Bowman, on the Rider family and Sgt. William Harlow, The Mayflower Descendant 11-12

Prints the will of Samuel Rider Sr. of Yarmouth (20 Nov 1679), naming wife Anne and children Benjamin, John, Samuel (“five shillings”), Zachery, Joseph, Jane, Elizabeth and Mary (11:49-52), and shows that Sarah Bartlett’s husband was Samuel Rider Jr., not his father. Prints John Rider’s deposition of March 1690/1, “aged 26 yeares or there abouts” (11:186), and his 1718 sale of land “which I Bought of my Father Saml Rider Deceased.” Says Sgt. William Harlow’s English origin is unknown (12:193-194).

More from MD 11:

• Samuel Rider Sr. (11:49-53): at Yarmouth by 7 Jan 1638/9; sergeant in April 1653 and lieutenant of the Yarmouth company in June 1653, made lieutenant again 1 June 1658. His inventory, taken 9 Dec 1679, valued his “Dwelling house barne upland and meddow” at £150 and noted “10 shoates Benjamine Ryder Claime the halfe”; his widow Anne swore to it on 17 Jan 1679/80. The will left Anne “all my Estate both housings and lands and Movables” for her life or widowhood, gave his daughter Jane “three Cowes to be payed in three yeers … one Cow in each yeer,” and left the housing and lands to Benjamin, passing, if he had no heir, “unto the Next heire male, of my family” (11:50-51). Depositions of February and March 1679/80: Elizabeth and Samuel Mathews on the raising of Joseph Rider’s house, when Anne “Cryed and wrong her hands fearing that Joseph would Goe away” and “old Goodman Ryder … marked out the Ground with his stick” (11:51-52); and the meadow Zachariah Rider had bought from his father without a deed, “I sould it to him longe agoe … yes God forbid else” (4 Mar 1679/80, 11:52-53).
• Samuel Rider Jr. (11:170-172): “Samuell Ryder Junir of the Towne of Plymouth …. Cooper” (deed of 20 Mar 1660/1); his purchase from Samuel Eddy, tailor, of 25 acres at Manomet Ponds near Thomas Clarke’s farm (July 1660), its sale with “the house hee now liveth in” to Robert Ransom, and Ransom’s release of it back to him in April 1661 for £3 10s paid to Nathaniel Warren; James Clarke’s sale to him in 1669 of land bounded by “a Red oake tree Marked upon a hill before the said Ryders Dore” and the road “that Goeth to the Eelriver from theire houses.” His will of 7 Apr 1714 is printed at 11:182-187.
• John Rider (11:186-187): his deposition of 20 Mar 1690/1, “aged 26 yeares or there abouts,” that “ye whale in Controversy Came on shoare agains a pastur fence belonging to James and Tho: Clarke” (from Plymouth Colony Records, Scrap Book p. 61); his 1718 sale, as “John Rider of … Plymouth …. Yeoman,” of his share of a cedar swamp to John Barnes (Plymouth County Deeds 14:83).