Week # 11 - John Rider ( < 4 Dec 1636 - ~5 Jan 17095)
An ancestor a week for 52 Weeks! #52ancestors
John Rider is the son of immigrants Samuel Rider and Anne Gamlett. He was born in England and we find Samuel and family in Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony by 1639. Samuel was called Lieutenant in the Plymouth Colony Records [1] in a discussion about the Counsell of Warr. On 10 October 1643, "It is ordered by the [Plymouth Colony] Court, that if the townesmen of Yarmouth cannot psently agree tp appoynt a place for defence of themselves, their wiues, and children, in case of a suddaine assault, that then the Court doth order and appount Leiftennant Willm Palmer, Anthony Thacher, Nicholas Symkins, and Samuell Rider, wth the constable, to appoynt a place, and forthwth to cause the same to be fortyfyed wth all speede."
There is a nice profile of John Rider, our 8th great-grandfather, at Wikitree.[2] We don't know who his wife was although you will see trees that speculate that her name was Hester. She is thought to have died at Yarmouth on 23 October 1691.[3] The American Genealogist say "John was baptized at All Saints, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England on 4 Dec 1636. Throughout his lifetime he was known as John Rider, Sr, since he was the eldest of that name in that town. He appears with brothers Sachariah and Joseph who took the Oath of Allegiance in 1681." Seems like I should make a visit to All Saints to see where grandpa was baptized?
His estate was inventoried and included a pair of looms, two oxen, two cows, land, meadow & housing at £ 140 and just a few debts.[4] Total value £ 200. The inventory was sworn to by Ebenezer Ryder on 19 Feb 1706.
My cousin Isaac was still running around Yarmouth with an ox cart in the 1880s and you could probably picture John Ryder in this same spot maybe with slightly different clothing in this photo from the Dennis Historical Society archives? [5] Isaac's ox probably trod the same cartpaths that John Rider used.
[1] https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0102newp/page/64/mode/2up
[2] https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rider-220
[3] Martin E Hollick, "The John Riders of Yarmouth, Massachusetts" in The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005) Vol 80, p 130 http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/?pageName=130&volumeId=13263&filterQuery=BROWSE
[4] Barnstable County Probate 2:236-40; also abstracted in Bowman, "Rider-Ryder Notes" MD 11(1909):54 https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/mayflower-descendant-the/image?volumeId=12336&pageName=54
[5] https://dennishistoricalsociety.catalogaccess.com/photos/7204
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