Richard SINGLETARY ^1596,4378

  General Notes:

1. RICHARD SINGLETARY was the founder of the Singletary family in America. If the family tradition just told is true, then he was the lost heir of Dunham and was born in England. We know that his birth predates the earliest New England settlement and that American papers carried some notices about Singletary heirs and unclaimed estates in England. Mr. David W. Hoyt in his Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury refers to him as "Richard Singletary of Salisbury and Haverhill; planter; born about 1599; married Susannah Cook in 1638/9; she was born 1616, and died April 11, 1682, at Haverhill" (Source 126).

Richard married Susannah COOKE in 1639 in Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, USA. (Susannah COOKE was born on 17 Mar 1616 in Bayton, , Wiltshire, England and died on 11 Apr 1682 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts, USA ¹⁵⁹⁶.)