Person:Richard Putnam (1)

Tentative Ancestry

G Andrews Moriarty made a case for Richard being an uncle of Richard Puttenam of Toternhoo, and younger brother of John Puttnam (another uncle of Richard of Toternhoo). Using a few records over the course of almost a century (1390 to 1482), he created a tentative lineage from Sir Roger de Putenham of Putenham, M. P. for Bucks, and Margery, his wife, to this Richard Putnam, which can be seen on pages 13-14 of his TAG article^[2].

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Moriarty, G. Andrews, Jr. The English Ancestry of John Putnam of Salem, Massachusetts, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
   15(1938):10.

   'Richard Putnam of Woughton on the Green by his will, dated 12 De. 1556, proved 26 Feb. Feb 1556/7, devised his house in Slapton "to Joan my wife for life, with remainder to John my son." '

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Moriarty, G. Andrews, Jr. The English Ancestry of John Putnam of Salem, Massachusetts, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
   15(1938):14.

   'Richard Putnam of Woughton and Slapton b. c. 1490. Test, 1556-7.'

3.   Moriarty, G. Andrews, Jr. The English Ancestry of John Putnam of Salem, Massachusetts, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
   15(1938):11-12.

   'There can be small doubt that Richard [Putnam] of Slapton and Woughton, the testator of 1556, was a younger brother of the father of Richard of Toternhoo and of John Putnam of Slapton and Edlesborough and that he belonged to the Edlesborough Putnams, who were a cadet branch of the Putenhams of Putenham.'