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- A Josiah Remington is mentioned several times in the Portsmouth Town Council records. Also, a Josiah Remington is mentioned in the East Greenwich Town Council records, he having gone there from Prudence Island, Portsmouth. I have made an assumption that they are the same individual, and that he is or may be a son of William Remington whose wife Abigail who also went from Prudence Island to East Greenwich. This is purely speculation in piecing together the available evidence.
According to the East Greenwich records (source: Cherry Fletcher Bamberg, editor of RI Roots and Gleanings), Josiah testified that he came to East Greenwich from Portsmouth about April 1742. He is identified as "Josiah Remington of Prudence Island." He said he had lived in Portsmouth 10+ years, and made his living doing farm work, primarily as a day laborer. He said there were 11 in his family, which I take to mean two parents and 9 children. From this I guess he might have been born c1695-1700 and married c1720-1725.
Could he have been anyone's son other than William's? (such as Joseph Remington b 1654 or his son John b 1680, Jamestown records?)
1730 census of Prudence Island (Par 56):
Josias Remington (Josiah)
William Remington
Granted permit by Portsmouth to live elsewhere - 1743
Josiah Remington to Warwick (Par 91)
Above three excerpts from research by Charles Gregory Maytum "Paragraphs on Early Prudence Island"; and Remington family manuscript file.
From Portsmouth Town Council records:
17 Aug 1732: Josiah Remington, a member of coroner's Grand Inquest appointed to investigate deaths of Negro and Indian men - possibly drowned by accident off Warwick shore and driven on shore at Prudence Island (Par 59; also Bk 3)
9 May 1743: Josiah Remington of PI given certificate to remove to Warwick and settle there for 4-year term if Town Council there accept him; sd Remington qualified (Bk 3 p 290)
From Warwick Town Coucil Records (courtesy of Cherry Fletcher Bamberg):
13 June 1743: Jeremiah Lippitt was ordered to issue a warrant to warn out Josiah Remington and his family.
16 June 1744: Josiah Remington produced a certificate for himself and his family from Portsmouth. The certificate was good for four years. The council refused to accept the certificate with the time restriction but told him that they would accept a standard one.
11 February 1744/5: Josiah Remington and William Wood and their families were in town without settlement and likely to become chargeable. The council ordered that a warrant be issued to "carry" them out of town.
6 April 1747: Josiah Remington of Warwick, deceased "some time since," leaving a small estate in Warwick. The council offered administration first to the unnamed widow and then to the son Peleg Remington who both refused. The clerk was to post notices in Warwick and surrounding towns asking creditors to come forward at the next quarterly meeting.
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Abt 1703 - 1747 (~ 42 years)