• He was a man of much note as one of the most useful and active of the citizens of Sandwich, and a good orthographist. He purchased at his own expense, of Quachatisset and others, a most eligible territory of sixteen square miles, for the permanent abode of the Marshpee Indians.3558, p 4

• Five generations of his ancestry.3558, p 196

• The first marriage of Mr. richard Bourne is not on the Colony Records. As he was a householder in Plymouth in 1636, it may safely be inferred that he was then a married man. His first wife, and the mother of all his children, was probably Bathsheba, a daughter of Mr. Andrew Hallett, Senior.3216, p 111