-April 8, 1728 Benjamin Tanner appeared before Council & declared that his sister Mary Willett, deceased gave him her son Lawrence Villet, then 4 years old to be kept free of charge to the estate of Lawrence Villet. [NK record; Wm Tanner of South Kingstown, by Rev Geo. C. Tanner, 1910] -Benjamin Tanner of South Kingstown appointed adm. of estate of Lawrence Vilet, late of North Kingstown husbandman deceased. [Superior Court of Judicature, Newport, pp 215 & 244]
LAND: -March 4, 1723, Wm. Tanner of Kingstown, yeoman, & wife Elizabeth to son Benjamin Tanner of Kingstown, husbandman, 60 Acres bounded by: John Sheldon, Isaac Sheldon, Job Babcock, river. Witnesses: Wm. West, Isaac Sheldon. [SK Land 1723-35, p. 29; RIGR July 1984, p. 64-5]