23 Feb 1745 & 3 March 1745 Plymouth County LR 38:19, 20
Research Notes
Note: this is not the man listed below according to the Mayflower Society B-404 01:02, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
Death date may be incorrect.
May have died intestate in 1742. On 29 September 1742, Timothy Morton was granted the administration of his estate. The last name looks like Richards. He was a cooper.[3]
His inventory was taken on 13 July 1743 and included an enslaved person, Scipeo.[4]
In 1747, Thomas Foster, dealer of Plymouth was granted the administration of his estate after the death of Timothy Morton.[6]
In 1748, an account of his estate was recorded. It mentions the wages that Scipeo, his enslaved black man, made on board the sloop William, a vessel belonging to Isaac Lothrop, and "cash paid Robert Brown Esqr on acct of Scipeo to redeem sd Scipeo out of said Browns hands who had a bill of sale of him from said Jno Rickard".[7]
Sources
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, MD, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England twelve volumes, (Boston: Press of William White, printer to the Commonwealth, 1857), Vol. 8:75 (birth)
↑ 2.02.12.22.32.4 Ralph V. Wood, Jr., Mayflower Families through Five Generations Volume 12, Francis Cooke, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1996 [1st edition], Pages 85, 165, 166.
↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-JVN6 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1742-1745 and 1844-1856 vol 9-9M > image 20 of 583; State Archives, Boston.
↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-JJJK : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1742-1745 and 1844-1856 vol 9-9M > image 72-73 of 583; State Archives, Boston.
↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-JJNM : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1742-1745 and 1844-1856 vol 9-9M > image 63 of 583; State Archives, Boston.
↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-82V7 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1745-1749 and 1836-1849 vol 10-10A > image 230-231 of 611; State Archives, Boston.
↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-NNZS : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1748-1750 and 1841-1848 vol 11-11B > image 154-155 of 642; State Archives, Boston.
See also:
Ralph V. Wood, Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Francis Cooke, Volume 12, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2015), p. 86, 165
Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, MD, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England twelve volumes, (Boston: Press of William White, printer to the Commonwealth, 1857), Vol. 8:75 (birth)
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