Peleg Tripp (1642 - abt. 1714)

Born 5 Nov 1642 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Unknown) Tripp — married 1663 in Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony

Husband of Anne (Sisson) Tripp — married 1666 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Descendants

Died about Jan 1714 at about age 71 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island

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Biography

1642 - Peleg was born, probably in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, son of John Tripp (also known as "The Founder")^[1] and Mary Paine. ^[2]

8 SEPTEMBER 1665 - Purchased a tract of land from his father in Dartmouth, Rhode Island. This quarter-section of land, originally purchased from John Alden, was conveyed to Peleg under the provision in the deed that if he were to sell the land, it must be only to John (his father) or to his heirs. This tract was a large farm at the south end of Sawdy Pond in a part of Dartmouth that was later annexed into Triverton. Thus, Peleg became also "of Dartmouth", on the eighth of September, 1665.

In 1861 this site was later returned to Westport. It was later owned by Phillip Taber and then by Weston Tripp and his descendents.

1676 - The year before the death of his father John Tripp (also known as "the Founder"), Peleg, the second son of John the Founder, appears on the town Council, at the age of 35. In the October meeting of this year, his brother, Joseph, was chosen "to bee of the jury for the Court of Tryalls". Peleg was at once placed on a committee, and set at work for the Colony.

1667 - Married Anne Sisson, (b 1646, d. 1713.) ^[3]

7 APRIL 1677 - Anne Sisson's brother George traded with her husband, Peleg Tripp, 32 acres in Portsmouth including houses, orchards, fencing, etc, for 3/8 share of some property in Dartmouth, Mass.

18 JULY 1677 - The earmark for his cattle was recorded in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

JANUARY 1678 - [Peleg] was elected as The Committee to Audit an Adjudge All Accounts between Newport and Portsmouth.

1678 - Peleg Tripp, Will Wodell and Jacob Mott are on the town Council. At this time, Abiel, next younger, is admitted to be a Freeman of Portsmouth. A special Town Meeting in December puts the town in touch with the General Assembly. The town has been "warned" to meet, "to here the Acts and Orders of the Court of General Assembly (held in October last) read, and also to make a rate of sixty eight pounds." "This, by the said court was ordered for this Towne of Portsmouth to pay, as their part and share of A Colony Rate of three hundred pounds, etc." Joseph (who is Joseph?) and six others were to handle this assessment and to deliver their report "within one moneth next after the date of this meeting, unto the magestrate of this Towne, for him to take care of and to give for this warrant to the Towne Serjeant for the warning of all persons concerned to pay their parts. Rated according to court order". In January, Peleg was placed on an important committee whose duty was to audit and adjudge all accounts pending between Newport and Portsmouth, "Relating and only growing by Reason of the late Indian wars". This Committee was also "to dispose of Indians for this Town's use according to the General Assembly's order".

DECEMBER 1679 - Peleg is sent as deputy to the next General Assembly, filling the position after his father John Tripp's death, Like his father, he was held to also work on the Town Council. This was feasible because the Assembly sessions were very short.

1680 - Served in the General Assembly

A practical surveyor, he was ordered by the Assembly to run the westerly line in 1680, when acting as Deputy for Portsmouth. This work to be done in conjunction with Captain John Albro. "And the charges shall both to themselves and such as they shall employ in that worke, shall be trully borne and paid by the Generall Treasury of this Collony. And they are to begin and proceed in the premises, with what speed may bee, and make a true returne of what they doe therein, unto the next Generall assembly". It was also formally voted: "That the Recorder doe forthwith transcribe the acts of this Assembly for running the Westerly line of his Collony, and affix the seale of the Collony thereto, and deliver the same unto Captain John Albro and Mr. Peleg Tripp, or either of them".

No sooner was the Assembly in session in March, 1680, than an immediate, serious and unexpected situation caused grave concern to the deputies. On the tenth of the month, at the initial session with the Governor acting as Moderator, one matter to be disposed of before adjournment was the appointment of a committee "to bee assistant to the governor--to considerr of and to draw up an answer to the twenty-seven queries sent from the Lord of His Majesty's most Honorable Privy Council, to this Collony, and return what they draw up to this Assembly for their consideration and approbation".

This committee of Governor's Assistants numbered seventeen Deputies, including the Deputy Governor, Mr. Peleg Tripp, Captain John Greene, and Captain John Foanes. Governor Cranston, however, was soon to be beyond the need of assistants. On the very next day the records show him "By God's Providence, soe visitted with sickness that he is detained from the Assembly". Matters "of greate concerne to this Collony, for which the Assembly was called, that are of necessity to be resolved by the Assembly" demanding immediate attention, the Deputy Govenor was appointed interim Moderator.

After a four day interval, that is on the fifteenth of March, "The Assembly called and satt". Its one order of business was to vote adjournment for the day in order to attend the funeral of Governor John Cranston. But the business of the Assembly was pressing. On the next day, therefore, Major Peleg Sanford was "chosen Governor and engaged in open Assembly." After the new governor was duly chosen moderator, it was voted: "The Deputy Governor, Captain Arthur Fenner, Mr. John Coggeshall, Captain Randall Howlden, Mr. Peleg Tripp and John Sanford are chosen a Committee to goe to Mrs. Mary Cranston, widow of our late deceased, honored Governor Cranston, esquire, for the charter and all other writeings belonging to the Collony, that were in the late Governor Cranston's custody, and have power to give the said Mrs. Cranston a full discharge in behalfe of this Assembly for what they receive; who are to returne the same to this assembly forwith".

Records later show that "this Assembly have received them (the charter and other articles); and they are in this present assembly delivered to the present Governor's custody".

1681 - Peleg Tripp and Will Wodell helped work out the rates or assessments. The same two would be on the later 1684 Commissions. But in this year (1681), Peleg took his father's place as overseer of the Poor. By September, "Major Peleg and others had procured in writing "A confirmation or Enlargement of the Estate or Right of this Island with Intention of good to both Towns on the Island, and all the Freeholders therein". It was proposed (probably by Newport that Portsmouth) to appoint a committee "to inspect the Said writing and to consult and advise with the procurers therof, how the Estate therin and therby procured may best be Conveyed to the Town in Generall." The public life of Peleg Tripp seems to have been more important than that of his father. The records indicate that he served his generation in the company of the strong men of his own and the other towns of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence plantations, and gave added strength to the Assembly.

1684 - Peleg Tripp elected to Commissions that worked with the Governor of Rhode Island in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

29 JUNE 1686 - the Assembly for the town of Portsmouth:

On the twenty-ninth of June, 1686, Mr. Peleg Tripp again sitting in the Assembly for the town of Portsmouth (with Mr. John Coggeshall, Mr. William Wodell and Mr. Robert Hodgson) the Assembly considered a writ of "Quo Warranto" from His Majesty. "This Assembly" the records say, "upon the serious consideration of the above said premise, do hereby order, publish and declare that they have determined not to stand suit with His Majesty, but to proceed by our humble address to his Majesty to continue our privileges and liberties according to our charter, formerly granted by his late Majesty, Charles the Second, of blessed memory." Whereupon the Assembly ordered that this act should be published "forthwith" in three "convenient places for that end", in Newport, "and the same to be done by the Recorder, with the Generall and Town Sergeant, and the beat of the drum". Later, it was voted: "That a Committee be chosen and empowered by this Assembly, they or the major part of them, on this Collony's behalf, to draw up our humble address to his Majesty our Sovereign Lord, the King, and to take speedy and effectual care for the safe conveyance thereof by way of Boston and York. And also to procure a messenger as soon as they can, to go for "England; and to draw up letters to the Governor of York, to President Dudley, and to Esquire Randolph." The persons chosen and empowered are: "our Honored Governor and Deputy Governor, for Newport; Mr. Joseph Jencks, for Providence; Mr. Peleg Tripp and the Recorder, for Portsmouth; Major John Green, for Warwick." The importance of the subject matter and the standing of the other members of the Committee, with the added fact that Peleg Tripp was chosen when John Coggeshall was available, are an evidence of the esteem and confidence reposed in Peleg Tripp, the second son of John of Portsmouth.

1687 - Peleg Tripp was elected to the Committee to assess Taxes on the real estate of Rochester, alias Kingstown in 1687 in Kingstown, Rhode Island.

18 AUGUST 1708 -

"Dartmouth Mass 18th of the 8th month 1708. To the Govenor and council and representatives in the general court assembled in Boston the 20th instant. A humble petition of the major part of the householders of the town of Dartmouth" signed by: James Tripp Jun., Richard Tripp... Ebenezer Tripp... Thomas Hathaway... James Tripp... Peleg Tripp... John Tripp... Thomas Wait..."^[4]

6 NOVEMBER 1713 - Peleg Tripp's will created.

13 JANUARY 1714 - Peleg Tripp dies. ^[5]

8 FEBRUARY 1713/4 - Peleg Tripp's will proved.^[6]

This will names his wife Anne as executrix and his kinsman William Sanford as overseer. His wife received the dwelling house, the garden, a third of the "Great Orchard" and 18 pounds yearly to be paid by their son Job. He bequeathed his daughter Priscilla Tripp £15, his daughter Sarah Rogers £15, his son Peleg £5, his daughter-in-law Sarah Tripp £1, and the overseer £20. His son Job received the rest of the land where he dwelt, to pay the rents and legacies and after the death of his mother to have other land, the great scales, weights and bed. His daughter Mary Smith received £10, his daughter Anne Rogers received £10 and land in Portsmouth, his daughter Mehitable Thurston £10, and his daughter Priscilla Tripp a feather bed and other items. Fourteen acres of land were devised to his wife Anne and land in Dartmouth to his son Richard, the later to pay 5 pounds yearly to his mother. His wife Anne received the remainder of the movables, including money, cattle, sheep, swine, and household goods.

Note: In some way, the vital records of his immediate descendants were destroyed, so that we must depend chiefly for these upon his will, made in 1713. His will names first his son Job, eldest after his brother John died. After that, in order, follow Priscilla Tripp; Sara Rogers; Peleg Tripp; daughter in-law Sara Tripp; daughters Mary Smith, Anne Rogers and Mehitable Thurston; son Richard, who with Anne Rogers received land in Portsmouth. Anne, the widow, received the dwelling house and one third "of great orchard for life and my garden and £18 yearly for life paid by my son Job." This favored son received "rest of land where I dwell, he paying rents and legacies and at death of wife he to have other land", etc. Fourteen acres of land were added to the orchard provision for the widow, Anne. Richard, too, was to pay Anne £5 yearly tax on his Dartmouth legacy. The daughter-in-law, Sarah, named in Peleg's will was of Adam Mott's family, her mother having been at marriage Mary Lott, whom the first Adam Mott brought from England, when he came to America. Mary (Lott) Mott's interesting will appears elsewhere. She was Adam's step-daughter.

Famous Descendants

Peleg Tripp was the ancestor of Warren Gamaliel Harding

The line of descent from Peleg Tripp and Ann Sisson to Warren Gamaliel Harding, 29th President of the United States, is as follows:

1. Job Tripp m. Elizabeth Sweet
2. Isaac Tripp m. Sarah Sweet
3. William Tripp m. Sarah Slocum
4. Phoebe Tripp (August 17, 1767 - November 2, 1844) m. Amos Harding (March 1764 - July 10, 1839) on August 21, 1784.
5. George Tryon Harding m. Elizabeth Madison
6. Charles Alexander Harding m. Nancy Ann Crawford
7. George Tryon Harding II (June 12, 1844 in Blooming Grove, OH, - November 23, 1928 m. Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson (Dec. 21, 1843 in North Bloomfield, OH, - May 20, 1920)
8. Warren Gamaliel Harding (Nov. 2, 1865, Blooming Grove, OH - August 2, 1923 San Francisco, CA) m. Florence Mabel Kling (b. August 15, 1860 in Marion OH, d. November 21, 1924) on July 8, 1891. Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: John Tripp 1611-1678, A Glimpse into Our Founder's Life
2. ↑ The Compendium of American Genealogy - First Families of America "Peleg [Tripp] (1642-1713), asst., 1680; dep., 1681-86, Portsmouth, R.I., p 347
3. ↑ Recorded in the will of Mary Sisson, widow, of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, dated 15 April 1690, and proved 1 December 1692, in which she names her daughter Ann, wife of Peleg Tripp. There is also recorded, a receipt, signed with the mark of Ann [Sisson] Tripp, and dated 17 December, 1692, in which she acknowledges that she has received her mother's legacy.
4. ↑ Source: #S371; see also Vol CXIII p 452, BIOGRAPHY: See Pg 6 of Vol I "Early Rehoboth - documented historical studies of the families and events in the Plymouth Colony Township" by Richard LeBaron Bowen, privately printed Rehoboth Massachusetts, 1945
5. ↑ Bristol Co. Probates 1:57, in NEHGR, 62:182, 233
6. ↑ Fiske: Item 214

See also:

• Tripp Family Genealogical Website
• The Compendium of American Genealogy - First Families of America "Peleg [Tripp] (1642-1713), asst., 1680; dep., 1681-86, Portsmouth, R.I., p 347
• Fiske, Jane Fletcher Gleanings from Newport Court Files, 1659-1783 (Boxford, Mass., 1998).
• Neil D. Thompson, "Some Observations on the Ancestry of John Tripp, Emigrant to Portsmouth, Rhode Island," in The Genealogist, Volume 10, Number 2 (Fall 1998), Page 195-199
• FHL Film #s 455391, 178024, 177923, 178126 [these should be looked up and expanded into real source citations]
• Pg37 Vol XXII "The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record" Lincoln NE July-October 1944 No. 3-4 under Children of John & Mary (Paine) Tripp
• Herman Tripp, John Tripp The Founder
• Margaret Buckridge Bock. Descendents of John Tripp of Portsmouth, R.I. The Genealogist Vol. 4 No. 1 Spring 1983. p 91.
• Carol Regehr, Descendants of Richard and Mary Sisson of Rhode Island
• Rhodes, ed. "Colonial Families of the United States," Vol. II (D&J #4)
• Austin, John O. "160 Allied Families" (Salem, Mass.) pages 120, 208-12 (D&J #5)
• Munsell et al. "American Ancestry," (1899) Vol. 12 (D&J #6)
• Arnold, James N. "Rhode Island Vital Records" (D&J #7)
• Welling, B. "They Were Here, Too" (Greenwich, Washington County, NY: New York Historical Society, 1963-71) (D&J #8)
• Paige, Lucius R. "List of Freemen of Massachusetts, 1630-1691" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978) (D&J #9)
• Austin, John O. "The Genealogical Dictionary of RI," (Albany, 1887), p. 181 (D&J #10)
• Martin, John L. "Sisson Family" (New Bedford, Mass.: typescript, 1930s; indexed by David S. Martin, 1991) Vol I, pp 10-4, 7, 17 (D&J #11)
• Rhode Island Historical Society. "The Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth." (Freeman and Sons, 1901) (D&J #392)
• Richard LeBaron, "Early Rehoboth - documented historical studies of the families and events in the Plymouth Colony Township," Rehoboth, MA: 1945, Vol I, Pg 6.
• Margaret Buckridge Bock/Bucky, Descendants of John TRIPP], Tripp Family Association,
• Carol Sisson Regehr, The Sisson Genealogy Site,
• Dave Minson,
• Paul L. Tripp, Paul L. Tripp's Tripp Family Research]
• Charlotte Dolan, Descendants of John Tripp & Isabel Moyses]
• Phillip Clark, My Ancestor's]
• Bob Carroll, Rogers-Cushing-Stiles-Carroll]
• Genealogical Dict. of First Settlers of New England, James Savage, Geneal Publ 1977
• Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Gen Publ Baltimore, MD. 1985 plus Supplements 1 and 2.
• Crapo, Henry Howland, Certain Comeoverers, New Bedford, Mass.: E. Anthony & Sons, 1912
• "The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record" Vol XXII (July-Oct 1944), p 37 under #3-4, children of John and Mary (Paine) Tripp
• Source: The Michael Shoemaker Book ( SCHUMACHER ) Williams T . Blair PRINTED FOR J . I . SHOEMAKER WYOMING , PA . INTERNATIONAL TEXTBOOK PRESS SCRANTON , PA, Page: 335, Link: https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=W6tRAAAAMAAJ&num=13&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA555

Acknowledgements

• Jim Kelley.
• Michael Lechner.