Eleazer ARNOLD

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Eleazer Arnold lived as an adult in Smithfield, Rhode Island where he was a member of the Town Council in 1684, 85, and 86. He was Deputy in 1686, 1700, 1701, 03,06, 07, 11, and 1715. In 1705, he was a Justice of the Peace. On Oct 2, 1708, he deeded to Thomas Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., and Joseph Arnold half an acre of land in what is now Great Road near his home for the construction of what is now referred to as "the Old Friends meeting house" in the current town of Lincoln, R.I. The Meeting House has been in use continuously since that time and is used today by the Saylesville, Rhode Island Meeting of the Society of Friends. Eleazer is best known for his house which still stands a little northwest of the Old Friends Meeting House at 449 Great Road, Lincoln, Rhode Island. Eleazer lived in the house surrounded by his farm lands. The house also served as a tavern. One account indicates that he was a very successful farmer and businessman and was able to build a house for each of his seven children along Great Road. Since there were so many Arnold's living in the area, the area became known as "Arnoldia" in the 18th century. In 1987, Eleazer's house was owned by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. It was completely restored structurally in the 1950s by the SPNEA. They have full drawings and documentary photographs in their Boston offices. The house is what is referred to as a "stone ender". This type of house had one entire end built of stone for the full two story height. The exterior of the balance of the house is lapped, horizontal, sawn lumber about four inches wide attached to the frame with old rectangular headed nails of the day. The stone end has a number of interconnecting flues, each one leading to a separate fireplace on the upper or lower floor. The individual flues than join into one main upper chimney. When the large mass of stone in this end of the house was heated, the house would stay warm for long periods of time without fire. As one would expect, a continual fire was kept burning in at least one fireplace the winter, generally the one on the lower floor, to keep the stone end warm. Two smaller fireplaces are located at the other end of the house to heat the "spinning room" on the first floor and the bedrooms off the upper floor, main room. The lower floor contains the principle work areas. A small area at the rear forms the current kitchen. The original kitchen was on the second floor with its characteristic large fireplace across the end. The main lower room was a common room and contains, across one end, the largest fireplace in the house. This fireplace was the main heating fireplace for the house. Stairs lead to the upper floor from the back of the house and from the one side of the large fireplace in the common room. The second floor contains three bedrooms and the large living room. This floor was probably the center of the tavern operation. It was told that three men had a hand in building the chimney. The first died before it was finished. The second also died suddenly before he could finish it. Farming was Eleazer's main occupation. Operating the tavern and taking care of politics were secondary efforts. Most of Smithfield , now Lincoln, area farmers grew food crops such as beans, squash, and pumpkins, corn both for meal and animal feed, potatoes, oats and barley. Eleazer had five cows for milk, cheese, and butter. His two oxen pulled his plow and his horse was used for occasional trips along the Great Road. He had nineteen sheep that supplied wool for the family clothing and a small herd of swine whose preserved meat carried the family through the winter. He also grew a small cash crop of tobacco and processed his apples into cider and vinegar. Eleazer's will is available but it is not published here.

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