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Peter Mawney (c.1689-1754) was a member of one of the few French Huguenot families that remained in Rhode Island, following violent clashes with the English citizens of East Greenwich, Rhode Island over disputed land. Mawney spent 24 years in the military service of the colony, serving in both the East Greenwich and Providence militias, and retiring as a Colonel in the Providence County 2nd Regiment. He also served for many years as Justice of the Peace for the town of East Greenwich. Mawney was married twice, both times to daughters of Pardon Tillinghast, Jr., and had eight children. His son, John Mawney, was Sheriff of Providence for several years, and his grandson, John Mawney, Jr., was a surgeon and one of the raiders that attacked and burned the British revenue ship ''Gaspee'' during the leadup to the American Revolutionary War. == Life == Born in 1689 in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, Peter Mawplney was a son of one of the original Huguenot settlers of Frenchtown, located along the southern boundary of East Greenwich. His father signed the initial agreement for the incorporation of the settlement in 1686, and his name appears on the plat map, but only the surname of LeMoine is given in both cases. By family tradition, his father's given name was Moses, a name which appears in later generations within the family. The name LeMoine was anglicized to "Money," and then to Mawney, which was the spelling maintained by later generations. The original French immigrants had settled around a spring and planted an orchard there, and following violent clashes with the English citizens of the area, and the subsequent departure of most of the French, the Mawneys were one of only two families that remained on their original land, the Targe' (Tourgee) family being the other. The Mawney property included the spring and French orchard. Mawney spent 24 years in the military service of the colony, and began his service in 1722 as an Ensign in the East Greenwich branch of the colonial militia. By 1728 he held the rank of Lieutenant and in 1730 became a Captain, which rank he last held in 1735. In May 1735 he resigned as Captain of the East Greenwich company, becoming a Major in the Providence County militia. By 1738 he was Lieutenant Colonel of the Second Regiment of the Providence County Militia, but the following year he was made Colonel of the same regiment, and maintained this rank until retiring from service in 1746, at the age of 57. In addition to his military service, Mawney served as a Justice of the Peace for East Greenwich from 1733 to 1747. He kept his ample East Greenwich property until his death, and was called "of East Greenwich" as late as 1752 in the marriage record of his daughter Mary, but may have moved to Providence in the last year or two of his life, where his will is recorded. He died in Providence on 9 September 1754, and was buried in the North Burial Ground, near where his son John was buried only a few months earlier. His first wife is buried in a Tillinghast family cemetery near Mawney's East Greenwich property. Following his death, his widow married James Brown of Norwich, Connecticut, but upon her death, she was buried by her former husband in the North Burial Ground. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Mawney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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