When Margaret Angell was born about 1658, in Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Angell, was 43 and her mother, Alice Ashton, was 41. She married Jonathan Whipple on 1 March 1688, in Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 1 March 1703, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, at the age of 46, and was buried in North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America.
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From the time of its founding by Roger Williams in 1636, Rhode Island had strict separation of religious and government institutions. Therefore, Providence had no state churches with adjacent public burial grounds, as most New England towns had. Instead, townspeople buried their dead in family plots on individual farms. In 1700, a town vote was held to establish a municipal cemetery. This cemetery was to be open to the deceased of all faiths, from millionaires to paupers, and even emancipated slaves. 45 acres were set aside; 10 acres were to be used for a cemetery, the remainder for a town common and militia training ground. However, the first official burial didn't take place until one Samuel Whipple was buried here in 1710-11. There were only about one or two burials per year until 1736, when 14 people were buried.
English: variant of Angel .
Norwegian (of German origin): habitational name from the placename Angeln in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. The surname is known in Norway from the 17th century.
American shortened and altered form of Greek Angelis or of any other derivative of the personal name Angelos (see Angelos ). Compare Angel .
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