Samuel Rider
Samuel Rider Jr., cooper, of Plymouth. In 1662, after some thirty years with his father at Yarmouth and Plymouth, he was given a certificate under the colony's seal to prove his identity in Northampton, England. By his first wife, Sarah Bartlett, married at Plymouth in 1656, he was the father of John Rider; he married Lydia Tilden at Taunton in 1680 and died at Plymouth in 1715, in about his 85th year.
Life
- c. 1630Bornc. 1630
From his age at death, "about ye 85th year." Roser (Mayflower Increasings, 1995, via Pane-Joyce) has him baptised at All Saints, Northampton, 25 Nov 1632; unverified.
documentedprobable - 1656Married Sarah Bartlett23 Dec 1656, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
- 1680Married Lydia Tilden14 June 1680, Taunton, Massachusettsdocumentedproven
- 1715Died18 July 1715, Plymouth, Massachusetts
"Mr SAMUEL RYDER who decd July ye 18th 1715 about ye 85th year of his age" (Kingman no. 33).
- —Buried
Family
- Father
- Samuel Rider
"Samuell Ryder Junior the bearer heerof, is the Reputed sonne of Samuell Ryder senor."
documentedprovenSources
- Plymouth Colony certificate for Samuel Ryder Jr., printed in NEHGR 79 (1925): 316
- Bowman, on the Rider family and Sgt. William Harlow, The Mayflower Descendant 11-12
- Reasoning:
research/warren/Warren_Line_Research.md
- Mother
- Spouse 1
2 children
- Spouse 2
- Lydia Tildendocumentedproven
- Siblings
Pedigree
Notes
Cooper, of Plymouth. He came from All Hallows parish, Northampton, as a child with his father (in New England by 1643), and lived with him at Yarmouth and Plymouth for about thirty years before 1662, when the colony gave him a certificate under seal to prove his identity in Northampton, England, presumably over an inheritance or property there. The original survives among uncalendared deeds in the public library at Northampton (NEHGR 79:316).
A deed of 20 Mar 1660/1 calls him “Samuell Ryder Junir of the Towne of Plymouth …. Cooper,” and in the town’s rating of trades on 5 Aug 1672 “Samuel Ryder being a Cooper his facultie” was valued at £30, against £40 for “Serjeant harlow,” also a cooper (MD 11:171; Plymouth Town Records 1:118).
In July 1660 he bought 25 acres at Manomet Ponds near Thomas Clarke’s farm from Samuel Eddy, tailor. Eight months later he sold the land, with “the house hee now liveth in,” to Robert Ransom, but in April 1661 Ransom released it back to him for £3 10s paid to Nathaniel Warren (MD 11:170-171). In 1669 James Clarke sold him the land inside his fence, bounded by “a Red oake tree Marked upon a hill before the said Ryders Dore” and by the road “that Goeth to the Eelriver from theire houses.” In 1673/4 the town found that the land he had bought from Eddy was legally “Comon” and granted it to him outright (MD 11:172; Plymouth Town Records 1:138; record).
His father’s will (1679) left him “five shillings.” The Plymouth church’s member lists of 1703 include “Sam^l Rider” and “Lidia Rider, The wife of Sam^l Rider,” and the church entered his death among its members as “Samuell Rider sen^r July 18” (1715) (CSM 22:193-194, 214). His own will (7 Apr 1714, proved 23 Sept 1715): “as To my sons John Samuel & Benjamin and my Daughter Mercy I have done Competently for them in my life time” (MD 11:182-187).
By Sarah Bartlett he had Samuel (b. 18 Nov 1657, who died young) and John (b. c. 1664). The Samuel, Benjamin and Mercy of his will have no dates in the research and no files.
Mollie Pfeiffer (typescript pp. 46-48) and Davis (2:216) make Sarah Bartlett’s husband the elder Samuel Rider of Yarmouth. It was this Samuel, his son: the 1662 certificate calls him “Samuell Ryder Junior,” and his father’s wife Anne outlived his father.
Mollie's typescript
Mollie's chart has Sarah Bartlett marrying Samuel Rider in 1656 and settling at Yarmouth, with sons Samuel, born 1657, and John.
Married Samuel Rider in 1656 settled Yarmouth Children: Samuel born 1657 JOHN
p. 31 →
Checked against the records
- PossibleThe selectmen sued Samuel Rider and William Harlow Jr. over a whale
The dispute is real. When the town took it up, it chose others to act, "seing serjant harlow & Joseph Bartlet did somwhat decline the Thing" (Plymouth town records 1:200), which fits Harlow standing aside; John Rider deposed in the case. The writ itself, from the Plymouth Scrap Book, has not been checked, so the defendants' names rest on it.
Read it in the book, p. 42 → - DisprovenSamuel Rider (1), in Yarmouth by 1643, married Sarah Bartlett
She married his son, Samuel Rider Jr. (c. 1630-1715), on 23 Dec 1656, not in 1643 as the chart on p. 46 has it. Samuel Sr.'s will of 1679 names his wife Anne, who outlived him, so he was not Sarah's husband (Bowman, Mayflower Descendant 11). On p. 39a Mollie herself calls him "Samuel Rider (2)".
Read it in the book, p. 47 → - ProvenA 1662 certificate shows Samuel Rider came from Northampton, England
Confirmed. NEHGR 79 (1925): 316 prints it, under the Plymouth Colony seal, 3 Dec 1662: Samuel Jr. "is the Reputed sonne of Samuell Ryder senor; which said Samuell Ryder senior sometimes lived in the Towne of Northampton ... in the Parish of Alhallowes". The colony's magistrates issued it; Samuel did not write it.
Read it in the book, p. 47 →
Connections
- In his ancestry
- 1 notable connection →
Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Samuel's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.