Richard Mynatt II
Birth 21 Oct 1728
Devon, England
Death 1823 (aged 94–95)
Grainger County, Tennessee, USA
Burial Mynatt Cemetery
Union, Union County, Tennessee, USA
Richard Mynatt was born 1728 in England and died 1824 in Grainger County, TN. It is believed that his parents were Richard and Ann Tell Mynatt.
In 1749,he voluntarily indentured himself in order to pay for his passage to America. He was 20 years old and his indenture was to last four years. He worked as a pastry cook for the Honorable Thomas Lee,Esquire of Virginia, earning 8 pounds sterling per year.
Richard was evidently such a great cook, that when his indenture was completed, the Lee family refused to release him. Richard Mynatt's place in history is secured by being the first indentured servant to sue successfully for release from his master, Philip Ludwell Lee, heir of Thomas Lee, on July 31, 1754.
He married Sarah Cummings/Cummins on March 31, 1755 in Prince William Co., Virginia. Richard and Sarah lived in Virginia until 1787. They had 10 children, Leannah, William, Margaret, Elizabeth, Sarah, George, Hannah, Nancy, John and Susanna.
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