Place Family History
Recently I have been stomping around Kingston, RI, and through a story published by Carol Place regarding the original Place immigration to the New World, have located more precisely the history and legacy of the Place Family.
Enoch Place, the original purchaser of land near Wickford, RI around 1660 (in the Pettaquamscut Purchase) is thought to have come to Boston with the Puritans in 1635 when he was 20 years old. He was thought to be a ward of Major Athernon, and was friends with Rev. Richard Mather (who became the lifelong Pastor of Dorchester), and the Mumford family. The Mumford family is very well known in the Kingston area, and the Pettaquamscut Historical Society in South Kingston has the "Mumford" room. Rev. Richard Mather documented the tumultous journey to New England in his diary, August of 1635 there was a great hurricane in New England and the ship they arrived on (the James) was almost lost. A sister ship traveling with them (the Angel Gabriel) was lost during that trip.
Enoch Place is buried on that farm which stayed in the family for several generations. His Great-Grandson, John Albro Place, made the migration from Rhode Island to Pennsylvania in the 1700's. The 1700's were harder economic times in New England, with the passing of the great plantations in Rhode Island and the steady pressures of the young people to move west to new lands.
Interestingly (to me at least) was some of the street names in Wickford, RI, where the Place farm stood. Two streets, Lindley Avenue and Tower Hill Road, remind me of my great grandfather, Lindley Tower Place and grandfather, Ralph Lindley Place (and myself, Alan Lindley Beard). My Aunt recollects that Lindley and Tower were two men of importance, one being a great preacher and the other unknown. I have not yet been able to trace who these two men were.
Wickford is a seaside New England Village with great history. The Narrangansett Church was founded in the 1600's south of Wickford (near Hamilton, where the Place family farm was), and was relocated to Wickford proper in the early 1800's. It is one of the oldest churches in all of New England.
I have put together an initial Place family history. It is draft at the moment and I am sure will be refined as my research continues.. Much of the information there was drawn from the Carol Place account, and information from the research done by my Aunt Angeline Place Hunter.
http://wvbeard.com/Place/PlaceHistory.htm
Enoch Place, the original purchaser of land near Wickford, RI around 1660 (in the Pettaquamscut Purchase) is thought to have come to Boston with the Puritans in 1635 when he was 20 years old. He was thought to be a ward of Major Athernon, and was friends with Rev. Richard Mather (who became the lifelong Pastor of Dorchester), and the Mumford family. The Mumford family is very well known in the Kingston area, and the Pettaquamscut Historical Society in South Kingston has the "Mumford" room. Rev. Richard Mather documented the tumultous journey to New England in his diary, August of 1635 there was a great hurricane in New England and the ship they arrived on (the James) was almost lost. A sister ship traveling with them (the Angel Gabriel) was lost during that trip.
Enoch Place is buried on that farm which stayed in the family for several generations. His Great-Grandson, John Albro Place, made the migration from Rhode Island to Pennsylvania in the 1700's. The 1700's were harder economic times in New England, with the passing of the great plantations in Rhode Island and the steady pressures of the young people to move west to new lands.
Interestingly (to me at least) was some of the street names in Wickford, RI, where the Place farm stood. Two streets, Lindley Avenue and Tower Hill Road, remind me of my great grandfather, Lindley Tower Place and grandfather, Ralph Lindley Place (and myself, Alan Lindley Beard). My Aunt recollects that Lindley and Tower were two men of importance, one being a great preacher and the other unknown. I have not yet been able to trace who these two men were.
Wickford is a seaside New England Village with great history. The Narrangansett Church was founded in the 1600's south of Wickford (near Hamilton, where the Place family farm was), and was relocated to Wickford proper in the early 1800's. It is one of the oldest churches in all of New England.
I have put together an initial Place family history. It is draft at the moment and I am sure will be refined as my research continues.. Much of the information there was drawn from the Carol Place account, and information from the research done by my Aunt Angeline Place Hunter.
http://wvbeard.com/Place/PlaceHistory.htm
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