Joseph Arnold (Rhode Island), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1710
Place of Birth: Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Date of Death: 29-Aug-1776
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Joseph Arnold (Rhode Island)
- Joseph Arnold (1710–1776) was a pre-revolutionary resident of North Kingstown and Exeter in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
- He is most noted for having a very large progeny, having had 16 children of whom 15 grew to maturity, married, and had children of their own, giving him at least 89 grandchildren.
- He was the great great grandfather of presidential hopeful Stephen Arnold Douglas who debated Abraham Lincoln in 1858, and lost to him in the 1860 presidential election.
- He was an ancestral link between Douglas and many prominent early Rhode Islanders such as Governor Benedict Arnold and two founders of the Rhode Island colony, Samuel Wilbore and John Porter.
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