RICHARD FOXWELL

• Death Notes
  • Richard Foxwell
    Born:  1610
    London, Middlessex, [county], England  
    Died:  21 Sep 1643
    Barnstable, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA 
    

• General Notes
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    Richard FOXWELL 
    Born 1604 
    Died inv 6 Nov 1677 
    English Origin London 
    Came to New England 1630 
    With the Winthrop fleet 
    Resided in Boston || ME c1650 
    Freeman of MBC May 1631 
    Occupation trader 
    First Spouse Susanna BONYTHON (1614 - a1677) 
    
    1 Susanna Bonython
    Birth abt 1603
    Father Captain Richard Bonython (1580-~1650)
    Mother Lucretia Leigh (~1584-)
    
    Marriage abt 1636
    
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    Children Richard, Esther, John, Luretia, Susannah, Philip, Mary, Sarah 
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    ID: I02099
    Name: Richard* Foxwell 1
    Sex: M
    Birth: ABT 1600 1
    Death: 6 NOV 1677 1
    Note:
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    Richard Foxwell married Winnefred, a daughter of Captain Bonython. He says (1640) that his father-in-law settled him on a part of his estate and gave him as much freedom "for planting, fishing, fowling, and the like" as by virtue of his patent he could. But he was left on the Scarborough side of the town line. He was only once known to have been disturbed about his lands. John Bonython, his brother-in-law, pretended to have a claim on the estate and pulled down one of Foxwell's buildings. The latter appealed to the court, and the judges sustained his title and threw costs upon the aggressor. Mr. Foxwell was an enthusiastic and successful farmer, who had one of the most valuable plantations in the colony. Though not aspiring to worldly honors he served as a member of the "General Assembly of Lygonia" in 1648; also as a commissioner and "clerk of the writs." He visited England before 1633, but came back that year. He died in 1676, aged 76.
    
    One of the first and most respectable planters in this vicinity. He settled at Blue-point, the the south-western side of Scarboro river in1636, when thirty years of age. George Foxwell, his nephew, who died in Virginia, was from the city of Exeter, in Devonshire, England, and it is quite probable that Richard was from the same place, or its neighborhood. He lived forty years on his estate at Blue-point, without apparently mingling in the political disputes of that period. He was a member of the General Assembly of Lygonia in 1648, being of the committee to whom was referred Mr. Jordan's petition. But his chief attention was given to his plantation, which became a valuable legacy to his heirs. The lands of Foxwell extended into Scarboro. He lived his colonist life in the homestead at the junction of the Ross road and Blue Point. The county line had then not been drawn.
    
    
    Marriage 1 Susannah Bonython b: in Breage, Cornwall, England