Richard More (Mayflower passenger)
Richard More (Mayflower passenger)
Richard More (1614 – c. 1694/1696) was
born in Corvedale, Shropshire, England and
was baptized at St. James parish church in
Shipton, Shropshire on November 13, 1614.[1]
Richard and his three siblings were at the
center of a mystery in early 17th century
England that caused early genealogists to
wonder why the More children's father,
believing him to be Samuel More, would send
his very young children away to the New
World on the Mayflower in the care of others.
There are no images of the actual Mayflower. This is a painting entitled
Then, in 1959, the mystery was explained.
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882)
Jasper More, a descendant of Samuel More
and prompted by his genealogist friend,
Anthony Wagner, found in his attic a 1622 document, which detailed the legal disputes between Katherine and
Samuel More and what actually happened to the More children. It is clear from these events that Samuel did not
believe the children to be his offspring.[2][3] To rid himself of the children, he arranged for them to be sent to the
Colony of Virginia.[4] Due to bad weather, the Mayflower finally anchored in Cape Cod Harbor in November 1620
where one of the More children died soon after; another died in early December and yet another died later in the first
winter. Only Richard survived, and even thrived, in the perilous environment of early colonial America, going on to
lead a very full life.[5]
Richard became a well known sea captain who helped deliver supplies to various colonies which were vital to their
survival, traveled over Atlantic and West Indies trade routes and fought in various early naval sea battles. He and
other Mayflower survivors were referred to in their time, as "First Comers", who lived in the perilous times of what
was called "The Ancient Beginnings" of the New World adventure.[6] Richard More lived through a significant part
of early American history of which there is still very little known.
The More family
Much of what is known about Richard's early childhood is through legal documents, more specifically the
aforementioned document written in 1622, in response to a petition of Richard More's mother Katherine More,
(sometimes spelled Katharine, hereafter spelled Katherine) to Lord Chief Justice Sir James Ley, at which time she
demands to know what has become of her children.[7] Katherine’s father, Jasper More, was master of Larden, a
1000-acre estate between Much Wenlock and Ludlow. Samuel’s father, Richard More, was master of Linley, an
estate near Bishop’s Castle, close to the Welsh border.[8][9][10] Both estates are in Shropshire, England.
Jasper's sons died leaving no male heir.[11] The estates were held in an entail whereby inheritance was restricted to
male heirs and Samuel's father, but Richard, in the marriage settlement, paid £600 to Jasper More, so there was clear
title.[12] It was arranged that Katherine would marry her cousin and indeed, in February 4, 1610, (old date style)
Katherine, 25, married her cousin, seventeen-year-old Samuel More. As Dr. Harris notes: "The marriage papers
contained the unusual mention of 'without tabling' allowing Samuel to live at his own estate or elsewhere".[13][14]
At some point Samuel began working in London as secretary to Lord Edward Zouche, privy councilor, diplomat and
courtier.[15] Over the next four years, Katherine bore four children: Elinor, Jasper, Richard, Mary. All were baptized
at St. James parish church in Shipton, Shropshire with Samuel More as their father.[16]
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The Plan, the court action and the removal of the children
In 1616, Samuel More accused his wife of adultery and, at the direction of his father, Richard, devised a plan to rid
himself of Katherine and the children. The adultery was supposedly committed with Jacob Blakeway, a young man
near in age to Katherine who lived close by and whose family had been More tenants for several generations. In
1608, Jacob Blakeway and his father Edward, a yeoman, had renewed a lease on a parcel of land owned by
Katherine More's father, Jasper More of Larden Hall. The manor of Larden Hall was about half a mile from
Brockton where the Blakeway family lived.[17] By a deed dated 20 April 1616, Samuel cut the entail on the Larden
estate to prevent any of the children from inheriting. During the long court battle, Samuel would deny that he was the
father of the children borne by his wife, Katherine, and stated them to be children of the adulterous relationship.[18]
Katherine did not deny her relationship with Jacob Blakeway, stating there was a former betrothal contract with him,
and therefore he was her true husband. This would have made her marriage to Samuel invalid. Samuel quotes her
words in his declaration, "though she could not sufficiently prove by witnesses yet it was all one before god as she
sayed". At that time any of the usual witnesses would likely have been dead.[19]
In that same year, by his own account, Samuel went to his employer and a More family friend, Lord Zouche, Lord
President of the Council of Wales, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Privy Counselor, to draw up a plan for the
disposition of the children.[20] Zouche had been a member of the Virginia Company and in 1617 he invested £100 in
an expedition to the colony of Virginia, which is where the Mayflower was supposed to have landed. It was his
actions that were instrumental in putting the More children on the Mayflower.[21][22][23] At that time, children were
routinely rounded up from the streets of London or taken from poor families receiving church relief to be used as
laborers in the colonies. Any legal objections to the involuntary transportation of the children were over-ridden by
the Privy Council, namely, Lord Zouche. Most people thought it a death sentence and, indeed, many did not survive
either the voyage or the harsh climate, disease and scarcity of fresh food for which they were ill-prepared.[24][25]
Additionally, in 1616, Samuel More, under his father Richard's direction, removed all four children from Larden and
placed them in the care of some of his father's tenants near Linley.[26][27] The removal was shortly after the youngest
child had been baptized, which was on April 16. According to Samuel's statement,[28] the reason he sent the children
away was "as the apparent likeness & resemblance … to Jacob Blakeway", quoting from: "A true declaracon of the
disposing of the fower children of Katherine More sett downe by Samuell More her husband" together with the
"reasons movinge him thereunto accasioned by a peticon" of hers to the Lord Chief Justice of England and it is
endorsed, "Katherine Mores Petition to the Lord Chief Justice ...the disposing of her children to Virginia dated
1622".[29] Samuel goes on to state that, during the time the children were with the tenants, Katherine went there and
engaged in a struggle to take her children back:[30] "Katharine went to the tenants dwelling where her children had
been sequestered, and in a hail of murderous oaths, did teare the cloathes from their backes". There were at least
twelve actions recorded between December 1619 and July 8, 1620, when it was finally dismissed.[31][32]
The statement details that, soon after the denial of the appeal on July 8, 1620, the children were transported from
Shipton to London by a cousin of Samuel More and given into the care of Thomas Weston, "…and delivered to
Philemon Powell who was intreated to deliver them to John Carver and Robert Cushman undertakers for the
associats [sic] of John Peers [Pierce][33][34] for the plantacon [sic] of Virginia"[35] in whose home they would be
staying while awaiting ship boarding.[36][37] Thomas Weston and Philemon Powell were both poor choices, and
Thomas Weston especially was quite disreputable. Soon thereafter, Powell would become a convicted smuggler and
Weston an enemy of the Crown.[38] As the agent of the Merchant Adventurer investment group that was funding the
Puritan voyage, Bradford states that Weston caused them many financial and agreement contract problems, both
before and after the Mayflower sailed. Weston’s Puritan contacts for the voyage were John Carver and Robert
Cushman who jointly agreed to find the children guardians among the Mayflower passengers. Carver and Cushman
were agents from the Puritans to oversee preparations for the voyage[39] with Robert Cushman’s title being Chief
Agent, from 1617 until his death in 1625.[40] Within several weeks of the More children’s arrival in London, and
without their mother Katherine More’s knowledge or approval, they were placed in the care of others on the
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Mayflower, bound for New England.[41]
After the Mayflower sailed, Katherine made another attempt to challenge the decision through the courts. It was this
legal action in early 1622 before Chief Justice James Ley which led to the statement from Samuel explaining where
he sent the children and why, the historical evidence for Richard More's early history.[42]
Samuel in the aftermath
Samuel More continued to act as secretary to Edward la Zouche and on June 11, 1625, he married Elizabeth
Worsley, daughter of Richard Worsley, Esq. of Deeping Gate (in Maxey) in Northamptonshire and cousin to Lord
Zouche's second wife,[43] although he was only separated not divorced from Katherine More. What was called a
divorce in those days was really a separation and neither party was allowed to remarry duing the lifetime of the
other.[44] In February 1626, Samuel More obtained a royal pardon, possibly to protect himself against accusations of
adultery. It is not known if Katherine was still alive at the time of his second marriage.[45]
The landing in the New World
Richard departed Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower on September 6/16, 1620 with 102 passengers and about 30
crew members in a small 100 foot ship. The first month in the Atlantic, the seas were not severe, but by the second
month the ship was being hit by strong north-Atlantic winter gales causing the ship to be badly shaken with water
leaks from structural damage. There were two deaths, but this was just a precursor of what happened after their Cape
Cod arrival, when almost half the company would die in the first winter.[46][47]
On November 9/19, 1620, after about three months at sea, including a month of delays in England, they sighted land,
which was Cape Cod. After several days of trying to sail south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia,
strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod hook, where they anchored on November 11/21.
The Mayflower Compact was signed that day.[48][49][50]
A number of colonists travelled as paying passengers on the Mayflower. Exactly what explanation was given for the
More children's presence is not known as many homeless waifs from the streets of London were sent to the New
World as laborers.[51][52]
Three of the Mayflower Pilgrims took responsibility for the children as indentured servants:
• Elinor More, Ellen More, age 8, assigned as a servant of Edward Winslow. She died in November 1620 soon after
the arrival of the Mayflower at Cape Cod Harbor. Her burial place is unknown and may have been ashore on
Cape Cod similarly to her brother Jasper several weeks later. With many others who died that winter, her name
appears on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb, Cole's Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts.[53]
• Jasper More, age 7, servant of John Carver. He died of a ‘common infection’ in Dec. 1620 while the Mayflower
was in Cape Cod Harbor. He was buried ashore in what is now the Provincetown area. Provincetown has a
memorial plaque with his name and that of four others ‘who died at sea while the ship lay at Cape Cod Harbor’ in
Nov./Dec. 1620.[54]
• Mary More, age 4, assigned as a servant of William Brewster. She died sometime in the winter of 1620/1621. Her
burial place is unknown, but may been on Cole's Hill in Plymouth in an unmarked grave as with so many others
buried there that winter. As with her sister Ellen, she is recognized on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb in Plymouth,
misidentified after her sister's name as "and a brother (children)" - the statement of calling her "a brother"
mistakenly coming from William Bradford's failing memory years after the event of her death.
• Richard More, age 6, servant of William Brewster. He resided with the Brewster family until about mid-1627
when his term of indentureship expired.[55] This is about the time that his name appears, at age 14, in a census as
a member of the Brewster family, in what was called then ‘New Plimouth’. By 1628, Richard was in the employ
of Pilgrim Isaac Allerton, who was engaged in trans-Atlantic trading.[56][57][58]
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Richard's life in the New World
Richard was six years old when the Mayflower landed at New Plymouth. Immediately upon setting foot on land, he
would have worked with all of the others to help gather supplies for food and shelter as well as to bury the dead after
the epidemic, which would ultimately leave half of the original passengers dead.[59] In the spring of 1621, he would
have attended what has now become known as the first Thanksgiving.[60] In 1627, at the age of 14, Richard is
recorded as living at New Plymouth.[61]
Nothing is known of Richard during his years living with the Brewster family from 1620 to 1627, except that his
name is on a document concerning the division of cattle and other livestock, and that he lived in Salem.[62] In 1635
he is listed as arriving from England on the Blessing, which had sailed from London to Massachusetts Bay. The
purpose of this journey to London is unknown.[63] At some point Richard went to work for Allerton as an apprentice.
Under Allerton's apprenticeship he fished in various locations around Plymouth and Maine working as crew and, at
some point, he would become captain on the ships that supplied the new American colonies.[64] In April 20th, 1636
Richard More married Christian Hunter who had been a passenger with him on the Blessing.[65] They lived at
Duxbury for a time before moving to Salem.[66] Richard worked as a retainer and a laborer for Richard
Hollingsworth, another passenger from the Blessing who was Christian's guardian and step-father.[67]
By early 1642, Richard joined the Salem church. As a member he would be allowed a voice and a vote in Salem
affairs. Richard had his first two sons, Samuel and Thomas More, baptized.[68]
By the 1650s, at the age of twenty-four, he had become a commander of his own ketch and is known to have traded
with the colonies, the West Indies, and England.[69] He had sold his twenty acres in Duxbury and moved himself and
his family to Salem Neck.[70] He applied for a permit and set up his own fishing stand. Since drinking water was
scarce, Richard dug a well on common ground for himself and others to use. He traded tobacco and other
merchandise and supplies with Virginia and the West Indies, and made voyages to England.[71] In 1653, he served
with his ship in an unsuccessful expedition against the Dutch settlement on the Hudson (later to become New York).
In 1653, Captain More was paid for ye Dutch expedition.[72]
Beginning in 1654, for two consecutive years, he took part in two attacks by sea against the French, who were
threatening New England’s fishing and maritime trade in the lower Hudson River region. In 1654 Richard More
served in a successful combined English and New England expedition against the French at Port Royal, the principal
settlement of the French colony of Acadia, now Nova Scotia. Captain More was at Port Royal, Nova Scotia, when
the French fort was reduced to English Obedience in 1654, and from thence a bell was later brought to Salem in
Capt. Moor's Ketch. Thus Richard More contributed to the foundations of New England’s maritime greatness.[73]
During this time, Richard received land at Plymouth as an "Ancient Freemen". The land was granted by the General
Court and purchased from the Indians. He obtained lots near the Fall River, and was one of the purchasers of lots in
Swansea. In 1673 he sold land at Mattapoisett (he is referred to as) he of Massachusetts Colony on 1 March 1667/8;
and formerly of Plymouth and now of Salem sold lots in Swansea and Sepecan on 30 August 1673.[74]
The Staple Act of 1663, which stated, among other things, that the shipping of European goods to the colonies
except through England or Wales was forbidden, forced hard times upon both colonial ship captains and the
colonists. The restrictions threatened the very survival of the colonists and, to survive, the captains had to be
extremely creative in their shipping manifests.[75] The Navigation Acts, along with the continued taxation of the
colonies into the next century, brought about the growth of isolationism, which eventually resulted in the American
Revolution.[76]
In 1665, Richard rescued the colonists at the newly established colony at Cape Fear. The ship that was supposed to
bring supplies failed to arrive and, consequently, the people were dying of starvation and through the lack of
adequate protection against the weather. It was an extremely hazardous area for ships but, upon learning of the
situation, Richard brought a shipment of food and supplies to aid the desperate colonists.[77] When Richard's old
sailing friend, Richard Starr, was murdered, he took on the responsibility of Starr's three children. In his fifty years as
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a mariner Richard had never lost a vessel, nor had any sailor brought charges against him.[78]
Richard served alongside Joseph Dudley during the Great Swamp
Fight in December of 1675, a massacre of the Narragansett people
living around Narragansett Bay.
Reverend Nicholas Noyes was a man whom Richard knew well and
would become directly involved in his later life. Noyes was the same
man who would lead the campaign against the so-called witches of
Salem.[79] In later life, Richard suffered from financial hardship. On
July 1, 1688, he was brought before the Salem church elders for ‘gross
unchastity with another man’s wife’.[80]The elders had spoken to him
privately on several occasions as Richard represented a member of the
Ancient Days and they wanted to maintain a special place in their
history. He was publically sanctioned and excommunicated from the
church. Richard accepted the judgment and made a public repentance
and, according to documents, was restored to the church in 1691.
According to Dr. David Lindsay, historian and author, the pastor who
punished him was Reverend Nicholas Noyes.[81][82]
Capt. Richard More memorial near his grave in
Richard More is buried in Salem. There is documentary evidence that
[83]
Salem, Massachusetts
he was alive in 1694 and dead in 1696.
His gravestone gives an age
of 84, but he deposed in 1684 that he was aged seaventy yeares or
thereabouts indicating he was unsure of his birth date. The gravestone in the old Salem burial ground gives a date of
1692.[84]
Marriages
Richard was married three times:
• Christian Hunter. Born c. 1615 in England and died 18 March 1676 in Salem, Mass. Married 20 Oct. 1636 in
Ipswich, Mass.[85]
• Elizabeth Woolnough. Born c. 1623 London, England. They were married (in a bigamous union) 23 Oct. 1645 St.
Duncan’s Church, Stepney, London, England.[86][87]
• Jane ______. Born c. 1631. Died 5/8 Oct. 1686 in Salem, Massachusetts. Married before 23 May 1678 in Salem,
Mass. She was the widow of Samuel Crumpton, who was killed by Indians in 1675.[88]
Children
Richard More and Christian Hunter had seven children:
•
•
•
•
Samuel More, baptized March 6, 1642 in Salem, Mass. Died after March 1677. Married Sarah ____.
Thomas More, baptized March 6, 1642 in Salem, Mass. Died after November 25, 1692.
Caleb More, baptized March 31, 1643/4 in Salem, Mass. Died January 4, 1678/9 in Salem, Mass.
Richard More (jr.), baptized January 2, 1647/8 in Salem, Mass. Died May 1, 1696. Married Sarah ______. 6
children - 3 sons, 2 daughters and 1 unknown.
• Joshua More, baptized March 3, 1646 in Salem, Mass. Died between 1660-1675.
• Susanna More, baptized May 12, 1650 in Salem, Mass. Died after October 30, 1728 in Salem, Mass. Married (1)
c.1675 Samuel Dutch, (2) c.1694 Richard Hutton (3) 1714 John Knowlton. She had 4 daughters with Samuel
Dutch.[89]
• Christian More, baptized September 5, 1652 in Salem, Mass. Died May 30, 1680 in Salem, Mass. Married 31
Aug. 1676 Joshua Conant. 1 son.
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Richard More and Elizabeth Woolnough had one daughter:
• Elizabeth More, born c. 1638 in England, baptized at St. Dunstan's Stepney, London on March 2, 1646 five
months after her parents' marriage in Oct. 1645. Nothing more is known about her.[90][91]
Death and burial
According to the Mayflower Society records, he died in Salem after 19
March 1693/4, but before 20 April 1696.[92] There is documentary
evidence that he was alive in 1694 and dead in 1696. His gravestone
gives an age of 84, but it is more likely that Richard was unsure of his
birth date. The gravestone in the old Salem burial ground gives a date
of 1692. But the date, and additional words 'a Mayflower pilgrim’,
were added at some point between 1901 and 1919, and provoked some
outraged reaction in the local press.[93]
The original gravestone of Mayflower passenger
Captain Richard More.
Richard More is buried in what was known as the Charter Street Burial
Ground but is now the Burying Point/Charter Street Cemetery in
Salem, Massachusetts. He is the only Mayflower passenger to have his
gravestone still where it was originally placed sometime in the
mid-1690s. Also buried nearby in the same cemetery were his two
wives, Christian Hunter More and Jane (Crumpton) More.[94]
If the 1696 date is correct, Richard More was the last surviving male
passenger of the Mayflower, which would have left Mary Allerton,
daughter of Pilgrim Isaac Allerton, as the last survivor altogether. She
died November 28, 1699.[95]
Gravestone of Christian Hunter More, wife of
Richard More, Salem MA.
The More family in history
Mayflower plaque in St. James Church in
Shipton, Shropshire commemorating the More
children baptism. courtesy of Phil Revell
It was only in 1959 that Sir Jasper More discovered a trunk in his attic,
which contained a document dated 1622 that gave, first, an explanation
of an episode in the More family history, and secondly, explained a
mystery that had long intrigued genealogists of Mayflower history. The
document was a sworn submission by Samuel More to the Lord Chief
Justice in which he explained his disposition of the four More children.
Previously, those four children were assumed to have been orphans,
plucked from the streets of London: "homeless waifs from the streets
of London taken out to the New World to be used as labor".[96][97][98]
This document revealed the tragic family circumstances that caused
Samuel More to take the children from their home at Larden Hall in Shipton, and send them away to America on the
Mayflower without their mother's knowledge or consent.[99]
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Richard's daughter, Susanna (More), first married Samuel Dutch in about 1675. It is only through their one surviving
child (Susanna Dutch) that descendants of Richard More of the Mayflower can be traced to the present.[100]
Centuries later, while excavating just outside a place where the Plimouth barricades stood, a metal spoon was found
with Richard's initials carved into it.[101]
Richard More descendants recognized by the Mayflower Society are estimated presently to be only about 100
members.[102]
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[2] Anthony R. Wagner. The Children in the Mayflower (The London Times) June 30, 1959 pp. 11[3] Anthony R. Wagner. The Origin of the Mayflower Children: Jasper, Richard and Ellen More, The New England Historical and Genealogical
Register (July 1960) vol. 114 p. 163-168
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[8] Donald Harris PhD. The Mayflower Descendant, (Jan. 1994) no. 1 p. 12
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1905) vol 36, p. 214
[14] Shipton Parish Register Shropshire archive.
[15] Acts of the Privy Council of England, APC Col. p. 38 show Samuel More in Zouche's service as a private secretary as noted in David
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Moore de Larden on 24 May 1612; of Josperus Moore, filius Samuelis Moore de Larden Generosi on 8 Aug. 1613 and of Ricardus Moore
filius Samuel Moore de Larden on et uxoris on I3, Nov. 1614; Maria Moore, filia Samuelis More et Caterine uxoris ejus de on 16 April 1616.
[17] Donald Harris PhD. The Mayflower Descendant. (Jan. 1994) vol. 44 no. 1 p. 12
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