William was of Dartmouth when he sold 112 acres to Peleg Slocum in Aug 1693 for 65. He sold more land in 1696 to Robert Havens. He was constable in 1695 and 1696. He moved to Pomfret, CT, and several of his children went to the Beekman Patent.

Ref: "The Manchester Family of Rhode Island", by Alden and Rita C. Manchester, Takoma Park, Md., in the New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston Register, October 1947

Ref: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, Narragansett Historical Publ. Co., Providence, 1893.