Person:Jeremiah Utter (4)

BIOGRAPHY: Nicholas Utter of Westerly, Rhode Island and a few of his Descendants By Katherine M. Utter Waterman of North Scituate, R. I. and George B. and Wilfred B. Utter of Westerly, Rhode Island Westerly, R. I., The Utter Company Printers 1943 Page 36

  Jeremiah married 27 Jan. 1763 Phebe Knight? Daughter of Richard of Cranston, and his son Benjamin must have been born the same year if he was nineteen when he enlisted in 1782.
  The 1774 census gives Jeremiah Utter of Cranston three boys and three girls under age of sixteen and his will, made in 1781, proved 1782, names them as Benjamin, James, Sarah, "Barbari," Zebulon and Dinah. His second wife, Dinah, survived him. His name appears twice in Revolutionary records, once in regard to a horse impressed for artillery service for which he received twelve pounds, and again when he receipted for equipment in Capt. Thomas Rice's Company, Col. Tillinghast's Reg't. The which he received from his father shortly after his marriage was part of the latter's home farm and was located on the north branch of the Pawtuxet River and adjoining land of Peter Levalley.
  Of his children, Benjamin served in the Continental Line and otherwise at intervals from 1778 to 1782. He died in 1787 leaving everything to his "oldest brother," James, who with Richard Knight, was executor. A few days later, James Utter of Warwick bought land in Coventry which he sold next year. Nothing further is known about this James Utter. He probably left Rhode Island and joined the family of some relative, for he does not appear in the 1790 census for any New England state or New York. His cousin, James of Freehold, later Durham, above, is the only James Utter in that census. His oldest sister was probably Sarah Utter who married John Rice in Warwick in 1785.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Rhode Island Wills and Probate
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   Wife Dinah
   Sons: Benjamin, eldest, James, Zebulon under age 21.
   Daughters: Sarah under age 18, Barbara under age 18, Dinah under age 18.
   Exors: Brother Thomas Utter and Brother-in-law Richard Knight