The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

72 THE EARLE FAMILY. [Fifth
Their children were :
5 1 2-1. James Earle, b. March 24, 1765 ; m. Elizabeth Soule.
513-2. Prudence Earle, b. Jan. 14, 1767; m. Joseph Allen, of
Dartmouth.
514-3. Najor Earle; d. unm.
515-4. Arnold Earle; unm. when he removed to N. Y., but
said to have been m. afterward.
[235-4]. William 5 Earle (Williams John,* William, 2 i
Ralph 1
), son of William and Mary (Lawton) Earle, b.
in Dartmouth (now Westport), Mass.; m. (intentions
pub. Jan. 27, 1776), Edith Brownell, of Little Compton,
R. I. ; d. about 1786, in Westport. His widow m.
Thomas Briggs in 1787.
Their child was :
516-1. Ralph Earle, b. Aug. 28, 1776; m. Dec. 24, 1797, I
Priscilla, dau. of John and Priscilla Durfee, of Tiverton, .
R. I. He was " brought up " at his grandfather William
Earle's.
[237-6]. Stephen 5 Earle (William,* John? William, 2
Ralph 1
), son of William and Mary (Lawton) Earle, b.
May 4, 1754, in Dartmouth (now Westport), Mass. ; m.
1st, May 5, 1782, Mary Hicks,* of Dartmouth; issue,
one child: 2d, Sept., 1789, Priscilla Hicks* (b. Oct. 25,
1763; d. June 8, 1842), of Westport ; issue, eight chil-
dren. He removed, in the year 1800, to Saratoga Co.,
N. Y., and d. May 8, 1834, m Milton, in that county.
May 4, 17995 John Cronkhite deeded one hundred acres of land in
Providence, Saratoga Co., N. Y., to Stephen Earle, of Westport,
for $875.
Their children were :
5 1 7— 1 - Pardon Earle, b. Sept. 18, 1781 ; m. 1st, Nancy Sherman ;
2d, Polly Howe.
* Sisters, and Westport was set off from Dartmouth, between the two
marriages.