Person:Richard Bonython (2)
Captain Richard Bonython
chr.8 Apr 1580 St. Columb Major, Cornwall, England
d.Bef 29 Jun 1654
Parents and Siblings
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m. 21 Jun 1562
  1. Reskymer BonythonAbt 1569 - 1627
  2. Edmond BonythonAbt 1573 -
  3. William BonythonAbt 1575 -
  4. John Bonython1577 - 1578
  5. Elizabeth BonythonAbt 1579 -
  6. Captain Richard Bonython1580 - Bef 1654
  7. Eleanore BonythonAbt 1582 -
  8. Anne BonythonAbt 1585 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Captain Richard Bonython1580 - Bef 1654
  • W.  Lucretia Leigh1584 - 1647
m. Bef 1607
  1. John BonythonEst 1607 - 1675/76
  2. Francis BonythonEst 1609 - 1609/10
  3. Grace Bonython1610 -
  4. Elizabeth Bonython1612 -
  5. Susanna Bonython1614/15 -
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Captain Richard Bonython
Gender Male
Christening[1] 8 Apr 1580 St. Columb Major, Cornwall, England
Marriage Bef 1607 to Lucretia Leigh
Emigration[1] 1635
Residence[1] 1635 Saco, York, Maine, United States
Occupation[1] Magistrate.
Death[1] Bef 29 Jun 1654
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Richard Bonython, 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)
    1:343-47.

    ORIGIN: St Breage, Cornwall.
    BIRTH: Baptized at St Columb Major, Cornwall, 8 April 1580, son of John and Eleanor (Myleinton) Bonython [Arthur J. Jewers, ed., The Registers of the Parish of St Columb Major, Cornwall, fromthe Year 1539 to 1780 (London 1881), p. 10; Bonython Gen 40, citing St Breage parish register].
    DEATH: Before 29 June 1654 (when "Mr. Richard Foxwell 7 Mr. Comings [were] plaintiffs in an action of trespass upon the case for pulling down their house & laying claim to their lands, contra Mr. John Bonighton defendant" [MPCR 2:24]).
    On 1 July 1661, 'Richard Coinmings father of Tho[mas] Cumings is plaintiff as executor to Capt. Richard Bonighton in an action of the case for a debt due to the said Ric|hard| Bonighton contra Mr. John Bonighton defendant"; annotated "withdrawn" [MPCR 2:99|. (This record was inaccurately reported by Noyes, Libby and Davis [GDMNH 99], and, given the imprecise usage of the terms "executor" and "administrator" at the time, does not necessarily imply the existence of a will.)

  2. ↑ 3 Capt. Richard Bonython, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
    99.

    Richard (Bonython), patentee of what is now Saco and Old Orchard, s. of John Bonython and Elinor, d. of Wm. Myleinton. Although his father inherited the manor of Bonython in the parish of Cury, almost at Land's End, Richard was b. at the maternal est. in St. Columb Major on the Cornish north coast, bp. 3 Apr. 1580. As a younger son he was trained to arms and commanded a company in the wars with France. The Lewis and Bonython patent, 4 x 8 miles, was like several others except that it was taken more seriously. Mr. Lewis had been over before it was granted, came over with it and remained in charge here, while Capt. Bonython remained behind to send over the 50 people whom they were to send within seven yrs. Nothing indicates his earlier arrival here except that his house was ready for the first court held in the Province, 25 Mar. 1636, when William Gorges appar. gave place to him in the center of bench. See Doc. Hist. iii. 92, 96. P. & C. i. passim. Folsom's 'Saco' does full credit to his character and conduct under difficult circumstances. He sat in the court held 6 July 1646 after Mr. Vines left the country, and 14 July 1647 he exch. lands with Dr. Robert Child for a lot for his dau. Elizabeth on the other side of the river. He may not have d. here, and may have taken John with him, but cert. he was dead or away by 1654, when John was pulling down the buildings of his brothers-in-law. His grs., a child, Thomas Cummings, is termed 'executor to Capt. Richard Bonython,' but the will has not been found. … He m. Lucretia Leigh, d. of Wm. and Phillippa (Prest) of St. Thomas-by-Launceston. Living 1647. The bap. of their ch. are rec. in the parish of St. Breage: Grace, bp. Apr. 1610. Elizabeth, bp. Sep. 161--. List 235. M. ab. 1647 Richard Cummings(3). Susannah, bp. Feb. 1614, m. Richard
    Foxwell(5). John.

  3.   Margery Batson, daughter of Stephen & Elizabeth, bound an apprentice by consent to CAPT. RICHARD BONYTHON & WIFE LUCRETIA till sd Margery attayne to full age of 21. April 4, 1637 [Maine Province & Court Records Vol. 1, p.6]
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