Nathaniel Fales (1720-1801) was the second child of Captain Timothy Fales and his wife Alathea. In 1740, he married Sarah Little (1718-1787). Nathaniel and Sarah had 14 children: Sarah, Alathea, Dorothy, Timothy, Mary, Nathaniel, Samuel, Thomas, Elizabeth, Stephen, William, John, Hannah, and Jonathan. In 1752, Nathaniel became a justice of the peace. In 1756, he became a justice of the Bristol County Court of Common Pleas. Six years later, he was chief justice, serving until 1782. In 1774, as part of a town-wide effort, he sent a sum of one pound, ten shillings to support the people of Boston (that city’s port having been recently closed by the British). Nathaniel died in Taunton, Massachusetts.
Bristol, Rhode Island in the Revolutionary War 1775-1783
Rev War Bristol 