Richard Birge - Immigration

Private User

9/25/2023 at 8:45 AM

Ancestry shows the following sourced data for immigration of a Richard Birge.

Primary Immigrant: Birge, Richard
Arrival Year: 1640
Arrival Place: Massachusetts
SOURCE: Colket, Meredith B., Jr. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657. Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975. 366p.

NOTE: A 2002 2nd Revised edition of this book may be available at a library near you.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/Founders-of-early-American-families-...
This book is under copyright and a 2nd edition of the book appears not to be on sale. (The 1st edition copy costs no less than $85!)

Colket's date for immigration is at odds with the information posted at: https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Richard_Birge_%281%29 —
which immigration dating is well considered at: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Birge-12

Private User

9/25/2023 at 9:11 AM

Alas, there much iffy guesswork online—nothing new. One such nonsensical thing I came across about Richard's assumptive origin and immigration is as follows in two parts:

1. "Bishops Transcripts record a birth that may be his on 15 Sep 1611, as son of John Burge in Ashwick, Somerset, England."
— Observation: Being a male ward anyone at age ~19 doesn't sit right. Males around this age and older may've worked for someone until they paid off the cost of transport across the pond before earning "Freeman" status.

2: "He is said to have come on the Mary & John in 1630 as a ward of Rev. John Wareham and settled first with him in Dorchester MA."
— PET PEEVE: "He is said to have" is a vapid sentence opener. If one can't say who wrote or said something, it's baseless.

Private User

9/25/2023 at 9:20 AM

Specific birth date entries such as "23 November 1620" must come from a primary source or at least two respected secondary sources—meaning they cite a primary source.

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