Richard MATHER

1653 - 1688  (34 years)

• Name	Richard MATHER  [1, 2]
  	Richard Mather, named after his grandfather Richard Mather, was a farmer, and settled at first in Dorchester, but a few years after his marriage he removed to Lyme, Conn. In the year 1687 he bought a tact of land in Lyme of Hezekiah Usher of Boston. As Mr. Mather died the next year, he could not have done much in his new enterprise. He died on the fifty-third anniversary of the landing of his grandfather in America, which was on the 17th of August 1635. Although Mr. Mather died at the age of thirty-five yers, his descendants far outnumber either of the other branches, the Windsor, or Suffield, and many of them have attained eminence in the professions and in business, some of whom will be noticed farther along in the history. [1]
  Birth	20 Dec 1653	Dorchester, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Aug 1688	Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I101651	Main Tree
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	Timothy MATHER,   b. 1628, Liverpool, England d. 14 Jan 1684, (from a fall in his barn) Dorchester, Connecticut (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Catharine ATHERTON
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F365	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catharine WISE,   b. 26 Apr 1657
  Marriage	1 Jul 1680  [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Capt. Timothy MATHER,   b. 20 Mar 1681   d. 25 Jul 1755 (Age 74 years)  [Birth]   2. Elisabeth MATHER,   b. 20 Nov 1682  [Birth] + 3. Samuel MATHER,   b. 3 Jan 1684   d. 17 Jul 1725, Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut (Age 41 years)  [Birth] + 4. Lieut. Joseph MATHER,   b. 29 Jan 1686, Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut d. 30 Sep 1749, Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut (Age 63 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F372	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2021

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 20 Dec 1653 - Dorchester, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S12200] Horace E. Mather, Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather. [S12076] Charles S. Hall, HALL Ancestry A Series of Sketches of the Lineal Ancestors of the children of Samuel Holden Parsons Hall and his wife Emeline Bulkeley.