Richard SINGLETARY

ABT 1599 - 25 Oct 1687

  • BIRTH: ABT 1599
  • DEATH: 25 Oct 1687, Haverhill, Essex, MA
Family 1 : Unknown
Family 2 : Susannah COOKE
  • MARRIAGE: 1639, Salisbury, Essex, MA
  1. +Jonathan Singletary \ DUNHAM
  2.  Eunice SINGLETARY
  3.  Nathaniel SINGLETARY
  4.  Lydia SINGLETARY
  5.  Amos SINGLETARY
  6.  Benjamin SINGLETARY
  7.  Richard SINGLETARY


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[1293] Salem 1637, Newbury 1638, Salisbury 1639, Heverhill 1651 where he was Town Officer.

"The Pioneers of Massachusetts"
Charles Henry Pope, Boston, MA, 1900
"Massachusetts Genealogical Records, 1600s-1800s" CD-ROM
Genealogy.com, 2000
p416: "SIGLETARY, Richard, Salem, propr. 1637. Rem. to Newbury; propr. 1638. Rem. to Salisbury;
propr. 1639. Rem. to Haverhill; propr. 1651. Town officer. He deposed 22 Nov. 1662, ae. about 67 years;
again, 24 (1) 1662-3, ae. about 70. Goodwife Singletery d. at Newbury about 1639. He m. Susanna Cooke,
who deposed in 1662, ae. about 46 years. Ch. Jonathan b. Jan. 17, 1639, Eunice b. Jan. 7, 1641, (m. Thomas
Eaton,) Nathaniel b. Oct. 28, 1644, Lydia b. April 30, 1648, (m. Daniel Ladd, Jr.,) Amos b. April, 1651, Benjamin
b. April 4, 1656. The wife Susanna d. April 11, 1682. He d. Oct. 25, 1687, ["ae. 102," says Hav. record.]"

"Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk"
Joshua Coffin
NEHGR v8 p52 (Jan 1854)
"Singletary. - Richard, Salisbury, 1645, 1653: wf. Susanna. -JonaUthan, wf. Mary.
- Richard, age 63 in 1662; Susannah, age 46, 1662. - Richard and Susanna, 1662."

"Early Settlers of Salisbury, Mass., Arranged Into Families"
Asa W. Brown
NEHGR v8 p162 (Apr 1854)
"SINGLETARY, Richard, w. Susanna. Ch. Jona. 17 11 39 ;
Eunice 7 11 41; Nathaniel 28 8 44 ; Lydia 30 2 48 ; Amos 2 mo 51.
A John m. Mary Greely 17 Dec. 1700."

"A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England"
James Savage
Pub. Boston, 1860-1862, p. 102

"New England Marriages Prior To 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey,
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"SINGLETARY, Richard (-1687) & 1/wf _____ _____ (-1638, 1639); Newbury"
"SINGLETARY, Richard (-1687) & 2/wf Susanna [COOKE]; ca 1639; Salisbury"

For an in-depth analysis of the Jonathan Singletary/Dunham name-change, see:
Dunham (Alias Singletary) Family History
David E. & Audrey (Shields) Hancock
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~grannyapple/DUNHAM/DUNHAMhome.html

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