Family:Richard York and Elizabeth Branson (1)

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Marriage[3] Abt 1641 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United StatesElizabeth Branson
Children
BirthDeath
1.
Abt 1642
2.
Est 1645 New Hampshire
3.
Abt 1647
 
4.
Abt 1650
 
5.
Abt 1654
 
6.
Aft 1655
 

The Richard York record in the family search LDS database may not be not the same Richard who married Susan Starling in England- although it shows both marriages. One Richard lived and died in England but his son settled in North Carolina. The other lived in Dover , US this is the one associated with Elizabeth Branson. Elizabeth later married a Graves. Her son appears to have married a Ruth Graves.

References
  1.   Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire Vol. 1-4 as recorded in State Papers Series Vol. 31-34, Second Title: New Hampshire Probate. (The State of New Hampshire, Concord, New Hampshire, 1933)
    Vol. 1 (State Papers Vol. 31), will of Richard York.
  2.   LVQB-622, in Latter Day Saints database.
  3. Richard York, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
    775.

    RICHARD1 York at Dover, NH by 1635 by his own deposition. He had a wife Elizabeth (____) York who was ± 62 years old in 1680. After he died she married second before Oct. 1680 to William Graves. Richard York house-lot on Dover Neck 1642, a 100 acre grant on Lamprill River in 1656 and a farm at Oyster River. He bought 50 acres at Littlejohn’s creek from William Hilton and sold it 7 Aug 1661 to Joseph Austin. He was on the Grand jury in 1643, 1656, 1664, 1667, 1668, 1669. See Ault. Lists 47, 354abc, 355 ab, 356a, 361a, 362a, 363abc, 365, 366. His will was unsigned on 23 Apr. 1672; inventory 27 Mar 1674, administration to widow and son John on 30 June 1674. He names his wife children and grandsson Richard and Benjamin. Four men testified in court in 1681 that Thomas Corbett had read the will to William Graves in John York’s hearing at John Partridge’s house. Division of his estate was made in 1681. Children:

    Samuel, b. ± 1645. Elizabeth, m. Philip Cartee 1668.

    Rachel, m. Benjamin Hull (1).

    John.

    Benjamin, b. ± 1655.

    Grace, under 18 in 1672, m. John Gilman (10).