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Page 330 [Note: The following section provides additional details of the lives of our Kirby ancestors] Reference: The following data is taken from The Kirbys of New England by Melatiah Everett Dwight, New York, 1898, 451 pages, with the references to the pages under each generation. T 1. RICHARD 1 KIRBY, yeoman, of Lynn, Sandwich, and Dartmouth, Massachusetts, born probably in England, place and date unknown, and died in Dartmouth, Mass between May, 1686 and 21 July 1688. He probably married in England before 1635, place and date unknown, Jane [note: last name unknown] of whom nothing is known. “Richard Kirby of Sandwich, Mass., first appears upon the records of New England in 1636 as an inhabitant of Lynn, Mass. In 1637, together with William Wood and others of Lynn, he removed to Cape Cod, and began the settlement of the town of Sandwich. He is mentioned as a neighbor by Thomas Hampton of Sandwich in his will, dated March, 1638, and the same year he, with others, was fined for having swine unringed. He shared In the division of new lands in 1641. His name appears in the list made in Aug., 1643, of the sixty-eight inhabitants of Sandwich who were able to bear arms. He was one of the eleven male members whose names are found on the first recorded list of members of the Puritan Church of Sandwich. In 1651 he was presented, with others, for non-attendance on public worship. There was trouble at this time in the church between the Rev. Mr. Leveridge and his people, and Richard Kirby may have simply stood aloof from the contestants. In the autumn of 1656, Nicholas Upsiall, a Puritan of Boston who had been exiled for protesting against the imprisonment of Mary Fisher, the first “Quaker” to appear in Boston, found a temporary refuge in Sandwich. The Plymouth records of this date contain a complaint that: “Nicholas Upsiall, Richard Kirby and the wife of John Newland, and others, did frequently meet together at the house of William Allen in Sandwich on the Lord's day and other times. They used to invey against ministers and magistrates to dishonor God and contempt of government.” (Plymouth Court Orders, III., p. 105.) So far as we know, the names contained in the above record are those of the first persons in this country to embrace the principles of the Friends. Yet it is not certain that Richard Kirby ever became a member of the Society of Friends. The Sandwich church was “the most bigoted and intolerant in the Colony,” and he may have associated with the ((page 229)) Quakers out of sympathy for the cause of religious liberty. It Is known that in 1684 he took the “oath of fidelity,” and neither his name nor that of his son Richard appears as a member in the church records of the Friends. Between 1658 and 1660 the Sandwich Quakers suffered in fines to the amount of 679 (pounds), and of this amount Richard Kirby and his son paid 57 pounds, 12 shillings. Some time after 1660 he removed to Dartmouth, Mass. In November, 1670, he purchased from Sarah Warren one-half of Thomas Molton's share of land in Dartmouth. (Original Proprietors of Dartmouth, Vol. I., p 13.) In 1683 he purchased of Zechariah Jenkins land in Dartmouth, on the east side of Cocksett River, at a place called Nasquamskiesett. The only records concerning him in the town records relate to his taking the freeman's oath, or “oath of fidelity.” In the Dartmouth Town Records for 1684 it is recorded that “Richard Kirby, Senior,” and fourteen others, who are also named, “took oath of fidelity.” In May, 1686, it is also recorded that forty-five names were reported to the town meeting as having taken the oath of fidelity, and among these names is that of “Richard Kirby, Senior.” The name of his wife is unknown. Her first name was probably Jane. There is a Sandwich record that Jane Kirby had twin children, Increase and Abigail, born February, 1650, who died soon after, and that the mother was buried, together with her son Richard, March 23, 1650. The mention of “her son Richard,” however, throws some doubt upon the matter, and suggests the suspicion that she may have been the wife of Richard Kirby, Jr. Nevertheless, the circumstances of having two living children of the same name is not unprecedented, and a daughter of Richard Kirby, Sr., was named Jane. Since this daughter was married in Sept., 1651, it is probable that her mother was married before 1635, perhaps
in Lynn, Mass., but more probably In England. Page 331 Richard Kirby, Sr , died in Dartmouth, Mass., after May, 1686, and before July 21, 1688, as the following agreement shows: To all people to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas Richard Kerby, formerly of Dartmouth in the County of Bristoll in the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, sometime more than ni<strong>net</strong>een years since died intestate and left some personal estate undisposed of, he having before his death given and disposed of his lands unto his two sons, viz; to his son Richard Kerby, now of Dartmouth aforesaid, one quarter of a share of lands throughout the said town of Dartmouth, both divided and undivided, and one other quarter of a share unto his other son Recompence Kerby, then of Dartmouth aforesaid, and which was enjoyed and ((page 230)) possessed by his said sons sometime before and at the time of his death of the said Richard Kerby their deceased father. Now know ye therefore that we, Richard Kerby the son of the said deceased, and Sarah Allen and Ruhamath Smith both of Dartmouth, widows, and both daughters of said deceased, together with the said Recompence Kerby our brother then of said Dartmouth, and Jane Lounders our sister then of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable now deceased, did mutually agree unto and divided the personal estate of our said deceased father after his death to and amongst ourselves, agreeing and concluding that the said Richard Kerby and Recompence our two brothers aforesaid should have and enjoy the lands aforesaid to them their heirs and assignes forever, which said agreement and settlement of the said estate of our deceased father, we the said Richard Kerby the son, and Sarah Allen and Ruhamath Smith the daughters now surviving of the said Richard Kerby, do hereby ratify and confirm for us and every of us by these presents and for our heirs and executors and administrators and every of them forever. In testimony whereof we the said Richard Kerby the son, and Sarah Allen and Ruhamath Smith the daughters, of said deceased, hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty one day of July in the sixth year of His Maj. Reign, Anno Domini 1707. In presence of Henery Howland Richard Kerbey Samuel Marehu Sarah Allen." The children of Richard Kirby, Sr., according to the above agreement, were: 1. Jane, b.? ; d. before July 21, 1707; m., July 2, 1651, Thomas Lounders of Sandwich, Mass. 2. Sarah, b. 1638; d. after July 21, 1707; m. Sandwich, Mass. 5 June 1657, Matthew Allen, b. about 1629 and d. 1695, son of George Allen of Sandwich. 3. Ruhamah, b.? ; d. after July 21, 1707; m., as second wife, Lieut. John Smith of Dartmouth Mass., b. 1618, d. Jan. 15, 1692. T4. Richard, b.? (See the next generation.) 5. Recompence, b.?; d. Newton, Burlington County, N. J. in 1720; m. Rebecca ?Allen, perhaps daughter Francis 2 Allen (George l ) and Mary Barlow. ((page 231))
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