Joseph Rickard

Not the son of Mary Rickard & John Rickard, Jr.

Marriage 19 Feb 1706/07 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts to Deborah Miller

Biography

Retrieved from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rickard-457 and then edited

Joseph was a son of John Rickard, Sr. [d. 1726, son of Giles Rickard, Jr.] and his wife Mary. He was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on 7 February 1683.[1] There is no dispute that his parents were John and Mary Rickard, but in those years there were two John Rickards (first cousins) in Plymouth married to women named Mary, and there has been some dispute as to which of the two couples were Joseph's parents. Two versions of Plymouth Vital Records (cited above) identify him as a son of John Rickard "Sr", son of Giles Rickard and Hannah Dunham. In contrast, the list in Plymouth Church Records of children baptized in 1683 includes "Joseph, son of John & Mary Rickard Junior."[2] The assignment to John Jr. in the Church Records may reflect a distinction made between John Rickard, born about 1625 and still living at the time of birth, who would have been the older ("senior") John Rickard in the community, and Joseph's father John, born in 1652, and thus a younger ("junior") John Rickard. Plymouth Vital Records names Joseph's father as John Sr., and there is no mention of Joseph in the will of John Rickard Jr.

The Mary who was the wife of Joseph's father's was not Mary Cooke. There is evidence that the Mary who married his father probably was Mary Snow, but this identification is not certain.

Joseph Rickard and Deborah Millar were married on 19 February 1707 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.[3]

They resided in Plympton, Massachusetts, which previously had been the western precinct of Plymouth. Their children were born in Plympton.

The children of Joseph Rickard by Deborah his wife were:[4]

1. Deborah Rickard was born November 10 1707
2. Preselah(?) Rickard was born Jen'y (January) 21 1709/10
3. Mary Rickard was born October 29 1711
4. Joseph Rickard was born November 20 1713
5. John Rickard was born November 14 1715
6. Silas Rickard was born April 26 1717
7. Solomon Rickard was born April 8 1719
8. William Rickard was born October 27 1720
9. Japhet Rickard was born Feb'y 23 1722/3
10. Abigail Rickard was born May 25 1724
11. Jacob Rickard was born March 21 1725/6
12. Febea Rickard was born March 26 1731 [Note: last digit of year seems to be a 9 marked over with a 1]

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Origins

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Rickard_%281%29

Stratton, Eugene A. "Which John Rickard Married Mary Cooke?", in General Society of Mayflower Descendants (Plymouth, Massachusetts). Mayflower quarterly. (Boston, Massachusetts, United States: General Society of Mayflower Descendants)
49:122.

Will of John Rickard, s/o Giles, will [Plymouth Probate #16909] dated 11 Oct 1726, proved 7 Nov 1726, mentions sons John and Joseph, daughters Mary Eddy, Lydia Tilson, Mercy Tilson, Joanna Dunham and Rebecca Pratt, and grandchildren. Other son John d.. young, Abigail married but d. young.

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References

1. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Joseph_Rickard_%284%29 cites
   1. "Plymouth Births, Marriages and Deaths", in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography 2:19. The Children of John Rickard Senior and of Mary his Wife ... 4 Joseph borne on the 7th of february 1683.
   2. Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Plymouth church records, 1620-1859. (Boston: The Society, 1920-1923) 254. 1684: baptized Joseph, son of John and Mary Rickard Junior [sic, all other baptisms for John and Mary Rickard are labelled Senior, all other baptisms for Junior list only Mary as parent, so this should be Senior.]
2. WikiTree contributors, "Joseph Rickard (1683-1742)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rickard-457 : accessed 07 December 2024). cites
   1. Plymouth (Massachusetts) Vital Records, accessed at Ancestry.com (p. 26) and on Book One, p. 15, at AmericanAncestors.org (New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   2. Plymouth Church Records, page 254
   3. Plymouth Town Records, accessed on AmericanAncestors.org at http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/massachusetts-vital-reco...
   4. Plympton (Massachusetts) Town Records, accessed at Ancestry.com: image of what might be an original record; typed transcript
   5. Plymouth Church Records, Vol 1, Part V. In: Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 22. Published in Boston, 1920. See also:
   6. Joseph Rickard in Plymouth County Court and Probate Records

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