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- Richard was born in Hempstead, Long Island on 2 February 1660. He bought land in Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, April 2, 1687, from John Golding and wife. The town granted him twenty-two acres of land at Clapboard Hollow and Crab Meadow. His assessment was thirty-seven pounds. On January 10, 1694, he bought from Edward Ketcham one hundred and fifty acres of upland on the west side Nissesaguage river. On April 20, 1699, he conveyed a tract of land inHempstead to Richard Valentine. On May 2, 1704, he sold his propertyright of Hempstead to his brother, Thomas.
Of the two known sons of his father he seems to have been the lessinterested in participation in civic affairs. He was town agent in matter concerning a grist mill, and lieutenant in the colonial militia in 1690. His commission wassigned by the ill-fated Jacob Leisley. He built a homestead on the Merrick River at Hempstead, having shared in the division of the townlands in 1679. He was a Presbyterian and was listed as supporting the Rev. Jeremiah Hobart in 1682 at Hempstead and was a patentee of the town when the Dongan Patent of 1685 was granted.
In 1667, having sold his home in Hempstead to Jonathan Smith, he then bought a proprietor's right in Huntington, New York. In the latter township he erected a home on the cliffs fronting north on the beach of Long Island Sound at Crab Meadow, near Northport Harbor. However, he retained considerable land estates in Hempstead. In 1698 he installed his son Manassah on a farm near Rockaway River. Before 1694 he had bought, with a partner, all of Pegusquis Nect between Neguntsteagus and Copiagus rivers in the present town of Babylon from the Secatogus Indians, but he sold this property in 1699. In 1694 he
purchased land in Smithtown. As inheritor of his father's homestead in 1704, after the death of his mother, and sold that property. Other references attest to the fact that he progressively liquidated his holding in Hempstead, chiefly to his brother Thomas.
He was listed, April 1672, as one of the fifteen proprietors who owned shares in the so-called ten farms set up by Huntington in their dispute with Smithtown, and which extended between Northport Harbor and the Smithtown line.
He was assessed to pay in 1698 a proportion in Huntington' Baiting Place Purchase from the Massapequa Indians. He received his share in the sales of town lands in 1711 and 1713 at the Halfway Hollow Hills.His last years from 1687 to 1717 were spent as a land proprietor in Huntington, New York.
(Source: Colonial Families of Long Island, NY, and Connecticut Being the Ancestry & Kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith, Seversmith, Herbert Furman, (Los Angeles, 1944). p.1133)
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1660 - 1717 (56 years)
