The children of William EARLE were: #1 Mary, born 1655, married John BORDEN #2 William, born at Portsmouth, RI , married Elizabeth (?) #3 Ralph, see forward #4 Thomas, married Mary TABER #5 Caleb, married Mary (?)#6 John, born at Portsmouth, RI, marrried Mary WAIT #7 Prudence, married Benjamin DURFEE (III) Ralph EARLE, son of William EARLE (II) born in 1660, married Mary (CARR) HICKS, widow of John HICKS, and daughter of Robert CARR of Newport, RI. She died the same year that he died, 1757, at Leicester, Mass. and both are buried in the Friends' Burying Ground at Leicester, where the graves of no less than 6 generations of their descendants are. The earliest known record of Ralph EARLE is to the effect that he had taken the freeman's oath prior to March 24, 1686. In 1688 his father gave to him and his wife the land adjoining the "fall river" at Pocasset, in Freetown. His removal to and occupancy of this land must have occured soon afterward. He lived there between 25 and 30 years, the site of this house being on what is now Bedford Street, about 10 rods northeast of the northeast corner of the market, which was standing in 1860. The house had a gambrel roof and was destroyed about 1848. He was surveyor of Highways in 1690-92-96, constabe in 1699, and grand juryman in 1700 and 1715. He had the military title of ensign. In 1716 he went through Providence, RI into the interior of Massachusetts, as far as what is now Leicester. On the way, at Grafton, he had hired an Indian, named Moses Printer, as guide. Over part of the way there was no path and they blazed their way back again. In 1717 he removed with part of his family to Leicester and purchased of the original proprietors of the town two tracts of land, containing in the aggregate 550 acres. One of the tracts included the Mulberry Grove, now or lately owned by George and Billings MANN. And the other was on the westside of Asnebumskit Hill. in what is now town of Paxton. Its westerly boundary appears to have been the road leading northerly from the PENNIMAN place, a mile east of Paxton and a half mile northeasterly from the present village of Leicester, on Mulberry Street, and very near the site of the residence now or lately owned by Benjamin WILSON. It was a one story house wth a gambrel roof and was torn down in 1846. In 1721 he was a member of the Congregational Church of Leicester. Within a year a Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, was organized in the town and he joined it. In 1732 he ad his sons William and Robert, with 4 other men, asked to be released from paying any part of the tax forthe support of the minister or ministers established by the laws of this province, alleging that they as Quakers with conscientious scruple against paying such a tax.