EARLE, Ralph (Captain ) ^883,893

  Noted events in his life were:

• Born: 1606, England. ⁸⁹⁰

• Born: 9 Feb 1606, Bishop's Stortford, Hersford, England. ^204,893

• Christened: 11 Feb 1606. ⁸⁹³

• He immigrated in 1634 to England. ⁹⁰⁶ "Ralph Earle, who with his wife Joan came from England about 1634, and was one of the original twenty colonists of Rhode Island who successfully petitioned Charles I for a charter in 1638.

• Notes from Internet: 24 Jun 1652. On 24 June 1652 Ralph Earle of Portsmouth sold to William Arnold land which he had bought of Nathaniel Dickens, "which premises the said Dickens formerly bought of one Richard Harcutt the heir or assign of Fraunces Weston and Margarett his wife" ~ Citing: The Early Records of the Town of Providence, 21 volumes (Providence 1892-1915)

• Notes from Internet: 26 Oct 1659, Rhode Island. ⁹²⁰ On 26 October 1659 Francis Sprague of Duxbury, planter, sold to "his son-in-law Ralph Earle of Road Island in the Jurisdiction of Providence Plantation the one-half of all his share, part or portion of land lying or being at the place or places commonly called by the Indians by the names of Coaksett and Acushena" ~ Citing: Mayflower Descendant, Volume 1 through present (1899-1937, 1985+) and Plymouth Colony Deeds (from microfilm; Volume 1 has been published as Volume 12 of PCR_

• He signed a will page 20 on 19 Nov 1673 in Portsmouth, , Rhode Island. ⁸⁸³ Ralph Earle's will:
"The last will and testiment of Ralph Earle, of Portsmouth, on Rhoad Island, being in perfect memory, being sencible of man's mortalitie and for the avoiding of futur controversies amongst my Relations doe order and dispose of my Estate as followeth: --
first I doe order, substitute and apointe Jone my wife my whole and sole Exectrix to Receive and pay all whatsoever is due Either to or from mee and that which Remains of my Estate chall bee and Remaine in the hand and possession of my said wife during her naturall life and at her deceas to be dispoed and divided in maner and forme following, namely, my will is that after and upon the decease of my said wife that all my land and houseing, with the apurtinenc thereto belonging, shall be and Remaine to my Eldest sonn, Ralph Earle, and to Ralph Earle, the sonn William Earle, to be Equally divided into three parts, my sonn Ralph to have two parts thereof and my said Grandsonn one, to be to them, there heirs and Asigns a possesion and Estate forever: and further my will is that all my moveable Estate shall, at the decease of my said wife, be Equally divided into five parts, and that my sonn Ralph Earle shall have two parts thereof, he paying, or causing to be paid, the sum of one shilling to my son William Earle, as his portion of my Estate, and the other three parts thereof I doe give and bequeath to my three daughters, that is to say, Mary the wife of William Cory, Martha the wife of William Wood, and Sarah, a widow to the late deceased Thomas Cornell, to Each of them an Equall share: and for the dividing and disposing wherof, as an overseer, I doe order and apoint my friend and neighbor John Tripp the Elder to take care to see this my will performed as abovesaid; and that this is my will and Testament, to be performed to all true intents, witness my hand and seal, this nienteenth day of november, in the year one Thousand six hundred Seventy and Three."
Witness Thomas Havens."

• Died: 1678, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. ^587,919

• History: First Generation; page 17-20, 1888. ⁸⁸³ "Of the place of birth, the residence previous to emigration from England, r the ancestry of Ralph, we have not positive history. There is a tradition among his descendants that he came from Exeter, in the year 1634, and this tradition is probably correct. There is little doubt that he was married in England, and that his wife cme with him, but her maiden surname and the dates of her birth and death are unknown. Her Christian name is spelled in the old records in three different ways, viz.: Ione, Jone, and Joan."
"The earliest trace of Ralph hitherto discovered, is in the records of Newport, R.I. His name is there foud under date of "first of eighth month (October), 1638, in a list with fifty-eight others, arranged as "A catalogue of such perons who, by the General consent of the company, were admitted to the Inhbytants of the Island now called Aqueedneck, having submitted themselves to the Government that is, or shall be established according to the word of God therein."

The following is extracted from the records of Portsmouth, Rhode Island:
"April y 39th, 1639
We, whose names are under [written, doe acknowledge*] ourselves the legell subjects of [his majestie*] King Charles, and in his name [doe hereby binde*] ourzelves into a civill body politicke, unto his lawes according to matters of justice."
*a part of the record is torn off, and it has been supplied on the town's book by the words in brackets.

This declaration was signed by twenty-nine men, of whome Ralph Earle was one. January 7, 1640, it was ordered at a town meeting that he and his co-partner, Mr. Wilbur, "shall serve the town with good sufficient stuff, viz: well sawn boards at eight shillings the hundred, and half inch boards at seven shillings, to be delivered at the pit by the waterside."
March 21, 1640, Ralph conveys to William Baulstone "parcells of upland and meadow."
In the record of a town meeting held August 26, 1647, it is stated that he was "chosen to keep an Inn to sell beer and wine, and to entertain strangers"; and at another held June 2, 1649, he was "chosen Treasurer for this year next insuing, and also overseer of the poor."
At a similar meeting on the 29th of April 1650, Ralph and five others were chosen "for the committee for the General Assembly at Newport in May next." On the 12th of November, 1650, it was "voated & granted that Ralph Erl's house wherein he now dwelleth be recorded & Inn, in ye room of ye former vote that he was an Innkeeper"; on the 19th of January, 1651, he and three others were chosen "to proportion every man's farm," &c., for the purpose of assessing a tax for the support of a poor man; and on the 3d of June, 1651, he was again elected town treasurer.
Under date of August 25, 1651, there is a record of an agreement of division of fence between Ralph Earle and John Tripp. A very old copy of the original document is now in the possession of the heirs of the late George Earle of Providence, R.I. (Rhode Island); it is dated August 25, 1639.
On the 21st of May, 1651, Ralph conveyed a tenement and eight acres of land to Nicholas and Joan Harte; on the 24th of June, 1652, he sold to William Arnold of Providence, land formerly owned by Francis Weston's wife Margaret, near "Pawtuxet Falls"; on February 19, 1653, he quitclaimed to Thomas Lawton, and on December 1, 1653, he conveyed twenty acres to William Cadman.
In 1654, he and another man were chosen as a town's committee to "oversee the work of the Prison."
On the 5th of April, 1655, he conveyed to his son William eighteen acres of land on the northern extremity of the island, at Bristol Ferry. It is tradition that he owned the ferry, but this has not been confirmed by any discovered records.
May 5, 1655, the "Jurymen chosen for the Generall Court of Tryals to be held at Providence," were John Sandford, Ralph Earle and Francis Brayton. Ralph was again upon the grand jury in 1669.
May 25, 1655, he was appointed by the Court of Commissioners to keep a house of entertainment. A convenient sign was to be set out at the most "perspicuous" place, to give notice to strangers.
On November 24, 1656, he conveyed land to Daniel Grinnell, Ralph, Jr., signing the deed as witness; and on the 5th of January, 1658, he conveyed forty acres to Jeremiah Willis.
At a town meeting March 2, 1658, five men were chosen "to examine and audit Ralph Earll's accompts of what the towne is indebted unto him, and what they shall find the towne to be in his debt shall be payd to the sayd Earll by the towne Treasurer."
August 10, 1667, he joined a "troope of horse," which had been ordered to be raised and signed, with eighteen others, a paper in which they "approve of the choyce of our Captaine (Peleg N. Sanford) and Lieftenant (John Almy) to the full." He was afterward captin of the troop.
June 7, 1671, in the General Assembly, Ralph "Earll" and eleven others, of Portsmouth, and a number of residents of Newport, were appointed as a special court, to sit on the 15th of the same month, to try "two Indians now imprisoned upon criminall charge."
Ralph claimed the lands of the Dutch House of Good Hope, now Hartford, Connecticut, and commenced a lawsuit therefor "against Richard Lord and James Richards of Hartford, possessors of the Dutch land, about 1667. Earl affirmed that he purchased the land of Underhill, in August, 1653, and paid him twenty pounds sterling for it; but Underhill protested against Earl's claim." "It is not improbably," continues the article from which we quote, "that there was szome foundation for this claim. There are many papers up the supbject in the archives of Connecticut."

• History:The Earle family is one of long standing in Rhode Island, the progenitor of this family having been one of the early settlers of Aquidneck (Rhode Island) in 1638, and his numerous descendants are numbered among the leading residents of the New England states to the present time.
Ralph Earle was among those of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, who were admitted inhabitants of Aquidneck, in 1638 and who signed the declaration of allegiance in the year following. He was chosen to keep an inn or tavern in 1647; was treasurer in 1649, and also overseer of the poor in that year. He was again elected treasurer in 1651. He was a freeman in 1655. He served later as juryman and grand juryman. He was appointed in 1655 to keep a house of entertainment. He joined a troop of horse in 1667 and afterward became captain of it.
His wife was probably Joan Savage

• History: from Certain Comeovers. ⁹⁰⁹ "Ralph Earle was born in 1606. He is thought to have come from Exeter and crossed in 1634. He was an original settler of Portsmouth, admitted as an inhabitant of Aquidneck in 1638. He was a signer of the compact on the first page of the Portsmouth town records. He took the freeman's oath in 1639. In 1640 he agreed to sell the town "sawn boards," which indicates perhaps that he had a mill. In August, 1647, "Ralph Erle is Chosen to Ceepe an Inne to sell beer & wine & to intertayn strangers." In July, 1650, this liquor license was transferred to a new location wo which Ralph Earle had moved. It may be that thisnew location was one which Henry Peran conveyed to him in March, 1650. It was "upon the south side of the head of the Mill Swamp and bounded upon Newport path." If so, the inn was not long established there, since Ralph sold this estate to Thomas Lawton in 1653. Yet in 1655 he was again licensed to keep a house of entertainment and to set out a "convenient" sign in a "perspicuous" place.
Ralph Earle was the town's Treasurer in 1649 and for several years subsequently. He served the town in several other capacities and his name is of frequent occurrence in the records. He died in 1678. His will, of which his friend John Tripp was the overseer, after providing for his widow, leaves two-thirds of his real estate to his son Ralph, and one-third to his grandson Ralph, the son of his son William. That his son William, being alive, was cut off without a shilling is probably due to the fact that he had already provided for him. Indeed, in April 1655, he conveyed to him a homestead in Portsmouth near John Tripp's.
Ralph Earle had married in England Joan Savage, who outlived him. Concerning her we learn something from that delightful diarist, Judge Samuel Sewall, of whom you will hear much in connection with your Newbury ancestry. Judge Sewall had been holding court in Bristol, and on adjournment took an excursion to Point Judith. He writes under date of September 14, 1699, "the wind was so high that could not get over the ferry" (Bristol Ferry). "Dined at Howland's. Lodged at Mr. Wilkins.l Friday 15th Mr. Newton and I rode to Newport. See aged Joan Savage (now Earl) by the way. Her husband Ralph Earl was born 1606 ad his wife was ten or eleven years older than he. So she is esteemed to be one hundred and five years old. Pass over the ferry to Narragansett," etc.

• History: 1905. ⁹¹⁰ "EARLE. The Early family is among the earlies of New England, and was early planted in Jefferson county. The name has many spellings in the New England records, such as "Earll, Erl, Erle and Earl,"
(I) Ralph Earle came from England about 1634, probably from Exeter, accompanied by his wife Joan, and settled at Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He is found of record there October 1, 1638 among the fifty-nine accepted inhabitants of the island called "Aqueedneck." He died at Portsmouth in 1678. The records show that he was a large landholder, as many sales are found. In 1649 and 1651 he was elected town treasurer, and in the latter year was overseer of the poor. In 1651 he was assessor, and sold a tenement with eight acres of land in that year and the next year sold fifty-two acres near Pawtuxet Falls. He served repeatedly as grand juror, kept an in in 1655, and joined a troop of horse in 1667, being subsequently its captain. He was one of three commissioners to try Indians on a criminal charge. His children were: Ralph, William, Mary, Martha and Sarah.

• History: Worcester County, Massachusetts Memoirs, Vol I-II, 1907. ⁸⁹⁰ EARLE FAMILY - Ralph Earle (1), who was inNewport, Rhode Island, as early as 1638, was the emigrant ancestor in the paternal line of Mrs. Emily D. Richardson, of Worcester, Massachusetts. He married Joan Savage, who was born in England 1594 or 1595. Ralph Earle was born in 1606 and they were doubtless married in England. Ralph Earle was one of fifty-nine persons admitted, October 1, 1638, freeman of the Island of Aqueedneck (Newport). He bought and sold land frequently for many years in various parts of Rhode Island. In 1635 and 1669 he served on the grand jury. On May 25th, he was appointed by the court of commissioners to keep a house of entertainment. He joined a company of horse August 10, 1667, and later was chosen captain. On June 7, 1671, he was on a special jury to try two Indians. Ralph claimed the lands of the Dutch House of Good Hope, now Hartford, Connecticut, and commenced a lawsuit to establish his claim against Richard Lord and James Richard, possessors of the Dutch land, about 1667. Earle affirmed that he purchased the land of Underhill in August, 1653, and paid him twenty pounds sterling for it; but Underhill protested against the claim of Earle. It is not improbbale that the claim was well founded.
The children of Ralph and Joand Earle were: Ralph, married Dorcas Sparague; William, married (first) Mary Walker; (second) Prudentce _____; Mary, married William Cory; Martha, married William Wood; Sarah, married Thomas Cornell.

• History of Name: The Earle Name, 1910. ⁹⁰³ "EARL - It is said by antiquarians that the family of Earle is of very ancient origin and can be traced back to a Saxon ancestor of a period more remote than that of the Norman conquest. In the reign of Henry II., crowned A.D. 1154, there were Earles in Beckinton, Somersetshire, and by one auther it is stated that "so far back as the seventh Henry II., John de Erlegh paid fice marks for the scutage of his lands at Beckington." Thus it is seen that the Earles are a very ancient family of England and were it desireable abundant proof is available to show that the family also is one of much distinction. There were no less than eleven coats-of-arms granted to various members of the English family, but as the auther of the work entitled "Ralph Earle and His Descendants" says "in all my intercourse, I have found none who wore or bore a coat-of-arms, and in only oone instance have I heard of one in the possession of any family."

"(1) Ralph Earle, immigrant, first appears in New England colonial history as of Newport, Rhode Island, where his name is found in the records as early as 1638. Of his birthplace or place of residence previous to immigrating to America there appears nothing like reliable information. There walways has been a tradition among his descendants that he came from Exeter in 1634, and there is little doubt that he married in England and that his wife came over with him, although her family name is unknown. She was called Joan, although her baptismal name appears so written and also Ione and Jone. Ralph Earle was addmitted inhabitant of "the Island now called Aqueedneck" in 1638, and apppears to have been a person of some consequence in the plantation. April 29, 1650, Ralph Earle and five others were chosen "for the committee for the General Assembly of Newport in May next" and on November 12, 1659 it was "voated & granted that Ralph Erl's house wherein he now dwelleth be recorded & Inn, in ye room of ye former vote that he was an Innkeeper." In 1651 he was elected one of the committee "to proportion every man's farm," and in the same year he was chosen town treasurer. He fulfilled various other offices, serving as grand juror, witnessing deeds and other instuments, and in 1667 joined the "troop of horse" of which subsequntly he became captain. He claimed ownership of "the lands of the Dutch House of Good Hope, now Hartford, Connecticut and commenced a lawsuit therefore," claiming that he purchased the land of Underhill in August, 1653, and paid twenty pounds sterling for it. He died in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1678. He and his wife Joan had five children: 1. Ralph, married Dorcas Spraque. 2. William 3. Mary, married (first) William Cory, (second) Joseph Timberlake. 4. Martha, married William Wood. 5. Sarah, married Thomas Cornell."

• History: 1912. ⁹¹⁵ "(I) Ralph Earle was among those of Portsmouth, R. I., who were admitted inhabitants of Aquidneck in 1638 and who signed the declaration of allegiance in the year following. He was chosen to keep an inn in 1647; was treasurer in 1649 and also overseer of the poor in that year. He was again elected treasurer in 1651. He was a freeman of 1655. He served later as juryman and grand juryman. He was appointed in 1655 to keep a house of entertainment. He joined a troop of horse in 1667 and afterward became captain of it. He died in 1678. His wife was formerly Joan Savage. Their children were: Ralph, William, Mary, Martha and Sarah."

• History: Immigrant Ancestors, 1942. ⁹¹⁹ EARLE (Earl), Ralph (b Aug. 25, 1605-d 1678; son of Raulphe, m Margaret Browne), came to Boston, 1634; at Newport, R.I., 1638; at Portsmouth, R.I. 1649, later a townsman of Dartmouth, Mass.; was one of the petitioners for a charter, 1638; capt. of troops, 1667; m in Engl., June 29, 1631, Joan (bap. 1609), daug. of Richard Savage.

Ralph married Joan SAVAGE, daughter of Richard SAVAGE and Mary [--?--], on 29 Jun 1631 in Bishop's Stortford, Hersford, England ^204,893,898.^,919 (Joan SAVAGE was born on 18 Feb 1609 in Widford Parish, Hersford, England ⁵⁸⁷, christened on 18 Feb 1609 in Widford Parish, Hersford, England,^341,893 died after 15 Sep 1699 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island ⁸⁹⁸ and was buried in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island ²⁰⁴.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage: 22 May 1631, Bishop's Stortford, Hersford, England.

• Marriage: 29 Jun 1631, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. ⁸⁹⁸