| WILLIAM, Hingham 1635, brother of the first Thomas, born as is said, 1589, had Benedict, Thomas, Stephen, beside one daughter Joanna, who married Zechary Rhodes, and another Elizabeth, who married Thomas Hopkins, all born as is thought in England, removed 1636, with Roger Williams to Providence, and was one of the founders of the first Baptist church on our side of the ocean, had grant of land at Newport 1638, but I presume resided at Providence, was among freemen 1655. Backus notes, that he was ancestor of the infamously unhappy Benedict of West Point. Of the children of one Arnold of Reading recovering from sickness near to death, we may read the story in Mather's Life of Brock, Magnalia Christii Americana IV. 142, that is lamentable extravagance, and seems more ridiculous than extravagant. Arnold is the name of a parish in England about 6 miles N. from the borough of Nottingham.197, v1p67 |