Ann Parsons


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Ann Parsons   see FAMILY TREE
     
Died: After 1698 Mamaroneck, Westchester Co., Long Island, NY

 

   
Buried: near Mamaroneck, in the family burial plot, "near the Salt Meadow" between the Harbor and what is now De Lancey Ave.   According to the Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: New York and New Jersey, Vol 4  "John Richbell, his wife's mother, and his wife's daughter, Mary Mott, were buried in a field adjoining the house of Lieut. James Mott, as appears by the entry in the Town Book, set forth fully under James Mott, 3  Here to, doubtless, Ann, John Richbell's widow, was also interred."

 

FATHER

unknown Parsons

MOTHER

Margery

HUSBAND

1. unknown Redman

2. John Richbell

3. Robert Hubs

CHILDREN

1. Mary Redman

2. Ann Redman

3. Elizabeth Redman

 

Ann Parsons was married to John Richbell while living in Mamaroneck, Westchester, LI and the three girls were probably raised by John Richbell, their step-father.  Elizabeth named her first born, Richbell Mott.

From the "Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: New York and New Jersey, Vol 4, "John Richbell, like other of his family, was a merchant.  He was a man of superior social position, and common addressed as Mr. Richbell.  His wife, Ann, was the widow Redman and daughter of Margery Parson, who advanced him good in the Island of St. Christopher, in the West Indies, long before his arrival at Mamaroneck.  On the 14th of Nov, 1668, he cancelled this obligation by deeding her the entire East Neck, and she, Mrs. Parsons, two days later, conveyed this land to her daughter, Ann, wife of John Richbell, as a token of affection and dutiful behavior.  To establish her title to this land more fully, her husband, John Richbell, on the 23rd of April, 1669, in consideration of a marriage long since solemnized between them, made a settlement of this land upon her, in a deed of trust to John Ryder.  He had apparently no issue."

"Having no sons, Ann Richbell finally determined to convert her land into money, and in 1697 after having made it her home for thirty-five years, deeded the chief part of it to Caleb Heathcote, and it was incorporated into Heathcote's Manor of Scarsdale, as granted by Governor Nanfan on the 21st of March, 1701.  A mortgage from Heathcote for 600 pounds of the proceeds of the sale is mentioned in "Madame Richbell's will,' and all her property is divided among her three daughters and their children. - the will provides that the portion of her grandson Adam Mott shall be the last paid, because he needs it the least." (**)

(**) Adam and Anne Mott, by Thomas C. Cornell, 1890

 

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