Shebna Spink (abt. 1666)

Born about 1666 in Rochester, Kings, Rhode Island, United States

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Biography

Shebna Spink was the third son of Robert Spink (1615-bef.1695) and Alice (Howe) Spink (abt.1640-1695), born in Kingstown, RI. The language of his father's will suggests he was under the age of 21 when Robert wrote his will in 2 Dec of 1685, thus suggesting he was born some time between and 2 Dec 1664 (21 years before the will date) and 6 Sept 1666 (having reached the age of 21 so as to be placed on Andros' tax roll.) ^[1]

On 6 September 1687, Shebna is cited, along with his father Robert Spink Sr. and his brothers Robert Jr. and John, on Gov. Andros' tax roll at Rochester (renamed later to Kingstown), Rhode Island owing a “pole” (poll) tax of 1s, and a property tax of 0s 0d, which places him as an adult resident of Kingstown, RI on this date (viz born before 1666). ^[2] This tax roll identifies a sum total of 136 heads of house living in the roughly 22.5 square mile area associated with Kingstown, RI on this date in 1687; one consequence of this sparse population is that he would have been well acquainted with many, if not all, of the individuals identified on this list. Therefore, this tax list is a defacto definition of the people who were available to be his friends, neighbors, and allies; it would be essential to cultivate strong working relationships with these neighbors in order to survive on this frontier landscape. This cross reference tool provides hot links to peruse most of the 136 Wikitree families identified in this tax roll; families who were very frequently interconnected, or became interconnected, by marriage, over the course of their lives and throughout the ensuing generations, further binding a network of neighbors into extended families. ^[3] His father, Robert Spink Sr., and brothers John and Robert Jr. also are named on this tax roll.

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Genealogical Records

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Biographic and Genealogical References

• Secondary Source, John Osborne Austin , Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690 , ^[1] Data Extract:

1. ) Genealogical Dictionary of RI; at Archive.org, Page 188: Shebna Spink, third son of Robert and Alice Spink, was born ____ at Kingstown, RI and he died ____.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Austin, John Osborne. Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690 : With Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation., Albany, NY., Joel Munsell's Sons, 1887. Public Domain. {Note there are two on-line sources offering scanned images of this text; archive.org and the book library of Family Search. The scanned image quality of the archive.org copy is poor, in some places unreadable. Family Search has three scanned copies of the book with good scanned image quality.]

   1. ) Archive.org: Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, Title Page
   2. ) Family Search book library: Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island; Title Page

2. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, Vol. II, Niles - Wilson; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore 1989. RI Taxes under Gov. Andros pages 592- 594.
3. ↑ Randolph Beebe; Cross Reference: Gov. Andros 1687 Rochester RI Tax Register to Wikitree profile; Wikitree Free Space Profiles, 2024.