Alice Richards

d. 1671

Died 1671

Father: Thomas Richards

Mother: Welthian Richards

Children include Mercy

Alice Richards was a daughter of Thomas Richards, who was at Dorchester in Massachusetts by 1630 and later moved to Weymouth, and his wife Welthian. Her father made his will at Hull on 17 December 1650 and died soon after. He named his sons John, James, Samuel, Joseph and Benjamin and his daughters Mary, Ann, Alice and Hannah. Her sister Mary married Thomas Hinckley of Barnstable on 7 December 1641. Hinckley was later governor of Plymouth Colony.

Alice married William Bradford, the eldest son of Governor William Bradford by Alice Carpenter. He became deputy governor of the colony. Their children were John, born in 1652, William in 1655, Thomas, Samuel in 1668, and six daughters, Alice, Hannah, Mercy, Melatiah, Mary and Sarah. Mercy married Samuel Steele of Hartford and Melatiah married his cousin John Steele of Norwich.

Alice died on 12 December 1671. Her mother Welthian outlived her and made a will in July 1679.

Parents

Thomas Richards b. 1596

Welthian Richards

Children

Mercy Bradford d. 1720

Sources

William T. Davis, Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth (1899), Part II p. 38, archive.org ancientlandmarks1899davi, leaf n429

James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, vol. III (1860), archive.org genealogicaldic03savarich, p. 534, under RICHARDS; William T. Davis, Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth (2nd ed., 1899), Part II p. 38, archive.org ancientlandmarks1899davi, leaf n429

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