Former librarian there, and still very interested in the early history of the area and the first. As a point of interest, on our first visit to Rhode Island, we stopped at a bookstore in North Kingstown and asked about the early settlements in the area. There were two articles in The American Genealogist which provided information on two families - Thomas Place and Stafford Place.
I regret so much that I was not interested in the family history when my father was alive, for he had such a good memory and I am sure he could have answered many of my questions _ and added many stories which he remembered from his childhood . Or he could be a man from Place, a 'town or fortress' in France." In Cornwall the most impressive is the "Place House" in Fowey, but it has belonged to the Treffrey family for centuries and I don't think we can claim it as an ancestral home .Thomas and Hannah and her parents, John and Susannah Cole, are buried in the old Cole Cemetery.
Mary was alive and married in 1734, so she should have been listed in the will. Her nine children were born between 1760 and 1783, which would certainly mean that she was not born in the 170s like Thomas and Hannah's other children. Children of Sarah and Josiah Jones 1. Some information about these families comes from an article in the January 1962 issue of the American Genealogist.
Thomas and Margaret Place's children are not listed in Rhode Island's vital records. It is possible that they were recorded in North Kingstown, where they were undoubtedly born, and that the record was destroyed in the fire of 1869. Jeremiah and Jemima are buried in the cemetery at Philip's home on Tillinghast Road in East Greenwich.
We were there again in the fall of 1981 and I managed to take some pictures. Rodman was the first of the 'modern' places, modern in the sense that I have pictures of him and Sally and some of their family; also letters and documents relating to their lives. It was said that his mother kept him in the house to help her with the housework.
It is certain that he could do all kinds of housework - spinning, weaving, etc. tailoring, and the scissors he bought with the first money he earned after he was twenty-one are in the possession of one of his great-grandsons. . Sometime after he was 21, he bought land in New Hampshire, in the Black River Country. When he went up there in the early spring, with his ax over his shoulder, he found the settlers plowing, the snowbanks still so deep that they had to plow around them.
Aunt Artie wrote about the family at length and gave us a good picture of them and their life in the early 1800's.
PHILIP PLACE
This is "Aunt Artie" who gathered most of the Place family information that I have. In later life she lived in a nursing home in Cuba, which went bankrupt and she spent her last years living in Almond as a county ward. From Aunt Artie I inherited many things that had been her mother's, a quilt made in the 1840s, some jewelry, other little mementos.
From Fred's autobiography and some articles in the Alfred Sun we have a lot of information about Fred and Martha and his career at the university. In the fall of '75 my brother-in-law Charles Stillman asked me to come to Alfred to work for him, I to stay until I was 21, doing chores year round, going to school half the year. In addition, he also served .as a justice of the peace in Scottsville, where they lived for all the years i.
After he stopped teaching in the public schools, he worked for two years as a professor's assistant at St. She had a stroke in 1975 and had been in the Salamanca Nursing Home since that time. He sang in the choir in Albany and in Alfred, and played both baritone horn and trombone in many bands over the years.
Both the Places and the Slades were of the Seventh Day Baptist faith, but in Albany they joined the First Presbyterian Church and both took an active part in the program of that church. When the children were in school, she substituted in Salamanca public schools and then taught. In addition to his years in the service, he spent most of his working years at the Fancher Furniture Company in Salamanca.
Walter graduated from Nott Terrace High School in Schenectady and worked for over 40 years for the General Electric Company, mostly in the large steam turbine division as a boring mill operator. In the late 70s she started working at Banks Typing as a proofreader, is now semi-retired. She was a member of the Pleasantville Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and a member of the Fortnightly Club of Pleasantville.
I think she met Uncle Townsend when she was working in the Pleasantville area when his family lived there. She was very interested in Place's family history and added quite a bit to the information I had.
