Biography
Richard Rich II was born 1635 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire to Richard RIch (1605-1685) and Sarah York (1610-1670) and died 1692 At Sea, Atlantic Ocean of unspecified causes. He married Sarah Roberts (1640-1692) 24 February 1665 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire.
Richard RICH, of Dover Point (Piscataqua), NH, and Eastham on Cape Cod, in the Plymouth Colony, mariner, first appears in the New England records on 5 Dec 1667 when he witnessed the sale at Piscataqua of part of the ketch George and Samuel New Hampshire Deeds, Vol 2, Page 142a , died in October 1692. He married 24 February 1670 Sarah ROBERTS, who died before October 1692. She was the daughter of Thomas ROBERTS of Dover Point, New Hampshire.
Thomas ROBERTS of Dover, in his will dated 27 September 1673 and proved 30 June 1674 mentioned “my son-in-law Richard RICH, the husband of my dearly beloved daughter Sarah,” to whom he gave “my dwelling house wherein I now dwell, lieing and situate in Dover, together with all and singular, the out housing, orchards, planting land and pastures and I appoint my said son-in-law, Richard RICH to be my whole and sole executor.” New Hampshire State Papers, vol. 31.
Richard RICH was born about 1635 and was probably the son of another Richard who came to Dover Neck, NH in 1625. The older Richard married Sarah YORK before 1635. He was a son of Edward (or Edwin) RICH who was a son of Robert RICH, First Earl of Warwick in 1616. Robert was a grandson of Richard RICH, the Lord Chancellor.
In October 1674 Richard RICH was a witness to an indenture in Boston, and in the following month be bought land at Kittery, Maine. In April 1681 he was living at Dover, when, under covenant to build at Hilton’s Point within a limited time, he bought land from Robert MASON. However, on August 23 of the same year Richard RICH was admitted as a townsman of Eastham, on Cape Cod. No reason has been found for this sudden removal from his established home at Dover; but the advantageous maritime privileges at Cape Cod and the threatening attitude of the Indians at Dover may have led him to take this step.
The inventory of the estate of Richard Rich, late of Eastham, who died intestate, was rendered October 19, 1692 and letters of administration were granted to his son.
On November 9, 1708 Richard RICH of Eastham, as attorney for his brothers and sisters, John RICH, Thomas RICH, Samuel RICH, Sarah BEAKER, and Lydia HOPKINS, sold Treworthe’s Point at Kittery, ME., “being land which descended unto us from our honored father, Richard RICH deceased.”
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Thomas Rich (1671-1753) | |||
| Ocasal Rich (1672-1702) | |||
| Richard Rich (1674-1743) | 6 November 1674 Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire | 5 May 1743 Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts | Anna Mulford (1677-1753) |
| John Rich (1674-1753) | |||
| Sarah Rich (1678-1749) | |||
| Samuel Rich (1685-1752) | |||
| Joseph Rich (1689-) | |||
| Lydia Rich (1692-1749) | |||
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See Also
- Richard Rich
- Rich in Strafford County, New Hampshire
- York in Strafford County, New Hampshire
- Richard Rich - Geni.com
- Richard Rich at Find A Grave