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Matthias Rich (1726 - 1793)

Matthias Rich
Born in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts Baymap
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Died at age 67 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Matthias Rich, a son of Richard Rich and Hannah Doane, was born February 7, 1726 in Truro, Massachusetts,[1][2] and died August 11, 1793.[3]

He married first, 31 October 1751 in Truro, Mercy Paine,[4][5] the daughter of Barnabas and Mary (Purington) Paine, born 11 April 1729 and died 30 October 1758. He married secondly by 1755, Mrs. Sarah Orcutt, widow of David Orcutt. She died in the autumn of 1818, aged 84.[2]

Matthias died on 11 Aug 1793,[6] aged 68, and was buried in the Old North Cemetery in Truro.[7]

Children by first wife Mercy (Paine) Rich:[8]

1. Joshua, b. 1752, mar. Mary (Molly) Dyer, Apr 1775
2. Mercy, b. 1754, mar. Jonathan Collins
3. Matthias (Beau Flash),[9] b. 1756, lived in Boston, d. at Baltimore ca. 1810
4. Margaret (Peggy), b. 1758, mar. Wm. Tufts of Boston, where she d. ca. 1835

Children by second wife "Mrs. Keziah Orcutt":[8]

5. David, b. 19 Jul 1764, bp. 22 Jul 1764, d. 6 Jan 1765.
6. David, bp. 17 Apr 1768,[10] mar. Nabby Cook of Provincetown, lost at sea
7. Sally, b. 1769, mar. Jeremiah Gooding

Sources

  1. ↑ Vital Records of the Town of Truro Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, George Ernest Bowman, Comp., (Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Boston, Mass., 1933) p. 35.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Evelyn Rich, Richard Rich of Eastham on Cape Cod and some of his Descendants, {link via subscription to AmericanAncestors.org} NEHGR Vol. 83(1929):394.
  3. ↑ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volume 2, (Baltimore, MD., Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992.) pg. 35.
  4. ↑ Vital Records of the Town of Truro Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, George Ernest Bowman, Comp., (Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Boston, Mass., 1933) p. 77.
    "Matthias Rich married to Mercy paine October 31st 1751, all by the Reverend Mr John Avery pastor of the chh In Truro Recorded by Moses Paine Town clerk."
  5. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Barnstable > Truro > Births, marriages, deaths, town records 1709-1771 vol 1 > image 87 of 163; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. Truro Town Records, Vol. 1:120.
  6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #125051292 and Ancestry.com citing Hatcher, Patricia Law, Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots (Dallas, TX: Pioneer Heritage Press, 1987) Volume 3, Serial 11912.
  7. ↑ Cape Cod Gravestones Truro Old North Cemetery.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Rich, Shebnah, Truro -- Cape Cod, or Land Marks and Sea Marks (Boston, MA: D. Lothrop & Co., 883), p. 556.
  9. ↑ Rich, Shebnah. Truro--Cape Cod; or, Land Marks and Sea Marks. Boston : D. Lothrop and company, 1884. Page 252
  10. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Treat, John Harvey. Truro Baptisms : 1711-1800. Lawrence : James Ward Jr., 1886. Page 37.

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Fuller-5187 Albertus Robert Casimir (Fuller) Jung
I removed the newly added profile of Margaret Mary Rich Keller, born 1738 in Virginia, as daughter of this profile's Matthias Rich and his wife Mercy Paine, whose profile i manage, because they were too young in 1738 to have had a child, they had a daughter by the same name born later than this Margaret (both lived to adulthood), AND this Rich couple in question never lived in Virginia; they spent their whole lives in Massachusetts where all their children were born.
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