(1) Hij is getrouwd met Content Arnold.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 12 februari 1701 te Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, British America, hij was toen 20 jaar oud.
(2) Hij is getrouwd met Jane Bernon.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 11 oktober 1722, hij was toen 42 jaar oud.
William Coddington - TimeLine
WILLIAM, b. 1680, Jul. 15. Newport, R. I.; d. 1755.
md. (1) 1700, Nov 13.
CONTENT ARNOLD, b. 1681, Feb 26 of Benedict & Mary (Turner) Arnold; d. 1721, May 27.
md. (2) 1722, Oct. 11.
JANE BERNON, b. 1696, May 15 of Gabriel & Esther (Le Roy) Bernon; d. 1752, Jun 18.
1705-6-15-16-18-19-20. Sheriff.
1707-15-21-22-28-24-25-26-27-34-35-36. Deputy.
1711, Jun 28. Commissary. He was to have £5, per month for his care of the stores of the colony for the intended expedition against Canada.
1717-18. Major for the Island.
1719-20. Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment of militia on the Island.
1722-23-24-25-26. Speaker of House of Deputies.
1727. Master of the Alienation office.
1727-28-29. Assistant.
1733, Jul. He was appointed on a committee to go over to Block Island to consider of a convenient place to build a pier, or harbor, and of the charge, &c. On the same date he was appointed on a committee to procure £4,000, worth of cannon, carriages, and other necessaries for Fort George.
1734-35. He was one of the four Justices of Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Newport County.
1738. Mr. Callender dedicated his Historical Discourse to The Honorable William Coddington, Esq.
1750, Sep 4. He and others signed a petition to the King, praying that the Assembly might be restrained from making or emitting any more Bills of Public Credit upon loan, without royal permission, the sum on loan already amounting to £390,000, worth at time of issue £78,111, sterling, but at present only £35,445. Amongst those whose estates were involved in the loan were numbers of widows and orphans, who were grievously injured, oppressed and almost ruined.
CODDINGTON, William, Governor of Rhode Island, including Newport and Portsmouth, was a native of Lincolnshire, England, and was born in the year 1601. He arrived at Salem, Massachuselts, 12 Jun 1630, having been sent to this country as an assistant, or one of the magistrates of Massachusetts. We find him acting in this capacity in the records that have come down to us of the doings of this "Court of Assistants." On 4 Mar 1631, such a court was held in Boston, and the name of William Coddington appears in the list of the names of the judges. Party politics were as exciting on a small scale then as they are on a larger scale now. In 1637 Governor Winthrop was chosen in the place of Mr. Vane, to whose interests Mr. Coddington was attached, and he was not elected to the magistracy. In the excitement which attended the trial of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson, Mr. Coddington threw the weight of his ministry on the side of the accused and was opposed by Governor Winthrop and the ministers of Boston.
His effort to vindicate this woman against the charges that were laid to her account, and his want of success in some other positions which he took, so dissatisfied him that he abandoned a lucrative business in Boston, sold out his real estate in the town of Braintree, and joined the company of emigrants who left Massachusetts to make for themselves a home on the beautiful inland of Rhode Island. In his History of Boston, Drake says, referring to the date of 20 Apr 1638, "Mr. Coddington removed with his family to Rhode Island. He had been an assistant from the first coming over of the Boston colony. Thus another excellent and valuable man was lost to Boston." He had already visited the place which he was to make his future residence, for we find his name standing first on the covenant which eighteen persons had signed at Atquidneck, or Rhode Island, 7 Mar 1638, forming themselves into a body politic, 'to be governed by the laws of the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of kings." As there was something indefinite in this statement of the authority by which they proposed to be governed, it was found necessary to have something a little more explicit. A more formal code of regulations was drawn up, and Mr. Coddington was elected judge, three elders being connected with him in the administration of affairs. He held the office of judge a little more than one year. Portsmouth was at that time the chief settlement on the island. He was then appointed judge of Newport, and subsequently, when Portsmouth and Newport were united, in 1641, under one government, he was elected the first governor. It must be borne in mind that originally the State consisted of four towns: Providence, settled in 1636, Portsmouth in 1638, Newport in 1640, and Warwick in 1642. Each town had an independent government at the outset of the history of the State. Governor Coddington held his office from 12 Mar 1640 to 10 May 1047. The four towns were united in 1647 under a charter granted by the English parliament, and the title of the chief magistrate was "President." He was chosen the second President of the State, and held the office from May 1648 to May 1649. In Sep of this year he made an unsuccessful attempt to have Rhode Island included in the Confederacy of the United Colonies.
We find the record of the attempt thus made, in H,!'.,uJ, II, |i]i. 09-100 [illegible], as quoted by Drake in his History of Boston. We give the quaint language and spelling of those early days: Captain Alexander Partridge and Governor Coddington, " in behalfe of the Ilanders of Roode Iland," requested that they might be "redeamed into combination with all the united Collonyes of New England." They were answered that Rhode Island was within the bounds of Plymouth; that their "present state was full of confusion and danger, haveing much disturbance amongst themselves and noe security from the Indians;" that though the Commissioners desired "in severall respects" to afford advice and help, all they could do then was to consider and advise how they might be accepted " upon just terms and with tender respect to their consciences." In 1651 Governor Coddington went to England, where he interested himself in promoting the prosperity of Rhode Island. Under the Royal Charter granted by Charles II, he was Governor from May 1674 to May, 1076. He died 1 Nov 1678.
Source: The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island, Providence, National Biographical Publishing Co., (1881), pp. 21-22.
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