The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

54 THE EARLE FAMILY [Fifth
Their child was :
299-9. Hezekiah Ward, /;. I 77 I -
[148-6]. Ralph 5 Earls' (William,* Ralph,* William,-1 1 Ralph ), son of William and Anna (Howard) Earle, b.
Nov. 13, 1726, in Leicester, Mass. ; in. 1st, July 19,
1750, Phebe (b. 1727), dau. of John and Rebekah
Whittemore ; 2d, Oct. 1, 1775, Mrs. Naomi Kinnicutt,
of Providence, R. I. At the time of his first marriage he
lived in Shrewsbury, Mass., but, after the birth of the
eldest child, he removed to Leicester, where the rest of
the children were born. He d. about 1808, at the house
of his son Clark, in Leicester.
In 176S, his father conveyed to him one-half of his farm in Paxton.
Gov. Hutchinson sent to Ralph a Captain's commission in the
British Army, bearing date June 17, 1776. This was rejected by
Ralph ; but he soon after received a similar commission from Gen.
Washington, and served in the American Army during nearly the
whole of the Revolutionary War.
The children of Ralph and Phebe (Whittemore) Earle
were :
300-1. Ralph Earle, b. May 11, 1751 ; m. Sarah Gates.
301-2. Clark Earle, b. April 17, 1753
2d, widow Matilda Chace.
; m. 1st, Hepsibeth
302-3.
Howard ;
Artemas Earle, b. Nov. 28, 1754; d. March 303-4.
19, 1755.
James Earle, b. May 1, 1761 ; m. widow Caroline G. P.
Smyth.
304-5. Dexter Earle, b. Dec. 10, 1776, in Paxton, Mass.
[ I 53~4] • Joseph 5 Earle ( John,* Ralph,* William, 2Ralph'), son of John and Sarah (Borden) Earle, b. Jan. 25, 1730?
in Swanzey, Mass. ; m. Feb. 12, 1747, Eunice, dau. of
Richard and Deborah Hathaway, of Dartmouth, Mass.
His widow m. 1755, John Perry, of Tiverton, R. I.
Their child was :
305-1. Deborah Earle, b. May 4, 1752.
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