Person:Richard Thorley (1)

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Richard Thorley
b.Bef 1605
d.10 Nov 1685 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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  • H.  Richard ThorleyBef 1605 - 1685
  • W.  Jane UnknownBef 1610 - 1683/84
m. Bef 1630
  1. Francis ThorleyEst 1630 - 1703
  2. Thomas ThorleyEst 1632 - 1713
  3. Mary ThorleyEst 1634 -
  4. Lydia Thorley1640 - 1716
  5. Martha ThorleyEst 1642 - 1700
  6. John Thorley1644 - 1659
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Name[1] Richard Thorley
Gender Male
Birth[2] Bef 1605 Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage Bef 1630 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Jane Unknown
Emigration[3] 1639
Residence[3] 1639 Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1] 10 Nov 1685 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Richard and Jane Thorley were at Rowley, Mass. in early 1640. Amongst their children were two sons, Thomas and Francis, whose ages (from burial records) agree with the dates of the baptisms recorded at Holme On Spalding Moor, Yorkshire, which is 7 miles west of the parish of Rowley, Yorkshire. One can reasonably assume then that Richard and Jane were members of Rev. Ezekial Rogers's congregation of some sixty families who came with him to America in 1638 settled in Rowley, Mass. He moved to Newbury in 1651 where he became a proprietor, and led the typical life of a New England planter, working the farm, serving on juries and committees. A bit of Yankee enterprise caused him to erect a toll bridge in 1654 over the Parker River, which (four bridges later) still exists at Thorlow's Bridge, with a marker and all, to this day. In his will, he divided his property between his two sons, Francis and Thomas.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 198 Richard1 Thorley, in Jewett, Amos Everett, [Editor], and George Brainard [Compiler] Blodgette. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts: A Genealogical Record of the Families who Settled in Rowley before 1700 with Several Generations of their Descendants. (Rowley, Mass.: Amos Everett Jewett (Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Mass.), 1933)
    382-83.

    Richard1 Thorley had a two-acre house lot, 1643. He sold his estate in Rowley, in 1651, to Capt. John Johnson, and moved to Newbury with his wife Jane. His home in Newbury was on the north side of Parker River, near the present site of Dummer Academy. By deed, dated 1 Dec., 1651, Mathew Chaffey of Boston, shipwright, and Sarah, his wife, convey to Richard Thorley, for £155, a farm in Newbury … Richard Thorley had a grant of land by the colony, 1653, and the next year a toll for his bridge, built over Parker River. His wife, Jane, died in Newbury, 19 Mar., 1683-4, and he died there 10 Nov., 1685. This name is now usually written, "Thurlow," or "Thurlo."

  2. ↑ Richard Thurlo, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:295.

    Richard Thurlo, Rowley 1643, among early sett, but it is not kn. if he were with the first, nor whether he came, as most of the others, from Yorksh. nor whether he brot. w. or other ch. than Francis, b. 1630; and Thomas, 1632; but his w. Jane, wh. d. 19 Mar. 1684, may have accomp. him. In 1651 he rem. to Newbury; in 1653 he had a gr. of ld. by the Col. and next yr. a toll for his bridge built over Newbury (i. e. Parker) riv. and d. 10 Nov. 1685.

    [At 4:710] [Vol. 4] P. 295. l. 7 from bot. aft. him, add, and bore Lydia, 1 Apr. 1640; and John, 19 July 1644.

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Thomas Wells, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    7:299.

    Richard Thurlow {1639, Rowley}.

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