<< Savage notes another poss. Vincent married to a Providence Carpenter.
<< "WILLIAM, Salem, with w. whose name is not found, join. the ch. 1650, but
as
Felt I. 176 makes him to be a freem. aft. 1635, I cannot doubt that the sound
and spelling Vincen, justify my calling him Vinson, as below. But the adm. as
freem. was on 10 May 1643. WILLIAM, New London, had prob. liv. at Gloucester,
there m. Rachel, d. of William Varney; did not improve the grant made him at
N. L. in 1651, but was of Providence in May 1666, when he engag. his alleg.
to Charles II. and m. 31 May 1670, Priscilla, d. of William Carpenter,
perhaps as sec. w. and by a former one may have had Joanna wh. m. John
Sheldon. It hardly seems possib. however, with every readiness to acknowl.
the migrat. habits of our people, even in the earliest days, to admit this
man to be the same as preced." >>
I don't read it that way. But in any case the William Vincents of Salem,
Gloucester, and New London (at least two, perhaps three different men) were
too old to have been William Vincent of Providence (who apparently lived
nowhere else in New England).
Gene Z.