William was the son of Elisha Harrington and Susannah Rutenburg. He served in the French and Indian War and also in the British Navy. Family tradition says he served in the Navy under King George II while he was young, and deserted one night by swimming ashore after he had been required to stoop while a fellow solider was strapped to his back and flogged by the officers. He is later thought to have been an iron worker in Chepachet, RI who made hinges, nails, and such, and suffered a large financial loss because he accepted continental currency during the Revolutionary War. He would later move to Harrington Hill in Easton, NY where he would pay $1800 of this continental currency for one bushel of wheat to sow.
He married Ann Hamon and they were the parents of 12 children, 10 of whom were William, Ezekiel, Mary, Hope, Ebenezer, Israel, Emily, John, Richard, and Silas.
William and other early members of the family are thought to be buried in the family cemetery on Harrington Hill in Easton. The early graves were marked by fieldstone markers, without inscriptions, that were placed at the head and foot of each grave.
Source: Ancestry and Descendants of William Harrington or Herrington by Byron M. Harrington.
He married Ann Hamon and they were the parents of 12 children, 10 of whom were William, Ezekiel, Mary, Hope, Ebenezer, Israel, Emily, John, Richard, and Silas.
William and other early members of the family are thought to be buried in the family cemetery on Harrington Hill in Easton. The early graves were marked by fieldstone markers, without inscriptions, that were placed at the head and foot of each grave.
Source: Ancestry and Descendants of William Harrington or Herrington by Byron M. Harrington.
William was the son of Elisha Harrington and Susannah Rutenburg. He served in the French and Indian War and also in the British Navy. Family tradition says he served in the Navy under King George II while he was young, and deserted one night by swimming ashore after he had been required to stoop while a fellow solider was strapped to his back and flogged by the officers. He is later thought to have been an iron worker in Chepachet, RI who made hinges, nails, and such, and suffered a large financial loss because he accepted continental currency during the Revolutionary War. He would later move to Harrington Hill in Easton, NY where he would pay $1800 of this continental currency for one bushel of wheat to sow.
He married Ann Hamon and they were the parents of 12 children, 10 of whom were William, Ezekiel, Mary, Hope, Ebenezer, Israel, Emily, John, Richard, and Silas.
William and other early members of the family are thought to be buried in the family cemetery on Harrington Hill in Easton. The early graves were marked by fieldstone markers, without inscriptions, that were placed at the head and foot of each grave.
Source: Ancestry and Descendants of William Harrington or Herrington by Byron M. Harrington.
He married Ann Hamon and they were the parents of 12 children, 10 of whom were William, Ezekiel, Mary, Hope, Ebenezer, Israel, Emily, John, Richard, and Silas.
William and other early members of the family are thought to be buried in the family cemetery on Harrington Hill in Easton. The early graves were marked by fieldstone markers, without inscriptions, that were placed at the head and foot of each grave.
Source: Ancestry and Descendants of William Harrington or Herrington by Byron M. Harrington.
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