Mr. Charles, thank you for your information! As regards...nefariousness....(and to support the cherished "swamper" pastime of yarnspinning for at least one more generation), two questions please: 1. Your John Tefft m. Mary Reynolds....how is he connected to the (equally) notorious Pettaquamiscutt Purchase Joshua3 Tefft who was drawn and quartered for high treason as an outcome of his controversial role in the 1675 King Phillip/Metacom Indian War? 2. "Jan Gereardy and his > father Phillip, and their nefarious activities."... Could you provide (at least) a few savoury details? (I love it! This New Amsterdam connection to Rhode Island keeps creeping in every once in awhile....Pettaquamiscutt Purchaser and Portsmouth settler John Porter seems to have high-tailed it out of RI to go there...some improprieties hinted-at...passing on his Purchase assets to the...entertaining Herodias Long-Hicks-Gard(i)ner and her...voluminous Gard(i)ner Narragansett Country descendants...and then there's Pocasset/Portsmouth RI founder Anne Marbury Hutchinson, who decided to leave Pocasset for what is now the Bronx...just far enough outside of New Amsterdam's fortifications to...ensure her death at the hands of local Indians... Does anyone else have any other information on the Dutch trading-early Rhode Island Colony link?) As Alice Roosevelt-Longworth's famous drawing room pillow read..."If you don't have anything nice to say about anyone....COME SIT RIGHT HERE BY ME..." Bes regards, Barry Hale Browning

I accept the challenge for New Amsterdam trade, curious behavior et al. This is about one of my ancestors, Peter Tallman, originally Peter Taelmann. His family started out in Friesland, Netherlands,then to Ghent and then to Hamburg, Germany, where Peter was born. He was christened on Feb 20, 1623. He emigrated to Barbados, Christchurch, and while there married Ann Hill from Providence, RI. In 1659 he, his wife, her mother and her brother together with an indentured servant, Thomas Durfee, four slaves, and a number of products to sell sailed to Newport on The Golden Dolphin. Captain Maverick, son of Samuel from Noddles Island was in charge of the ship. Peter was an apothecary by trade and spoke German, Dutch and English. He soon established trade with various places including Martha's Vineyard, New Amsterdam, specifically Flushing, Delaware and New Jersey and Virginia. Now the good part, upon returning from a trading trip he discovered his wife was having a child who could not possibly be his. He accused her of adultery which she readily admitted. He took her to court where he charged her, and she made statements to the effect she no longer wanted to be married to him. She was fined and sentenced to be whipped in three different locations in Newport. However, she escaped and went to Virginia where her brother and mother were. In about a year she returned, I think was never whipped, and married Thomas Durfee, the indentured servant who was the father of her child. Peter went on to marry two more times, first Joan/Joanna Briggs and after she died, Esther Mars(there is some question about this name). Altogether he had 21 or 22 children, accounts differ. He also acquired the land in Portsmouth which is now Anthony's Farm, Common Fence Point and Island Park. He also bought part of Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard for which he was jailed, as it was prohibited to buy land from Indians. He sold off Anthony's Farm and also Common Fence Point, the latter to Thomas Durfee, I guess there were no hard feelings. He seems to have been rather cantankerous as he pops up in records as not having built his part of a road, or improperly installed some fencing, or being in general involved in petty controversy. He died April 1st in 1708. His grandson Benjamin Tallman married Elizabeth Gorton, and he was a clipper ship builder who built for the China Trade and the Browns of Providence. My gggrandfather, also Benjamin Tallman set up a fish trap business in the Sakonnet River which employed many Tallmans. My grandfather Albertus Edwards Tallman was the first to break with the tradition by becoming a baker on Main Street in Wakefield, RI. He was a cook on a ship as a young man, the ship was wrecked, and he had to rescued by breeches buoy. That was the end of the sea for him. Now, I am also a Tefft, my gggrandmother having been Eliza Tefft married to William Wheeler Moore, but that is a story for another day. BTW. I always thought Joshua Tefft, was a hero for befriending and being befriended by Indians. But as they say, victors get to write the history books. TaTa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry H. Browning" <barrybro@twave.net> To: <RIWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 7:02 AM Subject: Re: [RIWASHIN] Smiths, Gereardys nd Reynolds > Mr. Charles, thank you for your information! > > As regards...nefariousness....(and to support the cherished "swamper" > pastime of yarnspinning for at least one more generation), two questions > please: > > 1. Your John Tefft m. Mary Reynolds....how is he connected to the (equally) > notorious Pettaquamiscutt Purchase Joshua3 Tefft who was drawn and quartered > for high treason as an outcome of his controversial role in the 1675 King > Phillip/Metacom Indian War? > > 2. "Jan Gereardy and his > > father Phillip, and their nefarious activities."... Could you provide (at > least) a few savoury details? > > (I love it! This New Amsterdam connection to Rhode Island keeps creeping in > every once in awhile....Pettaquamiscutt Purchaser and Portsmouth settler > John Porter seems to have high-tailed it out of RI to go there...some > improprieties hinted-at...passing on his Purchase assets to > the...entertaining Herodias Long-Hicks-Gard(i)ner and her...voluminous > Gard(i)ner Narragansett Country descendants...and then there's > Pocasset/Portsmouth RI founder Anne Marbury Hutchinson, who decided to leave > Pocasset for what is now the Bronx...just far enough outside of New > Amsterdam's fortifications to...ensure her death at the hands of local > Indians... Does anyone else have any other information on the Dutch > trading-early Rhode Island Colony link?) > > As Alice Roosevelt-Longworth's famous drawing room pillow read..."If you > don't have anything nice to say about anyone....COME SIT RIGHT HERE BY > ME..." > > Bes regards, Barry Hale Browning > > > > > ==== RIWASHIN Mailing List ==== > Bristol County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ribristo/ > Providence County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~riprovid/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >