Richard More (Mayflower passenger)

603:, London. The record of that event notes that "Richard Moore of Salem, Mariner" married Elizabeth Woolnough of Limehouse district, London. The Stepney parish register states that Elizabeth was the daughter of Benjamin Woolnough, having been baptised in St Dunstan's on 21 December 1623. Benjamin Woolnough was a trans-Atlantic ship captain, sailing to Virginia. The last time that Elizabeth's name appears on documents is on 7 April 1646, the day after Richard More failed to appear at the Kings Session for Peace, when she identified herself to the High Court of Admiralty as "Elizabeth, wife of Richard Moore of Stepney." Her appearance in court was to answer a charge against More, who had probably fled the country, for being intoxicated in the company of a woman of easy virtue as well as a child of about eight years, thought to have been his daughter Elizabeth. There is no evidence that Elizabeth Woolnough ever came to America. No further record. 239:

statement, the reason he sent the children away was "as the apparent likeness & resemblance … to Jacob Blakeway", quoting from: "A true declaracon of the disposing of the fower children of Katherine More sett downe by Samuell More her husband" together with the "reasons movinge him thereunto accasioned by a peticon" of hers to the Lord Chief Justice of England and it is endorsed, "Katherine Mores Petition to the Lord Chief Justice ...the disposing of her children to Virginia dated 1622". Samuel goes on to state that, during the time the children were with the tenants, Katherine went there and engaged in a struggle to take her children back: "Katharine went to the tenants dwelling where her children had been sequestered, and in a hail of murderous oaths, did teare the cloathes from their backes". There were at least twelve actions recorded between December 1619 and 8 July 1620, when it was finally dismissed.

559:. In later life, Richard suffered from financial hardship. On 1 July 1688, he was brought before the Salem church elders for 'gross unchastity with another man's wife'. The elders had spoken to him privately on several occasions as Richard represented a member of the Ancient Days and they wanted to maintain a special place in their history. He was publicly sanctioned and excommunicated from the church. Richard accepted the judgment and made a public repentance and, according to documents, was restored to the church in 1691. According to David Lindsay, historian and author, the pastor who punished him was Reverend Nicholas Noyes. 19: 191:, had renewed a lease on a parcel of land owned by Katherine More's father, Jasper More of Larden Hall. The manor of Larden Hall was about half a mile from Brockton where the Blakeway family lived. By a deed dated 20 April 1616, Samuel cut the entail on the Larden estate to prevent any of the children from inheriting. During the long court battle, Samuel would deny that he was the father of the children borne by his wife, Katherine, and stated them to be children of the adulterous relationship. Katherine did not deny her relationship with 514:, which stated, among other things, that the shipping of European goods to the colonies except through England or Wales was forbidden, forced hard times upon both colonial ship captains and the colonists. The restrictions threatened the very survival of the colonists and, to survive, the captains had to be extremely creative in their shipping manifests. The Navigation Acts, along with the continued taxation of the colonies into the next century, brought about the growth of isolationism, which eventually resulted in the 235:. At that time, children were routinely rounded up from the streets of London or taken from poor families receiving church relief to be used as labourers in the colonies. Any legal objections to the involuntary transportation of the children were over-ridden by the Privy Council, namely, Lord Zouche. Most people thought it a death sentence and, indeed, many did not survive either the voyage or the harsh climate, disease, and scarcity of fresh food for which they were ill-prepared. 820: 429:, which had sailed from London to Massachusetts Bay. The purpose of this journey to London is unknown. At some point, Richard went to work for Allerton as an apprentice. Under Allerton's apprenticeship, he fished in various locations around Plymouth and Maine, working as crew, and at some point he would become captain of the ships that supplied the new American colonies. On 20 April 1636 Richard More married Christian Hunter who had been a passenger with him on the 534: 666: 452:. He applied for a permit and set up his own fishing stand. Since drinking water was scarce, Richard dug a well on common ground for himself and others to use. He traded tobacco and other merchandise and supplies with Virginia and the West Indies, and made voyages to England. In 1653, he served with his ship in an unsuccessful expedition against the Dutch settlement on the Hudson (later to become New York). In 1653, 396:, age 6, servant of William Brewster. He resided with the Brewster family until about mid-1627 when his term of indentureship expired. This is about the time that his name appears, at age 14, in a census as a member of the Brewster family, in what was called then 'New Plimouth'. By 1628, Richard was in the employ of Pilgrim Isaac Allerton, who was engaged in trans-Atlantic trading. 413:. Immediately upon setting foot on land, he would have worked with all of the others to help gather supplies for food and shelter as well as to bury the dead after the epidemic, which would ultimately leave half of the original passengers dead. In the spring of 1621, he would have attended what has now become known as the first 685:

According to the Mayflower Society records, he died in Salem after 19 March 1693/4, but before 20 April 1696. There is documentary evidence that he was alive in 1694 and dead in 1696. His gravestone gives an age of 84, but it is more likely that Richard was unsure of his birth date. The gravestone in

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Jane Hollingsworth Crumpton. Born c. 1631. Died 5/8 October 1686 in Salem, Massachusetts. Married before 23 May 1678 in Salem, Massachusetts. Daughter of Richard L. Hollingsworth, Sr. and Susan Gentleman Woodbury Hunter Hollingsworth. She was the widow of Samuel Crumpton, who was killed by Indians

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and cousin to Lord Zouche's second wife, although he was only separated not divorced from Katherine More and neither party was allowed to remarry during the lifetime of the other. In February 1626, Samuel More obtained a royal pardon, possibly to protect himself against accusations of adultery. It is

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A recently discovered document suggests that Elizabeth left posterity a trail of breadcrumbs for her identity in the names of her children. The “Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013” for Elizabeth Clark reads “RICHARD CLARK, shipwright, living in Southold LI in 1675;

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passengers. Carver and Cushman were agents from the Puritans to oversee preparations for the voyage with Robert Cushman's title being Chief Agent, from 1617 until his death in 1625. Within several weeks of the More children's arrival in London, and without their mother Katherine More's knowledge or

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especially was quite disreputable. Soon thereafter, Powell would become a convicted smuggler and Weston an enemy of the Crown. As the agent of the Merchant Adventurer investment group that was funding the Puritan voyage, Bradford states that Weston caused them many financial and agreement contract

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contract with him, and therefore he was her true husband. This would have made her marriage to Samuel invalid. Samuel quotes her words in his declaration, "though she could not sufficiently prove by witnesses yet it was all one before god as she sayed". At that time any of the usual witnesses would

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Richard More is buried in what was known as the Charter Street Burial Ground but is now the Burying Point/Charter Street Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts. He is the only Mayflower passenger to have his gravestone still where it was originally placed sometime in the mid-1690s. Also buried nearby in

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history. The document was a sworn submission by Samuel More to the Lord Chief Justice in which he explained his disposition of the four More children. Previously, those four children were assumed to have been orphans, plucked from the streets of London: "homeless waifs from the streets of London

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Elizabeth More, born ca. 1638 in probably London, about 7–8 years prior to her parents' marriage in 1645. She was baptised at St Dunstan's Church, Stepney, London on 2 March 1646, five months after her parents' marriage in 1645. Nothing more is known about her other than a record of an "Elizabeth

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for ships but, upon learning of the situation, Richard brought a shipment of food and supplies to aid the desperate colonists. When Richard's old sailing friend, Richard Starr, was murdered, he took on the responsibility of Starr's three children. In his fifty years as a mariner Richard had never

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Beginning in 1654, for two consecutive years, he took part in two attacks by sea against the French, who were threatening New England's fishing and maritime trade in the lower Hudson River region. In 1654, Richard More served in a successful combined English and New England expedition against the

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Additionally, in 1616, Samuel More, under his father Richard's direction, removed all four children from Larden and placed them in the care of some of his father's tenants near Linley. The removal was shortly after the youngest child had been baptised, which was on 16 April. According to Samuel's

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This group of names in fact, reflects the most important people in the lives of Richard and Elizabeth (More) Clark. • Elizabeth Woolnough, Elizabeth’s mother • Richard More, Elizabeth’s father • Joshua Woolnough, probably Elizabeth’s uncle and close friend of Richard More • Samuel More, Richard

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Jasper's sons died leaving no male heir. The estates were held in an entail whereby inheritance was restricted to male heirs and Samuel's father, but Richard, in the marriage settlement, paid £600 to Jasper More, so there must have been clear title. It was arranged that Katherine would marry her

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Much of what is known about Richard's early childhood is through legal documents, more specifically the aforementioned document written in 1622, in response to a petition of Richard More's mother Katherine More (sometimes spelled Katharine, hereafter spelled Katherine) to

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By about 1640s, and by the age of twenty-four, Richard would have been addressed as Captain of his own ketch and is known to have traded with the colonies, the West Indies, and England. He had sold his twenty acres in Duxbury and moved himself and his family to

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It was only in 1959 that Sir Jasper More discovered a trunk in his attic, which contained a document dated 1622 that gave, first, an explanation of an episode in the More family history, and secondly, explained a mystery that had long intrigued genealogists of

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More", of about her age, appearing briefly in Salem about 1660, and marrying a local shipwright named Richard Clarke. They soon after moved to Long Island where they appeared at Southampton, Long Island in 1661, as husband and wife.

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in Plymouth in an unmarked grave as with many others buried there that winter. She is mentioned on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb in Plymouth, misidentified after Ellen's name as "and a brother (children)" – the statement coming from

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and Samuel More and what actually happened to the More children. It is clear from these events that Samuel did not believe the children to be his offspring. To rid himself of the children, he arranged for them to be sent to the

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was in Cape Cod Harbor. He was buried ashore in what is now the Provincetown area. Provincetown has a memorial plaque with his name and that of four others 'who died at sea while the ship lay at Cape Cod Harbor' in Nov./Dec.

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at Cape Cod Harbor. Her burial place is unknown and may have been ashore on Cape Cod similarly to her brother Jasper several weeks later. With many others who died that winter, her name appears on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb,

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in November 1620, where one of the More children died soon after; another died in early December and yet another died later in the first winter. Only Richard survived, and even thrived, in the perilous environment of early

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Children: Jasper, Richard and Ellen More." Anthony R. Wagner. C.V.O., D. Litt. FASG, Richmond Herald, College of Arms, London, England. (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1960), vol.

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Nothing is known of Richard during his years living with the Brewster family from 1620 to 1627, except that his name is on a document concerning the division of cattle and other livestock, and that he lived in

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Susanna More, baptised 12 May 1650 in Salem, Mass. Died after 30 October 1728 in Salem, Mass. Married (1) c.1675 Samuel Dutch, (2) c.1694 Richard Hutton (3) 1714 John Knowlton. She had 4 daughters with Samuel

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undertakers for the associats of John Peers for the plantacon of Virginia" in whose home they would be staying while awaiting ship boarding. Thomas Weston and Philemon Powell were both poor choices, and

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removed with wife and children to ET ca 1678; d 1697 m. Elizabeth letters of adm Feb 16 1725 Essex Liber A/238 issues: Elizabeth, Richard, John, Joshua, Samuel, Ephraim, Thomas and Benjamin.

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The statement details that, soon after the denial of the appeal on 8 July 1620, the children were transported from Shipton to London by a cousin of Samuel More and given into the care of

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By early 1642, Richard joined the Salem church. As a member, he would be allowed a voice and a vote in Salem affairs. Richard had his first two sons, Samuel and Thomas More, baptised.

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This document revealed the tragic family circumstances that caused Samuel More to take the children from their home at Larden Hall in Shipton, and send them away to America on the

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Richard's daughter, Susanna (More), first married Samuel Dutch in about 1675. It is only through their one surviving child (Susanna Dutch) that descendants of Richard More of the

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6 September 1620 (Old Style), dangerously late in the season. They endured a rough three months at sea in cramped and unsanitary conditions, eventually landing at Cape Cod Hook (

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was a man whom Richard knew well and would become directly involved with in his later life. Noyes was the same man who would lead the campaign against the so-called

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More’s ‘legal’ father • Thomas Clark, most genealogists consider this to be the name of Richard Clark’s father • Benjamin Woolnough, Elizbeth’s maternal grandfather

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survivors were referred to in their time as "First Comers", who lived in the perilous times of what was called "The Ancient Beginnings" of the New World adventure.

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Centuries later, while excavating just outside a place where the Plymouth barricades stood, a metal spoon was found with Richard's initials carved into it.

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Samuel More continued to act as secretary to Edward la Zouche and on 11 June 1625, he married Elizabeth Worsley, daughter of Richard Worsley, Esq. of

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Richard More (jr.), baptised 2 January 1647/8 in Salem, Mass. Died 1 May 1696. Married Sarah ______. 6 children – 3 sons, 2 daughters and 1 unknown.

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Richard became a well-known sea captain who helped to deliver to various colonies the supplies that were vital to their survival, travelled over

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which led to the statement from Samuel explaining where he sent the children and why, the historical evidence for Richard More's early history.

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Richard More and his siblings are the only Mayflower passengers with proven, extensive and well-documented royal ancestry from ancient Britain.

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for a time before moving to Salem. Richard worked as a retainer and a labourer for Richard Hollingsworth, another passenger from the

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Christian More, baptised 5 September 1652 in Salem, Mass. Died 30 May 1680 in Salem, Mass. Married 31 Aug 1676 Joshua Conant. 1 son.

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sailed, Katherine made another attempt to challenge the decision through the courts. It was this legal action in early 1622 before

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30 June 1959. pp. 163–168. Anthony R. Wagner. C.V.O., D. Litt. FASG, Richmond Herald, College of Arms, London, England.

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pilgrim', were added at some point between 1901 and 1919, and provoked some outraged reaction in the local press.

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was reduced to English Obedience in 1654, and from thence a bell was later brought to Salem in Capt. Moor's Ketch.

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plaque in St James Church in Shipton, Shropshire commemorating the More children baptism. courtesy of Phil Revell

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indicating he was unsure of his birth date. The gravestone in the old Salem burial ground gives a date of 1692.

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Great Migration Study Project. New England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston 1995), vol II., G-O, p. 1284

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was supposed to have landed. It was his actions that were instrumental in putting the More children on the

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in the care of others. It was in 1959 that the mystery was explained. Jasper More, a descendant of

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Samuel More, baptised 6 March 1642 in Salem, Mass. Died after March 1677. Married Sarah ____.

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In that same year, by his own account, Samuel went to his employer and a More family friend,

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Caleb More, baptised 31 March 1643/4 in Salem, Mass. Died 4 January 1678/9 in Salem, Mass.

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Christian Hunter on 20 October 1636 in Plymouth Colony. She was born ca. 1615 in possibly

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Descendants), published in vol. 43, (July 1993), and vol. 44, (January & July 1994).

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the old Salem burial ground gives a date of 1692. But the date, and additional words 'a

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If the 1696 date is correct, Richard More was the last surviving male passenger of the

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In 1616, Samuel More accused his wife of adultery and, at the direction of his father,

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the same cemetery were his two wives, Christian Hunter More and Jane (Crumpton) More.

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Thus Richard More contributed to the foundations of New England's maritime greatness.

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Robert Cushman of Kent (1577–1625): Chief Agent of the Plymouth Pilgrims (1617–1625)

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Robert Moody Sherman, CG, FASG, Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, Lydia Dow Finlay, CALS.

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Robert Moody Sherman, CG, FASG, Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, Lydia Dow Finlay, CALS.

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History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, the second Governor of Plymouth

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History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, the second Governor of Plymouth

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father, believed to be Samuel More, would send his very young children away to the

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Robert Moody Sherman, CG, FASG, Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, Lydia Dow Finlay, CALS

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Thomas More, baptised 6 March 1642 in Salem, Mass. Died after 25 November 1692.

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not known if Katherine was still alive at the time of his second marriage.

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Joshua More, baptised 3 March 1646 in Salem, Mass. Died between 1660–1675.

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In 1665, Richard rescued the colonists at the newly established colony at

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The Transportation of Vagrant Children from London to Virginia, 1618–1622

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trade routes and fought in various early naval sea battles. He and other

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by Phil Revell. Pub: Ascribe Publications; 2011 (www.philrevell.co.uk)

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in December 1675, a massacre of the Narragansett people living around

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