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| For details regarding the recent discovery that Richard Warren's wife was Elizabeth Walker, see the entry for his wife Elizabeth. 1075 In Mayflower Increasings by Susan Roser it states "Richard Warren was born pre 1590, possibly, London, England; his origins have not been found." Regarding his wife Elizabeth, "Despite what has previously appeared in print, her maiden name in unknown. Elizabeth was born ca 1580, England."245 "Richard Warren was from London and joined the Leyden Pilgrims in July, 1620, at Southampton, whence the Mayflower and the Speedwell first set sail for America. He was married in England, before 161, to Elizabeth _____, whose maiden name is unknown, and had by her five daughters, Mary, Anna (born about 1612), Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail, who were left in England and came to Plymouth with their mother in 1623. Nothing more is known of his life before he joined the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, and there are very few references to him in the Plymouth Colony records and the works of contemporary writers, doubtless owing to his early death in 1628. Bradford's History mentions him only in the list of the Mayflower passengers, and includes him among the few who were of enough importance to be distinguished by the title by 'Mr.' Nathaniel Morton, in the New England's Memorial, published at Cambridge, Mass., in 1669, was the first to print the names of the forty-one men who signed the Compact in the cabin of the Mayhflwoer on Saturday, 11/21 November, 1620, and Richard Warren's name appears in this list. The following extract from Mourt's Relation contains the only reference yet found to the place from which Richard Warren came. It also shows us that he was a member of the third exploring party sent out while the Mayflower lay at anchor in Cape Cod Harbor. This party set out in the shallop on Wednesday, 6/16 December, 1620, and after many hardships, including a fight with the Indians early Friday morning, landed at Plymouth on the following Monday, 11/21 december, 1620. 'Wednesday the sixt of December, it was resolved our discoverers should set forth, for the day before was too fowle weather, and so they did, though it was well ore the day ere all thoughs could be readie: So ten of our men were appointed who were of themselues willing to vndertake it, to wit, Captaine Standish, Maister Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winsloe, John Tilley, Edward Tilley, John Houland, and three of London, Richard Warren, steeuen Hopkins and Edward Dotte, and two of our Sea-man, john Alderton and Thomas English, of the Ships Company there went two of the Masters Mates, Master Clarke and Master Copin, the Master Gunner, and three Saylers. The narration of which Discovery, followes, penned by one of the Company. [Mourt's Relation, London, 1622, p. 15.]' " 1076 "'In the latter end of July,' 1623, his wife and daughters arrived at Plymouth in the Anne, and in the Division of Land a few months later he receivved lots on 'the north side of the towne' and 'on the other side of the towne towards the eele-river.' In 1624 or 1625 his son Nathaniel was born at Plymouth, and his second son, Joseph, must have been born there in 1626 or early in 1627, as his name appears int he division of the cattle among the 'Purchasers' who in 1627 bought fromt he adventurers all their rights int he Colony of New Plymouth. In this division, which was made 22 May/I June, 1627, 'The ninth lot fell to Richard Warren & his companie Joyned wth him.' To this lot a black smooth horned heifer which came in the Jacob, and two she goats. The record of this division contains the earliest mention of the names of Richard's wife and children. The next year, 1628, he died at Plymouth, leaving his widow to care for a family of five daughters (four of whom were under seventeen) and two sons under four. Nathaniel Morton, in writing of the year 1628, speaks of his death as follows: 'This year died Mr. Richard Warren, who hath been mentioned before in this Book, and was an useful Instrument; and during his life bare a deep share int he Difficulties and Troubles of the first Settlement of the Plantation of New-Plimouth. [New England's Memorial, p. 68.]' " 1076 "Richard Warren, the first of the Warren name in America, sailed from Plymouth, Eng., in the historic 'Mayflower' 6 September, 1620 (O.S.). He was not of the Leyden company, but joined the Pilgrims from London, and he was one of the signers of the Compact framed in the cabin of the 'Mayflower' while in Cape Cod Harbor, which was the first platform of civil government in the new world, and which converted the band of unknown adventurers into an immortal Commonwealth. Morton, in his New England's Memorial, prints his name as twelfth in the list of signers, and Prince in his New England Chronology adds the honorable prefix of 'Mr.' from the Register at the end of Bradford's folio manuscript. He was one of the third exploring party which was surprised by the Indians, 18 December, 1620, at the spot since known as 'The First Encounter', and, technically speaking, he was one of the first to land at Plymouth, 21 December, 1620, on what might be called the birth-day of New England. 1037 "Under land division of 1623, Richard Warren's apportionment, as one of the 'Mayflower' passengers, fell in the north side of the town with WilliamWhite, Edward Winslow, John Goodman, John Crackston, John Alder, Marie Chilton, Captain Myles Standish, Francis Eaton, Henry Sampson, and Hunilitie Cooper; and under those who came in the 'Ann' his lands were 'on the other side of the towne towards Eele River', where he made his home, in the section later know as Wellingsley or Hobshold, and where he died in 1628. He also owned land along the shore of the present Warren's Cove."1037 "He was one of the nineteen signers of the Compact who survived the first winter. A contemporaneous authority described him as 'grave Richard Warren,' 'a man of integrity, justice and uprightness, or piety and serious religion,' and as 'a useful instrument during the short time he lived, bearing a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the plantation.' 1037 The ancestry of Richard Warren has not yet been proven. One hypothesis is that "the Mayflower man is the Richard Warren who married Elizabeth, daughter of Augustine Walker, at Great Amwell in 1610. The dovetailing of Elizabeth's death aged 'above 90' in 1673 with her baptism in 1583, plus the fact that Augustine Walker in his will of 1613 named his grandchildren Mary, Anna and Sarah Warren and that these were the names of the oldest three children, in that order, of Richard Warren of the Mayflower and his wife Elizabeth, leave no room for reasonable doubt as to the identification. As Neil says, these facts cannot be a coincidence. It is simply not reasonable to suppose that there were two couples named Richard and Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth having been born aboout 1583, who had as their oldest children Mary, Anna and Sarah born, in that oder, between 1610 and 1614." 1077 From Caleb's Web Page 256 Richard Warren ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BORN: England. Called "of London" in Mourt's Relation (1622). DIED: 1628, Plymouth. MARRIED: Elizabeth (---). She died 2 October 1673, Plymouth "aged above ninety". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHILDREN: NAME BIRTH DEATH MARRIAGE Mary c1610, 27 March 1683, Plymouth Robert Bartlett, after England 22 May 1627 Anna c1612, after 19 February 1675/6, Thomas Little, 19 April England Marshfield, MA 1633, Plymouth Sarah c1614, after 15 July 1696 John Cooke, 28 March England 1634, Plymouth Elizabeth c1616, 9 March 1669/70, Hingham, Richard Church, before England MA 14 March 1635, Plymouth Abigail c1618, after 3 January 1692/3, Anthony Snow, 8 England Marshfield, MA November 1639, Plymouth Nathaniel c1625, between 16 July and 21 Sarah Walker, 19 Plymouth October 1667, Plymouth November 1645, Plymouth Joseph c1626, 4 May 1689, Plymouth Priscilla Faunce, Plymouth c1652, Plymouth ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANCESTRAL SUMMARY: More erroneous information has been published about Richard Warren than any other Mayflower passenger, probably because he has so many descendants (note that all seven of his children grew up and married). It is time here to debunk many of the mistakes that have been published over the past hundred years. Common mistake #1. Richard Warren's wife is not Elizabeth (Jewett/Jonatt/Juett) Marsh. This is easily disproven. Elizabeth (Jewett) Marsh was born in 1614, which makes her not only younger than Richard Warren's two oldest children, but also makes her only fourteen years old when Richard Warren died. [Mayflower Descendant 2:63]. Common mistake #2. Richard Warren is not a proven descendant of any royalty, whether it be Sir John de Warrene or Charlemagne. Richard Warren's parents have not even been identified, despite extensive searches in the records of England (see the Mayflower Quarterly, 51:109-112 for a summary of one such search). The only concrete things we know about Richard Warren's ancestry are that he was a merchant of London--whether he was born there or not is an entirely different question. We also know that his wife was named Elizabeth. He had five daughters baptized in England somewhere, and perhaps the true records will some day be brought to light. There is a Richard Warren who married an Elizabeth Evans on 1 January 1592/3 in St. Leonards, and a Richard Warren who married an Elizabeth Doucke on 1 November 1596 in Sidmouth, Devon. However, Richard's first child was born about 1610, so a marriage in 1592 or 1596 seems most unlikely. The I.G.I. lists the following baptisms of Richard Warrens from its parish register abstractions (1570-1588): * 1 January 1570, St. Columb Minor, Cornwall (son of Lawrence) * 25 March 1571, St. Matthew Friday Street, London * 20 January 1572, Bishops Nympton, Devon (son of Baldwine) * 18 January 1573, Burbage, Leicester (son of John) * 2 October 1576, Phillack, Cornwall (son of John) * 9 August 1580, Sandy, Bedford (son of William) * 24 January 1580, St. Peter Cornhill, London (son of John) * 12 June 1580, St. Giles Cripplegate, London (son of John) * 1 October 1581, Harrow on the Hill, London * 26 January 1583, Haughley, Suffolk (son of George) * 11 August 1583, Darford, Kent (son of William) * 28 August 1585, Redruth, Cornwall (son of Benet) * 12 April 1585, Abbey, St. Albans, Hertford (son of William) * 2 March 1586, St. Mary, Stoke Newington, London (son of Robert) * 25 December 1587, Shillington, Bedford (son of Robert) * 3 September 1587, St. Andrew by the Wardrobe, London As should be plainly obvious, there were many Richard Warrens in England. If the true Richard Warren is ever identified, it will almost certainly be because the baptisms of his five daughters which should be somewhere in England. There are a few other small clues which may aid researchers looking for records. First, early Charlestown settler Ralph Spague married Joanna Warren, daughter of a Richard Warren from Fordington St. George, Dorset. This Richard Warren died in Fordington, Dorset before 1638. And early Watertown settler John Warren was baptized in Nayland, Suffolk, England in 1585, and he apparently had an uncle named Richard Warren. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: [Image] Richard Warren appears to have been a merchant, who resided in London, and became associated with the Pilgrims and the Mayflower through the Merchant Adventurers. Richard Warren participated in several of the early explorations made by the Pilgrims in 1620, while looking for a place to settle. He appears by land records to have been fairly well-to-do. When he came over on the Mayflower, he left behind his wife and five daughters, planning to have them sent over after things were more settled in the Colony. His wife and daughters arrived in America in 1623, on the ship Anne. Nathaniel Morton wrote in his book New England's Memorial, first published in 1669, the following about Richard Warren: This year [1628] died Mr. Richard Warren, who was an useful instrument and during his life bare a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the first settlement of the Plantation of New Plymouth. Richard Warren is an ancestor to many famous Americans. Among them are Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin D. Roosevelt; and Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first American in space and fifth man to walk on the moon. Alan Shepard's excellent book, Moon Shot: The Inside Story of the America's Race to the Moon, including an introduction by Neil Armstrong, is available in the Mayflower Web Page bookstore. A published lineage showing Winston Churchill as a descendant of Richard Warren has a questionable generation and is most likely in error. However, Winston Churchill does appear to be a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland's brother Arthur. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCES: 1. Mayflower Families in Progress: Richard Warren for Four Generations, by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1991 2. Mayflower Quarterly, 51:109-112, "The Search for Pilgrim Richard Warren's Parentage", by Ruth Berg Walsh 3. Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony, Its History and Its People, 1620-1691, Salt Lake City, 1984 4. New England's Memorial, by Nathaniel Morton, 1669 5. Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, written by William Bradford and Edward Winslow, 1621 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mayflower Web Pages. Caleb Johnson © 1997 [Image] 256 "Richard Warren's English origins and ancestry have been the subject of much speculation, and countless different ancestries have been published for him, without a shred of evidence to support them. Luckily in December 2002, Edward Davies discovered the missing piece of the puzzle. Researchers had long known of the marriage of Richard Warren to Elizabeth Walker on 14 April 1610 at Great Amwell, Hertford. Since we know the Mayflower passenger had a wife named Elizabeth, and a first child born about 1610, this was a promising record. But no children were found for this couple in the parish registers, and no further evidence beyond the names and timing, until the will of Augustine Walker was discovered in December 2002 by Edward Davies. In the will of Augustine Walker, dated April 1613, he mentions "my daughter Elizabeth Warren wife of Richard Warren", and "her three children Mary, Ann and Sarah." We know that the Mayflower passenger's first three children were named Mary, Ann, and Sarah (in that birth order), and that they were born c1610, c1612, and c1614, so this put the nail in the coffin and we can say with near certainty that Richard Warren of the Mayflower married in Great Amwell, Hertford to Elizabeth Walker, daughter of Augustine Walker. Additional research is currently being sponsored by MayflowerHistory.com to see if anything further can be learned about these families."1073 " Edward Davies provided the following information: 'Augustine Walker's will was proved in the Court of the Bishop of London's Commissary (Essex and Herts). It is held at Essex Record office, and the reference is D/ABW 41/186. The date of probate is not given . . .' An article is being prepared by Mr. Davies that will build on this discovery. Augustine's first wife is presently unknown. He married (2) Mary Stringer in 1597. Mary is mentioned in his will. The extracts from the parish registers of Baldock show two daughters for Augustine: Dorothy, chr. Aug 1573 and Elizabeth, chr. Sep 1583. Undoubtedly there were others, bu the original parish registers will need to be searched." 1078 "Very little is known about Richard Warren's life in America. He came alone on the Mayflower in 1620, leaving behind his wife and five daughters. They came to him on the ship Anne in 1623, and Richard and Elizabeth subsequently had sons Nathaniel and Joseph at Plymouth. He received his acres in the Division of Land in 1623, and his family shared in the 1627 Division of Cattle. But he died a year later in 1628, the only record of his death being found in Nathaniel Morton's 1669 book New England's Memorial, in which he writes: "This year [1628] died Mr. Richard Warren, who was an useful instrument and during his life bare a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the first settlement of the Plantation of New Plymouth." All of Richard Warren's children survived to adulthood, married, and had large families: making Richard Warren one of the most common Mayflower passengers to be descended from. Richard Warren's descendants include such notables as Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Alan B. Shepard, Jr. the first American in space and the fifth person to walk on the moon." 1073 "Richard Warren came from London and was called a 'merchant' of that city (Mourt). Extensive research in every available source of information-registers, chancery and probate in the London courts, proved fruitless in an attempt to identify him. As he died before 1628 it is probable that he was considerably past middle life at the date of emigration. A careful analysis of the reading of Bradford's statement about Richard Warren in the section devoted to 'Decreasings and Increasings' justifies the compiler's belief that Mrs. Elizabeth Warren, who came over in the Anne in 1623, was his second wife. After stating that 'his wife came over to him' he adds the significant statement 'by whom he had two sons before he dyed.' After stating the 'increase' he adds: 'but he had five daughters more come over with his wife' which can only be accurately read as his children and not hers. His separation of the sons, who were the specific issue of the wife Elizabeth, from the daughters who came over with the wife completes the picture of family relationships. As she survived him for nearly half a century, dying in 1673, it is almost conclusive confirmation of this theory. An estimation of the probable dates of birth of the five daughters, based on the known facts, gives the following result: Mary, born 1606; Elizabeth, 1608; Anne, 1612; Sarah, 1614, and Abigail, 1616. Richard Warren, a London haberdasher, was licensed to marry Elizabeth Evans of St. Mildred Poultry, 1 January, 1592/3, at St. Leonard's Shoreditch, and a Richard Warren married Marjorie Jordan, 1 September, 1606, at St. Martin's in the Field. Either one of these might be the Mayflower Pilgrim. St. Leonard Shoreditch parish adjoins that of St. Botolph without Aldgate and St. May whitechapel, from both of which came Pilgrims, and Nicholas Snow has been identified as of St. Leonards (q.v.). It is in the heart of the Pilgrim area in London. The records of the Honorable Artillery Company of London, 1612, contain the admission of a Richard Warren as a member that year but no further information is available as to his identity."322 He has been estimated to have been born by about 1578 based on estimated date of marriage.318 "Richard Warren was in the party that explored the outer cape in early December 1620; he was described as being of London [Mourt 32]."318 "RICHARD WARREN Origin: London [Mourt 32]. Migration: 1620 on the Mayflower. First Residence: Plymouth. Estate: In the 1623 Plymouth division of land Richard Warren received an uncertain number of acres (perhaps two) as a passenger on the Mayflower, and five acres as a passenger on the anne (preseumably for his wife and children) [PCR 12:4-6]. In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle Richard Warren, his wife Elizabeth Warren, Nathaniel Warren, Joseph Warren, Mary Warren , Anna Warren, Sarah Warren, Elizabeth Warren and Abigail Warren were the first nine persons in the ninth company [PCR 12:12]. He was one of the purchasers [PCR 2:177]. . . . Birth: By about 1578 (based on estimated date of marriage). Death: Plymouth 1628. ('This year died Mr. Richard Warren, who hath been mentioned before in this book, and was an useful instrument; and during his life boare a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the first settlement of the plantation of New-Plymouth' [Morton 85].) Marriage: Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, 14 April 1610 Elizabeth Walker, daughter of Augustine Walker [TAG 78:81-86]. She died at Plymouth on 2 October 1673, aged about 90 (probably an exaggeration) [PCR 8:35]." 422 "Comments: In his accounting of the passengers of the Mayflwoer Bradford included 'Mr. Richard Warren, but his wife and children were left behind and came afterwards' [Bradford 442]. As of 1651, Bradford reported that 'Mr. Richard Warren lived some four or five years and had his wife come over to him, by whom he had two sons before [he] died, and one of them is married and hath two children. So his increase is four. But he had fiv daughters more came over with his wife, who are all married and living, and have many children ' [Bradford 445-46]. Richard Warren was in the party that explored the outer cape in early December 1620; he was described as being of London [Mourt 32]. . . . Bibliographic Note: In 1938 L. Effingham deForest published a thorough study of Richard Warren [Moore Anc 561-70]. In 1999 the Five Generations Project of the General Society of Mayflwoer Descendants published the first of three volumes of the descendants of Richard Warren, covering the first four generations, compiled by Robert S. Wakefield. The second and third volumes, covering the fifth-generation descendants, were published in 1999 and 2001. In 2003 Edward J. Davies published two articles that present the evidence for the marriage of Richard Warren and for some of his wife's family [TAG 78:81-86, 274-75]." 422 "This bronze tablet on a boulder, overlooking the bay shore [at First Encounter Beach] reads: 'On This Spot Hostile Indians Had Their First Encounter December 8, 1620 Old Style With Myles Standish, John Carver, William Bradford, John Tilley, Edward Winslow, John Howland, Edward Tilley, Richard Warren, Stephen Hopkins, Edward Dotey, John Allerton, Thomas English, Master Mate Clark, Master Gunner Chopin and Three Sailors of the Mayflower Company Provincetown Tercentenary Commission 1620-1920.' "329 "The 22 May 1627 Division of Cattlenames Richard Warren, wife Elizabeth Warren, Nathaniell Warren, Joseph Warren, Mary Warren, Anna Warren, Sara Warren, Elizabeth Warren and Abigail Warren. "970 Claude W. Barlow refutes the ideas that Richard was the son of Christopher Warren, that his wife was Elizabeth Jewett, that Elizabeth was not the mother of their 5 daughters. He also points out how many Richard Warrens were around at the time.1079 Ruth Berg Walsh relates her detailed and unsuccessful search for Richard Warren's parentage. 1080 "The oldest volume of the Plymouth Colony Records is entitled 'Plimouths great Book of Deeds of Lands Enrolled: from Ano 1627 to Ano 1651:' On pages 50-57 of this book is entered the record of the Division of Cattle which was made June 1, 1627, new style: '1627. At a publique court held the 22th of May it was concluded by the whole Companie, that the cattell wch were the Companies, to wit, the Cowes & the Goates should be equall devided to all the psonts of the same company & soe kept untill the expiration of ten yeares after the date above written. & that every one should well and sifficiently pvid for there owne pt under penalty of forfeiting the same. That the old stock with halfe th increase should remaine for comon use to be devided at thend of the said terme or otherwise as ocation falleth out, & the other halfe to be their owne for ever. Uppon wch agreement they were equally devided by lotts soe as the burthen of keeping the males then beeing should be borne for common use by those to whose lot the best Cowes should fall & so the lotts fell as followeth. thirteene psonts being pportioned to one lot. 9 The ninth lot fell to Richard Warren & his companie Joyned wth him his wife 2 Elizabeth Warren 3 Nathaniell Warren 4 Joseph Warren 5 Mary Warren 6 Anna Warren 7 Sara Warren 8 Elizabeth Warren 9 Abigall Warren 10 John Billington 11 George Sowle 12 Mary Sowle 13 Zakariah Sowle To this lott fell one of the 4 black Heyfers that came in the Jacob caled the smooth horned Heyfer and two shee goats." 331 "Richard Warren was from London and joined the Leyden Pilgrims in July, 1620, at Southampton, whence the Mayflower and the Speedwell first set sail for America. He was married in England, before 1611, to Elizabeth ______, whose maiden name is unknown, and had by her five daughters, Mary, Anna (born about 1612), Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail, who were left in England and came to Plymouth with their mother in 1623. Nothing more is known of his life before hejoined the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, and there are very few references to him in the Plymouth Colony records and the works of contemporary writers, doubtless owing to his early death in 1628. Bradford's History mentions him only in the list of the Mayflower passengers, and includes him among the few who were of enough importance to be distinguished by the title of 'Mr." Nathaniel Morton, in the New England's Memorial, published at Cambridge, Mass., in 1669, was the first to print the names of the forty-one men who signed the Compact in the cabin of the Mayflower on Saturday, 11/21 November, 1620, and Richard Warren's name appears in this list." 1071 "The following extract from Mourt's Relation contains the only reference yet found to the place from which Richard Warren came. It also shows us that he was a member of the third exploring party sent out while the Mayflower lay at anchor in Cape Cod Harbor. This party set out in the shallop on Wednesday, 6/16 December, 1620, and after many hardships, including a fight with the Indians early Friday morning, landed at Plymouth on the following Monday, 11/21 December, 1620." Paragraph from Mourt's Relation to be entered including ". . . and three of London, Richard Warren, Steeuen Hopkins and Edward Dotte . . ." 1071 "'In the latter end of July,' 1623, his wife and daughters arrived at Plymouth in the Anne, and in the Division of Land a few months later he received lots on 'the north side of the towne' and 'on the other side of the towne towards the eele-river.' . . .In this division, which was made 22 May/I June, 1627, 'The ninth lot fell to Richard Warren & his companie Joyned wth him.' To this lot fell a black smooth horned heifer which came in the Jacob, and two she goats. The record of this division contains the earliest mention of the names of Richard's wife and children. The next year, 1628, he died at Plymouth, leaving his widow to care for a family of five daughters (four of whom were under seventeen), and two sons under four. Nathaniel Morton, in the writing of the year 1628, speaks of his death as follows: 'This year died Mr. Richard Warren, who hath been mentioned before in this Book, and was an useful Instrument; and during his life bare a deep share in the Difficulties and Troubles of the first Settlement of the Plantation of New-Plimouth. [New England's Memorial, p. 68.]' " 1071 "Richard Warren b. prob. England; d. Plymouth 1628. He m. prob. England prior to 1610 Elizabeth ____, b. ca. 1580; d. Plymouth 2 Oct. 1673 aged above 90 years. Governor Bradford wrote 'Mr. Richard Warren lived some four or five years and had his wife come over to him, by whom he had two sons before [he] died, and one of them is married and hath two children. So his increase is four. But he had five daughters more came over with his wife, who are all married and living, and have many children.' The wife and 5 daughters came to Plymouth on the 'Anne' in 1623. In 'Mourt's Relation' under date of 'sixt of December' it is stated 'and three of london, Richard Warren, Steven Hopkins and Edward Dotte . . . ' This statement that he was from London is all we know about the origin of Richard Warren despite considerable research to learn more. (See MQ 51:109-112). The 22 May 1627 Division of Cattle names Richard Warren, wife Elicabeth Warren, Nathaniell Warren, Joseph Warren, Mary Warren, Anna Warren, Sara Warren, Elizabeth Warren and Abigail Warren. In a deed dated 28 Sept. 1629 the land which Thomas Clarke sold to William Bradford was bounded on one side by the land of 'widow Warren.' " 969 "His life in Plymouth was short. Bradford states 'Mr. Richard Warren, but his wife and children were left behind and came afterwards.' . . There is no account of the settlement of his estate in Plymouth, and the papers are probably carefully preserved somewhere in England. During the landing operations, Warren went out with the 3rd exploring party from the Mayflower as it lay at anchor in Cape Cod Harbor. The party set out in the Shallop on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1620, and after numberous adventures, including a fight with the Indians early Friday morning, landed at Plymouth on the following Monday, Dec. 11, 1620. A few weeks afer the arrival of his wife and daughters in the 'Anne', he received lots on 'the north side of the eele-river.' He was among the 'Purchasers' of 1627 to buy from the London Adventurers all their rights in the Colony. In the division,the 9th lot fell to Richard Warren, naming his family. In 'New England's Memorial - Morton- 1667,' p. 68 is this statement about Warren: 'This year (1628) died Mr. Richard Warren, who hath been mentioned beofre in this Book and was a useful Instrument, and during his life bore a deep share in the Difficulties and Troubles of the first Settlement of the Plantation of New Plimouth.' " 249 "In Memoirs of the Earls of Warren and Surrey and Their Descendants, by Reverand John Watson, in 1782, the dedication tells us: ' It has been no easy task to throw together the particulars of your family, for seven hundred years past, as they lie scattered in such a variety of repositories . .. ' The above sentiments are echoed by many genealogists of the Warren family during the past centuries." 250 "Charles Edward Banks, in Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers (Grafton Press, N.Y., 1929, pp. 92-3) writes: 'Ricahrd Warren came from London and was called a merchant of that city (by Mourt). Extensive research in every available source of inforamtion - registers, chancery, and probate, in the London courts, proved fruitless in an attempt to identify him. As he died in 1628, it is probable that he as considerably past middle life at the date of emigration.' " 250 "Richard Warren was not of the Leyden Company, but joined the Pilgrims from London. He came alone on the Mayflower and was one of the nineteen signers of the Compact who survived the first winter. Under the land division of 1623, his appoitionment, as one of the Mayflower passengers, fell in the north side of the town, and under those who came in the Ann, his wife and daughters having come on that ship, his lands were 'on the other side of the towne towards Eele River,' where he made his home, in the section later known as Wellingsley or Hobshole, and where he died in 1628. He also owned land along the shore of the present Warren's Cove." 250 "The date and place of his birth is unknown. He died in Plymouth in 1628. He married in England before 1610, Elizabeth ____; b. bef. 1583; d. 22 Oct. 1673, at Plymouth 'aged above 90 yrs.' In the early Plymouth Colony records she was usually spoken of as 'Mistress' Elizaabeth Warren, an uncommon designation, and she was one of the few widows of the Colony who did not remarry." 250 "According to family tradition, Richard Warren brought with him on the Mayflower a particularly treasured (and very portable) family possession - a large linen damask napkin, woven in the Netherlands c. 1600, now on display at Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts."1081 "In 1627, the Colony's livestock, formerly held in common, was divided among the Colony's residents. Every person living in Plymouth in 1627 was assigned to a 'Lot,' generally arranged by family group, and the name of every resident was individually recorded in Plymouth Colony Records Volume 1. Listed there we find not only Richard and Elizabeth and their five daughters, but also the names of their two young sons, Nathaniel and Joseph Warren." 1081 "The second section of Bradford's list includes the leading members of the 'Strangers' those passengers who lived in England but gained passage on the Mayflower, through some kind of a connection either to the Leiden passengers and the Leiden church or o the merchants who were underwriting the voyage. Bradford lists them as: Capt. Myles Standish, Mr. Christopher Martin, Mr. William Mullins, Mr. William White, Mr. Stephen Hopkins, Mr. Richard Warren, and John Billington. Again, all these men are given the prefixed Mr. except for Myles Standish, who is denoted instead by his title Captin, and John Billington, who had been hanged for murder (if he had the social rank of Mr., he may have lost it with his conviction)." 425 "Richard Warren, whose wife came from Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, also appears to have been a merchant who made an investment in the Pilgrims' joint-stock company." 425 "The following list of 51 people believed to have been living in December 1621 has been compiled from Eugene A. Stratton and Robert S. Wakefield, 'A Historical Background for Easly Plymouth Colony Genealogical research, Genealogical Journal 13(winter 1984-5): 145-162: 1. John Alden . . 28. Stephen Hopkins 29. Elizabeth Hopkins 30. Constance Hopkins 31. Giles Hopkins 32. Damaris Hopkins 33. Oceanus Hopkins 34. John Howland . . . 39. Priscilla Mullins . . . 44. Elizabeth Tilley . . . 46. Richard Warren . . . "341 "Household possessions [at the Pilgrim Hall Museum] include the Allerton-Cushman carved wooden cup, the Peter Brown tankard, the Howland Family bowl, the Fuller Family salt, the Warren Family porringer, the Cooke-Thomson bown and William Bradford's 1634 silver cup (owned jointly with the Smithsonian). The Loara Standish sampler, the oldest sampler made in America, and the Constance Hopkins beaver hat are among the textiles and wearing apparel in the collections." 801 "Richard Warren, parentage unknown, born in England, possibly in London, and died at Hobshole in Plymouth in 1628, 'having borne a deep share in the Difficulties and Troubles of the first settlement of the Plantation of New Plimouth' (Bradford's History). He was a passenger on the Mayflower. He married probably in England before 1610 Elixabeth ___, born about 1580; and died in Plymouth, 2 October 1673, aged above 90 years (PCR, 8:35)." 511 "An exhaustive search for Richard Warren was made before 1985 and recorded in the Mayflower Quarterly, volume 51, pages 109 through 112, with no identification of 'our' Richard. Several Richards had wives Elizabeth. A fire in London in 1666 destroyed many records. He was from London and was a merchant in that city in a statement recorded in Mourt's Relation. He was not of the Leyden Congregation and was one of the nineteen signers of the Compact who survived the first winter. 'Under the land division of 1623, his apportionment, as one of the Mayflower passengers, fell in the north side of town, and under those who came in the Ann, his wife and daughters having come on that ship, his lands were 'on the other side of the towne towards Eele River,' where he made his home in the section later known as Willingsley or Hobshole . . . He also owned land along the shore of the present Warren's Cove' (Families of the Pilgrims, 150). The 22 May 1627 Division of Cattle names Richard Warren, wife Elizabeth Warren, Nathaniell Warren, Joseph Warren, Mary Warren, Anna Warren, Sara Warren, Elizabeth Warren and Abigail Warren (PCR, 12:12)." 511 "The thirteenth family group 55. Richard Warren, came alone, wife and five daughters followed, subsequently had two more sons, died 1628." 428 "6 December . . . A ten-man party set out on what was to be a seven-day trip (their sixth land expedition since arriving). This time they headed south alongside the Cape Cod peninsula opposite Truro, aiming for Bilingsgate Point. Winslow described how the party was led by Captain Standish, and included William Bradford as official recorder, Master Carver, himself (also keeping notes), John Tilley, Edward Tilley, John Howland, Richard Warren, Stephen Hopkins and Edward Doty. . . . Unfortunately for this party the extreme cold almost immobilized some of them, including the Tilley brother, who 'swooned', while the Master Gunner was also very sick. . . . "428 Full text of the Mayflower Compact and the list of signers to be entered.429 "Three, Samuel Fuller, Richard Warren, and francis Cook, left their wives for the present either in Holland or England . . . Richard Warren, the 12th signer of the Compact, with the honorable prefix of Mr. is mentioned by Bradford as a most useful man, during the short time he lived, bearing a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the plantation. He died in 1628. His widow, Elizabeth, survived him about 45 years, dying in 1673, at the age of 90. They had two sons and five daughters. His descendants perpetuate the name in Plymouth, New Bedford, Lowell, Boston, New York, and elsewhere. At the partition of the lands in 1623, Richard Warren's lot was assigned him near Eel river. The farm has continued in the possession of his posterity till within a few years. See Hutchinson's Mass. ii. 462; Morton's Memorial, p. 135; Thacher's Plymouth, p. 71." 429 "Wednesday, the 6th of December, it was resolved our discoverers should set forth, for the day before was too foul weather, - and so they did, though it was well o'er the day ere all things could be ready. So ten of our men were appointed who were of themselves willing to undertake it, to wit, Captain Standish, Master Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, John Tilley, Edward Tilley, John Houland, and three of London, Richard Warren, Steeven Hopkins, and Edward Dotte, and two of our seamen, John Alderton and Thomas English." 429 "The honor of first stepping upon the rock is claimed by the descendants of Mary Chilton, in her behalf, and also by those of John Alden, in his favor - resting upon tradition in both families. It is evident that neither of them had the honor of first landing upon it. This occurred on the 11th of december, 1620, old style, corresponding to December 21st, new style, when the shallop of the Mayflower, having left on the 6th of December the harbor of Cape Cod, coasted along the shore, and was finally driven by storm into Plymouth, and found shelter at Clark's Island. The shallop at this time had on board ten of the pilgrims, who had signed the compact, whose names were as follows: Capt. Standish, Master Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, John Tilley, Edward Tilley, John Howland, Richard Warren, Stephen Hopkins, and Edward Dotey, from which it appears that John Alden was not among the number who first stepped on the rock." 430 "We are unable to designate the exact spot where many of the IPilgrims repose. Among these were Richard Warren, on the occurrence of whose death, in 1628, the author of New England's memorial thus remarks: 'This year died Mr. Richard Warren, who hath been mentioned before in this book, and was a useful instrument, and during his life bore a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the first settlement of the plantation of new Plimouth'' his widow, Elizabeth, died in 1673, aged ninety-three" 430 "The Landing of the Fathers in 1620, painted by the late Henry Sargent, Esq., of Boston, and generously presented by him to the Pilgrim Society [housed at the Pilgrim Hall] . . . The following individuals are represented in the painting, attired in the costume of their time: . . .Mr. John Alden . . Mr. Stephen Hopkins, his wife and children . . Mr. Richard Warren . . Mr. John Howland, son-in-law of governor Carver." 430 Richard Warren, b. prob. Hertford, England; d. Plymouth, Mass., 1628; m. Great Amwell, hertford, Eng., 14 Apr 1610 Elizabeth Walker, d/o Augustine Walker, who mentioned in his will dated April 1613 'my daughter Elizabeth Warren wife of Richard Warren,' and 'her three children Mary, Ann and Sarah.' Elizabeth came to American in 1623 in the ship Anne accompanied by her daughters. She d. at Plymouth, Mass., 2 Oct 1673, aged above ninety years. Richard Warren was the 12th signer of the Mayflower Companct. There is a great deal of material on Richard Warren." [Excerpt from NEHG Register 55:70 to be entered] 125 | ||||||||||
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