Category: Kent County, RI
Families that lived in the county and research done there.
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In which we arrive in a world full of Johns Green(e) For nearly ten years, I have held onto the notion that I was descended from one of the founders of Rhode Island – a surgeon named John Greene. I was very excited about the idea, and the research I did on his biography became…
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They can be tricky – leading to a really long post today Alice Matteson married Thomas Whitford on 9 Jan 1752 in West Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island. We know this from the marriage record which was documented in the 21-volume Rhode Island, U.S., Vital Extracts, 1636-1899, compiled by James Newell Arnold and published from…
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It doesn’t take much to make a connection Our story, so far: We began climbing our ladder to Providence with my great-grandfather, Alfred Tuttle. Our goal was to examine the available evidence connecting each generation of his ancestry back to the founding of Providence Plantations, Rhode Island. Greene Whitford (1759-c. 1816) was the son of…
Mightier Acorns 