Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameRichard RISLEY
Birthbef 1615, Oxon?, Lancashire, England4180, p 34
Removal15 Jul 1633, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts4180, p 34 Age: 18
Settlement31 May 1636, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut4180, p 34 Age: 21
DeathOct 1648, Hockanum, East Hartford, Connecticut2101, p 626; states 1648?,4180, p 35 Age: 33
Memonow East Hartford
Probate7 Dec 16484180, p 35 Age: 33
MemoInventory
FlagsEarliest Immigrant
Individual Notes
• He emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony, Boston, sailing from Downs in the ship Griffin July 15th, 1633, in company with Rev. Thomas Hooker, Rev. Wm. Stone, Rev. John Cotton and the Hon. John Haynes. The ship Griffin brought from England many of Hooker’s church in Braintree, numbering more than a hundred persons. The vessel landed in Boston Harbor, Sept. 4, 1633. Hooker and his associates located in Newtown (now Cambridge), Mass., where a church had been previously erected to accomodate the new comers.4180, p 34

• Richard Risley, with the Hooker Company, was one of the original founders of the Commonwealth of Connecticut.
Richard and Mary, his wife, lived on the east of the “Great River.”4180, p 35
Spouses
Birth1615, England5189
Deathbef 1680, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut5189, place only,4180, p 37; date only Age: 65
Individual Notes
• Torrey states [?Mary]/___?___ RESLEY/RISELY, w ?Richard, aft 17 Oct 1648, bef 7 Dec 1648?, Hartford.2101, p 373
Marriageabt 16402101,4180, p 36
Family Notes
• 3 children.4180, p 37
ChildrenRichard (1648->1716)
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