Richard Waterman

Abt 1605 - 1673  (~ 68 years)

• Name	Richard Waterman
  Birth	Abt 1605  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Oct 1673	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island   [1, 2, 3]
  Person ID	I19179	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	23 Sep 2018

  
  

  Family	Bethia   d. 3 Dec 1680, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Marriage	Bef 1630  [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Mehitable Waterman,   b. Abt 1630, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d. Abt 1682, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age ~ 52 years)
  Family ID	F11892	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Sep 2018

  
  

• Notes

  He came to New England in 1629, in advance of the Winthrop Fleet, and was one of the founders of Salem, Massachusetts. After a few years, he became a follower of Roger Williams, and was in due course banished from the Bay Colony and removed to Rhode Island, where he was one of the founders of Providence. He spent the rest of his life there in a variety of public offices and roles. Surviving records suggest that he was known as a skilled hunter in his native England, and that he continued to practice this in the New World, both in order to provide food and also to drive away wolves. A monument to him was raised in Providence in 1840; it contains several errors of fact. He never bore the title Colonel; there is no evidence that he came from Bristol in England; and he did not arrive in 1631 on the Lion with Roger Williams.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S2306] The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012. [S689] The Waterman Family by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman, 1939.