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RICHARD SPARROW (say 1605–1661)
PANDORA UNKNOWN (d. aft. 1661)
Richard Sparrow was born say 1605. He died on 8 January 1660/1. [1] He married Pandora Unknown by about 1629 (if she was the mother of Jonathan). [1]
Richard came to New England in 1632 and first settled in Plymouth. [1]
Richard was on a 2 January 7 Charles [1631/2] tax list in Plymouth. [RPC3] He was a freeman in Plymouth in 1633. [RPC0] He was on a 24 March 1633/4 Plymouth tax list. [RPC1] He moved to Eastham by 1653. [1]
On 7 November 1636 the court made a memorandum that Richard had been allowed six acres of land next to the land of John Dunham, the elder. [RPCJ]
Richard was on a 7 March 1636/7 list of freemen in Plymouth. [RPCK]
Richard is described as a yeoman in a bond. [1]
Richard is in the Plymouth section of the 1643 list of men able to bear arms. [1]
Richard was a freeman in 1633. [1] Betwen 1639 and 1659 he was frequently on various types of juries. [1] He was a constable and served as tax collector and surveyer of highways. [1]
Richard was granted 40 acres by Fresh Lake on 5 March 1637/8. [RPCQ]
Richard was on a grand inquest jury on 4 June 1639 and 7 June 1653. [PC10] He was appointed to the grand jury on 7 March 1642/3 and to the trial jury on 2 March 1646/7. [PC10]
On 24 June 1639 Mary Moorecock apprenticed herself to Richard Sparrow and his wife Pandora. [PC11]
Richard was appointed constable of Plymouth and a surveyor of highways there on 3 March 1639/40 and 2 June 1640. He was appointed surveyor of highways on 4 June 1645, 1 June 1647 and 7 June 1648. [PC13] He was appointed receiver of the excise for Plymouth on 4 June 1650. He was chosen a deputy for Eastham on 8 June 1655. [PC01]
On 5 May 1640 Richard was appointed to view the meadow about Edward Doty's and report the number of acres. [PC16] He was appointed to a jury to lay forth disputed highways and to set bounds and landmarks on 1 February 1640/1. [PC02]
Richard was granted five acres by Edward Doty's land on 1 June 1640. He was granted two acres of meadow at Wood Island on 7 September 1641. He was granted a parcel of upland on 31 December 1641. He was granted four acres of upland on 17 October 1642. [PC17]
Richard made his will on 19 November 1660. He mentions his wife Pandora, his son Jonathan and his grandchildren John and Rebecca Sparrow. [1] His will was proved on 5 March 1661. [1]
Richard had only one known child. [3]
Children of Richard Sparrow and Pandora Unknown:
i. Jonathan Sparrow was born say 1629. He married first Rebecca Bangs. He married second Hannah Prence. He married third Sarah (Lewis) Cobb.
ii. Robert Sparrow (?)
Robert Sparrow was appointed constable of Eastham on 8 June 1655. [PC03]
References:
1. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I–III," digitized books, AmericanAncestors, 1715–8.
3. Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History & People 1620–1691 (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1986), 238–9.
RPC3. Nathaniel Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vols. 1–3 (Boston, William White, 1855), vol. 1: 9–11.
RPC0. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol1: 3–4.
RPC1. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 27–29.
RPCJ. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 46.
RPCK. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 52–54.
RPCQ. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 78.
PC10. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 126–7; vol. 2: 53, 112; vol. 3: 32.
PC11. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 128–9.
PC13. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 140–1, 154–6; vol. 2, 84, 116, 124.
PC16. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 151–3.
PC17. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 154; vol. 2: 25, 29, 48.
PC18. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 154–6.
PC01. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 2: 155; vol. 3: 79.
PC02. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 2: 7.
PC03. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 3: 79.
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