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William Drew
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John Thorn
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William Hardin
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Charles Damport
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John Cray
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Benjamin Bishop
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Nathaniel Fiske
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John Throp
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John Miller
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Solomon Watts
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John King
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Philip Coker
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James Ogleby
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John Jeffries
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Rowland Soley
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Robert Wills
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Thomas Region
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Isaac Morris
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Thomas Hincher
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Nicholas Weymouth*
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Joseph Smith
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Nathaniel Jewell
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Thomas Aliston
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Samuel Mirick
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George Burkback
01 19 04
William Parham
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Daniel Magenis
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Thomas Roberts
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27 August
John Hubbard
02 07 00
John Tebb
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Henry Timberlake, Sergt.
01 00 00
Thomas Hirchboen, Drum
01 11 00
14 September
Joseph Priest
01 05 08
Nathaniel King
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John Pemberton
01 01 00
Simeon Messenger
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John Polly
01 04 00
John Essery
02 07 00
Henry Harwood, Sergt.
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Samuel Barber
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Phillip Jessop
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Charles Blincott, Sergt.
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Isaac Amsden
02 07 00
Henry Prentice
02 07 00
David Church
01 17 08
John Streeter
02 07 00
Samuel Johnson, Butcher
01 05 08
Abraham Hathaway
02 07 00
Thomas Traine
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James Johnson, Sergt.
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Ebenezer Owen
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Isaac How
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Matthew Stone
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Thomas Parker
01 04 00
Nathaniel Kean
01 04 10
Joseph Peirce
01 04 00
Benjamin Tower
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John Oates
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Jonathan Dunning
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[Bodge, pp. 51, 52.]
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£ s. d.
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William Hopkins
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Ralph Hall, Clark
03 10 00
01 10 00
Thomas Wigfall, Ensigne
03 02 04
Richard Bennet
02 07 00
3 September
Samuel Veze (Als. Very)
02 07 00
John Hastings
01 04 10
Edward Weeden
01 19 04
John Wiseman
03 03 06
John Taylor, Sergt.
02 01 10
Thomas Bishop
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Peter Bennett, Marshall
01 16 00
Osbel Morrison
02 19 00
John Cross
01 06 06
Perez Savage, Ensigne
02 08 00
Roger Procer
01 04 10
Robert Orchard, Sergt.
02 01 00
Henry Eliott
01 04 10
Thomas Okerby
01 19 04
21 September
* We later find Nicholas Weymouth settled in Rehoboth. Cf. Early Rehoboth, vol. II, p. 55.
CHAPTER V RICHARD WRIGHT
This is a study of Richard Wright, of Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the leaders and perhaps the main organizer in the settlement of Seekonk, later called Rehoboth. Nothing has been written about this man who from the very beginning played an important part in the founding of Massachusetts more than three centuries ago. Sav- age and Pope knew little about him, and what is here printed pre- sents a new ancestor to many thousands of people. There are only two persons of the surname Wright found in Rehoboth in the seventeenth century-Richard and George-and everything known about them appears in this book.
Richard Wright came from England in the first fleet with Governor John Winthrop as servant * to Col. John Humfrey (or Humphreys), bringing with him three daughters, and perhaps other children, and probably his mother, Margaret. His wife would appear to have been deceased, for his two daughters in depositions made seventy-one years later, said that they came with "their father", with no men- tion of a mother.
In 1629 Colonel Humfrey was chosen deputy governor of the Massachusetts Company, but, as he decided to remain in England, Thomas Dudley was elected to fill his place.
Richard Wright proceeded to take up the lands at Saugus (Lynn) granted Colonel Humfrey and develop into the "plaine farme", erecting the houses and buildings, and getting the place ready for the arrival of the owner.
In 1634 Colonel Humfrey came to New England and established himself at Saugus. His first wife, the Lady Susan, daughter of Thomas Clinton, third Earl of Lincoln, was a sister of the Lady Arbella, wife of Isaac Johnson. For a time Richard Wright and his family remained on the farm at Saugus. Later we find him at Boston; then at Braintree; and next at Seekonk as one of the organ- izers of the new township.
Early in the history of New England, there were two men by the name of Richard Wright. The first came in the fleet with John Winthrop in 1630, and the second first appears in Plymouth Colony on 8 Oct. 1636 when he was granted five acres of land "at the fishing point next Slowly Field".
The first positive separation of the two men is on 5 June 1638, when at an inquisition at the General Court, held at Plymouth, Richard Wright was one of fifteen "honest and lawful men of the colony". At this time there was a Richard Wright known to be in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. From this date on the records of
* Three hundred years ago anyone was a "servant" who worked for another whether in the capacity of farmhand or lawyer.
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the two men are distinct and separate. The Plymouth * man, married in 1644, deceased in 1691, was of the right age to have been a son of the Massachusetts man.
Richard Wright was the most important man and leader in the new settlement at Seekonk. Much has been said about the leader- ship of Rev. Samuel Newman in this settlement, but he was simply the teacher of the church. He was a scholar, and his consuming interest at this time was in the revision of the first edition of his Concordance to the Bible, finished at Weymouth and published in England in 1644.
Almost every spare minute of his time must have been taken up with this new revision, and in spite of the fact that he moved into the wilderness of Seekonk in 1643, his new 2nd edition of the Con- cordance to the Bible was published in London in 1650. This con- tained more than a million and a half words. It is said that he worked on it by light of "pitch pine knots", but anyone who has ever written a manuscript involving such an amount of research knows that he never could have done this work by the light of a smoky pine stick without losing his eyesight. He had to make a full time job of this Concordance, which is probably why he received no compensation from the town for the first few years.
Richard Wright was a staunch member of Samuel Newman's church, and when he went to England he may have carried to the printer the manuscript of Mr. Newman's new 1650 Concordance to the Bible. There is no record of anyone else from Rehoboth visiting England at this time.
Richard Wright of Braintree, Alexander Winchester (who had been servant to Mr. Henry Vane), William Cheeseborough, and Walter Palmer, were the real founders of Seekonk, and of these Richard Wright was the dominant man. Those from Weymouth and Hingham, contrary to what has been published, were secondary.
On 10 Dec. 1644 the nine Seekonk townsmen, including Alexander Winchester, chairman, Richard Wright and Walter Palmer of Braintree, with the backing of Massachusetts Bay, ordered eighteen men, including the powerful John Brown, Assistant at the Plymouth Court (then living at Taunton), either to move to Seekonk or forfeit their lands. This action was taken when it was thought that See- konk was within the Massachusetts Bay jurisdiction.
The decision of the United Colonies that Seekonk was within the jurisdiction of Plymouth Colony, and not in that of Massachusetts Bay, resulted in all of the Braintree men being dropped from the new board of Seekonk townsmen, of which John Brown was made the chairman. From this time on, John Brown, the Plymouth Colony Assistant, was the dominant power in Seekonk, which name had been changed to Rehoboth. Richard Wright, William Cheese-
* There are fourteen Plymouth Colony records, from 6 Oct. 1636 to 1 Mar. 1663/4, that seem to pertain exclusively to Richard Wright of that colony. To facilitate additional study, these records are as follows: 6 Oct. and 7 Nov. 1636; 2 Oct. and 4 Dec. 1637; 5 Feb. and 8 Mar. 1637/8; 5 June 1638; 21 Nov. 1644; 2 Mar. 1646/7; 3 June 1652; 7 June 1659; 23 July 1661; and two on 1 Mar. 1663/4. These are found in Plymouth Colony Records, vol. I, pp. 45, 46, 67, 70, 77, 78, and 88; vol. II, pp. 79 and 112; vol. III, pp. 8, 164 and 223; vol. IV, pp. 54 and 55.
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borough, and Walter Palmer left the town, and Alexander Win- chester died in 1647.
On 7 Oct. 1645, the Massachusetts Court granted twenty Brain- tree families "1,000 acres of land to plant a town in the place where Mr. Gorton did live". This attempt to settle in Rhode Island did not succeed, for the reason that John Brown of Rehoboth stopped the settlement by forbidding them to go to Gorton's settlement, claiming the territory to be within the limits of Plymouth.
The following records have been collected by the writer over a period of twenty-five years. In these will be found every mention of Richard Wright appearing in the original Rehoboth records. They are complete enough to present a picture of the times three centuries ago, and add much to our knowledge of the early settle- ment of Seekonk, later called Rehoboth.
-1630-Richard Wright came to New England in the fleet with Governor Winthrop this year. He came over in the employ of Colonel Humfrey,* to take up his lands at Saugus, erect buildings, and develop a farm to have ready for Colonel Humfrey on his arrival to New England. With him came his daughter Elenor, about 9 or 10 years old, and daughter Abigail, about 8 years old. There were probably other children, besides, perhaps, Margaret who may have been wife or mother [Depositions of Richard Wright's daughters (1701), Suffolk County Court Records, original papers No. 5,400].
27 Aug. 1630-Among the recorded members of the Boston church are the names Richard Wright, number 89, and Margaret Wright, number 99 [Boston Church Records].
28 Sept. 1630-Shortly after this date, a company of militia was organized at Saugus. The officers, not chosen by the people but appointed by the governor, were: Richard Wright, captain; Daniel Howe, lieutenant; and Richard Walker, ensign [History of Lynn (1629-1864), vol. I, p. 135].
3 May 1631-At the Court of Assistants held at Boston, "it is ordered that John Legge, servt to Mr Humfry, shalbe seuerely whipped this day, att Boston, and afterwards soe soone as conveniently may be, att Salem, for strikeing Richard Wright, when hee came to gieue him correccon for idleness in his maistrs worke" [Mass. Bay Records, vol. I, p. 86].
9 May 1631-At the General Court held at Boston, John Winthrop was chosen governor; Thomas Dudley, deputy governor; and Roger Lud- loue, Increase Nowell, William Pinchon, Simon Bradstreet, Capt. John Endicott, John Humfrey, t William Coddington, t and John Winthop, Jr., assistants.
"It was ordered that there should be two out of every plantation [eight towns] appointed to confer with the court about raiseing of a publicque stocke". Among those named were Richard Wright, for Saugus; William Cheesebrough, for Boston; and Walter Palmer, for Charlton [Mass. Bay Records, vol. I, p. 95].
Governor Winthrop said that these men "were to advise with the governor and assistants . so that what they should agree upon
* John Humfrey, who lived mostly in London, but had a house in Sandwich, co. Kent, had been chosen, in England, deputy-governor of the Massachusetts Company, but did not come to New England until July 1634, probably in the Planter.
One of his daughters, Ann, married, first, William Palme of Ireland, and, secondly, Rev. John Myles of Swansea, for which see the deposition of Richard Wright's two daughters, Elen' Clarke and Abigail Hollbrook, made in 1701.
t Neither one of these two men was in New England, but were daily expected to arrive.
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should bind all" [Winthrop's Hist. of New England (Savage Ed., 1853), vol. I, p. 76]. In this embryo of a parliament are the names of Richard Wright, William Cheeseborough, and Walter Palmer, all later leaders in the settlement at Seekonk, with the strong backing of Governor Winthrop and the Massachusetts Bay Court.
14 June 1632-"One Abraham Shurd of Pemaquid, and one Capt. Wright, and others, comming to Pascataquack, being bound for this bay in a shallop with £200 worth of commodities, one of the seaman, going to light a pipe of tobacco, set fire on a barrel of powder, which tare the boat in pieces. That man was never seen; the rest were all saved, but the goods lost.
"The man that was blown away with the powder in the boat at Piscataquack, was afterwards found with his hands and feet torn off. This fellow, being wished by another to forbear to take any tobacco, till they came to the shore, which was hard by, answered, that if the devil would carry him away quick, he would take one pipe. Some in the boat were so drunk and fast asleep as they did not wake with the noise" [Winthrop's Hist. of New England (Savage Ed., 1853), vol. I, p. 79].
James Savage, in a footnote to this entry in Winthrop's Journal, said that he presumed that this Captain Wright was the Richard Wright of Saugus.
3 Sept. 1633-At the court held at Boston, John Dillingham, Richard Wright, and Thomas Dexter agreed to have the difference among them refered to Mr. Endicott and Mr. Nowell for settlement [Mass. Bay Records, vol. I, p. 108].
4 Mar. 1633/4-At the court held at Boston there was "Gyven & pmised towards the Sea Fort", among others, "Rich: Wright, 4 inch plancke, 400" [Mass. Bay Records, vol. I, p. 113].
14 May 1634-At the General Court held at Boston, Richard Wright is made a freeman [Mass. Bay Records, vol. I, p. 368].
17 Dec. 1634-In letter written by John Humfrey to Isaac Allerton-"My servant Richard Wright living at Saugus, writes me for £5 in monie, if you think it better or fitter the provisions for commutation to get what they meet by, I pray you send it to him and charge mee with it here upon sight" [Winthrop Papers, vol. II, p. 335-Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1931].
4 Jan. 1635-Richard Wright and four others are named to lay out land at Mount Wooliston [Boston Town Records (1634-1648), p. 7].
14 Dec. 1635-At a general meeting upon public notice, Mr. William Col- borne, Mr. William Aspinwall, Mr. John Sampford, William Balston, and Richard Wright, "shall in behalf of the town go and take a view at Mount Woolliston and land out there which may be sufficient for Mr. William Coddington and Edmund Quincy", etc. [Boston Town Records (1634-1648), p. 6].
1636-Richard Wright was of Boston; had land at Mount Wollaston and was called captain [Savage's Gen. Dict., vol. IV, p. 658].
20 Feb. 1636-"Our brother Wright" is to assist Mr. Coddington in laying out the land of Mr. John Wheelwright [Boston Town Records (1634- 1648), p. 15].
14 Mar. 1636-Richard Wright and the others give the bounds of the land they were previously ordered to lay out at Mount Wolliston [Boston Town Records (1634-1648), p. 9].
6 Aug. 1636-Richard Wright contributed 6s. 8d. "towards the maintenance of a free-schoolmaster for Mr. Daniel Maude, being now also chosen thereunto. Gov. Henry Vane headed the list of forty-five subscribers with a contribution of £10" [Boston Town Records].
3 Apr. 1637-"Our brother Richard Wright" should lay out an allotment
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of 250 acres of land to Mr. John Wheelwright with the help of Mr. Wil- liam Coddington [Boston Town Records (1634-1648), p. 17].
20 Nov. 1637-At the court held at Boston, "Capt Turner, Goo: Rich'd Right, Mr. Conant, & Goo: Woodberry are appointed to certify wch bee the bounds between Salem & Saugust, wch they formerly did agree vpon. Saugust is called Lin [Lynn]" [Mass. Bay Records, vol. I, p. 211].
20 Nov. 1637-At the court held at Boston, "Mr. Abraham Palmer, Rich'd Wright, Capt Turner, & Capt Traske, or three of them, are appointed to lay out the bounds of Mr. Humfreys farmes" [Mass. Bay Records, vol. I, p. 217].
12 Mar. 1637/8-Richard Wright is one of the committee of four which re- ported the bounds of Mr. Humfrey's lands which was a mile along the Salem and Lynn line, including part of the plain and the land on which the houses of "Thomas Smyth* and Willi: Wytters houses stand" [Mass. Bay Records, vol. I, pp. 226, 7].
18 Feb. 1638-"It hath appeared that ... Richard Wright hath sold 130 acres of land at Mount Wollaston to one Mr. Pane of Concord without the consent of the town and he is fined £6" [Boston Town Records (1634- 1648), p. 37].
4 Dec. 1638-At the Quarter Court held at Boston, "William Blanton appearing, was enjoyned to appear at the next court, with all the men that were in the canooe wth him, & [Thomas] Aplegate, wch owned the canooe out of wch the 3 psons were drowned; & it is ordered that no canooe should bee vsed at any fferry vpon paine of £5; nor no canooe to bee made in or jurisdiction before the next Generall Court vpon paine of £10. Also, order was appointed to be given to Richard Wright to stave that canooe out of wch these persons were drowned " [ Mass. Bay Records, vol. I, p. 246].
16 Feb. 1639-Richard Wright is dismissed from the Boston Church to the Braintree Church [Boston Church Records].
18 Feb. 1639-Richard Wright to have "a narrow piece of land lying at Mount Wollaston between the mill and the fresh brook . .. to the furtherance of his water mylne building there, in regard to his ready serviceableness to the Towns occasions" [Patee's Hist. of Old Braintree (1878), p. 30].
27 Feb. 1639-Richard Wright is mentioned as one of "Our neighbors and Bretheren of the Mount" [Boston Town Records (1634-1648), p. 47].
5 Mar. 1638/9-At the Quarter Court held at Boston, "Willi: Blanton, Willi: Potter, Robrt Thrope, Henry Neale, John Fitch,t & Thomas Aplegate, appearing, were discharged wth an admonition not to adven- ture too many into any boate" [Mass. Bay Records, vol. I, p. 249].
From these records it will be seen that there were nine men in this canoe.
14 Apr. 1639-Nos Johem Reade de Weymouth in Nova Angli Plantator et Richardum Wright de Mountwollaston in N.A. Plantatorem tener '&c. Willo Tyng mercator in [blank] libris Dat.14.2.1639 coram [Lech- ford's Note-Book, p. 66].
1 May 1639-Articles of agreementį signed between Mr. John Wilson, Pas- tor of the church of Boston and Richard Wright [Lechford's Note-Book p. 144].
* A Thomas Smyth was later at Rehoboth.
t John Fitch was later at Rehoboth.
# These articles of agreement were probably in connection with Mr. Wilson's land at Braintree, which was granted him in 1634 in exchange for land which he held at Mystic. As he is always mentioned in connection with affairs at Mount Wollaston, he probably did not live in the town, but rather on his farm. He had no land in the Book of Possessions five or six years later than this date though his land is mentioned as bounding an estate at Mount Wollaston.
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1 June 1639-"William Gaylord of Windsore, upon the river of Kennecticot, planter", on behalf of John Warham, Pastor of the church there, and Jane his wife executrix of the last will and testament of Thomas New- bery, gent. deceased, leased to Richard Wright, of Mount Wollaston, husbandman, for four years, the farm, together with nine cows, on the southerly side of the Aponsett River which Thomas Newbery purchased of William Pyncheon. Yearly rent, £60 to be paid the first day of the third month every year during the term [Lechford's Note Book, p. 83].
15 Aug. 1639-Will Cheesebrough of Mount Wollaston, for £400, deeded to Rich. Wright 600 acres in Mount Wollaston [Printed Suffolk County Deeds, vol. I, p. 26].
16 Aug. 1639-Richard Wright of Mount Wollaston, for £133 6s. 6d. deeded to William Tynge of Boston, 200 acres (in three parcels) in Mount Woolaston, "all [of] wch he purchased of William Cheesbrough" [Printed Suffolk County Deeds, vol. I, p. 26].
1640-William Chesebrough (later of Rehoboth), and five others, deputed for town affairs, covenanted with Richard Right that he put the town of Brantrey in full possession of various lands recovered of Mr. [William] Coddington. Consideration £98 [ ] 8d. [Town of Braintree Records, p. 1].
~ 1640-Richard Wright of Mount Wollaston, yeoman, bond to Walter Blackborne in 120' condition to pay 601 by 51 every halfe year at Mr. Blackbornes house in Boston [Lechford's Note-Book, p. 148].
1640-Mr. John Humfrey,* Assistant, leased his farm of about 500 acres, "Lying and being within the libertyes of Salem in New England, to Zachues Goold of Lynne, yeoman, for 10 yeares from the 29 Sept. next. Rent 900 bushels of corne yearly in this manner 400 rye 300 wheat 200 barley wth 8 oxen 5 cowes 2 heyfers & 4 calves 2 mares.
"The cattle and utensils demised & letten by John Humfrey to said Zacheus shall be inventoried and valued by William Hawthorne gent and Richard Wright and the inventory to be hereunto annexed " [Lechford's Note-Book, p. 148].
13 May 1640-At the court held at Boston "It was agreed with our neighbors of Mount Wollaston, viz: William Cheesbrooke, Alexander Winchester, Richd: Wright, James Penniman, etc. in name of the rest (for whom they undertook) that they give to Boston 4 Shs the acre for 2 acres of the 7 acres formerly granted to divers men of Boston upon Expt that they should have continued with us & 3s to acre for every acre granted to others who are not inhabitants of Boston. Town to be called Braintry" [Mass. Bay Records, vol. I, p. 291].
13 May 1640-At the General Court of Election held at Boston, a committee of sixteen is appointed "to lay upon every town, proportionably, a levy of £1200". Each town committee (three men from each one of the seventeen towns) is to value all horses, cattle, goats and hogs, "under their worth rather above their worth " [ Mass. Bay Records, vol. I, p. 295].
In this list are the names of Richard Wright and Alexander Win- chester, of Braintree; William Smith, of Weymouth; Walter Palmer, of Charlestown; and Joseph Peck, of Hingham, all of whom we later find as leaders of the new township of Seekonk. This contingent represented ten per centum of the representatives from seventeen Massachusetts towns.
13 Sept. 1640-Richard Wright of Braintree, for five cows, deeded to Thomas Dudley, Governor, a water mill and 40 acres in Braintree [Printed Suffolk County Deeds, vol. I, p. 14].
* John Humfrey was about to return to England. He sailed on 26 Oct. 1641. On 26 June 1662, Hugh Alley, 53 years old, deposed that John Humfrey owned the "plaine farmes as we goe to Mar- blehead, adjoining Mr. Peter's farme" and that when he went to England he left his son-in-law Oately at the house.
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This would seem a ridiculous price for this property, and as James Savage said, "Governor Dudley had a good bargain, but it seems a hard one". Richard Wright was a careful business man, and at this time cows were not that valuable. As the property was sold to the Governor of Massachusetts Bay, there may be some explanation about the transaction not apparent on the surface. This view would seem to be substantiated by the agreement filed in the Boston Court, 30 Apr. 1662, in which it was stated, as seen below, that "Richard Wright sold the pond, mill, and other property to Major Gibbins".
29 Sept. 1640-"Richard Wright of Braintree, yeoman to be bound to Mr. Henry Symonds for the sum of 61 108 8d to be paid 25 March next 6s. 6d. in 9-17-2 also 61 9s. 4d. to Mr. George Alcocke of Roxbury to be 10.2.40" [Lechford's Note-Book, p. 194].
7 Oct. 1640-Richard Wright, Alexander Winchester & William Chees- borough are appointed to end small business at Braintree, under £20 [Mass. Bay Records, vol. I, p. 306].
22 Dec. 1640-"Brother Wright of Brayntree is to pay for the alianation of 60 acres of land", etc. [Boston Town Records (1634-1648), p. 59].
- May 1641-"Concerning the mill. It is ordered that their shall noe other mill be built in the plantation without the consent of Richard Right or his heirs so long as the mill remains in their hands which was built by the sd Richard Right, unless it evidently appear that the sd mill will not serve the plantation, and that he or they will not build another in con- venient time.
"Delivery and seisin of Richard Right. Delivery and sezesing ac- knowledged of the land bought of Richard Right the 10th of the 5th mo 1640 delivery and sezeing we acknowledged by the sd Richard Right unto the towne of Brantree" [Town of Braintree Records, p. 1].
In the records of the Country Court held at Boston 30 Apr. 1662 is an agreement between the town of Brantrey and the then miller, Thomas Gatliffe, which recites that "about twenty yeares Sinc was granted vnto Richard Wright by the Towne of boston for the encorigment and fur- therance of a water mill at Brantrey wch said mill and pond together with other estate hath been sold by the said Wright vnto major Gibbins and by him vnto Symon Lynde and by the said Lynd assigned to Thomas Gatleiffe [miller] who now dwelleth [on] and possesseth the same" [Town of Braintree Records, p. 22].
31 May 1641-"Brother Write" is mentioned, with others, as having a dif- ference with Mr. Atherton Hough [Boston Town Records (1634-1648), p. 61].
1643-In the earliest list of estates in Seekonk, Richard Wright is No. 8 with £834, the richest man in the town. The next is Mr. John Browne with £600, followed by Mr. Stephen Paine and Mr. Joseph Peck, each with £535 [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I, p. 15].
- 1643-In the First Division of home lots, at Seekonk, Richard Wright has a 12-acre lot at the northwest end of the ring of the town. His three sons-in-law each had 8-acre lots. Robert Sharpe's adjoining Richard Wright's on the east; William Sabin's on the west; and James Clarke's adjoining William Sabin's [Rehoboth Town Meeting Records].
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