Raymond/Rayment Sketch 1852

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Richard Raymond (abt.1602-abt.1692)
Richard Raymond (bef.1647-1680)
John Raymond (abt.1635-1695)
Daniel Raymond (bef.1653-abt.1694)
Samuel Raymond (1644-bef.1704)
Joshua Raymond (1638-1676)

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Frances Manwaring Caulkins, History of New London, Connecticut. From the first survey of the coast in 1612, to 1852 (New London; The author [Hartford, Ct., Press of Case, Tiffany and company] 1852), 292-293 (Joshua Raymond); digital images, Hathi Trust.

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The extraction below was posted on 20 April 2013 by Homer Hopper as a memory to the profile of Richard Raymond (abt.1602-abt.1692).

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Richard and Judith Rayment, were members of the church at Salem, in 1634. Wm. Rayment, of Salem, 1648, afterward of Beverly, and John, also of Beverly, where he died in 1703, aged eighty-seven, were probably brothers of Richard. Tradition in the family of the latter, states that his brothers settled in Beverly. Richard and his sons appear to have left Salem as early as 1658, perhaps before, and to have scattered themselves along the shore of Long Island Sound. The father was for a time at Norwalk, and then at Saybrook; at the latter place his identity is determined by documents which style him, "formerly of Salem, and late of Norwalk." He died at Saybrook in 1692. He had children, Richard, John, Daniel, Samuel, Joshua, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Oliver Manwaring. Or Richard, nothing has been recovered but the fact that the inventory of Richard Raymond, Jr. was exhibited at county court in 1680.

John settled in Norwalk, and there left descendants.

Daniel married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Gabriel Harris, and had two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah; second, Rebecca, daughter of John Lay, by whom he had sons Richard, Samuel and perhaps others. He lived in Lyme; died, 1696, and his widow married Samuel Gager, of Norwich.

Samuel married Mary, daughter of Nehemiah Smith, and settled in New London, where the both died after 1700, leaving a considerable estate, but no children.

Joshua, married Elizabeth, daughter of Nehemiah Smith, December 10, 1659. He purchased the Prentis home-lot, in New London, and left it to his children, together with a valuable farm in Mohegan, on the road to Norwich.

Children of Joshua and Elizabeth Raymond.
1. Joshua, born Sept. 18th, 1660.
2. Elizabeth, " May 24th, 1662.
3. Ann, " May 12th, 1664.
4. Hannah, born Aug. 8th, 1668.
5. Mary, " March 12th, 1671-2.
6. Experience, " Jan. 20th, 1673-4.

Two others, Richard and Mehitabel, died in infancy.
Experience Raymond, died June 26th, 1689, aged fifteen years.
Elizabeth, relict of Joshua Raymond, married George Dennis, of Long Island.

Joshua Raymond, second, married Mercy, daughter of James Sands, of Block Island, April 29th, 1683.

It is this Mercy Raymond, whose name has been connected, by a mixture of truth and fable, with the story of the noted pirate, Captain Kidd.1 Mr. Raymond died in 1704, "at the home-seat of the Sands family," which he had bought of his brother-in-law, Niles, on Block Island. It was a lonely and exposed situation, by the sea-shore, with a landing-place near, where strange sea-craft, as well as neighboring coasters, often touched. Here the family dwelt, and Mr. Raymond being much of the time absent in New London, the care and management of the homestead devolved upon his wife, who is represented as a woman of great thrift and energy.

The legendary tale is, that Capt. Kidd made her little harbor his anchorage-ground, alternately with Gardiner's Bay ; that she feasted him, supplied him with provisions, and boarded a strange lady, whom he called his wife, a considerable time ; and that when he was ready to depart, he bade her hold out her apron, which she did, and he threw in handfuls of gold, jewels and other precious commodities, until it was full, as the wages of her hospitality.

This fanciful story was doubtless the development of a simple fact, that Kidd landed upon her farm, and she being solitary and unprotected, took the part of prudence, supplied him freely with what he would otherwise have taken by force, and received his money in payment for her accommodations. The Kidd story, however, became a source of pleasantry and gossip among the acquaintances of the family, and they were popularly said to have been enriched by the apron.2

1. He is called Robert Kidd in the ballad ; but William in history.
2. Our language does not form a cognomen so terse as the Latin: the posterity of Callias were called laoco-pluti, enriched by the well. (See Plutarch.)