Richard Borden Genealogy
Record modified: 2015-09-30
This is my direct ancestor 11 generations back.
Born: 1595-02-02 Headcorn, Kent England
Died: 1671-06-25 Portsmouth, Rhode Island USA
Marriages:
1. 1625-09-28 Joan Fowle
Children of Richard Borden and Joan Fowle:
Notes:
I don't know if the birth date is old-style or new-style, but I suspect it's old-style.
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came to America in 1638
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He was elected a member of a committee to treat with the Dutch in
1653. He was elected Assistant at Portsmouth in 1653 and 1654, Treasurer of
the United Colonies in 1654 and 1655, Commissioner in 1654, 1656, and 1657,
and Deputy from Portsmouth to the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1667
and 1670. As a surveyor he acquired large tracts of land in Rhode Island and
Monmouth County, East Jersey (now New Jersey).
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from this page:
children:
Richard BORDEN (b. 1626)
Thomas BORDEN (1627-1676)
Francis BORDEN (1628-1705/6)
Mary BORDEN (1632/3-1690) married Cooke
Elizabeth BORDEN (b. 1634)
Matthew BORDEN (1638-1708)
John BORDEN (1640-1716)
Joseph BORDEN (1643-prob. by 1702)
Sarah BORDEN (1644-after 1705) married Holmes
Samuel BORDEN (1645-1716)
Benjamin BORDEN (1649-c.1728)
Amey BORDEN (1653/4-1683/4) married Richardson
Son Matthew (born at Portsmouth on 16 May 1638) was "the first English child born on Rhode Island," according to Quaker records.
Son John's (b. 1640) great-great-great-grandson, Gail BORDEN III, was the inventor of condensed milk in the early 1850s and founder of the Borden Milk Company.
John's (b. 1640) great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter, through a different line, was the famous Lizzie BORDEN, who was charged with killing her father and step-mother with an ax in 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts. (Lizzie Andrew BORDEN (1860-1927) was the daughter of Andrew J. BORDEN (1822-1892), son of Abraham B. BORDEN (b. 1798), son of Richard BORDEN (d. after 1816), son of Richard BORDEN (1722-1795), son of Thomas BORDEN (1697-1740), son of Richard BORDEN (1671-c.1732), son of John BORDEN (1640-1716), son of Richard BORDEN (1595/6-1671), the immigrant.
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see NEHGR Jan and Apr 1930
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Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899
children of Richard Borden and Joan:
Matthew born May 1638
John born Sept 1640
Joseph born Jan 3 1642/3
Sarah born May 1644
Samuel born July 1645
Benjamin born May 1649
Anne born Feb 1658
(all in Portsmouth, except Anne in Providence)
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Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899
Friends records -- Deaths
Richard Borden, one of the first planters, aged 70 years, buried in ground given by Robert Dinnes to the Friends, Portsmouth, May 25 1671
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 1733
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