Hezekiah Munro

Hezekiah Munro (1746-1826) was the third child of William Munro and his wife Elizabeth. In 1770, he became ensign of Jeremiah Ingraham’s Company of Bristol Militia, holding that rank until 1776. In 1772, Hezekiah married Hopestill Potter. In 1774, as part of a town-wide effort, he sent a sum of six shillings to support the people of Boston (that city’s port having been recently closed by the British). As of the 1774 Rhode Island Census, there were two black people (likely enslaved) living in the Munro household. In 1779, he was a member of Thomas Allen‘s Bristol County Alarm Company. A man named Charles, described as “negro servant of Hezekiah”, drowned in 1786. As of the 1790 United States Census, there was one enslaved person living in the Munro household.