History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog

142 History of Swansea
Carpenter died Aug. 29th 1915. Ella married Wm. O'Brien. Mabel
married Albert Neigles.
Gideon Allen, and Nehemiah Allen were among the first signers
admitted to the Town.
Squire Allen married Elizabeth—Dec. 26, 1790. His son, Ira AUen,
married Rosamond Brightman of Fall River; and their son Theodore, born
in Barrington, R. I. Aug. 31, 1830, married Harriet A. Hathaway, born in
Fall River, June 15, 1839. Their children are:
Bertha L. born in Swansea June 9, 1858.
Laura E. born in Swansea March 1, 1860.
Orville H. born in Swansea March 31, 1862.
Ina F. born in Washington, D. C. May 3, 1865.
Ellen born in Washington D. C. April 14, 1868.
Ethelyn R. born in Swansea Nov. 17, 1878.
Arnold Family
Franklin Gifford Arnold, of Swansea, Mass., is a descendant of two of
the oldest families of Rhode Island, tracing his lineage from Gov. Benedict
Arnold of Rhode Island and Surgeon John Greene. His Arnold line is as
follows:
(I) Gov. Benedict Arnold, of Rhode Island.
(II) Caleb Arnold, born Dec. 19, 1644, died Feb. 9, 1719. June 10,
1666 he married Abigail Wilbur.
(III) Samuel Arnold, was born in 1679.
(IV) Joseph Arnold, son of Samuel, died in 1776. He married
Abigail Gifford Nov. 23, 1732, and (second) Hanna Gifford in August, 1737.
(V) Edmund Arnold married Abby Himes, and their children were:
Edmund, Mary, John, Charles, Joseph, Nabby, Hannah, Samuel, ShefQeld,
and Dorcas.
(VI) John Arnold, born in North Kingston, R. I., in 1778, married
in 1800 Sarah Sherman, who was born in 1771, and died in 1841. Their
children were all born in Exeter, R. I., as follows: Abby, March 1, 1801;
Lucy, May 27, 1802; George, Nov, 26, 1803; Edmund, Feb. 13, 1805;
Mary, July 23, 1806; John, Jan. 9, 1809; Martha, April 10, 1811; Stephen,
Feb. 18, 1813; Sarah A., March 31, 1815. John Arnold spent the early
part of his life in Exeter, but passed his last years with his son Edmund, at
Portsmouth, R. I., and later in Swansea, where he died in June, 1865. His
wife preceded him in death by many years.
(VII) Deacon Edmund Arnold was bom in Exeter, R. I., Feb. 13,
1805, and spent his boyhood and early school days there. From 1832 to
1865, he resided on the big Hoppin farm in Portsmouth, R. I., in 1865
removing to Swansea and buying a farm on Gardner's Neck, a half mile
south of Swansea Village. A few years before his death he removed to that
village. He was active in the affairs of the Christian Church in Swansea,
as he had been in Portsmouth, and for many years was deacon in the
Swansea Church. He also took an interest in the affairs of the town. Jan.
1, 1832, he married, in Coventry, R. I., Sally Jencks Greene, born June 18,
1812, who died Aug. 17, 1864. Their children are as follows: James E.,
born July 29, 1833, died Sept. 13, 1874, married Mary M. Dawley; Samuel
Greene, born Feb. 9, 1835, is mentioned below; William H., born April 22,
1837, of Newport, R. I., who married Amarintha Tallman and (second)
Ruth Hazard; John H., bom April 4, 1839, married Lois Anthony, resides
in Cambridge, Mass., and is librarian of the Harvard Law School; Sarah
G., born April 26, 1841, died May 29, 1899, married Charles Field; Abby