Providence in colonial times . out of so much at hisdisposing, I should have so little, and he so honor to Daniel for his filial piety! Lest we shouldbe led to think of him as unduly pinched by hispraiseworthy efforts in behalf of his aged parents, itmaybe as well to bear in mind the very ample provis-ion which he made for the needs of his own family,just before his death, two years after penning the aboveletter. He conveyed by deeds, lands and dwelling-houses to his two younger sons; he provided rea-sonable privileges to his wife; and deeded to hisdaughter Patience, five acres of l
Providence in colonial times . out of so much at hisdisposing, I should have so little, and he so honor to Daniel for his filial piety! Lest we shouldbe led to think of him as unduly pinched by hispraiseworthy efforts in behalf of his aged parents, itmaybe as well to bear in mind the very ample provis-ion which he made for the needs of his own family,just before his death, two years after penning the aboveletter. He conveyed by deeds, lands and dwelling-houses to his two younger sons; he provided rea-sonable privileges to his wife; and deeded to hisdaughter Patience, five acres of land, a negro girlAnn, four cows, and the goods she hath in chestsand trunks. The eldest son, Peleg, must have beenalready provided for, and probably, as being the Joseph Williams House Built by the son of Roger Williams. Formerly stood onElmwood Avenue and was torn down in 1886. From awater-color drawing made in 1858 by Edward L. Peck-ham, in the Rhode Island flistorical Society. .?nn I jHufi .-I ofD rfr -^^>. A. The Seventeenth Century 143 eldest son, received a more liberal share of the estatethan his brothers. The third and youngest of the Williams brotherswas named, appropriately, Joseph. As a boy he wassomewhat delicate. In 1660, his father wrote toWinthrop: My youngest son, Joseph, was troubledwith a spice of an epilepsy: We used some remedies,but it hath pleased God, by his taking of tobacco,perfectly, as we hope, to cure him. Does it arguedegeneracy, or progression, that tobacco is, nowa-days, warranted to kill, — not cure? When a youngman of twenty-six, Joseph married Lydia, the seconddaughter and youngest child of our old acquaintance,Thomas Olney, Senior. Perhaps he was a member ofthe valiant Train Band, commanded by his father,whose authority, it is well to remember, was not to beeclipsed even by that of the colonys commander-in-chief. Captain Arthur Fenner. Joseph Williamss gravestone still testifies to hisservices in the Indian war of 1676. He was
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