Richard Borden

1595 - 1671  (76 years)

• Name	Richard Borden
  Born	1595	Headcorn, County Kent, England
  Christened	22 Sep 1595	Headcorn, County Kent, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	25 May 1671	Portsmouth, Rhode Island   [3]
  Person ID	I4169	Stewart
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2021

  
  

  Family	Joane Fowle,   b. 15 Feb 1604,   d. 15 Jul 1688  (Age 84 years)
  Married	28 Sep 1625	Headcorn Church, Headcorn, County Kent, England   [1]
  Notes	Benjamin Borden 8th of 10 children. [4]
  Children	1. Thomas Borden,   b. 1628, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island ,   d. 25 Nov 1676  (Age 48 years)  [Birth]   2. Francis Borden,   b. 1628, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island ,   d. 1720  (Age 92 years)  [Birth]   3. Mary Borden,   b. 1632, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island ,   d. 1691  (Age 59 years)  [Birth]   4. Matthew Borden,   b. 16 May 1638, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island ,   d. 05 Jul 1708  (Age 70 years)  [Birth]   5. John Borden,   b. Sep 1640, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island ,   d. 04 Jun 1716  (Age ~ 75 years)  [Birth]   6. Joseph Borden,   b. 03 Jul 1643, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island ,   d. Barbados  [Birth]   7. Sarah Borden,   b. May 1644, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island ,   d. 1705  (Age ~ 60 years)  [Birth]   8. Samuel Borden,   b. Jul 1645, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island  [Birth] + 9. Benjamin Borden,   b. 16 May 1650, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island ,   d. 1718  (Age 67 years)  [Birth]   10. Amey Borden,   b. Feb 1653, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island ,   d. 05 Feb 1683  (Age ~ 29 years)  [Birth]
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2016
  Family ID	F1367	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1595 - Headcorn, County Kent, England Christened - 22 Sep 1595 - Headcorn, County Kent, England Married - 28 Sep 1625 - Headcorn Church, Headcorn, County Kent, England  = Link to Google Earth
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• Documents

  Family Genealogy of Benjamin Borden (1 of 5) From Genealogies of Virginia Families From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine Volume 1 - Adams-Clopton

  
  

• Notes

  Name: The Borden family is an ancient on both here in New England and over the water in old England, as well as one of historic interest and distinction. The New England branch has directly or indirectly traced the lineage of the American ancestor, Richard Borden, many generations back in English history. His first English forbearer went over to England from Bourdonnay, Normandy, as a soldier under William the Conquerer, and after the battle of hastings--A.D.1066--was assigned lands in the County of Kent, where the family afterward became useful, wealthy and influential, the village where they resided being named Borden. One John Borden, of a later generation, early in the seventeenth century, moved to Wales, where his sons Richard and John were married. These sons returned to Borden, in England and in May 1635 embarked for America. [1] Richard Borden is found a settler in Portsmouth, R.I. in 1638 in which year he was admitted an inhabitant of the island of Aquidneck, and in that same year was allotted five acres of land. He figured in the surveying and platting of the lands thereabout in 1639, and in the year following was one of those appointed to lay out the lands in Portsmouth R.I.. He was assistant in 1653-54; general treasurer in 1654-54; comissioner in 1654-55-56-57; and was deputy in 1667 and 1670. He bought land in Providence in 1661, and not far from 1667 became one of the original purchasers of of land in New Jersey from the Indians. [3] Christened: Discrepancy in month (Feb/Sep) between the two sources. Born: Inferred from Baptismal date Died: He died May 25, 1671, and was buried in "the burying place that Robert Dennis gave Friends in Portsmouth," R. I. [5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S165] Notable Southern Families, v02, Zella Armstrong, (The Lookout Publishing Co., Chattanooga, TN), 23. [S219] Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society, Volume IX, (New Jersey Historical Society, 1916), 40. Richard Borden baptized Feb. 22, 1595-6, married Sept. 28, 1625, Jane Fowle, born Feb. 15, 1604. He was admitted an inhabitant of Aquidneck, R. I., in 1638, and on May 20 was allotted five acres. On March 16, 1641, he became a freeman. In 1665 he and Benjamin Borden (his son, then a minor), James Grover and others, all of Gravesend, L. I., bought considerable tracts of land at Neversink, Narumson and Portupick. [S96] Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, (J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago 1912), 8 (Reliability: 3). Volume 1 [S91] Virginia Families, Vol. 1, (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982), 400 (Reliability: 3). [S219] Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society, Volume IX, (New Jersey Historical Society, 1916), 40.