General Notes

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RICHARD WARREN AND HIS DESCENDANTS. Compiled from Original Sources,BY GEORGE ERNEST BOWMAN.
Richard Warren was from London and joined the Leyden Pilgrims in July, 1620, at Southampton, whence the Mayflower and the Speedwell first set sail for America. He was married in England, before 1611, to Elizabeth-, whose maiden name is unknown, and had by her five daughters, Mary, Anna (born about 1612), Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail, who were left in England and came to Plymouth with their mother in 1623. Nothing more is known of his life before he joined the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, and there are very few references to him in the Plymouth Colony records and the works of contemporary writers, doubtless owing to his early death in 1628.Bradford's History mentions him only in the list of the Mayflower passengers,* and includes him among the few who were of enough importance to be distinguished by the title of "Mr." Nathaniel Morton, in the New England's Memorial, published at Cambridge, Mass., in 1669, was the first to print the names of the forty-one men who signed the Compact in the cabin of the Mayflower on Saturday, 11/21 November, 1620, and Richard Warren's name appears in this list. The following extract from Mourt's
Relation contains the only reference yet found to the place from which Richard Warren came. It also shows us that he was a member of the third exploring party sent out while the Mayflower lay at anchor in Cape Cod Harbor. This party set out in the shallop on Wednesday, 6/16 December, 1620, and after many hardships, including a fight with the Indians early Friday morning, landed at Plymouth on the following Monday, 11/21 December, 1620.Wednesday the sixt of December, it was resolved our discoverers should set forth, for the day before was too fowle weather, and so they did, though* Mayflower Descendant, 1: 10, 24. Ibid., 1: 79. it was well ore the day ere all things could be readie: So ten of our men were appointed who were of themselves willing to undertake it, to wit, Captaine Standish, Maister Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winsloe, John Tilley, Edward Tilley, Iohn Houland, and three of London, Richard Warren, Steeven Hopkins and Edward Dotte, and two of our Sea-men, Iohn Alderton and Thomas English, of the Ships Company there went two of the Masters Mates, Master Clarke and Master Copin, the Master Gunner, and three Saylers. The narration of which Discovery, followes, penned by one of the Company. [Mourt's Relation, London, 1622, p. 15.]"In the latter end of July," 1623, his wife and daughters arrived at Plymouth in the Anne, and in the Division of Land a few months later he received lots on "the north side of the towne" and "on the other side of the towne towards the eele-river."* In 1624 or 1625 his son Nathaniel was
born at Plymouth,and his second son, Joseph, must have been born there in 1626 or early in 1627, as his name appears in the division of the cattle among the "Purchasers" who in 1627 bought from the Adventurers all their rights in the Colony of New Plymouth.  In this division, which was made 22 May/1 June, 1627, "The ninth lot fell to Richard Warren & his companie Joyned wth him." To this lot fell a black smooth horned heifer which came in the Jacob, and two she goats The record of this division contains the, earliest mention of the names of Richard's wife and children. The next year, 1628, he died at Plymouth, leaving his widow to care for a family of five daughters (four of whom were under seventeen), and two sons under four. Nathaniel Morton, in writing of the year 1628,
speaks of his death as follows:This year died Mr. Richard Warren, who hath been mentioned before in this Book, and was an useful Instrument; and during his life bare a deep share in the Difficulties and Troubles of the first Settlement of the Plantation of New-Plimouth. [New England's Memorial, p. 68.] There is no account of the settlement of Richard Warren's estate, but the Colony records con