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RICHARD ANTHONY 1767-1840
Grand Master 1825-1826
BIOGRAPHY
The name of Richard Anthony who was the eleventh Grand Master of Rhode Island is number 32 on the roll of Grand Lodge. He was born at Providence, April 19, 1767, the son of Daniel Anthony (or Anthoinie, as he wrote it), the first American ancestor who came from the village of Hampstead, near London, England to new England in the barque Hercules, landing April 16, 1634. His mother was Mary Bowen, daughter of Richard and Remember (Goodspeed) Bowen. He was married May 12, 1791 at Providence to Abigail Eddy of Providence by Justice of the Peace Pitman. Captain Eddy was a Naval officer in the Revolutionary War. He was ordered with a ship’s company to Crown Point, NY where he contracted smallpox and died there in May of 1777. Richard Anthony and wife Abigail had nine children.
After his marriage, Richard Anthony removed to Coventry where he engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods with his brother William Anthony. The village of Anthony in the town was named after them in 1805.
