Thomas Ralph (abt. 1615 - abt. 1682)

Born about 1615 in England

Husband of Mary (Unknown) Ralph — married about 1656 in Warwick, Rhode Island

Descendants

Died about 1682 at about age 67 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island

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Biography

Name

Name: Thomas /Ralph/^[1][2][3][4]

Name: Thomas /Relfe/^[5]

Found multiple versions of NAME. Using Thomas /Ralph/.

Birth

Birth:

Date: 1615

Place: Hertfordshire, England^[6][7][8]

Baptism

Baptism:

Date: 07 MAY 1615

Place: Great Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England^[9]

Marriage

Husband: Thomas Ralph

Wife: Elizabeth Desborough

Child: Samuel Ralph

Child: Thomas Ralph

Child: Deliverance Ralph

Child: Samuel Ralph

Marriage:

Date: BEF 1640

Divorce:

Date: 1651

Note: ....wh. had been divorc. that yr. for offence of her h. Thomas Relph, Rolfe, or Relfe, wh. ran off to R.I.^[10]

Residence

Residence:

Place: England^[11]

Death

Death:

Date: 23 DEC 1669

Place: Guilford, New Haven Co., CT^[12]

Death:

Date: 1682

Place: Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA^[13][14]

Event

Event:

Type: Society

Note: Ancester# - none

Ralph, Thomas

Warwick (RI) 1651, d by 6 June 1682^[15]

Event:

Type: Biography

Note: 'Thomas Ralph, first of Guilford, Conn., and later of Warwrick, R.I., married (first) Elizabeth Desbrough, and (second) in 1656 Mary Cook, widow of John. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ralph died in 1682. On Sept. 25, 1671, he and two others were appointed to make a rate and levy an assessment upon the inhabitants of Mashaulatauk, in Warwick. His will was proved June 15, 1682, at Warwick, and in it he bequeated land in Warwick to his sons Samuel and Thomas. By his first marriage Thomas Ralph had a sone Samuel, of Providence, who married Mary, and they both died in 1723. By his second marriage he was the father of children as follows: Alice, born Jan. 13, 1657, died in 1682; she married Thomas Fenner, born in September, 1652,son of Arthur and Mehetable (Waterman) Fenner, and he died Feb. 27, 1718. Thomas, born July 12, 1658, died in 1696; he married Eleanor, who also died in that year, and he was a resident of Providence. Sarah, born Ded. 4, 1661, married a Mr. Benjamin. Deliverance was born Aug. 20, 1666.'

Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island;1969; p.360. '1651, Oct. 1. His first wife, from whom he had been divorced, married John Johnson.

'1671, Sep. 25. Warwick. He and two others were appointed to make a rate and levy assessment upon the inhabitants of Mashantatack. 1682. Will - proved 1682, Jun. 15. Ex. son Thomas. Overseers, John Potter and cousin Samuel Stafford. He dated his will at Prudence Island but it was proved at Warwick. To son Samuel, 50 acres in Mashantack and two shares of meadow in Techaunk. To son Thomas, all the rest of lands and chattels in Mashantatack and elsewhere, except such cattle as are his mother's, and he to give her sufficient maintenace for life. To daughter Deliverance Ralph, L20, paid by her brother Thomas, of which L10, to be paid her at eighteen and L10, at twenty-one, with a feather bed. To daughter Sarah Benjamin, L7, paid her by Thomas in seven years. To grandchild William Fenner, L5, when of age, paid by testator's son Thomas.'^[16]

Event:

Type: Source-add

Note: Other sources not quoted:

Rhode Island Court Records, v.2; pp.10,11,25,50.

Rhode Island Court Records, v.1; pp.28,46,47,48,49,68,69.

Early Records of the Town of Providence, v.15; pp.86-87.

History of Guilford CT; pp.15-16.

Event:

Type: Biography

Note: "Austin's Genealogical Dictionary" - Ralph. Thomas (p. 360, 1st col.). His first wife, from whom he was divorced, was Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Desborough or Disborough of Elseworth, co. Cambridge, gent., whose will dated 6 Dec. 1660 was proved 21 Dec. 1660 (P. C. C. Nabbs 264). After her divorce from Ralph she married John Johnson of Guilford, Conn., and is named as "Elizabeth Johnson" in her father's will. Isaac Disborough was evidently a close relative of John Disborough, Oliver's Major General, and of Samuel Disborough the early settler of Guilford, Conn., who returned to England and was M. P. for Edinburgy (1656) and Mid Lothian in Oliver's Parliaments, and Chzancellor of Scotland under Oliver and Richard Cromwell. Samuel died on 10 Dec. 1690 at the family manor of Elseworth, Cambs., which he purchased in 1656. It eventurally descended to his granddaughter, who married Matthew Holworthy, Esq. (EEHGR., V. 41, pp. 353-364).^[17]

Will

Will:

Date: 15 JUN 1682

Place: Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI

Note: Will of Thomas Relph, Grandfather of Deliverance. RIGR Jan 1980, pg. 138.

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Thomas Relph of Portsmouth. Will not dated, proved 15 Jun 1682, pg. 108. mentions: sons Samuell Relph and Thomas Relph. Daughters Sara Benjamin and Deliverance Relph under 18. Grandchild Walton Fenner under age.^[18]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S45 Page: Place: Great Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England; Date Range: 1538 - 1656; Film Number: 1040650
2. ↑ Source: #S25 Object: @M696@
3. ↑ Source: #S22
4. ↑ Source: #S9 Page: Source number: 3237.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: GRG
5. ↑ Source: #S52
6. ↑ Source: #S22
7. ↑ Source: #S52
8. ↑ Source: #S9 Page: Source number: 3237.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: GRG
9. ↑ Source: #S45 Page: Place: Great Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England; Date Range: 1538 - 1656; Film Number: 1040650
10. ↑ Steiner, Bernard Christian. A history of the plantation of Menunkatuck and of the original town of Guilford, Connecticut : comprising the present towns of Guilford and Madison Baltimore : Steiner, 1897 p 127
11. ↑ Source: #S45 Page: Place: Great Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England; Date Range: 1538 - 1656; Film Number: 1040650
12. ↑ Source: #S142 Page: v.3 p.571
13. ↑ Source: #S25 Object: @M696@
14. ↑ Source: #S22
15. ↑ Source: #S76 Page: p.236
16. ↑ Source: #S106 Page: p.687
17. ↑ Source: #S55 Page: v.20 pp. 228-9
18. ↑ Source: #S468 Page: p. 14

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Acknowledgments

• Ralph-506 was created by Paul Lewis through the import of Russell Emmett Lewis.ged on Aug 22, 2015.
• WikiTree profile Ralph-66 created through the import of EBENSTEIN-GRANGER.GED on Aug 19, 2011 by Merryann Palmer.