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Job Harrington Jr. was born on 18 Dec 1759 at West Greenwich, RI. He was the son of Captain Job Harrington and his wife Rebecca Carr. He married Meribah Whitford on 14 Oct 1781.
He has a Revolutionary War Pension file W 21292. This file indicates that he was born on 18 December 1759 at West Greenwich, Kent County, RI “and has always lived there”. He served as a private from December of 1776 and several times after that until 1780. He was in the battle of Rhode Island in 1779. His pension was granted on 30 Aug 1832 at West Greenwich. Job Harrington died on 29 Jun 1840 at West Greenwich.
According to this file, Job Harrington married on 14 Oct 1781, “Meriba Whetford” of West Greenwich and that he was then referred to as Job Harrington, Junior.
Meribah was allowed pension as his widow on her application dated 25 May 1843. Meribah was at this time seventy-nine years of age and lived at West Greenwich, RI.
In 1843 Ursula Brown of West Greenwich stated that the soldiers widow was her grandmother.
In 1832 an Ebenezer Harrington was a justice of the peace in West Greenwich, but his relationship is not shown in this file.
Name or numbers of children are not listed in this file. Other files indicate their children were:
Ebenezer Harrington born 07 Jul 1782
Aaron Harrington born 29 May 1786
Job Harrington born 29 Feb 1788
Nicholas Harrington born 12 Jul 1790
Carmi Harrington born 09 Oct 1793
Rebecca Harrington born 18 Jul 1796
Paul Harrington born 13 Apr 1798
Daniel Harrington born 28 Dec 1801.
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