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Richard RISLEY

Richard RISLEY

Male 1648 - 1728  (80 years)

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  • Name Richard RISLEY 
    Born 2 Aug 1648  Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 21 Aug 1648  Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Also Known As WRISLEY 
    Died 19 Oct 1728  Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried First Burying Ground of Hartford, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I32811  Main
    Last Modified 19 Dec 2023 

    Family 1 Rebecca ADAMS,   b. Abt 1658, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 20 May 1726, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 68 years) 
    Married Abt 1676  Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Samuel RISLEY,   b. 1679, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Feb 1756, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2023 
    Family ID F19178  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Jared SPARKS,   b. 10 May 1789, Willington, Tolland, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Mar 1866, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Children 
    +1. SPARKS,   d. ?
    Last Modified 26 Feb 2019 
    Family ID F8461  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • s/o Richard W. RISLEY (1615—1648) & Mary _____ HILLS; m abt 1639

      Richard Risley gave testimony, 20 May 1726, that "My father John Addams formerly of Hartford Deceased, had seven children Viz: 4 sons and three Daughters . . . I married one of ye Daughters . . . ye sisters are all Deceased . . . . "(New England Historic Genealogical Register :67:89; The probate of the estate of John Adams in November, 1670, calls his daughter Rebeckah aged twelve years in August last. [Manwaring's Digest, l; 171.]

      His father was the s/o Richard DeRISLEY & Ann HYDE; youngest of four children. [1]

  • Sources 
    1. [S96] Find a Grave, database and images, 75188141.


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Updated 23 Dec 2023