Richard Waters, of Salem

Richard Waters, son of James Waters and Phebe Manning, was baptized on March 3, 1604/5; married Joyce/Rejoice ___ by 1629; died at Salem, Massachusetts in September 1677.

He’s the sixth great grandfather of William Howard Taft, 27th U.S. President. Geni path (Famouskin.com)

Notes

Gunsmith. Came on the Mayflower (not the original). On April 26, 1626 admitted and took oath of Ironmasters Company. 1636 came to Salem, Massachusetts, became proprietor of the town. May 22, 1639 admitted freeman 1668 had a tavern in Salem. Richard married his step-sister, Joyce Plaise. Joyce's father, William Plasse, married for his second wife, Richard's mother, Phebe Manning after she lost her first husband, James Waters.

Family

From http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwg62.htm#1978

Richard married Joyce PLASSE, daughter of Margery SMITH and William BLASSE, on 1625 in London, Middlesex, England. She was christened 5 4 Dec 1608 in Boughton under Blean, Kent, England. She died after 20 Oct 1687.

They had the following children:

• F i Phebe WATERS was christened 7 Oct 1629 and died 11 Apr 1674.
• M ii William WATERS 1, 2, 3, 4 was christened 5 13 Jan 1632 in St. John, Wapping, Middlesex, England. He died after 16 Jul 1676.
• F iii Sarah WATERS was born 1634 and died 19 May 1700.
• M iv James WATERS was born 1638 and died 11 Sep 1704.
• M v John WATERS was christened 27 Sep 1640 and died Feb 1708.
• F vi Elizabeth WATERS 1, 2, 3, 4 was christened 26 Feb 1642 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. She died 4 Feb 1663 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
• F vii Mary WATERS was born 1644 and died after 8 Sep 1685.
• F viii Abigail WATERS was christened 18 May 1645.
• M ix Ezekiel WATERS was christened 9 Apr 1647.
• F x Susanna WATERS was christened 1 Apr 1649 and died 21 Dec 1726.
• F xi Hannah WATERS was christened 30 Jan 1652.
• F xii Martha WATERS 1, 2, 3 was born 1654 in Salem

Origins

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124032790/james-waters

James Waters probably married Phebe Manning, daughter of George Manning and Johan (Wallys) Manning of Downe, Kent County, England soon after he became a freeman and was accepted into the guild. While there were several children, and I have: John (ca Nov 1600-Jan 1601); Phebe (ca Dec 1602-Dec 1603), Richard, Sarah (d. by 1603),and Martha (d. by 1603), only one son, Richard, survived. He was baptized 3 Mar 1604, Aldgate, London, England. On 26 April 1626, Richard was admitted into the freedom of the Ironmongers Company by patrimony and took his oath.
When James made his will on May 17, 1617, he named his wife and minor son Richard and called himself an ironmonger. He asked to be buried in the churchyard at St. Botolph's, near his children. The will was proved on February 16, 1618 In his will, he gave one-third of his estate to his wife Phebe; one-third to his son Richard, and the reminder to be split between the church (John Briggs curate), his partner (Samuel Rowlands), the poor, and some friends (Ambrose Jennings).

Notable Kin

From Surprising Connections 6 and 7: Boston Cousins of Queen Victoria and Yankee Ancestors of Mrs. Thomas Philip 'Tip' ONeill, Jr. Gary Boyd Roberts Published Date: October - November 1993 link

Meanwhile, among Sutton-area descendants of the Burnaps and Mavericks, Huldah Howard, daughter of Mrs. Huldah Sibley Howard Harwood, married John Waters in 1790. Waterses, like Sibleys, were originally a Salem family. John’s paternal grandparents, Richard, Jr. and Anne (Holman) Waters, were both siblings of great-great-grandparents of Mrs. Alphonso Taft (Louisa Maria Torrey), wife of the Secretary of War and U.S. Attorney General, and mother of President William Howard Taft. The immigrants Richard and Joyce (___) Waters, and John and Margaret (Goodman) Tompkins, great-grandparents of Richard, Jr., were also ancestors of President Coolidge. John Waters was a third cousin, via Waterses and Jacobses, of Samuel Endicott, father of the two daughters-in-law of Joseph Peabody and a grandfather of the above-named William Crowninshield Endicott. A fourth cousin of John Waters, moreover, was Mrs. Lydia Williams Lyman, granddaughter of a Waters and maternal grandmother in turn of President Charles William Eliot of Harvard. I should also note, finally, that the immigrant Richard Waters of Salem was a second cousin of Rev. Henry Whitfield of Guilford, Connecticut, treated in my last “Notable Kin” column (NEXUS 10:70-74) as a Brahmin ur-father via Higginsons, Cabots, Lowells, and Prescotts.

References

• Water, Henry. Genealogical Gleanings in England: Manning Family in: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 51, NEHGR, Boston, Massachusetts, 1897 Page 1340 GoogleBooks
• Charles Henry Pope. Pioneers of Massachusetts (1901). Page 481
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/aqwg62....
• The American Genealogist, New Haven, Connecticut: D. L. Jacobus (issues newer than 5 years not online), 1945, Vol. 22, p. 210, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
• 2 The American Genealogist, New Haven, Connecticut: D. L. Jacobus (issues newer than 5 years not online), 2006, Vol. 81, pp. 175-182, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
• 3 Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 77.
• 4 Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 486.

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