Ralph Earle

1. * Ralph Earle , Jr (* Ralphe Earle1) was born 9 Feb 1605/06 in Exeter, England, and died 1678 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI. He married * Joan Savage 29 Jun 1631 in England, daughter of Richard Savage and Mary. She was born 1609 in England, and died 1701 in RIchmond, Washington, RI.

family

Ralph Earle and his wife Joan Savage had five children:

1. Ralph Earle (Jr.), born about 1632 and died 1716.  He married Dorcas Sprague, daughter of Francis Sprague and Lydia on 26 Oct 1659.  
2. William Earle,
3. Mary, born 1636 and married (1st) William Cory, (2nd) Joseph Timberlake
4. Martha, born 1638 and married William Wood, son of John Wood and Margaret Carter[6].
5. Sarah, born 1640 and married Thomas Cornell.

brief biography

From http://hylbom.com/family/paternal-lines/paternal-dy-to-gi/earle-5600/

Both Ralph Earle (born about 1606) and his wife, Joan Savage[3] (born about 1595), came to the New World from Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.  There is little doubt that they were married in England and came together to America.  According to a tradition among his descendants, they came to Boston in 1634.  They may have come with a group of Puritans led by John Cotton[4] (a Puritan minister), which included William and Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson[5], who arrived in 1633, with approximately 200 other passengers, on the ship Griffin.  The passenger list for this voyage is incomplete, so we do not know for certain whether they were on this ship or another.

We also do not know for sure whether Ralph Earle was a Puritan or whether he came to the new world to flee religious persecution.  It is known that he joined himself with the Puritans of Massachusetts and later followed William and Anne Hutchinson to Rhode Island, where he settled and lived for many years. The earliest trace of Ralph Earle hitherto discovered is in the records of Newport, Rhode Island.  His name is there found under date of first of eighth month [October], 1638, in a list with fifty-eight others, arranged as,

"A catalogue of such persons who, by the General consent of the company, were admitted to the Inhabytants of the Island now called Aqueedneck, having submitted themselves to the Government that is, or shall be established according to the word of God therein."

Ralph Earle appears to have been a person of some consequence in the colony. The records show that he was a large landholder, as many sales are found.  He was chosen to keep an inn in 1647.  In 1649, he was elected treasurer and also overseer of the poor. On 29 Apr 1650, Ralph Earle and five others were chosen for the committee for the General Assembly of Newport in May next.  In 1651 he was elected one of the committee to proportion every man’s farm, and in the same year he was again chosen town treasurer.  He served later as juryman and grand juryman.  He was appointed in 1655 to keep a house of entertainment.  In 1667 joined the troope of horse of which subsequently he became captain.   He fulfilled various other offices, served as grand juror and witnessed deeds and other instruments.

Ralph Earle died 1678 at Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.  Ralph’s will was dated 19 Nov 1673 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.  This will, of which his friend John Tripp was the overseer, after providing for his widow, leaves two-thirds of his real estate to his son Ralph, and one-third to his grandson Ralph, the son of his son William.  William received only one shilling, probably due to the fact that he had already provided for him.  Indeed, in April 1655, he conveyed to him a homestead in Portsmouth near John Tripp’s property.

Joan died in 1679.

Sources

1. The Earle Family: Ralph Earle and his Descendants compiled by Pliny Earle of Northampton, Massachusetts (Worcester, Massachusetts, privately printed for the family by Charles Hamilton) 1888.

Links

• http://hylbom.com/family/paternal-lines/paternal-dy-to-gi/earle-5600/

Citations

notes

from http://awt.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=fletcht200...

Early records dated 09 Feb 1605/06 show that Ralph was babtized at Bishops Stortford, Hertz, England. His will is dated 19 Nov 1673. Source:Little Comptons Families Vol. 1 pg. 262.

From the Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island pg. 69

Portsmouth, RI

1638. He and others, were admitted inhabitants of Aquidneck, having submitted themselves to the government, that is or shall be established.

1639, Apr 30. He and twenty-eight others signed declaration of allegiance. "We, whose names are underwritten, do acknowledge ourselves the legal subjects of his majesty, King Charles, and in his name, do hereby bind ourselves into a civil body politicke, unto his laws according to matters of justice."

1640, Jan 07. It was ordered that he and his co-partner, Mr. Wilbur, shall serve the town with good sufficient stuff, viz: well sawn boards at 8s. the hundred, and half inch boards at 7s., to be delivered at the pit by the waterside.

1640, Mar 21. He sold William Baulstone, certain land.

1647 He was chosen to keep an inn, to sell beer and wine, and to intertain strangers.

1649 Treasurer

1649 Overseer of the poor

1651, Jan 16. He with three others, was chosen to apportion a tax. He was again elected treasurer, this year.

1651, May 21 He deeded Nicholas Hart, of Portsmouth, and Joan, his wife, 8 acres and messuage, for valuable consideration.

1652, Jun 24 He sold William Arnold, of Providence, land formely owned by Francis Weston's wife, Margaret, near Pawtuxet Falls.

1654, Apr 11 He and another, were chosen to oversee the work of the prison, &c.

1655 Freeman

1655, May 05 Juryman

1655, May 25 He was appointed by the court of Commissioners, to keep a house of intertainment. A convenient sign was to be set out at the most perspicuous place, to give notice to strangers.

1658, Dec 13 He sold William Cadman, 20 acres

1667, Aug 10 He joined a troop of horse(afterwards becoming Captain). At about this time he commenced suit against Richard Lord and James Richards, of Hartford, possessors of lnd there, claiming that he had purchased the land of Underhill, in 1653, for 20 pounds.

1669, Apr 28 Grand Jury

1671, Jun 07 He was appointed with others, to sit as a Special Court, to try "two Indians, now imprisoned upon criminal charge."

1673, Nov 19 Will -- recorded 1678, Jan 14. Exx wife Jone. Overseer, John Tripp, Sr. To wife, all for life, and at her decease, as follows: To eldest son Ralph, and to Ralph, son of son William, all land and housing; said son Ralph having two parts and grandson Ralph, one part. The movable estate to be divided into five parts, of which son Ralph to have two parts, he paying 1s. to my son William. The other three parts to three daughters, viz. Mary, the wife of William Cory, Martha, wife of William Wood and Sarah, widow to late deceased, Thomas Cornell.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~corey/dre/dren01.htm#13

chr 9 Feb 1606 Stortford, Hertfordshire, England;

m 29 Aug 1631 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England;

d 1678 Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI;

will dated 19 Nov 1673, Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI.

33 Joan SAVAGE: (ancestor of Lizzie Borden)

chr 18 Feb 1609 Wilford Parish, Hertfordshire, England;

d Aft 15 Sep 1699 Portsmouth, Newport, RI.

Birth: 1605 in Exeter, DEV, ENG (probably) 1

Death: 14 Jan 1677/78 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI (wp) 1 2 3

Mother: Margaret Brown

1638 He is at Portsmouth

30 Apr 1639 With others, oath of allegiance to Charles I

7 Jan 1639/40 With partner Wilbur "Samuel Wildbore", erects 1st sawmill/planer

1647 Licensed to keep a hotel, sell wine & beer and to entertain strangers

1649 Treasurer and overseer of the poor in or several years

25 May 1655 Appointed by the Court of Commissioners to keep a house of entertainment

10 Aug 1667 With others, forms a troop of horse; later he is captain thereof. (1st cavalry?)

Ralph Earle was born in 1606 and they were doubtless married in England. Ralph Earle was one of fifty-nine persons admitted, October 1, 1638, freemen of the Island of Aqueedneck (Newport). He bought and sold land frequently for many years in various parts of Rhode Island. In 1655 and 1669 he served on the grand jury. On May 25th, he was appointed by the court of commissioners to keep a house of entertainment. He joined a company of horse August 10, 1667, and later was chosen captain. On June 7, 1671, he was on a special jury to try two Indians. Ralph claimed the lands of the Dutch House of Good Hope, now Hartford, Connecticut, and commenced a lawsuit to establish his claim against Richard Lord and James Richard, possessors of the Dutch land, about 1667. Earle affirmed that he purchased the land of Underhill in August, 1653, and paid him twenty pounds sterling for it; but Underhill protested against the claim of Earle. It is not improbable that the claim was well founded.

The children of Ralph and Joan Earle were: Ralph, married Dorcas Sparague; William, married (first) Mary Walker; (second) Prudence (???); Mary, married William Cory; Martha, married William Wood; Sarah, married Thomas Cornell. "45

Of the place of birth, the residence previous to emigration from England, or the ancestry of Ralph, we have no positive history. There is a tradition among his descendants that he came from Exeter, in the year 1634, and this tradition is probably correct. There is little doubt that he was married in England, and that his wife came with him, but her maiden surname and the dates of her birth and death are unknown. Her christian name is spelled in the old records in three different ways, viz: Ione, Jone and Joan; we have adopted the last orthography as now the most common.

The earliest trace of Ralph hitherto discovered, is in the records of Newport, R. I. His name is there found under date of "first of eighth month" (October), 1638, in a list with fifty-eight others arranged as "A Catalogue of such persons who, by the General Consent of the Company, were admitted to the Inhabytants of the Island now called Aqueedneck, having submitted themselves to the Government that is, or shall be, established according to the word of God therein, etc., etc."

(*)From the Earle Family, Ralph Earle and his descendants compiled by Pliny Earle of Northampton, Mass

(+)These second marriages from Austin's Gen. Dictionary of R. I., pages 69 and 70. "292 He "EARLE FAMILY. Ralph Earle (1), who was in Newport, Rhode Island, as early as 1638, was the emigrant ancestor in the paternal line of Mrs. Emily D. Richardson, of Worcester, Massachusetts. He married Joan Savage, who was born in England 1594 or 1595.

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Ralph Earle

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Add Photos Request Photo Ralph Earle BIRTH 9 Feb 1606 Hereford, Herefordshire Unitary Authority, Herefordshire, England DEATH 1678 (aged 71–72) Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA BURIAL Unknown MEMORIAL ID 35514443 · View Source SHARE SAVE TO SUGGEST EDITS MEMORIAL PHOTOS 1 FLOWERS 18 Ralph Earl Arrived in Boston in 1634 and in 1647 he was granted a License to Own and Operate a Tavern in Little Compton, Newport, RI. He is listed in the "Flagon and Trenchers" as a Qualifying Member. ∼
Date of baptism is used as date of birth. St. Michael's Church: 1606; Raulphe, ye sonne of Raulphe Earles, baptized ye ix of Feb (9 Feb 1606/7). N.S. 9 Feb 1607.

Date of death shortly before probate: 14 Jan 1677/78.

Family Members Spouse Joan Savage Earle 1609–1680 Children Mary Earle Timberlake 1631–1717 Ralph Earle 1632–1716 William Earle 1634–1715 Sarah Earle Cornell 1640–1690

Christening Feb. 9, 1606. Raulphe arrived in Boston, MA. about 1634.

Sources:

'English Origins of New England Families'; 1st Series (Baltimore 1984) 2:635-6. Background of Earle Families.

GEDCOM Source

@R351077827@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

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Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=56830191&pid...

LifeSketch: From http://hylbom.com/family/paternal-lines/paternal-dy-to-gi/earle-5600/

Both Ralph Earle (born about 1606) and his wife, Joan Savage[3] (born about 1595), came to the New World from Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. There is little doubt that they were married in England and came together to America. According to a tradition among his descendants, they came to Boston in 1634. They may have come with a group of Puritans led by John Cotton[4] (a Puritan minister), which included William and Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson[5], who arrived in 1633, with approximately 200 other passengers, on the ship Griffin. The passenger list for this voyage is incomplete, so we do not know for certain whether they were on this ship or another.

We also do not know for sure whether Ralph Earle was a Puritan or whether he came to the new world to flee religious persecution. It is known that he joined himself with the Puritans of Massachusetts and later followed William and Anne Hutchinson to Rhode Island, where he settled and lived for many years. The earliest trace of Ralph Earle hitherto discovered is in the records of Newport, Rhode Island. His name is there found under date of first of eighth month [October], 1638, in a list with fifty-eight others, arranged as,

"A catalogue of such persons who, by the General consent of the company, were admitted to the Inhabytants of the Island now called Aqueedneck, having submitted themselves to the Government that is, or shall be established according to the word of God therein."

Ralph Earle appears to have been a person of some consequence in the colony. The records show that he was a large landholder, as many sales are found. He was chosen to keep an inn in 1647. In 1649, he was elected treasurer and also overseer of the poor. On 29 Apr 1650, Ralph Earle and five others were chosen for the committee for the General Assembly of Newport in May next. In 1651 he was elected one of the committee to proportion every man’s farm, and in the same year he was again chosen town treasurer. He served later as juryman and grand juryman. He was appointed in 1655 to keep a house of entertainment. In 1667 joined the troope of horse of which subsequently he became captain. He fulfilled various other offices, served as grand juror and witnessed deeds and other instruments.

Ralph Earle died 1678 at Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Ralph’s will was dated 19 Nov 1673 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. This will, of which his friend John Tripp was the overseer, after providing for his widow, leaves two-thirds of his real estate to his son Ralph, and one-third to his grandson Ralph, the son of his son William. William received only one shilling, probably due to the fact that he had already provided for him. Indeed, in April 1655, he conveyed to him a homestead in Portsmouth near John Tripp’s property.

Joan died in 1679.

Sources

The Earle Family: Ralph Earle and his Descendants compiled by Pliny Earle of Northampton, Massachusetts (Worcester, Massachusetts, privately printed for the family by Charles Hamilton) 1888.
Links

http://hylbom.com/family/paternal-lines/paternal-dy-to-gi/earle-5600/
Citations

notes
from http://awt.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=fletcht200...

Early records dated 09 Feb 1605/06 show that Ralph was babtized at Bishops Stortford, Hertz, England. His will is dated 19 Nov 1673. Source:Little Comptons Families Vol. 1 pg. 262.

From the Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island pg. 69
Portsmouth, RI

1638. He and others, were admitted inhabitants of Aquidneck, having submitted themselves to the government, that is or shall be established.

1639, Apr 30. He and twenty-eight others signed declaration of allegiance. "We, whose names are underwritten, do acknowledge ourselves the legal subjects of his majesty, King Charles, and in his name, do hereby bind ourselves into a civil body politicke, unto his laws according to matters of justice."

1640, Jan 07. It was ordered that he and his co-partner, Mr. Wilbur, shall serve the town with good sufficient stuff, viz: well sawn boards at 8s. the hundred, and half inch boards at 7s., to be delivered at the pit by the waterside.

1640, Mar 21. He sold William Baulstone, certain land.

1647 He was chosen to keep an inn, to sell beer and wine, and to intertain strangers.

1649 Treasurer

1649 Overseer of the poor

1651, Jan 16. He with three others, was chosen to apportion a tax. He was again elected treasurer, this year.

1651, May 21 He deeded Nicholas Hart, of Portsmouth, and Joan, his wife, 8 acres and messuage, for valuable consideration.

1652, Jun 24 He sold William Arnold, of Providence, land formely owned by Francis Weston's wife, Margaret, near Pawtuxet Falls.

1654, Apr 11 He and another, were chosen to oversee the work of the prison, &c.

1655 Freeman

1655, May 05 Juryman

1655, May 25 He was appointed by the court of Commissioners, to keep a house of intertainment. A convenient sign was to be set out at the most perspicuous place, to give notice to strangers.

1658, Dec 13 He sold William Cadman, 20 acres

1667, Aug 10 He joined a troop of horse(afterwards becoming Captain). At about this time he commenced suit against Richard Lord and James Richards, of Hartford, possessors of lnd there, claiming that he had purchased the land of Underhill, in 1653, for 20 pounds.

1669, Apr 28 Grand Jury

1671, Jun 07 He was appointed with others, to sit as a Special Court, to try "two Indians, now imprisoned upon criminal charge."

1673, Nov 19 Will -- recorded 1678, Jan 14. Exx wife Jone. Overseer, John Tripp, Sr. To wife, all for life, and at her decease, as follows: To eldest son Ralph, and to Ralph, son of son William, all land and housing; said son Ralph having two parts and grandson Ralph, one part. The movable estate to be divided into five parts, of which son Ralph to have two parts, he paying 1s. to my son William. The other three parts to three daughters, viz. Mary, the wife of William Cory, Martha, wife of William Wood and Sarah, widow to late deceased, Thomas Cornell.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~corey/dre/dren01.htm#13

chr 9 Feb 1606 Stortford, Hertfordshire, England;

m 29 Aug 1631 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England;

d 1678 Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI;

will dated 19 Nov 1673, Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI.

33 Joan SAVAGE: (ancestor of Lizzie Borden)

chr 18 Feb 1609 Wilford Parish, Hertfordshire, England;

d Aft 15 Sep 1699 Portsmouth, Newport, RI.

Birth: 1605 in Exeter, DEV, ENG (probably) 1

Death: 14 Jan 1677/78 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI (wp) 1 2 3

Mother: Margaret Brown

1638 He is at Portsmouth

30 Apr 1639 With others, oath of allegiance to Charles I

7 Jan 1639/40 With partner Wilbur "Samuel Wildbore", erects 1st sawmill/planer

1647 Licensed to keep a hotel, sell wine & beer and to entertain strangers

1649 Treasurer and overseer of the poor in or several years

25 May 1655 Appointed by the Court of Commissioners to keep a house of entertainment

10 Aug 1667 With others, forms a troop of horse; later he is captain thereof. (1st cavalry?)

Ralph Earle was born in 1606 and they were doubtless married in England. Ralph Earle was one of fifty-nine persons admitted, October 1, 1638, freemen of the Island of Aqueedneck (Newport). He bought and sold land frequently for many years in various parts of Rhode Island. In 1655 and 1669 he served on the grand jury. On May 25th, he was appointed by the court of commissioners to keep a house of entertainment. He joined a company of horse August 10, 1667, and later was chosen captain. On June 7, 1671, he was on a special jury to try two Indians. Ralph claimed the lands of the Dutch House of Good Hope, now Hartford, Connecticut, and commenced a lawsuit to establish his claim against Richard Lord and James Richard, possessors of the Dutch land, about 1667. Earle affirmed that he purchased the land of Underhill in August, 1653, and paid him twenty pounds sterling for it; but Underhill protested against the claim of Earle. It is not improbable that the claim was well founded.

The children of Ralph and Joan Earle were: Ralph, married Dorcas Sparague; William, married (first) Mary Walker; (second) Prudence (???); Mary, married William Cory; Martha, married William Wood; Sarah, married Thomas Cornell. "45

Of the place of birth, the residence previous to emigration from England, or the ancestry of Ralph, we have no positive history. There is a tradition among his descendants that he came from Exeter, in the year 1634, and this tradition is probably correct. There is little doubt that he was married in England, and that his wife came with him, but her maiden surname and the dates of her birth and death are unknown. Her christian name is spelled in the old records in three different ways, viz: Ione, Jone and Joan; we have adopted the last orthography as now the most common.

The earliest trace of Ralph hitherto discovered, is in the records of Newport, R. I. His name is there found under date of "first of eighth month" (October), 1638, in a list with fifty-eight others arranged as "A Catalogue of such persons who, by the General Consent of the Company, were admitted to the Inhabytants of the Island now called Aqueedneck, having submitted themselves to the Government that is, or shall be, established according to the word of God therein, etc., etc."

(*)From the Earle Family, Ralph Earle and his descendants compiled by Pliny Earle of Northampton, Mass

(+)These second marriages from Austin's Gen. Dictionary of R. I., pages 69 and 70. "292 He "EARLE FAMILY. Ralph Earle (1), who was in Newport, Rhode Island, as early as 1638, was the emigrant ancestor in the paternal line of Mrs. Emily D. Richardson, of Worcester, Massachusetts. He married Joan Savage, who was born in England 1594 or 1595.

Christening Feb. 9, 1606. Raulphe arrived in Boston, MA. about 1634.

Sources:

'English Origins of New England Families'; 1st Seri