Richard Linton

Richard Linton was born Abt. 1590 in England, and died March 30, 1665 in Lancaster, Worcester, MA. He was also known as Richard Lynton.

Parents: not known

Married:

1. before 1612 to Elizabeth, whose parents are not known. She was born Abt. 1591 in England, and died Aft. 1665 in MA.

2 children of Elizabeth and Richard Linton:

1. Anna Linton, b. 1613, England, d. December 10, 1679, Charlestown, Suffolk, MA. m Lawrence Waters (1602-1687)
2. Rachel Linton, b. Abt. 1612, England, d. May 28, 1657 Dorchester, MA. m Henry Kibby, Tailor of Dorchester (1611-1661) and had one daughter Lydia (Kibby) Bennett.

The most updated treatment of his family can be found in:

Holman, Mary Lovering; Winifred Lovering Holman; and Helen Pendleton Winston Pillsbury. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife, Frances Helen Miller: Compiled for Helen Pendleton (Winston) Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1948), p. 98-100.

You can read it online for free at: Winifred Lovering Holman; and Helen Pendleton Winston Pillsbury. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife, Frances Helen Miller.

Notes

• Emigration: 1630, Arrived on the Winthrop Fleet which left England about April/May 1630 and arrived in Salem MA.. However, Robert Charles Anderson in the Great Migration doesn't not believe this was the same man. He believes there is simply no connection between them.

Links

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/c/c/Ernest-Scchurmann/...

Existing Research on Richard Linton

1. Identified Richard as one of the first settlers of Lancaster, in 1643. Also notes this daughter Ann who married Lawrence Waters.

https://books.google.com/books?id=cSrlHHj2AFcC&pg=PA327&lpg=PA327&d...

http://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Linton%20Family/LintonRichar...

http://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Linton%20Family/LintonRichar...

Additional content provided in publication, "History, Charter and By-laws of the Society of Colonial Wars..." Page 111
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He and his wife Elizabeth and daughter Anne came to America in 1630 in search of freedom from religious persecution in their homeland. They first settled in Watertown, Massachusetts and in 1630 he was appointed juryman of the general court of Watertown. In 1639 the first inventory of grants showed that he held eight acres of land in Watertown. Later he moved to nearby Lancaster. In 1664 he signed a petition to set up a township at Lancaster. He himself received a grant of twenty acres in the town. (wab)

GEDCOM Note

Category: Immigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony from England Category: Lancaster, Massachusetts

Biography

Richard Linton, aka Lynton, was born about 1587 in Somerset, England, the son of Richard Lindon / Linton and Joan (Fox) Linton. <ref> The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:S59V-V1R : accessed 2017-04-19), entry for Richard /LINTON </ref>
Before 1612, in Somerset, Richard married Elizabeth Hayward, daughter of William Haward (born 1550) and Margery (?nee) Hayward, born 1552. Elizabeth was born about 1591, and had an elder brother John Will Hayward (1583-1639) Before 1625, Richard and his family emigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. <ref> <i> Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s </i> edited by P. William Filby, Farmington Hills, Michigan, Gale Research, 2010 </ref>

Children of Elizabeth and Richard Linton include:

• Rachel Linton, born circa 1612, in Somerset, England, married Henry Kibbe (Kibbee, Kibbie,Kibby). Their daughter was Lydia Kibby, who married George Bennett. Lydia and George Bennett were gifted most of Richard Linton's estate in 1665 <ref>An American Family History Rachel Linton Kibby</ref>
• Anna Linton, born 1613, in Somerset, England, died December 10, 1679,Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Mary Linton, born circa 1615, in Somerset, England
• Lydia Linton, born circa 1616, in Somerset, England, died after 1635.
• Rachel Linton, born circa 1616, in Somerset, England, died May 28, 1657
• Daughter Linton, born circa 1625, in Watertown, Middlesex, MA “In September, 1645, Richard Linton deeded his house and lot in Waterlown to Robert Sanderson. About that date, or perhaps earlier, he andhis son-in-law, Lawrence Waters, began life with their families upon the Nashaway, having been induced by the first proprietors to undertake the task of preparing the way for further settlement. He died March 30, 1665 and by his will it would seem that his wife Elizabeth outlived him. His house seated upon the west side of the present street, somewhere between the residences of Miss Levantia Bradley and Henry M. Latham, but he owned the land along the opposite side of the way for sixty rods, including the ground upon which the public buildings stand. His daughter, Anne Waters, received ten acres of this in trust for his grandson, Joseph Waters. The other lands he left to another grandson, George Bennett, who being slain in the massacre August 22, 1675, SamuelBennet, his son, succeeded to possession.” <ref> <i>The Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643 - 1725, </i> edited by Henry S. Nourse, Printed by W.J. Coulter, 1884, page 252 The Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643- 1725</ref> Richard died March 30, 1665 in Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts <ref> "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9N-848 : 13 July 2016), Richard Linton, 30 May 1665; citing Death, Lanchaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249 </ref> and Elizabeth survived him. Their grand-daughter Lydia Kibby and her husband, George Bennett, inherited Richard Linton's land in Lancaster. <ref> <i> Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1648-1870 </i> compiled by James Flint </ref>

Sources

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• <i> American Genealogical-Biographical Index </i> (AGBI), Middletown, Connecticut: Godfrey Memorial Library

Acknowledgments ==This person was created through the import of Dickinson Family Tree.ged on 31 March 2011