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WIFE

Judith Williams

CHILDREN

Hannah Raymond

He Was A Mariner

SOURCE: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/source_files/raymond.htm

Documented events in his life were:

1. Mention in Will, Inv. or Prob.; 29 Feb 1675; Lyme, New London, CT 3. Received 2000 acres of land in the will of Joshua Uncas, Sacham.

2. Oath of Freemanship/Allegiance; 14 May 1634; Boston, Suffolk Co., MA 4.

3. Emigrant Ancestor; 1634; Salem, Essex Co., MA.

4. Residence; 1634; Salem, Essex Co., MA 5.

5. Jury Duty; Bet 27 Jun 1636 And 25 Feb 1641; Essex Co., MA 6. Essex jury, 27 June 1636, 27 December 1636, 27 June 1637, 26 June 1638 [EQC 1:3, 4, 6, 8]. Petit jury, 25 February 1641 [EQC 1:33].

6. Church Membership; 1636; Salem, Essex Co., MA 5 7. Among those who joined the Salem church before December 1636 [SChR 5], and presumably before 14 May 1634 based on date of freemanship.

7. Town Office; 1636; Salem, Essex Co., MA 8. Salem fenceviewer, 1636 [STR 1:40]

8. Lands Recorded - Granted; 1636; Salem, Essex Co., MA 8. In the Salem land grant of 1636, "Ricd Raymt" received one hundred eighty acres in the freemen's lands (or perhaps sixty acres) [STR 1:19, 27].

9. Lands Recorded - Granted; 16 Jan 1636/37; Salem, Essex Co., MA 8. "Mr. Raym[en]t" was one of eight men who on 16 January 1636/7 each received half an acre of land at Winter Harbor "for fishing trade, & to build upon" [STR 1:33].

10. Town Office; 1637; Salem, Essex Co., MA 8. Rater, 1637 [STR 1:57]

11. Lands Recorded - Granted; 25 Dec 1637; Salem, Essex Co., MA 8. "Rich[ard] Raymond" received one acre in the 25 December 1637 division of marsh and meadow, with a household of six [STR 1:102].

12. Lawsuit; 2 Jan 1650/51; Essex Co., MA 9. On 2 January 1650/1 Richard Rayment sued James Fogg for neglect of work [EQC 1:205]

13. Lands Recorded - Granted; 4 Jan 1654/55; Salem, Essex Co., MA 8. On 4 January 1654/5 he was granted one hundred acres of upland and ten acres of meadow in Wenham bounds upon Pleasant Pond and the great swamp and ten acres of meadow in the great meadow; "this was a former grant omitted to be entered" [STR 1:181]. He had two cows in the town herd in 1657 [STR 1:207].

14. Financial Transactions; 27 Aug 1660; Salem, Essex Co., MA 10. On 27 August 1660 "Richard Rayment of Salem, mariner," sold to Walter Price one-quarter of the ketch Hopewell of Salem, now at anchor in Boston harbor, for a year and a day [ELR 2:3]

15. Forfited Bond; 6 Mar 1661/62; Hartford, Hartford Co., CT 11. On 6 March 1661/2, Richard Raymont "being called and not appearing hath forfeited his bond of œ10 to the country" [RPCC 245].

16. Lawsuit; 13 May 1662; Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT 11. On 13 May 1662 Humphrey Clay sued him for "slander for charging his wife with theft to the damage of œ50"; Rayment was found guilty and fined œ5 and costs [RPCC 246-47].

17. Lands Recorded - Sold; 10 Aug 1662; Salem, Essex Co., MA 10. On 10 August 1662 "Richard Rayment of Salem, mariner," sold to John Gardner of Salem two and a quarter acres of salt marsh; signed by "Richard Rayment" and "Judeth Rayment" [ELR 2:48].

18. Lands Recorded - Sold; 13 Oct 1662; Salem, Essex Co., MA 10. On 13 October 1662 "Mr. Edmund Batten & Judeth Raymond attorneys of Richard Raymond late of Salem, mariner," sold to Oliver Mannering of Salem, mariner, a dwelling house in Salem with about three-quarters of an acre of land and ten acres in the South Field [ELR 2:127].

19. Lands Recorded - Purchased; 27 Oct 1662; Norwalk, Fairfield Co., CT 12. On 27 October 1662 Ralph Keeler of Norwalk sold to "Richard Raimond" of Salem his homelot, dwelling house and four acres adjoining [Norwalk TR 1:64-65]. As a consequence of this purchase Richard Raymond was granted several parcels of land by the Norwalk proprietors, even though he very soon moved to Saybrook [Norwalk TR 1:193-95].

20. Lands Recorded - Purchased; 16 Nov 1663; Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT 13. On 16 November 1663 Richard Raymond bought of John Olmsted two acres of meadow, four acres of meadow, one hundred pound right in the Ox Pasture and one hundred pound right in the town commons [Saybrook TR 1:90]. On 21 May 1677 Richard Raymond sold to John Nicholson three and a quarter acres of meadow [Saybrook TR 1:91].

21. Town Office; 13 Feb 1664/65; Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT 14. “Articles of Agreement betwixt Saybrook -- Lyme, 13 Feb 1665 … The inhabitants on the east side of the River.. 2. They declare that they will pay all arrears of rates past and all rates due by the first of May next ensuing that belong unto the town and ministry to be brought in unto the townsmen in the town, to wit: Richard Raymond & Abraham Post.”

22. Lawsuit; 24 Jun 1668; Essex Co., MA 9. Robert Spurrell sued Richard Rayment and had a writ served on him 24 June 1668 for withholding his share of fish and wages due him upon a fall voyage about eighteen years since [EQC 4:43]

23. Lands Recorded - Gifted; 25 Jun 1668; Salem, Essex Co., MA 10. On 25 June 1668 "Richard Rayment late of Salem now of Saybrooke at Coneticotts river's mouth," deeded to "son-in-law Oliver Mannering" two acres in the South Field at Salem [ELR 3:44].

24. Lands Recorded - Gifted; 7 Apr 1685; Salem, Essex Co., MA 10. On 7 April 1685 "Richard Raymond of Seabrooke" bequeathed to "my well beloved son-in-law Humphry Coomb which was and is married unto my daughter Barshua Raymond alias Cooms" one-quarter of an acre in Salem and five hundred acres (one-quarter of the thousand acres he had from Joshua Indian) [ELR 14:159].

25. Lands Recorded - Gifted; 2 Jan 1690/91; Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT 13. On 2 January 1690[/1] Richard Raymond of Saybrook deeded to "my son Daniel Raymond of Saybrook" several parcels of land [Saybrook TR 164, 230].

Richard married Judith Williams 1 16 about 1635 in Salem, Essex Co., MA 15. (Judith Williams was born about 1610 17 and died in 1692 in Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT.)

 

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