Plymouth Colony certificate for Samuel Ryder Jr., printed in NEHGR 79 (1925): 316

“These may Certify all whom it may Concerne That Samuell Ryder Junior the bearer heerof, is the Reputed sonne of Samuell Ryder senor; which said Samuell Ryder senior sometimes lived in the Towne of Northampton in the Countey of Northampton in the Parish of Alhallowes in old England, and the said Samuell Ryder Junior hath lived with his said father in the Township of Yarmouth in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in new England in America and in the Towne of Plymouth in the aforesaid Jurisdiction the space of thirty yeares or thereaboutes.” Sealed 3 Dec 1662; signed “Wm Collier Deputie, Tho: Southworth Assistant, By us in the Absence of the Gouernor.”