Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p8

RICHARD, Watertown, the knght, s. of Samuel, and neph. of Sir
Richard mayor of London in the time of Queen Elizabeth was from the
neighb. of Halifax, in the W. Riding of Co. York, in the royal chart. of
4 Mar. 1629 first nam. of the 18 Assist. came 1630 in the fleet bring. all
his fam. with Gov. Winthrop but prob. his w. had d. sone yrs. bef. With
two ds. Rosamond and Grace, and one of his younger s. prob. Samuel,
he left N.E. for home 1 Apr. 1631, hav. attend. eight of the nine sess.
of the Ct. of Assist. and was fin. for abs. at that of 7 Sept. preced.
Earnest. he befriend. onr country in Eng. by thought, word, and deed;
and was active, with the Lords Brooke, Say and Seal and other puritans
in the first settlem. of Conn. By his first w. Grace, d. of Robert
Kaye, Esq. of Yorksh. he had four s. Richard, b. 1610; Robert; Samuel;
and Henry; two ds. Rosamond, perhaps the eldest ch. and Grace.
By uncert. tradit. he is giv. two other ws. one said to be d. of the Earl
of Delaware, for wh. in Collins's Peerage no support can be seen, and
the other, less improb. Martha Wilford; but no ch. is ascrib. to either.
He was, with s. Henry, in Holland 1644, perhaps min. to the States, and
there was paint. the likeness of wh. engrav. is seen in the sec. vol. of
Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceed. His will was made 1658, at the age of 72.
RICHARD, Ipswich, s. of the preced. by his f. brot. 1630, hav. left
the Univ. of Cambridge, where he was entr. at Emanuel Coll. as a
fellow commoner, 18 Apr. 1627, from Yorksh. and matricula. 14 Dec.
foll. adm. freem. of Mass. 18 Oct. 1631, and next mo. went home, by
circuitous voyage of six wks. to Virg. and m. in Eng. a. 1633, Meriel,
d. of Brampton Gurdon of Assington, Co. Suff'k. near the ancestr. resid.
of our first Gov. Winthrop and emb. on return in the Susan and Ellen
1635, with that w. aged 22, and d. of the same name, was rep. in Mar.
1636 and foll. sess. until chos. an Assist. in May 1637, and in 1641
was made first offic. under Endicott, of the Essex regim. when only two
were in the Col. went home again, perhaps for the health of his w. 1649,
as told in the anecdote relat. of Rev. John Cotton in note to Hutch. I.
94. For many yrs. he was not chos. Assist. but in 1664 in hope of
his com. again, the honor was renew. and it was erron. assert. that he
had been aft. in the country, bec. in 1672 he gave L50. to relief of
Goffe and Whalley, the regicides. In 1680, however, he once more
in Mass. and in May organizat. made an Assist. tak. the o. in Aug. wh.
was renew. in 1681 and 2, but in this latter yr. he went home again, as
the hope of preserv. liberty under the old chart. evapora. and d. 20 or
29 Apr. 1694, at Hulme, in Lancashire, at the ho. of Sir Edward
Morley, wh. m. his eldest d. Other ch. were Richard, wh. d. young,
prob. unm. certain. and Nathaniel, bef. ment. also Abigail, wh. m. Thomas
Harley, s. of Sir Robert, and uncle to the famous Robert, prime min. of