Person:Richard Curtis (8)

Four brothers -- Richard, Thomas, John and William -- came early to New England. Richard had lands at Marblehead in 1648. The same year he purchased lands in Scituate, and built a house between Gowin White's and the Harbour. His brother Thomas was in Scituate in 1649, having previously lived at Georgiana (also called York), and he returned there where he was living in 1684. Brother William settled at Scituate. Brother John left no family.

    The will of Richard Curtis is dated 1692.  It gives "To oldest son John two thirds of my real estate, he providing for my wife Lydia during her life.  To son Thomas one third.... To daughters Hannah Curtis, Elizabeth Brooks, Mary Badcocke, and Martha Clark."

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Thomas Chambers, 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)
   1:486-487.

   "Richard (Curtis) Marblehead 1648, rem. to Scituate, m. 1649, Ann, d. of John Hallet, had Ann, b. 1649; Eliz. 1651; John, 1 Dec. 1653; Mary, 1655; Martha, 1657; Thomas, 18 Mar. 1659; Deborah, 1661, and Sarah, 1663; and he d. 1693. His will, of 1692, provides for sec. w. Lydia, the two s. and ds. Ann; Eliz. Brooks, w. of Nathaniel; Mary Badcocke; and Martha Clark, w. of Thomas. So it is to be infer. that the youngest two ds. d. bef. their f."

2. ↑ Deane, Samuel. History of Scituate [Massachusetts]. (Boston: J. Loring, 1831)
   251-52.