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Nexus
The newsmagazine of the New England Historic Genealogic Society.
Some Descendants of John Thomas of Jamestown, Rhode Island
In 1636, Roger Williams, recently banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of his religious beliefs, established a settlement at the head of Narragansett Bay that he named “Providence.” This small colony soon became a sanctuary for those seeking to escape religious persecution. Within a few years, a royal land patent and charter resulted in the formation of the “Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” which incorporated Williams’ original settlement and espoused his tenets of freedom of religion and separation of church and state. During the ensuing decades, thousands of Baptists, Quakers, Jews, and Huguenots relocated to Rhode Island from other New England co...
Great-grandma was a Congdon
John Congdon (ca. 1610-1646) was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales. He and his wife had three children, ca. 1636-1642 in Pembrokeshire. The family immigrated to America where he died in York County, Virginia. His son, Benjamin Congdon (ca. 1642-1718), married Elizabeth Albro (ca. 1650-1720) ca. 1670/1671 at Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. They had six children, ca. 1672-1686, born at Portsmouth and Kingstowne, Rhode Island. He died at North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Known descendants lived in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Vermont, Michigan and elsewhere.
John Perry, Mariner & Sarah Clark, His Wife
John Perry (died 1817) of Newport, Rhode Island, probable son of Joseph and Mary Stanton Perry, married Sarah Clark, daughter of Ebenezer and Ruth Drig Clark (1767-1838) in 1812. Their son, Stephen, married Mary "Polly" Snow in 1813. Descendants lived in Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Florida, California, and elsewhere.
