(124) OCTAVIA MACOMB WHEATON MORLEY (MRS. FREDERICK HITCHCOCK MORLEY) 919 EAST 10TH AVENUE, denver, COLORADO NINTH PROPOSED BY ELIZABETH CASS LEDYARD GODDARD SECONDED BY NETTIE FRANCES EDWARDS CASPAR Admitted October 8, 1902 TINTH in descent from WILLIAM ARNOLD, 1587-1676. One of the thirteen original proprietors of Providence Plantations, 1638. Commissioner for Providence to the Court of Commissioners, 1661. Eighth in descent from EDWARD RAWSON, of Newbury and Boston, Massachusetts, and RACHEL PERNE, of England, his wife. He was born at Gillingham, County Dorset, England, April 16, 1615. Died in Boston, August 27, 1693. Deputy for Newbury to the Massachusetts General Court, 1638, 1639, 1642, 1644, 1645, 1646, 1647, 1648, 1649. Secretary of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1650 to 1686. Sixth in descent from THOMAS FENNER, of Providence, Rhode Island, and DINAH BORDEN, of Providence, his wife. He was born September, 1652. Died in Providence, February 27, 1718. Deputy for Providence, 1683, 1691, 1695, 1697, 1699, 1704, 1705. Governor's Assistant, 1707, 1708, 1709, 1710, 1711, 1712, 1713, 1715, 1716, 1717. Captain, 1701 to 1712. Major for the Main, 1712, 1713. 91 (125) ALICE LOUISE COMSTOCK 124 WATERMAN STREET, PROVIDENCE, rhode island SE PROPOSED BY ANNIE POTTER SPRAGUE WATSON SECONDED BY ANNA AUGUSTA CHAPIN Admitted October 8, 1902 EVENTH in descent from CHAD BROWN, (—)-1650. One of the thirteen signers of the first written compact of Providence Plantations that has come down to us, August 20, 1637. HENRIETTA CHANNING ELLERY NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND PROPOSED BY MARGARET BARBARA FARNUM LIPPITT SECONDED BY JOSEPHINE ANGIER BINNEY Admitted November 12, 1902 ECOND in descent from HoN. WILLIAM ELLERY, of Newport, SECOND Rhode Island, and ABIGAIL CAREY, of Bristol, R. I., his wife. He was born in Newport, December 22, 1727. Died in Newport, February 15, 1820. Commissioner with Stephen Hopkins to meet with Commissioners from the other Colonies to consult for the defence of the Colony, May, 1746, during the second Spanish War. Naval Officer, 1757. Incorporator of Brown University, 1764. Delegate to Continental Congress, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1781, 1783, 1784 to May, 1785. Signer of Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Rhode Island, 1785. Commissioner of the Continental Loan Office for Rhode Island, 1786. Collector for Newport, 1790. Appointed by Washington. (127) IDA FRANCES DOANE echo lodge, WATCH Hill, rhode ISLAND PROPOSED BY GRACE MCCLURE DIXON SECONDED BY SARAH PERKINS BABCOCK Admitted December 10, 1902 INTH in descent from THOMAS PRINCE, 1600-1673. An NINTE Historic Founder of Plymouth Colony. Governor's Assist ant, 1632, 1635, 1636, 1637, 1639 to 1656. Governor of Plymouth Colony, 1634-1635, 1638-1639, 1657 to 1673. Treasurer, 1636-7, to March, 1639-40. One of the leaders chosen for Plymouth in the Pequot War, 1637. (The Plymouth Forces were not called into action.) Member of Council of War, 1637, 1642, 1643, 1646, 1653, 1657, 1658, 1667. President of the Council, 1653, 1657, 1658, 1667. Commissioner of the United Colonies, 1645, 1650, 1653, 1654, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1661, 1662, 1663, 1670, 1671, 1672. Commissioner to Kennebec to establish a government, 1653-4, with full authority from Plymouth and the English Parliament. |