Richard Sanger

1706 - 1786  (79 years)

• Name	Richard Sanger
  Birth	4 Nov 1706	Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 May 1786	Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I30813	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Richard Sanger,   b. 22 Feb 1667   d. 1 Apr 1731, Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Morse,   b. 23 Oct 1677, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F18299	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Deborah Rider,   b. 22 Jun 1710   d. 15 Aug 1789, Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	19 Feb 1730	Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Children	1. Capt. Samuel Sanger,   b. 7 Jul 1735, Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 6 Oct 1822, Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F18297	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  "Richard was a remarkable man. He inherited the combative, mirthful, acquisitive, and persevering characteristics of his mother's race, and excelled them in enterprise. He was brought up to the business of his father, and continued to be styled blacksmith until thirty years of age. […] In 1737, he opened a store, which he seems to have left in the hands of another in 1747, when he removed to Boston, and for a short time did a large and lucrative business. The climate disagreeing with the health of his lady, he returned the next year to Sherborn, and here traded extensively in merchandise and real estate. He was at that day concerned in land speculations in Maine. He accumulated a large fortune, which he divided among seven children, without reserving enough for protracted old age. Between 1740 and '67, he served the town ten years as selectman, and often acted as moderator at town meetings. He was a good whig, served on committees to provide for the poor of Boston, in the time of the war, and to report on the services of soldiers employed by Sherborn. In 1776, he was the first man placed on the committee of safety with President Locke." [Abner Morse, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1605] Vital Records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 ed. Thomas W. Baldwin. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911. [S4825] The Genealogy of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans, by the Names of Adams, Bullard, Holbrook, Rockwood, Sanger, Wood, Grout, Goulding, and Twitchell by Abner Morse. Boston, 1857., date only.