Lt. Richard Banks

Notes

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Banks-688

Richard Banks married the widow, Margaret Hatton, sister in law of Thomas Hattong, the Secretary of the Province, probably in 1652.[12] He had arrived in 1646. At the time of the unrest caused by William CLAIBORNE and Richard INGLE, Ingle’s accomplices robbed Banks’s house. Banks was arrested with five Indians, who were tried and acquited. He and his future step-son-in-law, Zachary WADE, served on the jury in 1653 for the trial of some Piscataway Indians for the murder of two Negro slaves. Thomas Hatton conducted the prosecution as Attorney General. The Indians were found guilty and executed that same day. As an indication of the kind of man Banks was, on 15 September 1650 Richard paid 900 pounds of tobacco to redeem two orphans of Thomas ALLEN from the Indians. But instead of keeping the children under indenture to cover the cost of their ransom, he set them free.[13]
Although Richard Banks held no public office after the Restoration, and was relatively poor by the time of his death (in terms of the ruling class), that did not stop his step-daughters from marrying men who served or would serve in the Maryland legislature. All six of his step sons-in-law held public office, and his step-sons married women with close family ties to office holders.

From link to Royal Ancestry of Margaret Domville, wife of Richard Hatton and Richard Banks

[Margaret Domville, widow of Richard Hatton] married (2nd) before 10 April 1653 [LIEUT.] RICHARD BANKS (or BANKES). They had no issue. In 1655 he and his wife, Margaret, conveyed to her late husband's brother, Thomas Hatton, any interest they had in 800 acres of land "any ways due to her the said Margaret for the Transportation of herself, her Children and Servants into this province." His wife, Margaret, was living 19 July 1665. [LIEUT.] RICHARD BANKS died intestate about 1667.

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