Jeremy Clarke (governor)
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Jeremiah Clarke was an early settler in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Born into a prominent family in England, he was a merchant who came to came to the New England wi
Jeremy Clarke grave medallion
Frances Latham
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Frances Latham, was a colonial American woman who settled in Rhode Island, and is known as "the Mother of Governors." Having been widowed twice, she had three husbands, and became the ancestor of at l
Jeremy Clarke (governor)
…Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Born into a prominent family in England, he was a merchant who came to came to the New England with his wife, Frances Latham, and four stepchildren, settling first at Portsmouth in 1638, but the following year joining William Coddington and others in establishing the town of…
Lewis Latham, father of Frances