Person:Richard Law (7)
Richard Law
b.Est 1602
d.1687 Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
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m. Abt 1635
  1. Jonathan LawCal 1636 - 1711/12
  2. Abigail LawEst 1640 - 1711
  3. Sarah LawEst 1644 - 1732
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Name[1][2][4] Richard Law
Gender Male
Birth[3] Est 1602 Rough estimate based on date of birth of wife.
Marriage Abt 1635 to Margaret Kilbourne
Residence[4] 1638 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Residence[2][4] 1640 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Death[1][2] 1687 Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Abbott, Susan Woodruff, and Jacquelyn Ladd Ricker. Families of Early Milford, Connecticut. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1979)
    page 401.

    'Richard Law died 1687. ... He ... removed to Stamford, Conn.'

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Adams, Sherman W. (Sherman Wolcott), and Henry R. (Henry Reed) Stiles. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Early Families. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904)
    2:481.

    'LAW, ...RICHARD, ... sold his homestead [in Wethersfield] in 1640, and rem. to Stamford, ... d. at St., will dated 12 Mch., 1686-7.'

  3. ↑ Kilbourne, Payne Kenyon. The History and Antiquities of the Name and Family of Kilbourn. (New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1856)
    page 39.

    'MARGARET, born in Wood Ditton, county of Cambridge, England, A. D. 1607, and was baptized on the 23d of Sept. of that year. She came to New England with her parents, on board the "Increase," in 1635; and soon after her arrival, she was married to Richard Law, Esq., then of Wethersfield, but subsequently an early and prominent settler of Stamford.'

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932)
    1:375.

    Law, Richard. Deputy (Stamford) to New Haven Leg., May 1653, May 1654, May 1655, May 1656, May 1657, May 1658, May 1659, May 1661, May 1662, May and Oct. 1663, Jan. and May 1664; Magistrate for Stamford, 1653-63; Assistant (provisional appointment. Conn. Col.), Oct. 1664; Deputy (Stamford) to Conn. Leg., Oct. 1665, Oct. 1666, Oct. 1669, May 1672; Commissioner for Stamford, Greenwich and Rye, 1665-80, for Stamford and Greenwich, 1681-86, and for Stamford, 1687. Of Wethersfield by 1638; rem. to Stamford. He m. Margaret Kilbourne, dau. of Thomas.

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