Records about the family of Richard York (York-699), PGM

Question

Richard York is one of the profiles in WikiTree's Puritan Great Migration Project (PGM).

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire refers to the ages of Richard's wife, Elizabeth (_____) (York) Graves, and presumed eldest son, John York. Elizabeth is reportedly "+/- 62 in 1680" [p. 775 (3-Richard York) InternetArchive (borrow)], and John York, "38 in 1680" [p. 775 (2-John York) InternetArchive (borrow)].

Hoping someone might be able to identify the one or more 1680 records from which we came to learn these estimates of their ages. (Perhaps these ages were derived from the same record.)  

I'm working on an update to Richard's profile and thank you in advance for any assistance you are able to provide.--Gene

Comments

Perhaps it is the same source that gives Elizabeth's second marriage before Oct 1680? Torrey's sources for that marriage are:

• Winthrop-Babcock 573 which cites
  • History of Durham NH 400-401 which does not give a date for the marriage
  • Probate Records of NH Vol 1 134-136 which is Richard's will and the agreement cited in the next item.
• York 3 which cites an agreement of 8 June 1681 naming John York as "son-in-law" of William Graves
• Bullard Anc page 270  which does not date the marriage
• GDMNH
  • 283 (William Graves entry, repeats the date 'bef Oct 1680'),
  • 590 (William Graves 2nd wife) ,
  • 775 (Richard York entry)

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Thank you, Andrew. 

Could very well be ... but I have not found the record.

Have been cataloging references on Richard York Family Notes 2022 and Richard York and Elizabeth Child List 2022.

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This doesn't provide their ages, but I noticed it wasn't already in your fsp: Charles Henry Pope, The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire..., published 1908, [ Pages 243-244]. 

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Thank you, Sharon. Adding now. --Gene

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Thank you!!

Answer 1

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062846829&view=1up&seq=1

Comments

This source names the ship and it's captain that my 8th great grandfather Richard York arrived in Salem, MA on in 1633.

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Hi Richard,  

Welcome and thank you for supporting WikiTree. 

As a descendant of Richard, you have quite a name!

I too appreciated the Edith Summer work on Richard York. To my knowledge tough, the notion that he arrived with Wiggin on the James is conjecture. As I recall, the record of the ships arrival was memorialized in Winthrop's journal. But for Wiggin and possibly one or two others, the names of those arriving then were not recorded. 

Wiggin did settle at Dover shortly, bringing with him say thirty. It's possible Richard York came then, but his arrival in Dover by 1635 is based on his own deposition, taken later. 

On 18 (8th) 1652 [18 October 1652], John Ault testified and Richard Yorke affirmed, ".. in the yere 1635, that the land about Lambreel river was bought by of the Indanes & made use of by the men of Dover & myself both for planting & fishing & feling of timber." 

See John Ault and Richard York 1652 depositions, John Scales, Colonial Era History of Dover, New Hampshire (Manchester, N.H.: John B. Clarke Co., 1923), 183 (Depositions about Lampreel River); digital images, GoogleBooks.

Thanks again for supporting WikiTree.--GeneJ 

Answer 2

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062846829&view=1up&seq=289

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This Richard York is my 8th great grandfather.