The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

Gen.] GENEALOGY. 21
4-3. Mary Earle ;
5-4. Martha Earle ;
6-5. Sarah Earle ;
m. William Cory.
m. William Wood.
m. Thomas Cornell.
SECOND GENERATION.
[2-1]. Ralph 2 Earle (Ralph 1
), son of Ralph and Joan
Earle ; m. before Oct. 26, 1659, Dorcas, dau. of Francis
and Lydia Sprague, of Duxbury, Mass. ; and d. proba-
bly in 1 7 16, as letters of administration were granted to
his son John on the 6th of January, 1717.
The first intimation of this Ralph is in the record of a town meet-
ing in Portsmouth, January 19, 1651, where his father is mentioned
as Ralph Earle, Senior. The next is his signature as witness to one
of his father's deeds of real estate, November 24, 1656. He was re-
ceived a freeman of the town May 11, 165S ;
and at the same meeting
it was " Ordered that Ralph Earll Jun r shall be payd Eleven
Shillings after the Rate of Eight white peages (beads) per peny, by
the Treasurer." $
October 26, 1659, Francis Sprague, "of Duxborough," conveyed
to his "son-in-Law, Ralph Earl, of Road Island," one-half share of
land at " Coaksett and Acushena, in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth."
Sprague had his title to the land from the Indians Wosamequin and
"Wamsitta."
It is probable that Ralph immediately removed from Portsmouth
and settled upon this land, as at the time of all known subsequent
allusions to him he was in Dartmouth, within which the land was
situated. He was one of the persons who received the confirmatory
deed of the town, and it is known that he was there in 1663.
May 10, 1684, John Eyanoe conveyed to Ralph Earle, a neck or
island, made at high water, in Yarmouth, in consideration of a
"certain parcel of Land sittuate under y e goverment of new york in
America, upon cutAhonkko, viz. one neck and one island in A fresh
pond upon s d cutAhonkko, and Twenty acres of Land in Dartmouth,
payd by Ralph Earl."
June 13, 1688, " Ralph Earl of Dartmouth," " in consideration of
natural love and affection," conveyed to his son Ralph, " one half of