1Frederick J. Nicholson, The English Origin of Macuth1 (or Matthew) Pratt and Edward1 Bates of Weymouth, Mass., The American Genealogist, Vol. 65, pp. 95-96 (Apr 1990).
"PUTNAM
Earlier generations of this family are discussed in Eben Putnam's A History of the Putnam Family in England and America under "The Putnams of Hawridge and Choulsbury." Dates not in the Drayton Beauchamp listings above are from Putnam Fam., pp. lvi-lvii.
1 RICHARDA was baptized at Tring, Hertfordshire, on 24 June 1574, son of JohnB Putnam of Tring; he died probably at Draytom Beauchamp, Buckinghamshire, between 10 Nov. 1625 and 21 April 1626, the dates that his was executed and proved. He married at Tring on 5 Nov. 1604 SUSAN BROWN. The family evidently moved from Tring to Drayton Beauchamp between 1615 and 1618.
His will is abstracted above.
Children (PUTNAM) of RichardA, and Susan (Brown):
i ALICE [Alse"] bp. Tring. co/ Herts., 22 Sept. 1605, bur. Drayton Beauchamp, co. Bucks., 4 June 1626.
ii MARY, prob. b. Tring ca. 1607, given the year of her marriage and the regular spacing of the rest of the children in this family; m. Drayton Beauchamp 26 Jan. 1651/2 JOHN HARLEY.
iii SUSAN bp. Tring 28 Jan. 1609/10; m. Drayton Beauchamp 26 Jan. 1631/2, EDWARD1 BATE(S), who was bp. Aston Clinton 23 Nov. 1606, son of WilliamA and Margery (Phillips) Bate of Aston Clinton. They were immigrants to Weymouth, Mass.
iv ELIZABETH bp. 20 Dec. 1612, living 10 Nov. 1625 (father's will).
v JOHN bp. Tring 10 Sept. 1615, bur. Drayton Beauchamp 22 Jan. 1682; m. Drayton Beauchamp 10 May 1641 ALICE GURNEY.
vi RICHARD bp. Drayton Beauchamp 23 Aug, 1618; m. SUSANNA -----, named with him in the baptisms of their children, beginning in 1653 (Putnam Fam. p. lvii).
vii JUDITH bp. Drayton Beauchamp 29 March 1621; m. Drayton Beauchamp 13 June 1639 EDWARD EAMES.".