Draft:Isaac Fiske

Isaac Fiske (June 15, 1757 – June 17, 1824) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. He was appointed to serve from May 1824 to June 1825, but died in June 1824.

Fiske "was 20 years Judge of Probate in Johnston, and also a Justice of Court of Common Pleas".

Of Johnston.

? "Isaac, A. M., his grandson, son of Jonathan, register of probate court in the county of Middlesex, graduated from Harvard University 1798"

"JUDGE ISAAC FISKE (Joseph, Samuel, Joseph, William, John, William, Robert, Simon, Simon, William, Symond), b. Johnston, R. I., June 15, 1757; m. there in 1775, Marcy Fenner, dau. of Richard, b. Feb. 24, 1758, d. July 7, 1820. He was born on the old homestead in Johnston, R. I., and received an excellent education for those early days. Before he had obtained his majority he enlisted in the Continental Army under Gen. Greene, of Rhode Island. He was sta- tioned at Prospect Hill in Cambridge, not far from Bunker Hill in Charlestown. His grandson, Geo. R. Fiske, Esq., of Roxbury, has two letters of his written the time he was in the army. One is dated Sept. 3, 1775, and the other Oct. 26, 1775, which he sent to his father, Joseph Fiske. This is the inventory of his estate: 1824, Aug 14 Inventory of Isaac Fiske'

$1303.40 viz. carding machine, turning lath, linen wheel, wooden wheel, quilt wheel, cash $38.50, silver watch, cooper's tools, blacksmith's tools, pepper mill, coffee mill, white horse, 2 cows, i heifer, chaise, writing desk, 2^ stacks rye, 4 stacks clover, clover in barn, $100. It is evident that he left home against the will of his parents, or certainly not with their approval, for he says he will not enlist again when his time is up. He was then 18 yrs. old, and the letters are very pathetic, showing the lack of almost everything among the troops, especially ammunition. I have also another letter of his written five years later, when he was very active in religious matters, probably had become a member of the Society of Friends, which he certainly was later on. In later life he was always called Judge Fiske; twenty years Judge of Probate and later Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and the high estimation in which he was held by his neighbors. "My father once took me to the graves of his father and mother, when I was a lad of about ten years, and I well remember with what great respect he spoke of his father and mother." He d. June 17, 1824; res. Johnston, R. I."

"Among the new appointments by the Assembly, are, Isaac Fiske, of Johnston, a Judge of the Supreme Court, in the place of Wheeler Martin".

Fiske died "after a few hours sickness", at the age of 67.