Transcript talk:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p540

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Jrich states, in part:

"I have not studied the various Samuel Riders well enough to separate them. I suggest starting with the Mayflower Descendant article (it should be somewhere on books.google.com since it was the 1914 issue). The narrative mentions a TAG article that would probably be useful. To start with, the same Samuel Rider married Sarah Bartlett and Lydia Tilden and it was he that had a son Samuel born in 1657. So elements of all three Samuel Bartletts quoted from Savage apply to one man, though most of the first entry is another man."

At best then, the content in the three Samuel Rider sketches appears to be untrustworthy. Perhaps a future careful review will be able to rescue the accurate content, and the strike-through can be applied more selectively.