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Facts and Events
First appearance 1636 in Lynn. In 1637, moved with a group to Cape Cod and set up Sandwich. Friendly to the early group of Quakers there, as the church was extremely intolerant. He is a beneficiary, along with Thomas Tupper and Peter Gaunt, in the will of Thomas Hampton, written in March 1637 in Sandwich. [4].
On 3 Feb 1656/1657 a complaint was filed at the Court of Assistants of Plymouth Colony against Richard Kirby for frequently attending Quaker meetings. He was also fined several more times for Quaker activity. After 1660, he left for Dartmouth.
His wife is unproven, but based on timing of the death of Jane Kirby and the daughter named Jane, it’s assumed she was his wife. Took oath of fidelity in Dartmouth in 1686. His children still living filed a document organizing his estate on 21 Jul 1707 saying he had been dead 19 years.[1]
A brief profile in NEHGR re NY settlers from New England says he went to Oyster Bay and married Elizabeth Hopkins, widow from Rhode Island (but it also attributes his sons spouses to him, so questionable). [5]
A Richard Kirbie appears on the list of "passengers for Virginia" compiled at Gravesend in 1635. [6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dwight, Melatiah Everett. The Kirbys of New England: A History of the Descendants of John Kirby of Middletown, Conn. and of Joseph Kirby of Hartford, Conn., and of Richard Kirby of Sandwich, Mass., Together with Genealogies of the Burgis, White and Maclaren Families, and the Ancestry of John Drake of Windsor, Conn. (New York: Trow Printing, 1898).
- ↑ Rounds, H. L. Peter. Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts probate records: Bristol County, Massachusetts probate records. (Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987)
4:119.
WILL:
Ratification of earlier agreement about settlement of estate of Richard Kirby of Dartmouth: "sometime more yn 19yrs since ... d. intestate" said agreement having been between Richard's children: Richard & Recompense Kirby, Sarah Allen & Ruhama Smith both widows of Dartmouth and Jane Leander of Sandwich. Dated Oct 9, 1707; recorded Oct. 9, 1722. Witnesses: Henery Howland & Samuel Marehu. [Bristol Co Probate 4:119]
- 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)
vol. 3, p. 31.
RICHARD, Lynn, rem. 1637 to Sandwich, by w. Jane had Increase, and prob. Abigail, tw. b. Feb. 1650, of wh. Abigail was bur. the same, and Increase, the next mo. and the mo. and her s. Richard were bur. in Mar. of that yr. He was imprison. as a Quaker 1658, may have tak. o. of fidel. at Dartmouth 1684, where he m. 2 Nov. 1678, Abigail Rowland of D. perhaps as sec. or third w. By former w. Patience he had at D. Sarah, b. 1 May 1667; John, 2 Mar. 1673; and Robert, 10 Mar. 1675. Perhaps he was of Oyster Bay, L. I. 1685.
- ↑ NEHGR 4:36
- ↑ NEHGR 55:303
- ↑ NEHGR 5:62
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