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Richard Francis (c. 1606–1687)
Alice ___
Richard Francis was born about 1606. He died on 24 [or a few days before] March 1686/7, age 80, in Cambridge. [1] He married Alice ___ in 16 __ in Cambridge. [1]
On 22 [!] March 1687, Samuel Sewall wrote in his diary, "Now about Goodm. Francis an ancient and good Man indeed, of Cambridge, dies." [2]
He was a freeman on 13 May 1640.
Richard Francis, Steven Francis, and John Squire were on a coroner's enquest on 1 June 1668. [3]
In his will of 28 Nov 1653, William Wilcockes of Cambridge mentions his sick wife; his cousin John Woodes; his sister the Widow Hall; his "honest bro: Richard Frances"; his brother John Taylor; his sister Christian Boyden's children in Old England. [4]
Children of Richard Francis and Alice ___:
i. Steven Francis was born on 7 February 1644 in Cambridge. [1] He married first Hannah Hall on 27 December 1670 in Cambridge. [1] She died on 2 April 1683 in Cambridge. [1] He married second Dickson on 16 September 1683 in Cambridge. [1]
ii. Sarah Francis was born on 2 December 1646 in Cambridge. She died after 13 July 1713. She married John Squire.
iii. John Frances was born on 4 January 1649/50 in Cambridge. [1] He died 3 January 1728. [5] He married Lydia Cooper on 5 January 1687/8 in Cambridge. [1] Lydia, the daughter of John and Anna Cooper, was born on 8 April 1662 in Cambridge. [1] She died 24 August 1725. [5]
iv. Rebecca Frances, according to Savage. [5]
v. Ann Frances, according to Savage. [5]
References:
1. Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1915), vol. 1: 161 (Cooper births), 265–6 (Francis births), vol. 2: 149–150 (Francis marriages), 560 (Francis deaths).
2. Diary of Samuel Sewall, vol. 1, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 5, Fifth Series (Boston: The society, 1878), 171.
3. "Middlesex County, MA: Abstracts of Court Records, 1643–1674," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org, 2: 63.
4. "Great Migration 1634–1635, T–Y," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume VII, T–Y (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 394–6.
5. James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, 4 vols., (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1860–1862), vol. 2: 199.
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