The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

38 THE EARLE FAMILY [Fourth
Their child was :
13S-1. Elizabeth Earl.
[80-5]. Thomas 4 Earl (William,* William, 2 Ralph 1
),
son of William and Elizabeth Earl, b. in Springfield,
N. J. ; m. Sept. 6, 1727, Mary (b. May 12, 1705), dau.
of Silas and Mrs. Mary (Stockton) Shinn Crispin ; and
d. in 1778.
After his brother William's decease he lived on his father's homestead
and devised it to his son Thomas. In his will he says " I am
creditably Enformed that I have inherited a large Estate in Rhode
Island, By the Death of my Grand Father William Earl and I advise
my sons Thomas and Tanton to go in pursuit of it." No such
bequest was made in his grandfather's will.
The children of Thomas and Mary (Crispin) Earl were:
1 39- 1. Tanton Earl, b. March 9, 1731 ; in. Mary Haines.
140-2. Thomas Earl; m. 1st, Rebecca Newbold ;
Tucker.
2d, Leah
141-3. William Earl; m. Mercy ; and d. before his father.
142-4. John Earl ; d. before his father.
[81-1]. William 4 Earle (Ralph,* William, 2 Ralph 1
), son
of Ralph and Mary (Hicks) Earle, b. Nov. 12, 1690, in
Dartmouth or Freetown, Mass. ; m. Anna Howard, of
Tiverton, R. I. ; and d. in 1769.
He removed to Leicester, Mass., where he bought quite a large
tract of land of the original proprietors of the town. This was on
both sides of what is now Mulberry street, and Marshall street was
its northern boundary. His house was about fifty rods south of the
junction of those streets, a little north of the present dwelling of
John P. Stevens.
" Janowari 3, 1722, William [Earl] Entred his Mark [for cattle]
the Right Ear cut off."— [Leicester Town Records.
As already mentioned he was one of the earliest members of the
Society of Friends in Leicester, and at a town meeting, held March
2, 1730, it was, at his request, " Voted to abate Will'" Earl So much
of his Rate (tax) as proportionally appears To be his part to the