of William and Elizabeth Alden Pabodie, and Elizabeth Alden Pabodie was the daughter of John and Priscilla (Mullens) Alden, both passengers on the Mayflower.
John 3rd was a merchant, lived in Duxbury, Boston, and Barrington, successively, and died in our town in 1732, at the ripe old age of 92 years. The blood of John Rogers runs in the veins of the Richmond and other families of Barrington.
Thomas Rogers,1 was a passenger in the Mayflower; children, Joseph, John,2 Thomas,2 William,2 George,2 Sylvanus.2—John,2 Thomas,1 m. Frances Watson; children, John,3 Joseph,3 Timothy,3 Ann,3 Mary,3 Abigail.3—John3, John,2 Thomas,1 m. (1) Elizabeth Pabodie, b. 1647; children, Hannah,4 1668; John,4 1670; Ruth,4 1675; Sarah,4 1677; Elizabeth,4 m. Sylvester Richmond. John3 m. (2) Marah, a widow, who d. 1739. John,3 d. in Barrington, 1732, as above.
Abigail Salisbury. Barrington had heroines as well as heroes during the Revolutionary period. The women of the town must have encouraged and nursed the patriotic spirit with true devotion, or the husbands, fathers, and sons could not and would not have made so heroic a record. In addition to the ordinary work of the women of the household, which was very arduous and exacting in the early day, the care of the farm, the stock, and the business of the exchange of farm produce for household needs, were added. We must also add the making of blankets and clothing for the soldiers, and the care of men, sick and wounded in the service.
Among the most distinguished of the number, among Barrington housewives, was Abigail Salisbury, wife of George Salisbury, who was a sergeant of a guard stationed at Rumstick, and who saw other service during the war. Benjamin Cowell, author of "The Spirit of '76 in Rhode Island," says of Mrs, Salisbury, "She was another choice specimen of female patriotism. She was one hundred years old when she applied for a pension, was married fifteen years before the war, and she too took an active part in the struggle for Independence, and knit stockings for the whole guard. Indeed she was so fond of knitting, that she continued it until her death. She showed the writer a pair of stockings she knit after she was one hundred years old."
Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury lived on the west highway in Barrington, on land now owned by E. F. Richmond. It is related of Mrs. Salisbury that she read the Bible through each year, during the last thirty years of her life. One who knew her says, "She had a fair complexion, a full, bright eye, and was short and thickset in body. Her mind was active to the close of life."
She was born May 26, 1738, died Aug 30, 1839, at the age of 101 years and three months, and with her husband was buried at Prince's Hill Cemetery.
