The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

Gen.] GENEALOGY. 55
[168-2]. Nathan 5 Earle (Roberts Ralphs Williams
1 Ralph ), son of Robert and Mary (Newhall) Earle, b.
May 12, 1728, in Leicester, Mass. ; m. 1751, Elizabeth
Richardson, of Leicester.
He resided for some years in Leicester, and removed, apparently
between 1760 and 1765, to New Yoi"k, now Vermont. He was
living, in 1 777' m Rockingham. It is said that he was one of tbe
" patentees " of the town of Chester, Vt.
The children of Nathan and Elizabeth (Richardson) Earle
were
306-1
307-2
3o8-3
3°9-4
Caleb Earle, b. July 17, 1752.
Nathan Earle, b. July 8, 1755.
Patience Earle.
Betsey Earle.
[169-3]. Mary 5 Earle (Roberts Ralphs Williams
1 Ralph ), dau. of Robert and Mary (Newhall) Earle, b.
Aug. 10, 1730, in Leicester, Mass. ; m. Jan. 24, 1750,
Jonathan Sargent, Jr., of Leicester, and resided in
Leicester.
Their children were :
310-1. Jonathan Sargent, b. Feb. 17, 1752; he was wounded
in battle, during the Revolutionary war, and died on his
311-2.
way home.
Mary Sargent, b.
Sprague.
May 4, 1753; m. in 1774, Timothy
312-3. Eleanor Sargent, b. Oct. 30, 1754; tn. in 1776, John
{b. Jan. 13, 1738), son of Steward and Elizabeth (Scott)
and d. in 1825.
Southgate ;
313-4. William Sargent, b. Sept. 7, 1756; m. Rachel Todd.
314-5. Samuel Sargent, b. 1761 ; m. Martha Johnson.
315-6. Elihu Sargent, b. 1764; d. unmarried, about 1S35.
316-7. Catherine Sargent; m. in 1790, Amos Livermore.
John Southgate, who married Eleanor Sargent [312-3], was the
adjutant of the regiment of minute-men commanded by Col. William
Henshaw, and marched to Cambridge on the alarm of the 19th
April, 1775* I 11 September, 1 77^' ne was commissioned as second
officer in an artillery company, under the title of " captain-lieuten-
ant." He left the army in the summer or autumn of 1778, but still