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- Richard Raymond I, Salem, Mass., mariner. Freeman, May 14, \ 1634. Jan. 2, 1636, the town granted him half an acre of land at Winter Harbor (now known as Winter Island in Salem harbor), "for fishing trade and to build upon." In 1636 he received a further grant of 60 acres of land at Jeffries Creek (now Manchester). He and his wife Judith .... were members of the First Church, Salem, before 1636. In 1660 he sold one quarter part of "the good Ketch called the Hopewell of Salem, of the burthen of thirty tons, now being or riding at anchor in the harbor of Boston. " Oct. 20, 1662, he purchased a house and land at Norwalk, Conn., and probably removed there soon after, where he engaged in a coastwise trade with the Dutch and English settlers on Manhattan Island. In 1664 he removed to Saybrook. His children were all baptized in the First Church, Salem, excepting John, the date of whose birth is unknown. They were John 2. Bathshebe, bapt. Aug. 6, 1637, m. Humphrey Coombs, July 29, 1659. Joshua 3, bapt. Mar. 3, 1639. Lemuel, bapt. Jan. 3, .1640 ; no record of him is found since Mar. 22, 1660. Hannah", bap«1. Feb. 12, 1642, m. Oliver Manwaring of New London. Samuel, bipt. July 13, 1644, m. Mary, diu. of Nehemiah Smith of New London. They both d. later than 1700, without issue. Richard, bapt. Jan. 2, 1647; nothing further is known of him, but the fact that the Inventory of Richard Raymond, Jr., was exhibited at the County Court in 1680. Eliza or Elizabeth, bapt. Apl. 28, 1649. Daniel 4, bapt. April 17, . / 1653. Richard Raymond d. at Saybrook in 1692 ae. abt . 90.
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