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Richard MARTYN, Esq.

Male Est 1630 - 1684  (54 years)


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  • Name Richard MARTYN 
    Suffix Esq. 
    Born Est 1630  Portsmouth, Newport Co., Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 2 Apr 1684 
    Person ID I1610  Richard Patterson NJ & ON
    Last Modified 25 Nov 2012 

    Family Sarah TUTTLE
              b. 4 Sep 1632, Saint Albans Abbey, Herts., England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1 Dec 1666, Dover, Strafford Co., New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 34 years) 
    Married 1 Feb 1653 
    Last Modified 14 Feb 2011 
    Family ID F436  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Richard Martyn Esq., Portsmouth. ±42 in Mar. 1672. [= born c. 1830].
      First a Boston mariner, emerges clearly when he married there 1 Feb. 1653-4 Sarah Tuttle, dau. of John and Joan Antrobus. [p.464]
      In Boston lived also his br. Michael, mariner, who m. Susannah Holyoke 12 Sept. 1656 and d. 26 Mar. 1682, ag. 60 (gr. st. with coat-of-arms, Copps Hill), his [brother's] widow and children Edw. and Susannah being named in Richard's will. See also (12) and Mann.

      Richard was in Portsmouth gr. j1658, bot in Great House field 1659, propr. 1660. His pub. service begins as gr. j. 1666; selectman 1669-70, 1673-75; com.t.e.s.c. 1671; Deputy 1672-73, 1679, 1692 (Speaker); Magistrate from 1676; Treas. of Prov. under Pres. Cutts; Councillor 1680 till removed by Cranfield 1683; on Dudley's Committee of Trade and Navigation 1686; Judge Ct. of Com. Pleas 1692-3; Chief Justice Supreme Ct. of Judic. Oct. 1693 till death 2 Apr. 1694;
      also town clerk his last yr. Lists 323, 324, 326ac, 329, 330b, 331abc, 333a, 335a, 48, 49, 51-54, 57-59, 62, 88, 96.

      His wife SARAH, alive 18 Apr. 1670, had three successors:

      Martha (Symonds) Dennison of Ipswich, buried 15 Feb. 1683-4 (List 331c);
      Elizabeth (Sherburne) (Langdon) Lear(2); and, aft. Apr. 1691, Mary (Benning, sis. of Harry, q.v.) Wentworth (Lists 331c, 337, 339). His will, 27 Jan. 1692-3, names w. Mary, 5 ch., and others, incl. Tobias Lear(3) and step-daughterDorothy Wentworth. Her will, 3 Feb. 1717-8–11 Jan. 1730-1, gives to Wentworths. Ch. by 1st w: Mary, b. 7 June 1655, not in will.

      Sarah, b. 3 July 1657, m. John Cutts(3). Richard, b. 10 Jan. 1659-60. Elizabeth, b. 31 July 1662, m. 1st Edw. Kennard(1), m. 2d Lt. Wm. Furber(3), m. 3d Benj. Nason(2).

      Hannah, b. 2 Jan. 1664-5, m. 1st Richard Jose(3), m. 2d Edw. Ayers (1). Michael, b. 3 Feb. 1666-7, only surv. son in 1700. John, b. 9 June 1668, and Elias, b. 18 Apr. 1670, neither in will. By 2d w: Nathaniel, a minor in Jan. 1692-3, wit. 17 Mar. fol. (Y.D. 5.1.113); d. s. p. before his father. (SJC 28272).
      Ref: All Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. - - -