Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 666. (367) 11/16/50 RALPHE EARLE. The following is from the same sources as quoted under subject 1332, and from "The Corey-Sherman Family", clippings from the Boston Transcript: and from the New England Historic & Genealogical Register, Vol CIV, page 225, of July 1950. Ralphe Earle was baptized at Bishop's Stortford, England, on February 9/1606, and died at Portsmouth, R.I., in 1678. He married in England, on June 29/1631, Joan Savage, who died at Portsmouth R.I., in 1678, daughter of Richard Savage. They emigrated to England in 1634 with their two eldest children and arrived at Boston in 1634, He was admitted an inhabitant of Aquidneck, R.I., in 1638. On April 30/1639, he and 29 others "doe acknowledge ourselves legall subjects of His Majesty King Charles". On June 2/1649, he was treasurer of Newport, R.I. On August 10/1667 he joined a troop of Horse, of which Captain Peleg Sanford was in command: he was afterwards a captain in the same company. Issue:- 1. Ralphe Earle. Baptized April 22/1632, died 1716. He was made a freeman in 1658. He married before October 26/1659, Dorcas Sprague, daughter of Francis and Lydia Sprague of Duxbury, Mass., who came from England to Plymouth, Mass., in the ship "Anne" in 1625 and settled in Duxbury. They had seven children. 2. William Earle. Baptized May 11/1634, died January 15/1715. He lived at Dartmouth, Mess., where he had 2000 acres of land. He married, 1st, Mary Walker, daughter of John and Katharine Walker and had seven children by her. He married, 2nd, Prudence ---. 3. Mary Earle. Born in New England. She married, 1st, William Cory, who died January 4/1682: 2nd, Joseph Timberlake, son of Henry and Mary Timberlake. See subject 332 for issue and further particulars. 4. Martha Earle. Born in New England. She married William Wood, who died in 1697, son of John Wood, see subject 642. They lived at Portsmouth, R.I., and then Dartmouth, Mass, and had ten children. 5. Sarah Earle, Born in New England, died at Tiverton, R.I., in 1690. She married, 1st, as his second wife, Thomas Cornell, date of birth unknown, executed by hanging on May 23/1673 for the murder of his mother, son of Thomas and Rebecca (Briggs) Cornell. The report of her death stated "that she was killed strangely at Portsmouth, in her own house: her body was viewed twice by the Coroners Inquest, digged up and buried again in her husband's grave on their own land. Her son Thomas was tried and convicted of her murder and hanged by the neck until he was dead. The famous trial was afterwards considered to be a miserable farce, there being no evidence whatsoever of his guilt. It appears that the old lady was smoking a pipe by the fire, when a coal fell from the fire or from her pipe and she was burned to death. Her eldest son Thomas was convicted on the strength of a vision her brother John Briggs had, in which she appeared to him after her death, saying "see how I was burned with fire". It was inferred that she was set fire to, and that her eldest son Thomas, who was with her at the time, did it. Thomas Cornell's first wife's name is unknown: he had four sons by his first wife. After Thomas Cornell's execution, Sarah Earle married, 2nd, in 1677, David Lake, and had five children by him, Sarah had three daughters by Thomas Cornell; the last one was named Innocent Cornell, in protest of his wrongful execution.