Person:Richard Mather (5)

Name^[1]	Richard Mather
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]	23 Dec 1653	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	1 Jul 1680	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Katherine Wise
Death^[1]^[3]	17 Aug 1688	Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United Stat

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 11 Richard Mather, in Mather, Horace E. Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather. (Hartford, Conn.: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1890)
75.

"11 Richard Mather … of Lyme, Conn. Born in Dorchester, Mass., Dec. 20 1653; d. at Lyme, Conn., Aug. 17, 1688; married Catherine Wise, July 1, 1680. … Richard Mather, named after his grandfather Richard Mather, was a farmer, and settled at first in Dorchester, but a few years after his marriage he removed to Lyme, Conn. In the year 1687 he bought a tract of land in Lyme of Hezekiah Usher of Boston. As Mr. Mather died the next year, he could not have done much in his new enterprise. He died on the fifty-third anniversary of the landing of his grandfather in America, which was on the 17th of August, 1635. Although Mr. Mather died at the age of thirty-five years, his descendants far outnumber either of the other branches, the Windsor, or Suffield, …"
↑ Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
6.

"Richard Mather the Son of Timothy Mather was Born the 22 : 10 : 1653."
↑ Lyme Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
128.

"Mather, … Richard, d. Aug. 17, 1688 [L-2:26]"