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to 1680, in wliicli year he was one of the eight
purchasers of Pocasset (Tiverton), the purchase
being made of Gov. Josiah Winslow. In
1690 he was deputy and assistant, and in that
same year was chosen governor, but refused to
serve. Being in England in 1693 as messenger
from Rhode Island, he delivered to Queen
Mary the address from Rhode Island and his
own petition. Four of his nine children were
sons, William, Christopher, John and Job.
(III) William Almy (2), son of Christopher
and Elizabeth (Cornell) Almy, was born Oct.
27, 1665, and died July 6, 1747. He was a
resident of Tiverton, and married Deborah
15, 1750, who died Jan. 6, 184*0.
(VII) William Almy, son of Tillinghast
and Hannah (Chase) Almy, was an extensive
farmer and lived near the stone Dridge in Tiverton.
He married Rhoda Fish, and their
children were: Tillinghast, born Sept. 27,
1806; William Franklin, born May 37, 1808;
Benjamin Rathbone, bom Feb. 22, 1810;
Humphrey, born Feb. 15, 1812 (married Amy
Ann Chase) ; Giles Martinborough, born Sept.
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ture of cotton waste, and as his capital increased
he enlarged his interests, entering upon
the manufacture of paper and woolens. He
was one of the founders of the Evans & Sea-
graves Company, woolen manufacturers, being
a silent partner in that firm. In 1853, when
the Continental Bank was organized in Providence
as a State bank, located in the What
Cheer building, Mr. Almy was honored by
being chosen as its first president, holding that
office the rest of his life. This bank in 1865
became the Fourth National Bank.
Mr. Almy was a man of great energy and
Cook, of Portsmouth, born Feb. 15, 1669,
daughter of John and Mary (Borden) Cook.
Their children were : Mary, John, Job, Elizabeth,
Samuel, Deborah, Rebecca, Joseph and
William.
(IV) Job Almy, son of William (2) and
Deborah (Cook) Almy, was born April 28,
1696, and died at Tiverton, July 18, 1777. He
was married in Tiverton, R. I., July 18, 1717,
to Lydia Tillinghast, of East Greenwich, born
July 8, 1700.
(V) Job Almy (2), son of Job and Lydia
(Tillinghast) Almy, was born in Dartmouth,
Mass., Oct. 16, 1730, and died Jan. 4, 1816.
On April 27, 1750, he married m Dartmouth
Anne Slocum, a native of that place, born
March 6, 1732, who died Sept. 17, 1793.
(VI) Tillinghast Almy, son of Job (2) and
Anne (Slocum) Almy, was born March 16,
1754, and died Sept. 22, 1830. The later
years of his life were spent at Quonset Rocks,
now known as Horse Neck Beach, in the town
of Westport. He married about 1777 Hannah
Chase, of Portsmouth, R. throughout
I., born March
the years of his business activity
was recognized as a leader, because of both
bis ability and his accomplishments. He was
successful in his ventures and invested heavily
in shipping interests in Providence and the
whaling industry in New Bedford. From
1849 to 1853 he lived in the old Roger Williams
house on North Main street, in Providence.
In the spring of the latter year he
removed with his family to New Bedford, purchasing
for his home the Thomas R. Robeson
mansion on County street, which he named
"Greystone." The architect of this mansion
was Russell Warren, who gave New Bedford
character and reputation for a group of superb
examples of architecture in a day when it
achieved a reputation for its magnificent patrician
mansions. The wealthy merchants of
New Bedford were discriminating in their selection
of an architect, and his most brilliant
accomplishments were in designing the public
buildings and homes of the "nabobs" of the
time. Some of his most glorious creations,
however, such as the John Avery Parker or
Bennett mansion, and "Greystone," have been
destroyed, and the best idea of "Greystone"
can be obtained from the picture of it preserved
in the New Bedford Library. Mr. Warren
was also the architect of the old town hall, just
remodeled into the new public library building,
and of the bank building at the foot of William
street.
Here in his Colonial mansion Mr. Almy
passed the remaining years of his life, during
which he became active in the business and so-
23, 1813; Elizabeth Boltwood, born Nov. 2,
1815 ; Rhoda Ann ; Mary, and Robert.
(VIII) Benjamin Rathbone Almy spent the
early years of his life in Tiverton and at the
age of ten went to live with his grandfather,
Tillinghast Almy, at Horse Neck Beach, in
Westport. There he remained about four years,
after which he had to make his own way in the
world. At an early age he went to Providence,
R. cial life of New Bedford. He was a lover of
the country and of outdoor life, and his energetic
disposition
I., where he engaged in the manufac-
found many agreeable channels
in his new home. He was an active member
of the Unitarian Society and a constant
church attendant. Cheerfulness and geniality
and the natural product of these two, courtesy,
were the characteristics which in the eyes of
the world more especially marked Benjamin R.
Almy. These qualities made him a man who