• 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