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- . Tallman of New Jersey:
The Tallmans of New Jersey are represented by several branches of the name having
a common ancestor in Peter Tallman.1 who settled in Newport & Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where he died in 1708. Concerning him & his immediate issue, J. 0. Austin
supplies the following data:
1655. He was a freeman.
. 1657 June 9. Peter Talman was on the list of New Amsterdam burghers.
. 1658 Dec. 18. He bought nine acres in Portsmouth, for 35 shillings an acre & 2 days later added six acres more to the first purchase.
. 1661 May 21. Portsmouth. He was elected General Solicitor for the Colony of Rhode Island.
. 1661-1662. He was a Commissioner.
. 1662-1665. He was Deputy.
. 1665. The Assembly granted him a divorce from his wife Ann.*
. 1665 July 24. He entered into an ante-nuptial agreement with Joan Briggs, of Taunton, agreeing to give her the land that he had bought in 1658, as also a house to be
hers & the heirs born of this marriage. He also gave her a bed & half the household goods, but if she died without issue, they were to revert to his eldest son, Peter Tallman,
Jr. & if he died without issue, then to the eldest daughter of Peter Tallman, Sr., Mary & her heirs. Further, he gave to Joan, absolutely, as a free gift of donation, "three good cows & a breeding mare."
. 1674 June 7. He was imprisoned, but released at this date for having taken from the Indians lands by deed of gift in violation of the law of Massachusetts, he having
surrendered the same. - - - [1]
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