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Richard Massey (b. 13 Aug 1661) was a colonist in Charles City, Virginia, soldier, landowner, and recusant.

Early Life and Family

Richard was born on August 13th 1661 in Burton-in-Wirral, Cheshire, England, to a recusant Catholic family of the low nobility. His parents were Alice Brathwayt (died 1666) and Edward Massey (1612–1674).^[1] Through his paternal grandmother Catherine Herbert, the family descended from the Earl of Pembroke Herberts, Parrs, Stanleys, and many others, traceable by several paths back to King Edward III. His great great aunt was Catherine Parr, wife of Henry VIII.^[2]^[3] The family's estate having already gradually dwindled, was fully lost when Richard's older brother William fought in the failed Jacobite Rising of 1715, thereafter being imprisoned and willing his holdings to the young Thomas Stanley of Hooten.^[4]

Emigration to Virginia

Being a younger son, Richard already stood to inherit little of value, further lessened by his family's diminishing status as Catholics. After receiving his meagre inheritance in 1682, and with little hope for a future in Cheshire, he immigrated to the Virginia Colony in 1684, quickly integrating into the community as a respected landowner and family man. In the early 1690s court records show him as the appointed guardian of several orphans. His headright of land was claimed in 1703 by James Thweatt. He served as a dragoon under Captain Joseph Wynn, associating himself with several prominent figures of the region, including William Pettypool, whose daughter would later marry one of his sons.^[5]

Later Life and Family

With his wife, Sarah, (For whom all of his sons named daughters) Richard had three sons, Hezekiah, Joseph, and Richard Jr. Through his sons, Richard has a great many descendants.

Hezekiah married twice with issue; John b. 1705, Richard b. 1708, Sarah b. 1710, Lucy b. 1712, William b. 1720, Hezekiah Jr. b. 1725, James b. 1727. Hezekiah Jr. had daughter Susannah b. 1759, wife of Moses Darnell

Joseph had at least 15 children.

Richard Jr. married Anne Pettypool and had issue; William b. 1716, Martha b. 1718, Hezekiah b. 1720, Anne b. 1722, Sarah b. 1723, John b. 1725. Richard (twin of John) b 1725, Tabitha b. 1730^[6]^[7]

References

^ "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000". Familysearch. 13 Aug 1661.
^ Massey, William W. Jr (2000). Massey Genealogy, 2000. Tennessee Valley Pub. pp. 181–186.
^ Collins, Arthur (1735). The Peerage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of that Kingdom. Volume 1. p. 506. ISBN 978-0364460382.
^ Massey, William W. Jr. (2000). Massey genealogy, 2000. Tennessee Valley Pub. pp. 61–66.
^ Massey, William. W. Jr. (2000). Massey Genealogy, 2000. Tennessee Valley Pub. pp. 67–71.
^ Massey, William W. Jr. Massey Genealogy, 2000. Tennessee Valley Pub. pp. 72–96.
^ "Notes and Queries". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 28 (2): 162. 1920 – via https://www.jstor.org/stable/4243767. {{cite journal}}: External link in |via= (help)

[1] "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000". Familysearch. 13 Aug 1661.

[2] Massey, William W. Jr (2000). Massey Genealogy, 2000. Tennessee Valley Pub. pp. 181–186.

[3] Collins, Arthur (1735). The Peerage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of that Kingdom. Volume 1. p. 506. ISBN 978-0364460382.

[4] Massey, William W. Jr. (2000). Massey genealogy, 2000. Tennessee Valley Pub. pp. 61–66.

[5] Massey, William. W. Jr. (2000). Massey Genealogy, 2000. Tennessee Valley Pub. pp. 67–71.

[6] Massey, William W. Jr. Massey Genealogy, 2000. Tennessee Valley Pub. pp. 72–96.

[7] "Notes and Queries". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 28 (2): 162. 1920 – via https://www.jstor.org/stable/4243767. {{cite journal}}: External link in |via= (help)

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