Person:William Brenton (3)

Name	Gov. William Brenton
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Est 1610
Marriage	Bef 1634	to Dorothy Unknown
Marriage	Bef 1644	to Martha Burton
Death^[1]	Bet 25 Sep 1674 and 13 Nov 1674	Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number`^?`		Q2578112

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William Brenton (c. 1610–1674) was a colonial President, Deputy Governor, and Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and an early settler of Portsmouth and Newport in the Rhode Island colony. Austin and other historians give his place of origin as Hammersmith in Middlesex, England (now a part of London), but in reviewing the evidence, Anderson concludes that his place of origin is unknown. Brenton named one of his Newport properties "Hammersmith," and this has led some writers to assume that the like-named town in London was his place of origin.

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References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Gov William Brenton, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Boston
REMOVES: Portsmouth 1638, Newport 1639, Portsmouth by 1643, Boston 1648, Newport by 1659, Taunton by 1670
OCCUPATION: Merchant.

BIRTH: By about 1610 based on approximated date of first marriage.
DEATH: Taunton between 25 September 1674 [RILE 1:72, 74] and 13 November 1674 (date of probate).
William Brenton, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.