Some of the material presented here is based on "A History of the Thurbers," an unpublished, unverified work by Charles H. Thurber. Please note that directly quoted unedited passages from that work will be shown in green. This material is the work of an amateur genealogist and contains much inaccurate and conflicting information and should not be accepted as fact without independent verification.

Roger Williams came to the colonies around 1632. He was born in England around 1601. He was a Baptist and was banished from Massachusetts. With a band of others, went through the wilderness and bought land in what is now Providence, RI. He is the one who started freedom of religion in the colonies. Where he settled it was named Providence Plantation.

Some of the Thurbers who married Roger Williams descendants:
1. John md. Mary Brown
2. John's dau. Anna md. James Bowen
3. John's dau. Elizabeth md. Shubal Grant
4. Hannah md. 1st, Charles Dyer, 2nd Davis Dyer
5. Benjamin, Jr. md. Phebe Dyer
6. Martha Ann md. Nelson Sayles Ballow
7. Mary Ann Elizabeth md. George Olney
8. Edmund Irvin md. Olive B. Olney
9. William Gorham md. Alice R. Williams
10. Chester md. Hattie Baker

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