Richard Floyd I (abt. 1620 - abt. 1690)

Born about 1620 in Brecknockshire, Wales

Descendants

Died about 1690 at about age 70 in Setauket, New York

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Biography

Richard Floyd one of the first 55 original settlers in Brookhaven, NY.^[1]

Copied from Kinshiptree.com biography...An original Pilgrim and..."colonist, born in Brecknockshire, Wales, about 1620; died in Seatolcott (now Setauket), Suffolk County, New York, about 1690. He came to this country in 1654, and with Richard Woodhull and fifty-two others to Setauket, which they founded in 1655. He was the first of the Floyd family on Long Island, and a man of intelligence and vigor. At the beginning of the settlement he was chosen judge of Suffolk County, and colonel of militia, and held the offices during his life."

Sources

1. ↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volumes 21-22 edited by Richard Henry Greene, Henry Reed Stiles, Melatiah Everett Dwight, George Austin Morrison, Hopper Striker Mott, John Reynolds Totten, Harold Minot Pitman, Charles Andrew Ditmas, Louis Effingham De Forest, Conklin Mann, Arthur S. Maynard https://books.google.ca/books?id=PZsyAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA37&lpg=RA1-PA37&dq=Col.+Richard+Floyd&source=bl&ots=t9mmkT4Nu4&sig=ACfU3U2LmV5w0dSOlfcC4_n7Y1iuAdFxyA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiWx4CGzL7nAhXBITQIHQJ3Cd8Q6AEwEnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Col.%20Richard%20Floyd&f=false

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