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| Death: | 9 Sep 1754 in Providence, Providence, RI 1 2 |
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R.I. Genealogical Register, Volume 13, Abstracts of Providence Wills, Page 112
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MEMOIR CONCERNING THE FRENCH SETTLEMENTS AND FRENCH SETTLERS IN THE COLONY OF RHODE ISLAND. BY ELISHA R. POTTER. Author of the Early History of Narragausett
PROVIDENCE:
SIDNEY S. RIDER
1879.
THE MAWNEY FAMILY.
LE MOINE. The christian name of the first Le Moine is not given on the plat, but by the tradition in the family, it was Moses. The French settlers, according to the family tradition, settled around a spring on the present Mawney farm, and planted an orchard there, always since known as the French orchard, and, within the remembrance of the writer, there were trees there supposed to be remains of the original orchard. When the settlement was broken up, the Mawneys must have remained there; as the name of Peter Money is on the oldest plat of East Greenwich known to be in existence, and attached to the tract of land which has been in the family ever since. The name seems to have been first changed to Money, and later to Mawney. The same tradition preserves the names of two children of Moses: First, Peter; and second, Mary, who married an Appleby, of New York.
Col. Peter Mawney, lived the greater part of his life in East Greenwich, but removed to Providence before his death, and his will is recorded there. He died in Providence, September 9, 1754, aged 65, and is buried, with other relatives, in the old North Burial Ground. This would make his birth about 1689.
He was twice married, first to Mary Tillinghast, who died February 24, 1726-7, in the 34th year of her age, and is buried in the Tillinghast burial ground, next north of the Mawney farm; second, to Mercy, daughter of Pardon Tillinghast, who survived him, and died in 1761, the widow of James Brown, and is buried in the North Burial Ground.
The children of Col. Peter Mawney were:
1. Elizabeth, born November 22, 1714, wife of Joseph Olney.
2. Mercy, married Thomas Fry, Jr., December 23h 1742. In Col. Mawney's will he mentions his granddaughter, Mercy Fry.
3. Lydia, married Dr. Ephraim Bowen, June 10, 1746. See Bowen, post.
4. Mary, married James Angell, October 5, 1752, grandmother of the late Prof. William G. Goddard.1
5. John, born August 11, 1718; died June 13, 1754. See below.
6. Pardon, born October 5, 1753; went to sea and never heard from. [birth date is incorrect]
7. Sarah, married Joseph Whipple. Their son Samuel was father of the late Hon. John Whipple, Brown University, 1802, and their son George was grandfather of Joseph W. Congdon, attorney at law at East Greenwich.
8. Amey, married Dr. Samuel Carrew, April 22, 1760; died 1762, aged 26; buried in North Burial Ground,
Pardon, before referred to, died at East Greenwich, August 6, 1831. His wife, Experience, was born November 1, 1751; married June, 1772. She died November 28, 1815. Their children were:
1. Peter Lemoine, born April 16, 1778; died in Moreau, Saratoga county, New York, January 30, 1868. Children: First, John G., died at Tyrone, Steuben country, 1837; second, Pardon, deceased; third, Horatio, (Geneva, N. Y.); fourth, Isabella Ann; fifth, Sarah; sixth, Peter, deceased. John G. left children; First, Dr. John G., Mazomanie, Dane county, Wisconsin; second, Caleb; third, William W.,
Dundee, Yates county, N. Y.; fourth, Zeruah; fifth, Mary; sixth, Sarah; seventh, Robert.
2. John G., born October 1, 1774, was for many years clerk of one of the courts of Kent county. He died December 28, 1846. Children: First, Mary; second, William; third, Tabitha; fourth, Benjamin; fifth, Robert G.; sixth, Julia married Ebenezer Hopkins; seventh, John G.; eighth, Harriet, married Oliver A. Weeks, died October, 1875.
3. One unnamed.
4 and 5. Amey and Nancy born March 23, 1777. Nancy died 1787. Amey married first, Capt. William E. Tillinghast, of Providence. He died 1817. Second, Elisha Atkins, of Providence, and afterwards of Newport, B. U. 1816. No children. She died October 3, 1864.
6. Mary, born April 24, 1779; married, July 9, 1810, Elisha R. Potter, of South Kingstown, member of Congress, 1796-1797 and 1809-1815. She died July 26, 1835. He died September 26, 1835. Children: First, Elisha R., H. C. 1830, second, Thomas; third, Dr. Thomas M., B. U., 1834, U. S. Navy; fourth, William Henry, B. U. 1836, attorney at law; fifth, James B. Mason, B. U. 1839; sixth, Mary Elizabeth.
7. Moses, born November 4, 1780; married Elizabeth Arnold, November 1816; died August 1, 1821. Children: First, Robert G.; second, Hannah, married Joseph R. Arnold; third, Elizabeth Ann.
8. Hannah, born April 13, 1782; married first, Nicholas Tillinghast. One son, Edward N., born September 11, 1805. Married, second, Jeffrey Davis, December, 1824. She died Sept. 20, 1860.
9. Elizabeth Cranston, born July 7, 1784; married October 19, 1805, Jeffrey Davis, of North Kingstown. She died July 1814. Children: First, Abby, married Thomas
B. Wilbor, of Coventry; second, George Albert; third, William Dean, who married Mary E. Congdon.
10. Nicholas G., born March 18, 1786; died August 27, 1874, on the homestead; unmarried; will recorded at East Greenwich.
11. Robert Gibbs, born 1788; went to sea in 1811 and never heard from.
12. Caleb, born 1789, died 1790.
13. Tabitha, born 1791; died 1808.
14. Samuel Ayrault, born May 8, 1792; married, in 1816, Phebe Nichols; died January 8, 1866. Children: First, Elizabeth, married Edward Wheeler, Auburn, New York; second, Maria, married Maynard Chappell, Henrietta, New York; third, Isabella Ann, married James G. Maynard, Providence, Bureau county, Illinois.
15. Isabella A., born November 30, 1797; married Peter G. Taylor, June 27, 1822; he died at Brooklyn, New York, December 20, 1871; she died July 29, 1873. Children: First, Pardon L., born 1824, died November, 1860, at Brooklyn, New York; second, Isabella Ann, born 1826, married, 1848, George W. Frost, of New Market, New Hampshire; third, Amey Elizabeth, born 1831, married Walter J. Gilbert.
The account of the French settlers here given, the locality of the settlement and the name of the first emigrant of the Mawney family, together with the early history of the family, were taken down by an uncle of the writer from the lips of Pardon Mawney a few years before the death of the latter, in 1831; and when it is considered that Pardon Mawney was born in 1748, and was soon old enough to have conversed with some of the emigrants themselves, and with their families, the tradition becomes more than ordinarily reliable. Pardon Mawney's grandfather, who died after the birth of Pardon, must have been born in 1689, about the time of the settlement. And until within comparatively a few years there has been very little change in the families which have owned the land and lived in the neighborhood.
Pardon Mawney was for many years in his youth in the house of his uncle Gibbs, in Boston, and while there attended school. It was during his residence there that Gov. Hutchinson's house was sacked by the mob, in August, 1765; and he was present when the furniture was thrown from the windows, and picked up among the rubbish a pack of playing cards representing scenes in the famous Rye House Plot, which are still preserved.
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- Title: The Mawney Family; Memoir Concerning The French Settlers in the Colony of Rhode Island, by Elisha R. Potter; Genealogy Library Online, FTM
- Title: Arnold's Vital Records of Providence, RI
- Title: The Diary of Capt. Samuel Tillinghast: 1757-1766; Cherry Fletcher Bamberg; published by RIGS, 2000
Page: p. 208
Text: Second wife
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