Person:Thomas Richards (16)

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Thomas Richards
b.Bef 1621
d.Aft 1648
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Name Thomas Richards
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1621 Admitted freeman 1645.
Other[1][2] May 1645 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Death[1] Aft 1648 No record after admittance to Artillery Company.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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)
    3:534.

    Richards, Thomas, Boston, freem. 1645, ar. co. 1648, of wh. no more is kn.

  2. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:190.
  3.   Morse, Abner. A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans. (Boston, MA: H.W. Dutton & Sons, 1861)
    13.

    Thomas Richards, "probably" son of Thomas Senior, "presumed" to have remained in Dorchester with his brother John, admitted as freeman 1645, moved to Boston by 1648, a member of the Artillery Co. "Supposed" to have died before his father's will.

  4.   Obviously the birth data shown on this page was incorrect, since 1618 is two years before the Mayflower, making a birth in Dorchester, Mass., impossible. If the birth date of 1618 is correct, it is before the consensus estimate of his alleged parents' marriage in 1619 or 1620. Thomas is called "probably" a son of Thomas by Source:Morse, Abner. Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans, which has a long section of the Richards family on p. 13, but the description of his life is couched with several adjectives indicating something less than certainty.

    However, Thomas is not included in this family in two modern authorities: not in NEHGR, p. 163:291 (2009), "Humphrey Blake and His Descendants", nor in Source:Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 in its article on Thomas Richards. In fact, Anderson does not even dignify Rev. Morse's assertion with a comment.
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