Descendants of Captain Arthur Fenner

Stephen Fenner

 

[b ca. 1754 at Cranston or Kent, RI; d 22 Oct. 1823 at Fairfield, Herkimer, NY] Stephen Fenner m Mary Fenner [b ca. 1768 at Cranston; d 18 Oct. 1850 at Newport, Herkimer Co., NY, in her 82nd yr.] on 22 Aug. 1790 at Scituate, RI. Mary, daughter of Arthur and Rachel, was a third cousin to Stephen. Stephen was probably named for his mother’s father, Stephen Arnold, who was the son of Gov. Benedict Arnold (1741–1801). Stephen was a Justice of the Peace in Cranston, and he was a Revolutionary War soldier with Col. Benjamin Arnold’s Pawtuxet Rangers. He moved his family from Cranston, RI, to Fairfield, NY, ca. 1814–1820.

  1. Philip Arnold [b 7 Jan. 1791 in RI; d 11 Sept. 1846 in WI] m Sally Stillman Potter.

  2. Olive [b 1793 in RI] m Ashbel Martin on 5 May 1814 at Cranston, RI. He died in a hospital in Utica, NY, leaving family in Herkimer County.

  3. Isaac [b 8 May 1795 in RI; d 15 Apr. 1877] m 1st Amelia Potter; m 2nd Esther Holmes Handy.

  4. Jabez [b 1796 in RI; d after 1859] m Phebe Hill

  5. Mary Ann [b 1797 in RI; d 12 mar. 1881] m John B. Leonard on 12 Oct. 1823; lived at Fairfield.

  6. Edward [b 1799 in RI; d 1879] m Esther O. Knight

  7. Henry A. [b ca. May 1802 in RI; d 6 July 1876] m Ellen Maynard Fenner on 24 Oct 1858; was a jeweler at Fairfield, NY.

Lineage:
Arthur | Thomas | Thomas | William | Stephen
Arthur | Arthur | Edward | Arthur | Mary

Sources:
1. Martha Benns, Notes on the Fenner Family of R.I. (1941), pp. 26, 42.
2. Email from Richard Arthur Fenner to Chris Fenner, 28 Aug. 2004. 
3. Rick Buckingham, The Book of Begats (rev. 2021), Line 2.