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Friday, September 28, 2018

52 Ancestors - Week 245: #370 Joseph Ladd (1701-1748) of Little Compton, Rhode Island

Joseph Ladd (1701-1748) is #370 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married #371 Lydia Gray (1707-????) in 1731 in Little Compton, Rhode Island.


I am descended through:

*  their daughter, #185 Elizabeth Ladd (1735-1814) who married  #184 Benedict Oatley (1732-1821) in 1755. 
*   their son #92 Joseph Oatley (1756 - 1815) who married #93 Mary Hazard (1765-1857)  in 1781.
*  their son #46 Jonathan Oatley (1791-1872), who married #47 Amy Champlin (1798-1865) in 1813.
*  their daughter #23 Amy Oatley (1826-1864), who married  #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) in 1844.
*  their daughter #11 Julia E. White (1848-1913) who married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868.
*  their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) who married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Name:                    Joseph Ladd[1–7]    

*  Sex:                       Male    

*  Father:                  William Ladd (1665-1729)    
*  Mother:                 Elizabeth Tompkins (1675-1729)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                     19 October 1701, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States[1–3]    

*  Distribution:          21 October 1729 (age 28), father's will proved; Bristol, Massachusetts, United States[4]    

*  Death:                   before March 1748 (before about age 46), Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States[6]  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:              Lydia Gray (1707-????)    

*  Marriage 1:           25 August 1731 (age 29), Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States[1,5,7]    

*  Child 1:               Deborah Ladd (1732-????)    
*  Child 2:               Joseph Ladd (1733-????)    
*  Child 3:               Elizabeth "Betsy" Ladd (1735-1814)    
*  Child 4:               William Ladd (1737-1800)    
*  Child 5:               Lydia Ladd (1740-????)  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):   
Two books with information about the Joseph Ladd family in Little Compton are: a) Warren Ladd, The Ladd Family, A Genealogical and Biographical Memoir (New Bedford,
Mass.: Edmund Anthony & Sons, 1890), #3976 Joseph Ladd sketch[1]. b) Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Little Compton Families ( Little Compton, R.I.: Little Compton
Historical Society, 1967), page 390, #4. Joseph Ladd sketch[2].
The Ladd Family has this summary for Joseph Ladd of Little Compton, Rhode Island[1]:
"Joseph Ladd, of Little Compton, R.I., (son of William), married Lydia, daughter of Samuel and
W. (Church) Gray. He purchased, 25 July 1733, of William Richmond, of Little Compton, R.I.,
land and house for 200 pounds. He sold, 5 February 1744, the land and buildings he purchased of
William Richmond to John Bush. Lydia, his wife, signed the deed." The Wilbour book has this for Joseph Ladd of Little Compton, Rhode Island[2]:
"Joseph Ladd (William-2, Joseph-1), born 19 Oct. 1701 in LC. Residence: LC. "He was married 25 Aug. 1731 in LC by Richard Billings, Justice, to Lydia Gray, daughter of
Samuel and Deborah (Church) Gray, born 16 Oct. 1707 in LC. "He purchased 25 July 1733 of William Richmond of LC land and house for 200 pounds. He sold
this 5 Feb. 1744 to John Bush. "This family moved out of town about 1744." Joseph Ladd was born 19 October 1701 in Little Compton, Rhode Island, the son of William Ladd
and Elizabeth Tompkins[1-3].
In the will of his father, William Ladd (1665-1729) of Little Compton, Joseph Ladd was bequeathed
5 shillings along with each of his siblings. The will was written 13 August 1729 and proved 21
October 1729 in Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Court records[4].
On 25 August 1731, Joseph Ladd married in Little Compton to Lydia Gray, daughter of Samuel
and Deborah (Church) Gray of Little Compton[1,5,7]. They had five children, whose births were
recorded in the Little Compton town records:
* Deborah Ladd, born 16 May 1732. * Joseph Ladd, born 18 August 1733. * Elizabeth Ladd, born 9 July 1735, died 27 November 1814, married 2 October 1755 in South
Kingstown, R.I. to Benedict Oatloey (1732-1821). * William Ladd, born 16 October 1737, died 4 December 1800, married 22 December 1761 in
Newport, Rhode Island to Sarah Gardner (1739-1807). * Lydia Ladd, born September 1740. Joseph Ladd died before March 1748, perhaps in Little Compton, Rhode Island[6]. There are no known
burial records for him. There are no probate records for Joseph Ladd in the Little Compton town council records or in
Bristol County, Massachusetts.  
5)  SOURCES

1. Warren Ladd, The Ladd Family, A Genealogical and Biographical Memoir (New Bedford, Mass.: Edmund Anthony & Sons, 1890), #3976 Joseph Ladd sketch.

2. Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Little Compton Families ( Little Compton, R.I.: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967), page 390, #4. Joseph Ladd sketch.

3. "Rhode Island, Vital Records Extracts, 1636-1899," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Volume 4, Newport County Vital records, page 133 (image 500 of 691), Joseph Ladd entry.

4. "Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991," indexed database with digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Bristol County > Probate Records, Kirby, Thankful - Lake, Squire, images 968-973 of 1439, William Ladd Probate Papers, 1729 .

5. "Rhode Island, Vital Records Extracts, 1636-1899," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Volume 4, Newport County Vital Records, "Little Compton - Intentions and Marriages," page 38 (image 405 of 691), Joseph Ladd and Lydia Gray marriage entry.

6. Robert S. Wakefield (compiler), Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume 18: Family of Richard Warren (3 Parts) (Boston, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999), Part 1, page 200.

7. Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Little Compton Families, page 391, Joseph Ladd and Lydia Gray marriage entry.


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NOTE:  In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2018 to 260 Ancestors in 260 Weeks.

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