Richard Mather
Farmer of Dorchester, Massachusetts, born there in 1653, the son of Timothy Mather and probably of Elizabeth Atherton, and named for his grandfather Rev. Richard Mather. He married Katherine Wise in 1680 and had four children at Dorchester before buying land at Lyme, Connecticut, in 1687; he died at Lyme the next year. Father of Timothy Mather.
Life
- 1653Born22 Dec 1653, Dorchester, Massachusetts
"Richard Mather the Son of Timothy Mather was Born the 22 : 10 : 1653" (Dorchester records, p. 6). Mather (1890) has 22 Dec on p. 55 and 20 Dec on p. 75.
- 1680Married Katherine Wise1 Jul 1680
WikiTree places it at Dorchester.
- 1688Died17 Aug 1688, Lyme, Connecticutcompiledprobable
Family
- Father
- Timothy Matherdocumentedproven
- Mother
- Elizabeth Atherton
Timothy Mather's first wife, who died in 1678. In 1686 her children, Richard among them, confirmed a deed of 1673 from "our Father" Timothy and "Elizabeth Mather our Mother" (Suffolk Deeds 54:127, as abstracted on WikiTree). The Mather genealogy calls her Catharine.
compiledprobableSources
- WikiTree profiles: the Mathers of Dorchester and Lyme, and Elizabeth (Atherton) Mather
- Horace E. Mather, Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather (1890)
- Reasoning:
research/hatten/Hatten_Philbrick_Marvin.md
Pedigree
Notes
Richard Mather of Dorchester and Lyme, son of Timothy Mather, “the Mather farmer,” and named for his grandfather Rev. Richard Mather. Like his father he was a farmer. On 1 July 1680 he married Katherine Wise, daughter of Joseph Wise, the Roxbury butcher. They lived at first in Dorchester, where the births of Timothy (1681), Elizabeth (1682), Samuel (1683/4) and Joseph (1686) are recorded (source); in July 1686 he and “Katharine his wife” were still “of Dorchester.” “In the year 1687 he bought a tract of land in Lyme of Hezekiah Usher of Boston. As Mr. Mather died the next year, he could not have done much in his new enterprise. He died on the fifty-third anniversary of the landing of his grandfather in America”: 17 Aug 1688, at Lyme (source).
His uncle was Increase Mather and his first cousin Cotton Mather. His daughter Elizabeth married Zachariah Sill of Lyme.
Research: research/hatten/Hatten_Philbrick_Marvin.md.
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