Richard LEADER

1609 - 1661  (52 years)

• Name	Richard LEADER
  Born	1609	Salehurst, Sussex, England
  Gender	Male
  Migration	1645
  Occupation	Superintendent of the Iron Works at Lynn
  Immigrant?	Y
  Died	1661	York County, Maine
  Association	Richard HUTCHINSON
  Person ID	I35074	Main
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	LEADER,   d. ?
  Family ID	F12321	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah ALDERSEY,   b. Abt 1615, London, London, England ,   d. Mar 1651  (Age ~ 36 years)
  Married	Bef 1640	Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts
  Children	1. Elizabeth LEADER,   b. Abt 1647, Kittery, York, Maine ,   d. 4 May 1705, Kittery, York, Maine  (Age ~ 58 years) + 2. Ann LEADER,   b. Abt 1649, England ,   d. Abt 1723, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age ~ 74 years)
  Last Modified	12 Mar 2019
  Family ID	F12313	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Died - 1661 - York County, Maine  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  August, the 24th Day, 1653 Granted unto Mr Richard Leader land for his use three acres of Meadow at the upper end of that peece of Meadow where Thomas Spencer has his ten acres of medow & lying at Saco pond on the South west side of the same pond, with all the little spotts of medow, they being find spotts they being neare adjacent unto the ponds, provided they be in noe former grants of the towne. A true Coppie taken the 30 day of September, 1654, p me, Humphrey Chadburne, Town Clerk [Earliest Wills on Record in Suffolk County, Ms.] —— Richard Leader, Strawberry Bank, 1654 —— Richard Leader - Lynn, 1645, superintendent of the iron works. Tried copper mining on Endicott’s farm at Salem, but met will ill success, and in 1650 went to Berwick, where he had presented to him the exclusive use of Little River to erect mills, and was a magistrate (Savage, iii 68). Perhaps I can add a few facts relative to this person, which may interest some genealogist. He was an active opponent of the Massachusetts Bay authorities when they extended their jurisdiction into the province of Maine, 1652, and was sent as an agent to England to bear the appeal of the Godfrey government to Parliament. While in London he sold one quarter of his mill privileges to John Becx & Co. In 1656 he speaks of “my Brother Richard Cutt.” Administration on his estate and that of his brother George Leader of Kittery, was granted April 6, 1720, “to his only child Mrs Anna Clark and Sarah Clark one of his granddaughters.” Mrs. Sarah Clark was a widow living in Portsmouth at that date, and declared that she was the “Neece and nearest Relation of Mr George Leader,” as well as the “only surviving child ... of Mr Richard Leader.” Charles E. Banks, MD US Marine Hospital, San Francisco, CA —— Richard Leader while in England Oct 5, 1653, sold one quarter of his sawmill at Pascataqua to John Becx (aka Becks or Beeks) of London, another quarter to Richard HUTCHINSON of that city, and another quarter to Col William Beale and Capt Thomas Allderne. On the 14th of Feb 1655, Leader pledged the remaining quarter to Edward Hutchinson, Jr, attorney for the said Becx, Hutchinson and Allderne. See the York Deeds, Bk I Vol 74-5. See also sketch of Richard Leader by Dr. C. E. Banks in Tuttle’s Capt. John Mason pp 92-4. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S151] WikiTree, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leader-199.