Nathaniel Fales

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 member of Rhode Island’s General Assembly. Also in 1756, Nathaniel 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). As of the 1774 Rhode Island Census, one indigenous person and one black person (likely unfree) lived in the Fales household. Nathaniel died in Taunton, Massachusetts.