Ward Visit - Scituate, Providence Stake, Rhode Island, and Bev's Ancestors
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| Our friend, Dennis Schleicher, also visiting Scituate Ward this day |
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| We often take a short nap and lunch break in the car when we travel on Sundays. Rhode Island Family History Sites - Bev's Great-Grandparents |
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| First Seventh Day Baptist Church in Ashaway, Rhode Island |
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| Pedigree fan chart of the family of Elizabeth Maxson and John Davis - 6th Great grandparents of Bev and their ancestors from Rhode Island. |
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| Turnpike marker for the establishment of Westerly RI - now Hopkinton, Westerly, and Richmond. |
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| Historic marker with the establishment of Hopkinton and first church- Seventh Day Baptists. |
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| Monument where the original Seventh Day Baptist Church was located. Many of the ministers and original settlers of this area were Bev's great-grandfathers. Their remains have been brought from many small old cemeteries in the area to this spot and are buried at the markers around the monument. |
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From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hubbard-199 Biography - Reverend Samuel Hubbard 1610 Born in Mendelsham, Suffolk County, England, the son of James and Naomi (Cocke) Hubbard who was the daughter of Thomas Cocke of Ipswitch. [1][2] October 1633 (age 23) came from England to Salem, Massachusetts [3] 4 March 1634 (age 24) admitted as a freeman in Watertown, Massachusetts [3] 1635 (age 25) Both Samuel Hubbard and Tacy Cooper were in the party that marched through the wilderness from Watertown, Massachusetts during the terrible winter of 1635 to become the founders of Connecticut. They were persecuted in Massachusetts for expressing their Baptist views.[4][5] 4 January 1636 (age 26) married Tacy Cooper in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut [3] 10 May 1639 moved to Springfield, Massachusetts [3][5] 1647 moved to Fairfield, Connecticut [5] 2-12 October 1648 moved from Fairfield, Connecticut, to Rhode Island after being threatened with imprisonment for their religious views [3] "God having enlightened both, but mostly my wife, into his holy ordinances of baptizing only of visible believers, and being very zealous for it, she was mostly struck at and answered two terms publicly, where I was also said to be as bad as she, and sore threatened with imprisonment to Hartford jail, if not to renounce it or to remove; that scripture came into our mouths, if they persecute you in one place, flee to another; and so we did 2 day of October, 1648, we went for Rhode Island."[6][5] 3 November 1648 baptized into the Seventh Day Baptist Church, Newport, RI [5] 1655 made Freeman [6] "Through God's great mercy, the Lord have given me in this wilderness, a good, dillgent, careful, painful and very loving wife... A good house, as with us judged, 25 acres of ground fenced, and four cows which give, one young heifer and three calves, and a very good mare, a trade, a carpenter, a health to follow it, and my wife very diligent and painful, praised be God." &c. [6] 1 November 1675 He wrote Mr. Henry Reeve, at Jamaica "Very sudden and strange changes these times afford in this, our age, everywhere, as I hear and now see in N. E. God's hand seems to be stretched out against N. England by wars by the natives, and many Englishmen fall at present." "This island doth look to ourselves as yet, by mercy not one slain, blessed be God". "My wife and 3 daughters, who are all here by reason of the Indian war, with their 15 children, desire to remember their Christian love to you."[6] 1688/1692 died in Westerly, Rhode Island Burial: Baptist Berkly's, White Hall, Farm[citation needed] |
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Bev's 8th Great Grandparents Reverend Joseph Clarke Jr. Reverend Joseph Clarke Jr. (1642–1726) | Person | Family Tree | FamilySearch "He was born 11 February, 1642, and died 11 January 1726-7, at Westerly, R.I., aged 83 years 11 months. He was married (1st) 16 November, 1664, by James Barker, Assistant, at Newport, to Bethiah Hubbard, daughter of Samuel and Tacy (Cooper) Hubbard, born 19 December, 1646, died 17 April, 1707 (or 1717). He then married (2nd) Hannah Peckham, widow of Thomas Peckham, and daughter of William Weeden. She had married (1st) William Clarke, the brother of Joseph Clarke, her third husband. She died 3 March, 1723. He must have removed from Newport to Westerly early in life, for in 1669 he became Town Clerk of Westerly, retaining the position until 1700. In July 1675, he and his family went to Newport for fear of the Indian War then raging, and remained in the home of Reverend Samuel Hubbard until the war closed. In 1680 he, having been taken from his house in Westerly, situated two miles east of Pawcatuck River, was carried by force to Hartford, Conn., and fined 10 pounds, by authorities of that colony. He was, however, reimbursed by Rhode Island Assembly, in sum of 13 pounds, 10 shillings, for this compulsory payment. On 20 May, 1696 Benedict Arnold, of Newport, deeded Joseph Clarke, of Westerly, 200 acres of land at South Kingstown, R. I. Recorded 22 December, 1707, at South Kingstown.[Just months later] On 30 November, 1696, Joseph Clarke, of Westerly, deeded John Seagar 100 acres of land at South Kingstown. Recorded at South Kingstown 22 December, 1707. On 4 January, 1717, Joseph Clarke, of Westerly, deeded to his son, Samuel Clarke, "land in Westerly improved by my son Samuel for 21 years; 200 acres in Westerly bounded by the Great River commonly called the Pawcatuck River, West by the ----- River; North and South by land formerly of John Stanton and Joseph Gardiner, which tract of land has been improved for 21 years and upwards by my son Samuel Clarke, he being in actual possession of same for the term aforesaid." Recorded 1717-18, January 10, at Westerly. |
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| Bev's great-grandparents include Clarks, Maxsons, Davis, and Hubbard. |
Bev's 7th Great Grandparents - John Maxson II and Judith Clarke.
John Maxson, Jr. was born in 1666 and was married about 1687 to Judith, the daughter of Joseph and Bethiah (Hubbard) Clarke. John and Judith were baptized and joined the Newport Seventh Day Baptist Church 31 July 1692. He was ordained deacon in the Westerly church 21 August 1712, as they were members of that church after it was set off from the Newport church. In 1720 he became pastor of the Westerly church, following his father. He served as pastor for twenty seven years, until his death in July 1747. In 1739 his brother Joseph was ordained Elder to assist him. John, Jr., was an extensive land holder in Westerly. He represented Westerly in the Colonial Assembly in 1742, 1743 and 1744.
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Bev's 7th Great Grandparents -Home of Reverend John Maxon in Hopkinton, RI- MJ2Q-X98 |
Bev's 9th Great Grandparent- Reverend Joseph Clarke Sr, - One of the founders of Rhode Island
From the Clarke Genealogy as recorded by Carrie B. Wilson:
Joseph Clarke must have left England about 1637 and settled immediately in Rhode Island. He was admitted an inhabitant of the Island of Aquidneck at Newport in 1638. On March 17, 1641 he became a freeman. In 1644, he was made one of the original members of the First Baptist Church of Newport and in 1648 became a member of the General Court of Trials. Joseph was a commissioner or assistant from 1655-1690. On July 8, 1664 his name appears in the charter granted to Rhode Island by King Charles II. In 1668, he was made a freeman at Westerly and appears in the list of Westerly inhabitants. In 1677, he was a member of the Court of Justices of the Peace to attend the matter of the injurious and illegal acting of the Connecticut Colony. In 1679, with 32 others of Westerly, he gave the oath of allegiance.
Joseph Clarke must have left England about 1637 and settled immediately in Rhode Island. He was admitted an inhabitant of the Island of Aquidneck at Newport in 1638. On March 17, 1641 he became a freeman. In 1644, he was made one of the original members of the First Baptist Church of Newport and in 1648 became a member of the General Court of Trials. Joseph was a commissioner or assistant from 1655-1690. On July 8, 1664 his name appears in the charter granted to Rhode Island by King Charles II. In 1668, he was made a freeman at Westerly and appears in the list of Westerly inhabitants. In 1677, he was a member of the Court of Justices of the Peace to attend the matter of the injurious and illegal acting of the Connecticut Colony. In 1679, with 32 others of Westerly, he gave the oath of allegiance.
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| Bev's 6th cousin, Albert Larkin 1853 – 5 March 1855 • KZS9-X48- |
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| Bev's 6th cousin, Abby Frances Larkin 1853 – 5 March 1855 --KZS9-X48 |
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| Bev's 5th cousin, Albert Clarence Larkin - Born 1882 – 14 September 1899 • KCLQ-RS5 |
From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Maxson-26
Bev's 8th Great Grandparents -Reverend John Maxson Sr.
Biography
John Maxson, Sr, was the first leading Elder of the Seventh-day Baptist Church in Westerly, Rhode Island. His parents came from England, and were among the earliest settlers of New England, and also among the first who attempted a landing on the shores of Connecticut. [1]
John, a native of Newport and Westerly, Rhode Island was of the second generation in America. At his birth, his mother was a widow, his father having lately been killed by the Pequots. [2]
In 1661 John, then twenty-three years old, joined a company which was formed at Newport for the purchase and settlement of a portion of the Narragansett country, called by the Indians Misquamicut, [which now comprises Westerly, Charlestown, and Hopkinton, Rhode Island] as appears from the records of the company. The articles of agreement were signed on the 22nd of March, 1661, and Mr. Maxson soon after removed to the new settlement, which thence became the scene of his labors.
John and Mary had seven children, Tracy, John Jr., Joseph, and Jonathan, Dorothy, Mary, and Hannah. Soon after settling in Mesquamicut, John and Mary embraced the Sabbath, and joined the church at Newport. John was made freeman at Westerly Oct. 29, 1668. Freeman status meant that you were a member of the town guild and if you were a merchant, you were free to come and go in the city and trade your goods. Freeman status was also given to those who were engaged politically and also the clergy.
John served as deputy to the general assembly from Westerly 1670, 1686, 1690, and 1705. He was overseer of the poor, 1687. The colony of Westerly had connected itself as a branch to the Newport Seventy Day Baptist church of which William Hiscox was pastor.
In 1708, when the Westerly congregation was set off as a separate church John Maxson, Sr. was ordained to the office of Elder (pastor) to the congregation in and about Westerly, now called the First Hopkinton S.D.B.C. at Ashway, R.I.
He "was then an elder indeed," being seventy years of age, "ripe in judgment and good works, tried and found worthy." In 1710, at his request, the church invited [his son] John Maxson, William Davis, Joseph Clarke, Sen., George Stillman, Joseph Clarke, Jr., and Joseph Crandall, to assist him in public ministrations. On the 21st of August, 1712, Joseph Clarke, Jr., "was ordained an elder and colleague of Elder Maxson," and John Maxson, Jr., was at the same time ordained a deacon. The church now numbered "about 130 members." Mr. Maxson's colleague, Joseph Clarke, Jr., died June 5, 1719, when John Maxson, Jr., was proposed as an elder. In the same year, Thomas Hiscox was chose, first a deacon, and then an elder; thus the church had a pastor and two elders. The venerable pastor "sank peacefully to rest on the 17th of December, 1720, aged eighty-two years." He was laid in the Clarke burying-ground.[4]
John made his will Jan. 22, 1716 which was probated Feb. 16, 1721. There is a tradition recorded in the diary of G.H. Richardson, now in the collections of the Newport Historical Society, which reads:
"Today, Dec. 20, 1720, died John Maxson Dr., age 82 yrs. He lost his father and brother Richard who were attacked and killed by the Indians. Mrs. Maxson escaped in a shallop to Acquetneck and her son was born soon after the landing in the spring of 1638 before the purchase of the island from the Indians. He was the first white child born on the island of Rhode Island."
Mary died February 2, 1718. John and his wife were buried in the Clarke burying ground, near the old meeting house. His grave was marked with a blue slate stone, upon which was the following inscription: "Here lieth the body of John Maxson, died Dec. ye 17, 1720, in the 82nd year of his age."
In 1884, their remains were removed to the "Circle". [5] The early ministers of the First Hopkinton church have been reinterred on the spot where the church stood and a monument has been erected to their memory.
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| This is across the street from the cemetery and old Seventh Day Baptist Church in Hopkinton, RI where many of Bev's great-grandfathers were ministers. They baptized thousands of people in these waters. |
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| Pawcatuck River |
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| Fun old home in Ashaway, RI December 31, 2021
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Our first real snowstorm. Notice the apartments above us on the hill. We hardly knew they were there until the leaves dropped
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