Ancestral Glimpses » Governor Benedict Arnold (1615-1678)

Données personnelles Governor Benedict Arnold 

• Il est né le 21 décembre 1615 dans Ilchester, Somersetshire, ENGLAND.
• Résidant en l'an 1653: Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, British America.
• (TITL) le 1657–1650 dans Rhode Island, British America: Governor of Rhode Island Colony.
• Il est décédé le 10 juin 1678 dans Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, British America, il avait 62 ans.
• Alternative: Il est décédé le 20 juin 1678 dans Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, British America, il avait 62 ans.
• Il est enterré le 20 juin 1678 dans Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, British America.
• Un enfant de William Arnold et Christian Peake
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 2 novembre 2017.

Famille de Governor Benedict Arnold

Il est marié avec Damaris Westcott.

Ils se sont mariés le 17 décembre 1640, il avait 24 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Benedict Arnold  -1727 
2. Caleb Arnold  1644-1719 
3. Josiah Arnold  1646-???? 
4. Damaris Arnold  1648-± 1715
5. William Arnold  1651-1651
6. Penelope Arnold  1653-> 1702
7. Oliver Arnold  1655-1697 
8. Godsgift Arnold  1658-1691
9. Freelove Arnold  1661-1711

Notes par Governor Benedict Arnold

Benedict, son of William was with his father when they went from Hingham to the Narragansett Bay in 1636. He moved to Newport in 1651 where he was very active in town affairs. In 1657, he succeeded Roger Williams as President of the colony unt. 1663 when he was named as the first governor which he was, with the exception of six years, until his death in 1678."
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(The Arnold Memorial William Arnold of Providence and Pawtuxet 1587-1675, compiled by Elisha Stephen Arnold 1935)
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Benedict Arnold - TimeLine
BENEDICT, b. 1615, Dec 21. Providence, Newport, R. I.; d. 1678, Jun 19.
md. 1640, Dec 17.
DAMARIS WESTCOTT, b. of Stukeley Westcott; d. 1678 +.

1637, Aug 20. At this date (or a little later) he and twelve others signed the following compact: "We whose names are hereunder desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active and passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body in an orderly way, by the major consent of the present inhabitants, masters of families incorporated together in a Town fellowship, and others whom they shall admit unto them, only in civil things."
1640, Jul 27. He signed an agreement with thirty-eight others for a form of government.
1650, Sep 2. Taxed £5. (The highest in the list.)
1651, Nov 19. Newport. He moved here from Providence at this date as he records.
1653, May 17. Freeman.
1654-55-56-57-58-59-60-61-62-63. Commissioner.
1655-56-60-61. Assistant.
1657-58-59-60-62-63. President of the four towns.
1661, Sep 3. He and others were complained of for their intrusion into the bounds of Southertown on east side of the Pawquatuck River. He and others answered that they owned themselves to be the men that claimed the lands, and said they would keep possession and that they would not try their title anywhere but in Rhode Island or in England, and Arnold said if any should attach him at Boston he would lie in prison seven years before he would try the title there.
1663-64-65-66-69-70-71-72-77-78. Governor.
1676, Apr 4. It was voted: "that in these troublesome times and straits in this colony, this Assembly desiring to have the advice and concurrence of the most judicious inhabitants, if it may be had for the good of the whole, do desire at their next sitting the company and counsel of Mr. Benedict Arnold," and fifteen others.
1677, Nov 3. He, eldest son and heir of William Arnold, late of Pawtuxet, deceased, sold to brother Stephen Arnold all the land of our said father lying and being within the bounds of Pawtuxet, that is to say between Pawtuxet River and Providence bounds, for £100. The land consisted of upland, meadow, pasture, marsh, wood grounds, gardens, orchards, &c., and included buildings, materials for buildings, fences, &c.
1677, Dec 24. Will—codicil, 1678, Feb 10, proved 1678. Exs. wife Damaris, sons Benedict and Josiah and Mr. James Barker, Sr. "By the permission of God Almighty, I, Benedict Arnold, of Newport," &c.—"aged sixty and two years, finding myself subject to weakness and infirmities, the usual attendants on aged persons," &c. He desired that his body should be buried at north-east corner of parcel of ground containing three rods square in or near the line or path from dwelling house to my stone built wind mill in the town of Newport. The center of the three rods square was the tomb already erected over the grave of his grand-child Damaris Goulding—there bur. 14 Aug 1677. He ordered—that he and his wife should be interred in this ground and that the lot should be forever reserved for his kindred. To wife, for life, the house and 2 acres bought of
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Governor Benedict Arnold, son of William Arnold, the colonist (see p. 15) , was born 21 Dec 1615, and died 10 Jun 1678. He signed the agreement of 1640 for a form of government. Removed to Newport 19 Nov 1651, and was made Freeman of that town; was a Commissioner, 1654 to 1663; Assistant, 1655 to 1656, 1660 to 1661; President of the four towns, 1657 to 1660, 1662 to 1663, and the first Royal Governor of Rhode Island, 1663 to 1666, 1669 to 1672, and 1677 to 1678. He was on a council with fifteen others, appointed by the General Assembly, to advise with the Assembly. In the will of Benedict Arnold, probated in Newport in 1677, the testator writes: "I devise that my body shall be bur. near the path leading from my dwelling house to my stone windmill in the town of Newport, and that the lot shall forever be reserved for my kindred." He left the stone windmill to his wife, with lands and mansion house, for life. At Governor Arnold's funeral nearly a thousand persons were present. He md., 17 Dec 1640, Damaris the dau. of Stukeley Westcott, of Warwick; she died 1678.
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Source: Ancestral Records and Portraits, Volume I, The Colonial Dames of America, New York: The Grafton Press, 1910, p. 112.

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