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- !BIRTH: Hist of Cambridge, Mass 974.44/C1-D2p v.1; Colonial Rec of Conn 974.6/N2c v.1 p.88; Wisconson Families 977.5/B2wf v.1 p.111;
!MARRIAGE: (1) ? (2) Elizabeth BIGELOW-Bigelow Genealogy 929.273/B481h p.18;
!DEATH: Early Conn Probate 974.6/s2m p.4, 82, 286;
!Archive rec Bertha Celestia Garrison; Savage Dict V 1.
!DOCUMENTATION (by Margaret Neuffer):
!"Families of Early Hartford, Conn." page 134.
!DEATH: Source - Early Conn Probate 974.6/s2m p.4, 82, 286; Also same as Marriage.
Richard was in Cambridge, Mass. in 1632; a freeman Mass. 14 May 1634.
Removed to Hartford; an original proprietor in 1639-40, when 16 acres were alloted to him. His house lot was on the corner where the road from George Steele's to the South Meadow interesected the road from the Mill to the Country.
He was a juror 1643-4-7-8' townsman 1649-54-58; one of the committee for the mill 1661; grand juror 1660--62; deputy 1656-1660; one of the deacons of the First Church. Inv - 564 lbs. 15-0. His first wife's name is unknown.
!Source - Hinnman says he md Elizabeth Bigelow before he came to Hartford.
!Early member 1 Ch. Name on Founders Monument.
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Said to have sailed to America on the ship Hector in 1632 with his brother William, leaving two sisters in Essex. One sister, Jane, married a "West" and the other married a "Winter". Richard's brother William died in Hartford in 1648, the two sisters are mentioned in his will.
Richard's parents are believed to have been Stephen (born about 1580 in Braintree) and Mary; and Stephen's father, John (born about 1550), by some accounts Stephen died in Hartford CT.
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1611 - 1684 (73 years)