Person:William Richards (27)
William Richards
b.Bef 1625
d.Bet 18 Jan 1680 and 25 Jul 1682 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (probably)
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  • H.  William RichardsBef 1625 - Bet 1680 & 1682
  • W.  Grace UnknownBef 1630 - Aft 1680
m. Bef 1650
  1. Joseph RichardsBef 1655 - 1695/96
  2. William RichardsEst 1656 - 1683
  3. John Richards
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Facts and Events
Name[1] William Richards
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1625 Based on estimated date of marriage.
Residence[1] 1640 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1650 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (probably)Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Grace Unknown
Will[1] 18 Jan 1680
Death[1] Bet 18 Jan 1680 and 25 Jul 1682 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (probably)Between date of will and date of probate.
Probate[1] 25 Jul 1682 Will proved.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1. William Richards, in Chamberlain, George Walter. History of Weymouth, Massachusetts. (Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, under direction of the town, 1923)
    4:589.

    "1. William Richards was settled at Weymouth before 1 Sept. 1640. On that day the General Court appointed Thomas Jenner and Thomas White to settle a difference between William Richards and John Turner. (Massachusetts Bay Colony Records, 1:300.) He first appears at Plymouth and was there taxed 25 Mar. 1633. He soon removed to Scituate and was there residing, 6 Jan. 1636-37. He early had lands granted to him in the westernecke, 25 acres, which had first been given to John Burslem and William Smith (Weymouth Land Grants, 274.) He married, before 1650, Grace Shaw, daughter of Abraham Shaw of Halifax, Eng., and of Dedham. She was baptized at Halifax, Yorkshire, 15 Aug. 1621. (Register, 48: 346.) [Grace's parentage is unproven] She survived her husband. He made his will 18 Jan. 1680, and it was proved 25 July, 1682. In it he mentions his wife Grace, his sons James, who was to have the homestead, William, Joseph, and Benjamin, the youngest.(Suffolk Probate, 6: 388.)"

  2.   William Richards, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    3:1579.

    "Deane tentatively claims this William Richards [who appears in the Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634] as a resident of Scituate by 1636, and a landholder there in 1639 [Deane 331]. He further identifies this man as the William Richards of Weymouth in 1640 and later [MBCR 1:300; Savage 3:535]. The only evidence in favor of this position is the identity of names."

    Emphasis added.

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