William Fish (1695 - abt. 1768)

Born 7 Jun 1695 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Bennett) Fish — married 14 Jun 1716 in Portsmouth, Newport Co, RI

Descendants

Died about 1768 at about age 72 in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island

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Biography

William Fish ^[1][2] was born on 07 JUN 1695 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., Rhode Island, ^[1], the son of Robert Fish and Mary (Hall) Fish. ^[3]

William Fish was married 14 Jun 1716 by Justice William Hall to Mary Bennett, daughter of Robert and Anne (Cory) Bennett. Together they had at least eight children: ^[3]

• Thomas Fish, b 19 Mar 1716 / 17
• Mary (Fish) Cory (1718-1796)
• Rebecca Fish
• Anna (Fish) Gifford (1724-1815)
• Alice Fish
• Deliverance (Fish) Hambly (abt.1720-)
• Mercy Fish
• William Fish Jr. (abt.1727-abt.1767)

William Fish married second (by Justice John Dexter) on 15 Mar 1737 / 38 to Mary Shrieve, daughter of John and Jane (Haven) Shrieve of Portsmouth. In his later years, he married a third time to Amy (unknown), who survived him when he died in 1764. ^[3]

His will is dated 25 April 1764 and proved on 10 October 1768 in Tiverton, Rhode Island.^[4] His inventory was taken on 30 September 1768.^[4]

Research Notes

William Fish was willed land in Tiverton, Rhode Island, which remained in the Fish family until 1930, when it was sold by the widow of Henry Fish. Upon this land occurred the "Battle of Tiverton," also known as the "Swamp Fight," or the "Battle of Pocasset," and of no small importance in King Philip's War. It took place south of the present northern boundary of Tiverton, Rhode Island in a cedar swamp, east of the Fish Road and west of the Stafford Pond. ^[3]

In the old Fish Cemetery located upon this farm, over 100 of the Fish family were buried. All of them known to John Shrieve Fish, but he left no record of them and no stones mark the grave sites. ^{[3] [5]}

Sources

Footnotes:

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Source: #S635 Edmund West, compiler. Family Data Collection - Births - showing Birth 7 June 1695 in RI, USA
2. ↑ Source: #S790 Ancestry.com Family Trees
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Fish, Lester Warren. The Fish Family in England and America (Tuttle Publishing Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1948, 530 pages) - Person No. 577; Pages 85 - 86
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9079/images/007649759_00209); Rhode Island, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932 [database on-line], Newport, Probate and Town Council Records, Vol 2 and 4, 1747-1792, image 209-212. Probate Records, Tiverton, RI, No.2 1747-1768, Page 382-385. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
5. ↑ Information provided by Cora (Fish) Hunt to Lester W. Fish.

Source Citations:

• Fish, Lester Warren. The Fish Family in England and America (Tuttle Publishing Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1948, 530 pages) - Person No. 577; Pages 85 - 86

• Source: S518 Cutter, William Richard, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Published by Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, New York (1908) - Repository: #R4

• Source: S520 Cutter, William Richard, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Published by Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, New York (1915) - Repository: #R4

• Source: S630 Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.; Repository: #R1

• Source: S632 Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.; Repository: #R1

• Source: S635 Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.; Repository: #R1

• Source: S790 Ancestry Family Trees submitted by Ancestry members - Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. - Repository: #R1

Repositories:

• Repository: R1 Ancestry.com
• Repository: R4 Kim Myers - Digital Library

Acknowledgments:

• WikiTree profile Fish-1058 created through the import of Ancestry Audrey Harrington.ged on Nov 14, 2012 by Kim Myers.
• Jon Myers created WikiTree profile Fish-1374 through the import of MYERS-EVEY Family WikiTree.ged on Apr 18, 2013.