Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameRichard MORE 
Birthabt 1614, Shipton, Shropshire, England2964, p 122; date only,3387, p 3
Baptism13 Nov 1614, Shipton, Shropshire, England3362, p 328 Age: <1
Deathaft 20 May 16902964, p 122 Age: 76
Burialmid-1690s, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts3387, p 3
FlagsMayflower Passenger
FatherSamuel MORE
MotherCatherine MORE
Individual Notes
• Age 6, indentured to William Brewster.
He is the only Mayflower passenger to have his gravestone still where it was originally placed sometime in the mid-1690s.3387, p 3
• Richard More was a son of Catherine (More) More, wife of Samuel More. He sailed on the Mayflower as a young ward to Elder Brewster. Sir Anthony Wagner, “The Origin of the Mayflower Children: Jasper, Richard and Ellen More,” NEHGR 114:163 and “They Royal Descent of a Mayflower Passenger,” NEHGR 124:85, shows that the More children (including a fourth sibling, whom Bradford called a boy, but who probably was Mary, known sister to the other three) were born of an adulterous relationship of their mother. The husband, to spare them future disgrace, put the children out with John Carver and Robert Cushman to go to the New World. Wagner traced the mother backed to royalty, making the More children the only ones on the Mayflower of proven royal descent.
Richard, the only surviving More child of that first winter, later disappeared from Plymouth records, leaving some writers to identify him with Richard Mann of Scituate. However, it was later discovered that he moved to Salem and became a sea captain (MD 22:49; MQ 43:45). Richard’s son, Caleb More, testified in 1678 that his father “bought to of a London ship in Virginia.”3362, p 328
He is the only Mayflower passenger to have his gravestone still where it was originally placed sometime in the mid-1690s.3387, p 3
• Richard More was a son of Catherine (More) More, wife of Samuel More. He sailed on the Mayflower as a young ward to Elder Brewster. Sir Anthony Wagner, “The Origin of the Mayflower Children: Jasper, Richard and Ellen More,” NEHGR 114:163 and “They Royal Descent of a Mayflower Passenger,” NEHGR 124:85, shows that the More children (including a fourth sibling, whom Bradford called a boy, but who probably was Mary, known sister to the other three) were born of an adulterous relationship of their mother. The husband, to spare them future disgrace, put the children out with John Carver and Robert Cushman to go to the New World. Wagner traced the mother backed to royalty, making the More children the only ones on the Mayflower of proven royal descent.
Richard, the only surviving More child of that first winter, later disappeared from Plymouth records, leaving some writers to identify him with Richard Mann of Scituate. However, it was later discovered that he moved to Salem and became a sea captain (MD 22:49; MQ 43:45). Richard’s son, Caleb More, testified in 1678 that his father “bought to of a London ship in Virginia.”3362, p 328