26 Feb 1827 (Age 65 years)2. Joseph Nichols Remington, b. 4 Jan 1764, East Greenwich, RI , d. 23 Jul 1845, Groton Twp., Erie County, OH (Age 81 years)3. Freelove Remington, b. Abt 1765, d. 26 Aug 1847 (Age ~ 82 years) Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 Family ID F01790 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- The marriage registration in East Greenwich vital records says the officiant was Giles Peirce, Justice. However, whoever recorded it may have made an error, since the marriage is in Elder Gorton's personal journal, where the entry states that he married them. The date in East Greenwich VRs is 23 Aug 1759.
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Notes - The marriage record names him as Thomas Remington, of Daniel of Warwick. This is the most likely family group in which to place him. Several genealogists have done so, but realize it is an assumption or "educated guess." His birth is not found in the Warwick vital records along with Samuel, Mary, & Daniel.
He left his wife Freelove around Jan 1765, and lived "in adultery." She petitioned for divorce in 1771, and it was granted. Did Thomas have children by another woman, or have a second marriage? See notes for Freelove.
His daughter's marriage record mentions her father Thomas, dec'd; thus I have entered his date of death as bef. 20 Dec 1789.
- The marriage record names him as Thomas Remington, of Daniel of Warwick. This is the most likely family group in which to place him. Several genealogists have done so, but realize it is an assumption or "educated guess." His birth is not found in the Warwick vital records along with Samuel, Mary, & Daniel.
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Sources - [S012451] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Warwick -- Marriages, 96.
- [S012451] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Warwick -- Marriages, 96.