Individual Details

Thomas Angell

(1616 - 1694)

At Find A Grave: Nothing is known about Thomas Angell before he came to New England as a boy, except that all the genealogical theories posted online are wrong. He was a minor when he arrive in America, maybe a servant or secretary to someone. He connected with Roger Williams and helped Williams settle and create Rhode Island. He was a commissioner, juryman, and constable. He signed the Providence Civil Compact -We, whose names are hereunder do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of our body, in an orderly way-. Signer of Providence agreement for a government with John Field, 38 others, -Witness our Hand - although our abilities are far short in such weighty matters … we have gone the fairest and equallest way to produce our peace.- Thomas's will leave to daughters Amphillis Smith, Mary Arnold, Deborah Sabeere, Alice Whipple, and Margery Whipple, each 2s. To wife Alice, the dwelling house while widow, and plot of ground adjoining, for a little garden, and the house to be kept in repair by son James.

Events

Birth1616England
CivilOctober 8, 1635Banished with Roger Williams
Marriage1636Providence, British America - Alice Ashton
Residence1636Providence, British America
Civil1637Providence, British America
CivilJuly 27, 1640Providence, British America
WillMay 23, 1685Providence, British America
Death1694Providence, British America
ProbateSeptember 14, 1694Providence, British America
Burial

Families

SpouseAlice Ashton (1617 - 1694)
ChildAmphyllis Angell (1636 - 1694)
ChildDeborah Angell (1639 - 1710)
ChildMary Angell (1645 - 1694)
ChildJohn Angell (1646 - 1720)
ChildAlice Angell (1649 - 1743)
ChildJames Angell (1651 - 1711)
ChildHope Angell (1653 - 1685)
ChildMargaret Angell (1665 - 1703)

Notes

Civil

Of the parentage of Thomas Angell we have but little knowledge ...

Marriage

Marriage date is an estimate.

Residence

With Roger Williams in the canoe when they arrived in what they would call Providence.

Civil

Signed Providence Civil Compact

Civil

Signed Providence Agreement

Will

Thomas's will leave to daughters Amphillis Smith, Mary Arnold, Deborah Sabeere, Alice Whipple, and Margery Whipple, each 2s. To wife Alice, the dwelling house while widow, and plot of ground adjoining, for a little garden, and the house to be kept in repair by son James.

Probate

Alice and Thomas both die in 1694, their wills and inventory are presented together in court Thomas's written in September, Alice's written in December, recorded (presented?) in court, not until August 1711

The Providence Agreement

From a perusal of this document, it is quite evident, that there existed in this little community, a great distrust and jealousy of delegated power.

Endnotes

1. Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, With Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation. Albany: J Munsell’s sons, 1887, Page 4 Angell, Thomas family.

2. Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910, NEHGS Boston 1992, First pages of Angell section.

3. Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910, NEHGS Boston 1992, First pages of Angell section.

4. (2008). || Volume 1 page 38.

5. Staples, William R. Annals of the Town of Providence, From Its First Settlement, to the Organization of the City Government, In June, 1832. Providence: Printed by Knowles and Vose, 1843, Page 39 - 45 General History, etc.

6. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., "Wikipedia the free encyclopedia," Online reference, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Wikipedia.org (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page : accessed ); Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

7. Hopkins, Charles Wyman. The home lots of the early settlers of the Providence Plantations Providence Press Co.; Providence, R. I.; 1886, Page 34, 35.

8. Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, With Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation. Albany: J Munsell’s sons, 1887, Page 4 Angell, Thomas family.

9. Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910, NEHGS Boston 1992, First pages of Angell section.

10. Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, With Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation. Albany: J Munsell’s sons, 1887, Page 4 Angell, Thomas family.

11. Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910, NEHGS Boston 1992, First pages of Angell section.

12. Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, With Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation. Albany: J Munsell’s sons, 1887, Page 4 Angell, Thomas family.

13. Staples, William R. Annals of the Town of Providence, From Its First Settlement, to the Organization of the City Government, In June, 1832. Providence: Printed by Knowles and Vose, 1843, Page 39 - 45 General History, etc.

14. Hopkins, Charles Wyman. The home lots of the early settlers of the Providence Plantations Providence Press Co.; Providence, R. I.; 1886, Page 34, 35.

15. Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910, NEHGS Boston 1992, First pages of Angell section.

16. Bowen, Richard LeBaron. The Providence Oath of Allegiance And Its Signers, 1651-2. Providence: The Rumford press, 1943, Page 75 Will.

17. Providence (R.I.). Record Commissioners. The Early Records of the Town of Providence, V. I-XXI. Providence, Snow and Farnham, city printers, 1892, Volume 10 Page 17 Thomas Angell.

18. Providence (R.I.). Record Commissioners. The Early Records of the Town of Providence, V. I-XXI. Providence, Snow and Farnham, city printers, 1892, Volume 7 Page 77 - 91 or so Thomas Angell's will and then an inventory.

19. Arnold, James N., Vital record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, a family register for the people Narragansett Historical, Providence, Rhode Island 1891, Volume 2 page 261 image 304 of 444 Providence deaths, Thomas will.

20. Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910, NEHGS Boston 1992, First pages of Angell section.

21. Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910, NEHGS Boston 1992, First pages of Angell section.

22. Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910, NEHGS Boston 1992, First pages of Angell section.

23. Bowen, Richard LeBaron. The Providence Oath of Allegiance And Its Signers, 1651-2. Providence: The Rumford press, 1943, Page 75 Will.

24. Providence (R.I.). Record Commissioners. The Early Records of the Town of Providence, V. I-XXI. Providence, Snow and Farnham, city printers, 1892, Volume 7 Page 77 - 91 or so Thomas Angell's will and then an inventory.

25. Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910, NEHGS Boston 1992, First pages of Angell section.

26. , "FindAGrave.com," online database, Find a Grave ( http://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), .