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Christobel Crabbe Brushett was born in 1592 in Mosterton, Dorset, England. John Gallop and she were married on 19 January 1617 in Saint Mary's Church, Bridgeport, Dorset, England.¹ She died on 27 September 1655 at age ~63 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

Joan West was born in January 1631 in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England (?) Joshua Coggeshall and she were married on 22 December 1652 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island. She died on 24 April 1676 at age 45 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Joan West was born in 1631. She died on 24 April 1676 at age 45 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Benjamin Weaver was born on 13 August 1689. He died in Middletown, Rhode Island.

Mary Stanton was born on 4 June 1668. She died on 11 May 1747 at age 78 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. She was buried in On Coggeshall farm in Portsmouth.

John Coggeshall was born in December 1659 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. He died on 1 May 1727 at age 67 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

John Coggeshall was a mercer and merchant. On June 22, 1632 he appears on a list of thirty-three men "transported to New England to the Plantation there. He emigrated from England to the New World on the ship "Lyon," arriving on September 16, 1632. He was admitted a freeman of Roxbury, MA, on November 6, 1632, and two years later, in 1634, removed to Boston, where he became a merchant. His name also heads the list of deputies to the General Court of Massachusetts from Boston May 14, 1634. He was one of the staunchest supporters and defenders of Anne Hutchinson and Rev. Wheelwright, and upon her banishment was expelled from the Court and from the State of Massachusetts. He settled on the island of Aquidneck March 7, 1638, by the advice of Roger Williams, who had already settled in Providence. He moved to Newport April 28, 1639 with eight others, signing a new compact. He received 400 acres in the south part of Newport. He was an assistant in 1640-44. In May 1647 John Coggeshall was elected moderator of the first Rhode Island General Assembly and died in office in 1647. He is buried a few rods west of his house. His descendants have erected a monument to his memory in the little burial ground, at the corner of Coggeshall and Victoria Avenues. John Coggeshall had person sources.¹ He was born on 14 December 1659 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Joshua Coggeshall was born about 1700. He died about 1746 at age ~46 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Hannah Coggeshall was born about 1692.

Rebecca Coggeshall was born about 1689.

Rebecca Coggeshall was born about 1689.

Mary Coggeshall was born about 1687.

Etta Fisher was born on 23 July 1905 in Providence, Rhode Island.¹ David Marshall Anthony and she were married on 14 June 1930 at Church of the Redeemer in Providence, Rhode Island. Charles Bradford ("Charlie, Bennie Leonard, Chilly Bean") Leonard and she were married on 22 April 1964 in Elkton, Maryland.² She died metastatic carcinoma intestine on 10 December 1981 at age 76 in Englewood, Charlotte County, Florida. She was buried at Moshassuck Cemetery, Lot 125, Section D, Avenue J, in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

Etta Fisher had Social Security Number 035-03-4390. She was cremated on 11 December 1981 in Sara-Mana Crematory, Sarasota, Florida.

James L. Fisher was born in 1885 in Nova Scotia.

He was a policeman. The family was living at 51 Corinth Street, Providence, RI, at the time of Etta's birth.

Flora Gildard was born in 1882 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

Deacon Philip Walker was born about 1629 in Weymouth, Dorset, England. He and Mary Jane Metcalf were married in 1654 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. He died on 20 August 1679 at age ~50 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He was buried on 21 August 1679.

"In the manuscript collection of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester, MA, is an unpublished eighteen page manuscript consisting of two poems and a prose article written in 1676 by Deacon Philip Walker of Rehoboth. This is his only extant literary work, and we now know that the versatile Walker, in addition to being a farmer, weaver, sawmill proprietor, deacon of the church, constable, and incidentally the second richest man in Rehoboth, was also a poet and writer of no mean ability." (Richard Lebaron Bowen, Early Rehoboth, Rehoboth: privately printed, 1948).

Here is a stanza of Philip's poem, which was about Captain Pierce in King Philip's War (1676):

Captan Perse and his coragio Company

It ffel unlucky yt thi march wos Soner
then thi apoynted time to yt meroner
in thy picaring thou Lacks thos muskitters
and his Experianc gayned mongst Buckaneers

Which are a Ruged cru of hunting rouers
much Like thes Sauage Sneking brutish grovers

Philip was not a very good speller, although that and changes in language are evident in most works of that period.

"Little or nothing is known about the early life of Philip Walker. He was the son of "Widow" Walker, who first appears in Seekonk at the founding of that township in 1643 when he was about 15 years of age. His name first appears in the Rehoboth records on September 9, 1652, at which date his mother was undoubtedly deceased. Two years later he married. Whatever formal education he may have had as a boy must have been obtained overseas before he emigrated to America.

The first name of his mother or that of her husband is not known. There is fairly conclusive evidence that she had two other children, Sarra, born 1618, and James, born 1620, both of whom came to American in 1635 with their uncle, John Browne, who for many years was a Plymouth Colony Assistant and one of the Plymouth Colony Commissioners of the United Colonies." (Bowen, ibid.)

Two days after Pierce's Fight (March 28, 1676), the Indians fell upon Rehoboth and burned most of the buildings, including Philip Walker's house. He built a new house on the foundation of the old house in old Rehoboth, finished in 1679. It was still standing in 1947 on Massasoit Avenue in East Providence. (In the 1600's, East Providence was part of Rehoboth, as were Seekonk and Swansea.) Deacon Philip Walker was a Weaver, sawyer, farmer, poet.

Mary Jane Metcalf was born on 24 March 1632 in Saint Edmondsbury or Norwich, Norfolk, England. Deacon Philip Walker and she were married in 1654 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. John Polley and she were married on 2 June 1684 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. She died on 24 October 1710 at age 78 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

Samuel Walker was born in February 1655 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He and Martha Ide were married on 11 November 1677. He died on 12 August 1712 at age 57.

Michael Walker was born on 1 March 1668.

Sarah Walker was born on 16 February 1657 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Abraham Perrin and she were married on 27 December 1677 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. She died in 1693 at age ~36 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.