Richard Waters

Biography

From Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, 1907, Ellery Bicknell Crane. Page 61

(IV) Richard Waters, son of Richard Waters (3), was born at Salem, Massachusetts, November 22, 1700. He removed to Sutton with his father and lived there the remainder of his life. He was a farmer.
He married Anna Holman. daughter of Solomon Holman. of Newbury, Massachusetts.
Their children, all bom in Sutton, were:

• Mary, married Anthony Sigourney, of Boston;
• Stephen, bom April 13. 1735:
• Ebenezer, born July 3. 1739;
• Abraham, born April 3, 1743:
• Ruth, born January 6. 1746. married Thomas Kendall;
• Samuel, born November 21. 1650;
• Hannah, bom August 5, 1754, married Marsh.

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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.