Richard Best

- Bef 1551

• Name	Richard Best
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 8 Nov 1551  [1, 2]
  Burial	8 Nov 1551	Ovenden, Halifax, Yorkshire, England   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I7008	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2020

  
  

  Family	Johanna   d. Bef 6 Jun 1544
  Children	1. Henry Best,   b. of Ovenden, Halifax, Yorkshire, England d. Between 9 Mar 1628 and Aug 1628, Ovenden, Halifax, Yorkshire, England
  Family ID	F4097	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2015

  
  

• Notes

  H. Minot Pitman (citation details below), writing in 1952, made Richard and Joanna Best the parents of Henry Best. John Brooks Threlfall (citation details below), writing more recently, said that they were more likely Henry's grandparents than his parents, presumably on chronological grounds.

  
  

• Sources

  [S582] H. Minot Pitman, "Abraham Shaw of Dedham." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 106:50, January 1952. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990.