Individual Notes

Note for: Meredith Cobb, 14 JUL 1922 - 21 JUL 1922 Index

Burial:
Place: Frazier Cemetery, Chirstian County, MO

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Note for: Calvin C. Cobb, 1 MAR 1926 - 4 MAY 1926 Index

Burial:
Place: Frazier Cemetery, Chirstian County, MO

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Note for: Henry Tibbits, - 27 DEC 1702 Index

Individual Note:
In 1696, Henry Tibbits was made a freeman, and April 12, 1703, his estate was administered by his widow, Rebecca, at King's Town.

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Note for: Henry Tibbits, - Index

Individual Note:
Henry Tibbits, the first of the family in New England, lived in Kings Town, Rhode Island, and it is a tradition in the family that he came from Warwickshire, England. July 3, 1663 he and others of Narragansett desired to be under protection of Connecticut. May 3, 1665 he with others petitioned the Assembly of Rhode Island for accommodation of land, etc. in Kings Province. May 20, 1571, he took oath of allegiance to Rhode Island, and January 1, 1672, he with five others bought a tract of land of Awashuwett, Chief Sachem of Quohesett in Narragansett -- the two brothers and three sons of the sachem joining in the deed. July 29, 1679, he and forty-one others of Narragansett signed a petition to the King praying that he "would put an end to these differences about the government thereof, which hath been so fatal to the prosperity of the place," etc. In 1690, he was Conservator of the Peace, and in 1705 he was Deputy to the General Court. He will was made Nov. 27, 1708 and proved July 13, 1713.

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Note for: Thomas Hopkins, BEF 7 APR 1616 - 1684 Index

Baptism:
     Date:   7 APR 1616
     Place:   England

Individual Note:
     Thomas Hopkins married his own cousin, Elizabeth Arnold. He probably came to New England with his father, William Hopkins, and settled in Providence, RI, about 1640. July 27, 1640, he and thirty-eight others signed an agreement for a form of government. He was Commissioner in 1652, 1659, 1660, and Freeman in 1665. Feb. 19, 1665 had lot 93 in division of lands. 1665, '66, '67, '72 was Deputy to General Court, and Member of Town Council in 1667, '72.

Thomas moved to Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY at the outbreak of King Philip's War, with a son (who died before his father), and died there in 1684. Thomas and his wife, Elizabeth had three children: William, Thomas and a son who moved to Oyster Bay.

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Note for: William Hopkins, - Index

Individual Note:
William Hopkins, who emigrated to New England in 1635, married in England, Joanna Arnold.

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Note for: Joanna Arnold, BEF 30 NOV 1577 - Index

Individual Note:
Emigrated to New England with her brother, William.

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Note for: William Arnold, 24 JUN 1587 - 1676 Index

Individual Note:
William Arnold, son of Thomas Arnold, of Cheselbourne, Dorsetshire, England, emigrated to New England Jun 24, 1635, with his wife and four children. He was in Hingham, Mass., for a time, then came to Providence, in 1636, where he received grants of land from Roger Williams, and his initials W. A. are second in the Initial Deed. In 1639, he removed to Pawtuxet, where he resided until his death, about 1676. He was held in high esteem and filled various offices of trust. His eldest son, Benedict Arnold, was the first Govenor of Rhode Island.

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WILLIAM ARNOLD, the founder of the American family, was of the eighteenth generation recorded of the family; he was b. 24th June, 1587; m. Christian PEAKE, dau. of Thomas PEAKE of Muchelney where all of his children were born. William ARNOLD set sail with his family 1st May, 1635, from Dartmouth, England, and arrived 24th June, 1635, in New England. He is mentioned in LINCOLN'S “History [p.23] of Hingham, Massachusetts,” as William ARNALL and as coming thither in 1635. He removed with his family 20th April, 1636, to Providence, Rhode Island, where he received grants of land from Roger WILLIAMS and his initials W. A. are second in the famous Initial deed of Roger WILLIAMS and became one of the original proprietors of Providence Plantations in 1636, the lands being purchased from the Indian Sachems, Conanicus and Miantonomi of Mooshansic, afterward called Providence. He was President of the four towns, Portsmouth, Newport, Providence and Warwick for five years and Governor of the Colony for ten years. This real estate was mostly in Providence, Pawtuxet and Warwick, Rhode Island, where he had houses and lived at his pleasure, being held in high esteem; he held various important offices of trust. One hundred and twenty acres of the original grant including a 27-acre Lake at Warwick, Rhode Island where 14,000 tons of ice is cut each winter is now owned by George Carpenter ARNOLD of Providence, Rhode Island (publisher of the “Arnold Genealogical Tree”) and the ancestral house built in 1771 by his great, great, grandfather George ARNOLD is now (1918) used by him as a summer residence.

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Note for: John Smith, - Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Mason

Individual Note:
     John Smith (the mason) was President of the Colony of Rhode Island in 1649. In 1652, he was chosen President of Providence and Warwick. He was a mason and was so called to distinguish him from his contemporary, John Smith, the miller. He had one child, John by his first wife and had no children by his second wife, Anne Comstock, widow of Samuel Comstock.

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Note for: George Washington Woodall, 1852 - 1921 Index

Event:
     Type:   Blood
     Place:   1/2 Cherokee

Event:
     Type:   1902-07 Dawes Roll
     Place:   Card # 4103, roll# 9912 as George W. Woodall

Individual Note:
     Known as "Wash". His brother Charles Woodall married Susie Watie, daughter of General Stand Watie.

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Note for: Andrew Jackson Snider, 1 MAY 1867 - 19 JUN 1955 Index

Burial:
Place: Fairview Cemetery, Vinita, Craig, Oklahoma

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Note for: Charles L. Mason, ABT 1899 - Index

Individual Note:
[Kelly History.FTW]

Charles L. Mason appears as head of the household on the 1930 Federal Census in Mason Valley Township, Benton County, Arkansas (enumeration district 4-36, sheet 1A). That census shows 31 year-old Charles and his mother were born in Oklahoma and that his father was born in Arkansas. Charles, a farmer, reported that he was married at age 23.