Zachariah Damon ca 1654-1730 and His Wife Martha Woodworth of Scituate, Massachusetts

Zachariah Damon was born about 1654 at Scituate, Massachusetts, the son of John and Katherine (Merritt) Damon. His birth is not recorded, but the relationship is proven by father John Damon’s will, brother Daniel Damon’s will, and in various land records. His first name is sometimes Zechariah in records and last name Daman or Damen. I wrote about John and Katherine Damon here. His is my 9th great-grandfather on my grandfather Arthur Washburn Ellis Davis’ side of the family.

Zachariah was a Lieutenant in the Scituate militia and served in King Philip’s War. Scituate suffered greatly during the war—13 dwelling houses and their barns burned (including the home of his sister Deborah), one saw mill burned, six heads of family and others were killed, and many more were badly wounded. [Deane] On 22 July 1676 some soldiers received their service pay in lands—Zechariah Daman received land valued at £6 6s 1d. [Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, hereafter PCR, 5:206]

Zachariah married Martha Woodworth in June 1679 at Scituate. [Scituate VR 2:96] Martha was born about 1656 at Scituate, the daughter of Walter Woodworth and his wife whose name is not known. [Sumner]

Martha and Zachariah had eight children born Scituate [1-7 recorded Scituate Vital Records 1:125; No. 8 named in father’s will]:

1. Martha born July 1682; married Edward Jenkins 6 September 1705 [Scituate Marriages 1640-1801 on Family Search] and moved to Cohasset 
2. John Damon born June 1684; married Temperance Nye 13 October 1712 in Sandwich [Scituate VR 2:220]; read they removed to Lebanon, Connecticut but have not confirmed this
3. Zachariah born June 1686; married Mehitable Chittenden 6 December 1711 [Scituate VR 2:96]; died Scituate June 1764 [Gravestone on FindaGrave.com; buried First Parish Cemetery, Norwell] at age 78
4. Daniel Damon born March 1688; married first Bathsheba Silvester 3 January 1711/12 [Scituate VR 2:257] and second Jemima Stetson 27 July 1721 [Scituate VR 2:282]; died Scituate 11 December 1733 [Scituate VR 2:380] at age 45
5. Mary born March 1690; married Thomas Tobey 12 July 1711 [MD 2:170]
6. Abigail born October 1692; married John Perry (son of John 2, Ezra 1) 26 October 1716 [Scituate VR 2:97] and had nine children born Sandwich; died Sandwich April 1764 [Brownson & McLean] at age 71
7. Hannah born November 1694; married Deacon Elijah Perry 7 March 1722/3 [Scituate VR 2:234] and had eight children born Sandwich; died Bourne 11 August 1790 [Brownson & McLean] at age 95
8. Mehitable born about 1696; married Jonathan Merritt  8 Jan 172[last digit worn possibly 7] [Scituate VR 2:101]; died 31 March 1751, Columbia, Tolland County, Connecticut [“Mehitobel Mearrit” gravestone inscription on FindaGrave.com]

Abigail and Hannah married Perry brothers. I descend from Mary. I wrote about Thomas and Mary (Damon) Toby here.

Zachariah owned Conihasset land in Scituate, receiving land from his father John who was an original Conihasset Partner in 1646 and obtaining additional land on his own.

Land transactions involving Zachariah:

• 22 July 1676 Zachariah Daman was one of the group of 30 purchasers of Showamett Neck which included his brother Daniel Daman. This land, between Taunton and Swansea, was conquered lands as a result of King Philip’s War, now the town of Somerset. The cost of each share was £26 13s 4d. Selling the land was a means of raising money in relief of taxpayers and those who sustained losses or injuries during the war. [Bristol County Deeds, 14:432-35]
• 18 July 1695 Jonathan Jackson conveyed land to Zechariah Damon and Israel Cowing [Bangs p 60]
• 18 July 1695 laid out to Richard Sillis his share and now claimed by Jonathan Jackson 8 acres of land that is part of a 20 acre lot in the 4th division. Said land [five acres later mentioned] alienated to Zachariah Damon. [Bangs p 119]
• 23 Jan 1698/9 Jonathan Jackson and Zachariah Damon both of Scittuate exchanged five acres of Conihasset land; Jackson sold for 12 shillings five of the eight acres to Damon that he had taken up in the right of Richard Sillas as part of the 4th division. [Bangs p 120-121]
• 24 June 1699 Taken up by and laid out for Zechariah Daman in the right of Richard Seallis 3.5 acres in the fifth division of seven acres to a share of Conhassett land. [Bangs p 117]
• 4 May 1700 Zechariah Damond sold land to Ebenezer Mott [Bangs p 61]
• 6 Sept 1701 land laid out to William James in the right of Richard Sillis to Jonathan Jackson or to Zechariah Daman. [Bangs p 173]
• 3 June 1703 Jonathan Jackson and Zechariah Dammon sold to Timothy White one whole 30th part or share of upland and marsh in Cohasset. Share that appertained to Richard Sealis deceased. Both signed. [Bangs p 454]
• 12 May 1704, Zechariah Damman of Scituate sold to Job Otis, 1.5 acres of land in the sixth division, part of share that appertained to Richard Seallis, deceased. [Bangs p 494]
• 12 May 1704 Zechariah Damon sold land not yet taken up (granted in the right of Richard Sealist) to Job Otis. [Bangs p 63]
• 4 May 1712 Zechariah Damman of Scituate sold for £4 to Ebenezer Mott 2 acres of land in the fifth division of Conihaset land and in the 16th allotment of said division. [Bangs p 336-7]

Zachariah’s father John Damon died intestate and his estate was divided and presented at court on 2 March 1679/80. He was to receive £20. [PCR 6:33-4] His step-mother Martha had remarried to Peter Bacon and there are multiple court records about issues with them and John Damon’s estate, such as not vacating the land. At 7 July 1680 court land was confirmed to Zachery Daman. “Whereas it doth appear to the Court, that the widdow Daman did sett forth unto the said Zachery Daman his portion to be in the lottery of land which lyeth on the third Clift, his portion being twenty pound; and the said widdow did further promise, that when shee left of improving the remaining pte of the said lott, then the said Zachery shall have the whole lott, paying the said widdow three pounds, which the said Zachery did engage to doe; and the said widdow did ingage not to sell, or give, or dispose of the said pte of the lott to any other pson; and this appears by the testimonyes upon oath of William Brookes and Thomas Woodworth; wherefore the Court can not but allow the aforsaid lott to be the aforsaid Zachery Damans, hee paying three pounds of silver money to his mother in law [step-mother]. [PCR 6:47]

Zecheriah is mentioned in the probate records of his brother John Damon who died unmarried and without children. At 1 November 1676 Plymouth court, letters of administration were granted unto Daniell Daman to administer on the estate of John Daman Jr, his brother, deceased, and Daniell was to have £12 out of the estate, and the remainder of the said estate to be divided betwixt his brother Zacheriah Daman, Deborah Woodworth, and Mary Daman, in equall and alike proportions. [PCR 5:213] 

Zachariah’s brother Daniel also died without a wife or children. He wrote his will on 8 February 1695/6, leaving bequests to:

• Sister Deborah Woodworth house and land at Boston which had belonged to their sister Mary deceased and one-quarter share of his land at Freetown in the right of his sister Mary Damon, and £60 to be paid by his brother Zachariah Damon. 
• Kinswoman Deborah Woodworth 20 shillings.
• Brother Zachariah Damon was to be executor and he bequeathed him all his housing and lands in Scituate, provided he pay the £60 legacy to Deborah, and the rest of his estate. [PCPR 1:229-30] Will was proved 19 February 1695/6.  £60 was a significant sum in those days. 

I find it interesting that three of Zachariah’s siblings did not marry—Daniel, John and Mary. It was unusual for physically and mentally healthy people to remain single.

In a Scituate list of owners of “horse kind” in the year 1694 “Zachriah” Damon owns one red mare with two notches in the near ear and white on all four legs and in 1695 he has the same horse as well as a red mare colt. [Scituate Town Records, page 121, 136 on Ancestry] In 1719 Zachary Damon Senr owns one bay mare. [Scituate Town Records page 184 on Ancestry] He owned the same Bay mare with 2 notches in ye left ear in the town’s 1720 and 1725 lists of horse kind. [Scituate Town Records page 195, 197 on Ancestry] In 1723 he is listed as owning a horse, but the description and page number are too faint to read. [Scituate Town Records]

Zechariah Damon served on a petit jury in March 1698/99 court of common pleas. [Plymouth Court Records 1:35]

On 1 August 1700 Abigail Turner and sons Benjamin and Samuel Stockbridge of Scituate, requested John Bryant, William Pendy, and Zachariah Damon to value the estate of Benjamin and Samuel, “that is to say All the Housing & Land and meadows corne mill and saw mill near or upon ye first Herring Brooke in Scituate aforesaid which by the settlement of ye Estate of their father Charles Stockbridge, deceased.” [PCPR No. 19472]

Lieutenant Zechariah Damon was admitted to Communion at the First Church of Scituate by Rev Shearjashub Bourne 2 July 1727. [NEHGR 11:138]

Lt. Zachariah Damon died at Scituate on 3 September 1730. [Scituate VR 2:381] He was about 75 years old. 

Zachariah died intestate. His probate is recorded as Plymouth County Probate Records file no. 6028. On 13 September 1730 judge Isaac Winslow issued a warrant to divide his estate. [PCPR 6:165] John Cushing Jr Esqr, Mr Stephen Clap, Mr George King, Mr Caleb Torry, and Mr Timothy Byrnes all of Scituate were empowered and directed to view his estate and set off the one-thirds dower to his widow, conduct an inventory, and settle the remaining two-thirds of the estate to the children of the deceased in equal portions. 

An inventory of the estate of Zachariah Damon was taken 30 October 1730 [PCPR 6:164-5]. The entire inventory is not totaled but it is lengthy and includes valuable land. His son John, administrator of the estate, made oath to the inventory on 7 November 1730.  Items listed include books, arms & ammunition, pewter, brass, ironware, shop tools, meat, crops (Indian corn, 10 bushels of barley, rye, beans, malt, flax, two stacks of hay), feathers, farm animals (oxen, steers, cows, hog, sheep, horses), and farming equipment. 

The real estate listed in the inventory:

• Upland and meadow at the third Clift £340 00 00
• Five acres of upland between the meeting house and Mr Billos House lying on both side of the road 50 00 00
• Six acres of swamp land in Hicks Swamp 20 00 00
• Six acres and half of upland by John Merritt Jr 97 10 00
• Piece of swamp land near Mast Hill 15 00 00
• Two lots of seder swamp in Halifax 08 00 00

Additional items were added to the estate inventory on 10 April 1732, including more than 7 bushels of malt, a debt paid by Ensign Otis, and a debt paid by widow Booth. 

The division of the estate is dated 10 April 1732. Land the children had already been given by their father during his lifetime was taken into consideration. 

• Widow Martha given 5.75 acres of land that bordered Capt Samuel Turner’s land and the sea, five acres and sixty five rods of salt marsh adjoining the Third Cliff and bordering the meadow of Mr Clap, and six acres of swampland at Hicks Swamp.
• Son John Damon, in the right of Mary Toby daughter of the deceased, two acres and thirty rods of upland at the Third Cliff. It was judged that Zachariah had given more than his proportionable share of the estate by his father while he was living. 
• Daughter Hannah Perry, five acres of upland at Third Cliff and two shares in the 28th lot of cedar swamp. 
• Daughter Abigail Perry about eight acres of upland at Third Cliff. 
• Son Zechariah Damon 2.75 acres and 24 rods of salt marsh on the Third Cliff in addition to what his father had already given him.
• Son Daniel Damon three acres and 20 rods of salt marsh and meadow in addition to what his father had already given him. 
• The children of daughter Martha Jenkins, deceased, four acres and 100 rods of land.
• Mehitable Merritt four acres of land and three and a half acres of swamp land.

The division to the children and widow was accepted and approved by the court on 22 April 1732.  On 27 May 1732 Martha Damon, widow of Zachariah Damon, conveyed a portion of her dower share of real estate to daughter Hannah Perry, wife of Elijah Perry of Sandwich, in return for a 30 shilling annuity.  [Plymouth County Deeds 27:88]

Martha died after 27 May 1732 when she deeded land to her daughter Hannah Perry. [Plymouth County Deeds 27:88]

Sources:

Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, Volume Two, 1999

Samuel Deane, History of Scituate Massachusetts, from its first settlement to 1831, 1831

Harvey Hunter Pratt, Early Planters of Scituate, 1929

Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, 12 vols. (New York: AMS Press, 1968)

Richard A. Damon, Jr. & D. Bradford Damon, Damon Family of Scituate, Mass. Genealogy, 2000

Lydia B (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean McLean, NEHGS Register, “Ezra Perry of Sandwich, Mass.,” 115:188 (1961)

Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700

Edith Bartlett Sumner, Ancestry and Descendants of Samuel Bartlett and Lucy Jenkins, 1951

Henry Merritt born circa 1593 probably Kent, England; died November 1653 at Scituate, Massachusetts

Henry Merritt was born about 1593, possibly at Tenterden, Kent, England, where his children were baptized. He was an early settler of Scituate, Massachusetts, which was first settled by a group referred to as “The Men of Kent.” His baptism and parents have not been discovered. His first name is often seen as Henery and Merritt is spelled in a variety of ways in records. Henry is my 11th great-grandfather on my grandfather Arthur Washburn Ellis Davis’ side of the family. 

Henry’s wife’s name is unknown. They migrated to Plymouth Colony by 1637. The only record found mentioning Henry’s wife is the records of Rev. John Lothrop: “Goody Merrett”joined the Scituate Church on 16 April 1637. [NEHGS Register, hereafter NEHGR, 9:280] If Henry is their eldest child, then they were married by 1617.  Mrs. Merritt may have passed away before 1638 when Henry deeded land to Nathaniel Tilden without her waiving her thirds. 

Rev. Lothrop’s list of “the Houses in ye planta…Situate, Att my Comeing hither, onely these wch was aboute end of Sept 1634:  Henney Ewells…wch Goodman Merritt haith bought.” Based on this wording it seems Ewell owned the house in 1634 that was later bought by Merritt. [NEHGR 10:43]

At 1 February 1638/9 Plymouth court, Henry Merick, inhabitant of Scituate, took the oath of allegiance to the King and oath fidelity to the colony. [Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, hereafter PCR, 1:110]

By piecing together clues from records, Henry had financial means to purchase land in Plymouth Colony rather than depending on grants, was a land surveyor, a farmer, a member of the militia as he owned a gun, and his inventory included a hoop pole and a barrel perhaps indicating he also worked as a cooper/barrel maker. His inventory of items he owned with his brother John includes a cheese press and churn, so perhaps they made cheese to sell. It could be that the coopering supplies were to make cheese “hoops” or wooden molds to shape the cheese. He signed documents with a mark, “H,” typically indicating illiteracy, which is puzzling because his inventory lists books and I should think his work as a tax collector would requiring the ability to read and write. 

Henry’s known children, baptized St. Mildred’s Tenterden, Kent [Parish Register of Tenterden Kent baptisms on Findmypast.com]:

1. Henry baptized 19 July 1618. What became of him is unclear: he may have died without issue before 1673 [Deane] or became a Boston freeman in 1657, married a woman named Judith, three children, and wrote a will in 1662 [Sumner, Litchfield, Merritt].
2. Katherine baptized 25 March 1621/2; married John Damon in June 1644 and had six children; died 8 December 1655 age 32. [Scituate VR 2:379]
3. John baptized 14 December 1623; inherited his father’s Scituate residence; in 1655 married Elizabeth Wyborn, daughter of Thomas [Sumner]. He died 1 March 1676/7 and his inventory lists six surviving children. A jury found his death was due to “falling on the rockes att a place calledd Ceder Point, att Scittuate Harbour.” [PCR 5:227]
4. Edward, baptized 9 July 1626; buried Tenterden 25 February 1628/9.

I descend from Katherine who I wrote about here.

St. Mildred's, Tenterden

Henry was made a Freeman in 1638. [Deane] He was on the list of Scituate men who had taken the oath of fidelity, undated. [PCR 8:182] He and his son John are on the 1643 list of Scituate men able to bear arms. [PCR:191]

Henry Merritt, planter, was a Conihasset Purchaser, which is fortunate because of the vast amount of land records the partners kept which have been transcribed and published by Jeremy D. Bangs. The Conihasset Grant in Scituate was purchased by the wealthy Mr. Timothy Hatherly from his three fellow Adventurers who were all granted the land in 1633. Hatherly divided it into 30 shares; he retained three of the shares for himself and sin 1646 sold the rest for £180 per share, essentially forming a corporation of the Conihasset Partners. [Deane] The area is in the north-end of Scituate and at various times the partners would divide land to be laid out to each shareholder. Henery Merett, planter, is listed sixth on the deed. [PCR 12:158]

He lived on the corner of Greenfield Lane and the Driftway in Scituate, known as Merritt’s Corner. [Deane]

Land transactions pertaining to Henry:

• Henry Merritt sold to Nathaniel Tilden in 1628 [likely should be 1638] for 20 shillings “all that land which I had of Goodman Byrd, lying with the fence at the North end of the third cliffe, unto the land of Nathaniel Tilden.” [PCR 12:103] Tilden, my 12th great-grandfather, came to Plymouth Colony in 1634/5.
• Henery Merett, planter, is listed sixth on the deed by Timothy Hatherley to the various Conihasset Partners. [PCR 12;158]
• A 10 April 1651 deed from Timothy Hatherly of Scituate for £40 to John Hoare, mentions land abuts marshland belonging to Henery Merrett senior and John Williams Senior.  [MD 3:82] Henry owned a large share in the New Harbour Marshes. [Sumner]
• On 5 February 1667 [1668] John Merrit conveyed two shares in the three-mile tract at Accord Pond, formerly belonging to his father Henry Merrit, to John Otis. [Bangs p. 58 citing folio 75]
• In 1649 the Conihasset Partners decided that the right of inheritance for any undivided land would fall to the heirs or assigns of the original partners. They kept records of land transactions through the years, so when someone sold land it would note the original owner. There are many transactions of Henry’s grandsons selling land owned by or “in the right of” their grandfather Henry. Grandsons Jonathan, Henry, and John all sold land in the 1690s to 1710s. [Bangs]
• On 4 Dec 1711 Henry Merrit sold land before it was laid out, to Stephen Otis, [Bangs p. 64, citing fol 208v\P] 
• Henery Merrit owned marsh land near Hoop Pole Neck and a swamp is also mentioned; undated. [Bangs, p. 171]

At 27 July 1648 court, Richard Sillis, Humfrey Turner, Thomas Pinchin of Scituate, arbitrators that were chosen by Henery Meret and Josepth Tilden to determine a difference about a parcel of fence lying on the north side of the Third Cliff which stand between Henery Meret and Josepth Tilden’s land from the sea east to the marsh west. They determined Tilden and Merritt should each make and maintain half the fence. [PCR 12:161]

Boundaries and nearby landmarks mentioned in land owned by Henry include: Ffane Island, Great Neck Cove, Stoney Brook Swamp, the Great Marsh, Cold Spring Swamp [Bangs] There is/was a Merritt’s Brook a principal tributary to Bound Brook. It is mentioned that Cold Spring Swamp and Dry Cedar Swamp are on Merritt’s Brook. [Deane]

Henry is remembered by local historians as a man of substance. He served his community in several ways:

• On 7 March 1642/3 court, Thomas Rauline and Henry Merriot were chosen the first surveyors of the town. Or 7 March 1643/4? [PCR 2:53; the two men were selected surveyors of highways again at 5 June 1644 court. [PCR 2:72]]
• On 7 June 1642 Henry was selected constable of Scituate. [PCR 2:42]
• Henry was chosen receiver of Excise for Scituate in 1650. [PCR 2:155]

Henery Merritt died the last of November 1653 at Scituate; recorded by town clerk James Torrey. [PCR 8:19] He was about age 60.

Henry did not leave a will. An inventory of his estate was taken 24 January 1653/4 and was sworn to 8 June 1654 on the oath of John Merritt. [The Mayflower Descendant 11:198-200] His inventory amounted to £121 16 shillings 3 pence. On the same date a separate inventory was taken of items he jointly purchased with his brother John Merritt and Henry’s half totaled £36 7 shillings 6 pence. Both inventories were conducted by James Cudworth and John Williams. This is the only mention I have seen of Henry having a brother John seemingly living with him. 

In the inventory of his sole estate “the dwelling house and outhousing wth the land it is on; and the marsh before it; and the land in green field and the land by goodman Hielands” was valued at £32. It also included household items such as valuable silver spoons,  a few books, and arms with powder and bullets. Items related to farming: two oxen, four steers, two cows, two heifers, hay, wheat, barley, hemp/hempseed. It also included hoop poles and one barrell.

The inventory of items he owned with his brother John included Conihasset land valued at £5 5 shillings, more household items, tools such as saws and wedges, a parcel of nails, malt, a cheese press, churns, hay cutter, iron ladle, meal, 14 swine, one cow, one steer, and books. Presented at court by John Merritt on 9 June 1654. 

John Merritt of Scituate was granted letters of administration on the estate of “Henery Merrit,” deceased, at the 6 June 1654 court. [PCR 3:51] 

Henry’s name is inscribed on the monument dedicated to the original settlers of Scituate at the Men of Kent Cemetery. 

Sources:

Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, Volume Two, 1999

Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1831, 1831

Harvey Hunter Pratt, Early Planters of Scituate, 1929

Douglas Merritt, Revised Merritt Records, 1916

Edith Sumner, Ancestry and Descendants of Samuel Bartlett and Lucy Jenkins, 1951

Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, 12 vols., New York: AMS Press, 1968

W.J. Litchfield, The Litchfield Family in America, Part 1, 1901, p 103-4

Samuel Ryder/Rider (1688 to 1718) and His Wife Ann Eldredge of Plymouth, Massachusetts

Samuel Ryder (commonly spelled Rider but I use Ryder for consistency) was born 26 July 1688 at Plymouth, Massachusetts, one of the twelve children of Samuel Ryder by his second wife Lydia Tilden. [Plymouth VR 1:210] I wrote about his parents here. He is often called Junior in records. Samuel is my 9th great-grandfather on my grandfather Arthur Washburn Ellis Davis’ side of the family.

On 17 February 1713/14 “Samuell Rider Jr” married “Ann Eldreg” at Yarmouth. [Yarmouth VR 1:139 & Plymouth VR 1:90] Ann Eldredge was born in April 1691 at Yarmouth on Cape Cod, the daughter of Samuel and Keziah (Taylor) Eldredge. In records sometimes Ann is spelled Anne or Anna and her last name is seen as Eldreden and more commonly Eldredge or Eldred. 

Ann and Samuel had three children born Plymouth, births recorded Plymouth VR 1:11:

1. Keziah Ryder born 1 March 1713/14; marriage intentions to William Swift of Sandwich published Plymouth 30 March 1733 [Plymouth VR 1:161]; died Sandwich on Cape Cod 23 March 1735/6 at age 22 [Sandwich VRs in Mayflower Descendant 29:27]
2. Ezekiel Ryder born 22 May 1715; married Margaret Churchill 20 February 1736/7 [Plymouth VR 1:100]
3. Samuel Ryder born 29 Jan 1716/17

I descend from Keziah whom I wrote about here.

Samuel’s inventory indicates that he was literate as he owned a Bible, he served in the militia as he owned a gun and sword, he farmed his land as he owned livestock, and he perhaps traded goods as feathers listed were a valuable commodity. 

On 7 April 1714 Samuel and his brother Benjamin were deeded all but one parcel of their father Samuel Ryder’s land, which they were to divide equally. It included the Manomet Ponds homestead where Samuel Jr. was to live. [Plymouth Co. Deeds, 11:51]

Samuel was just 29 when he died before, and likely close to, 17 July 1718, when his widow Anne was appointed administratrix of his estate, a document she signed. Samuel died intestate, so it would seem his death was fairly sudden if there was not time to write a will. His probate file is Plymouth County Probate case no. 17392. It is possible he is buried at White Horse Cemetery in Manomet, which was established in 1717 and where his mother Lydia is buried, but without a surviving headstone. Oddly the cemetery is town-owned, but there is no public access to it, so I have not visited to see if there are indications of many unmarked graves. 

An inventory of the estate Samuel Rider was taken 5 August 1718 by Thomas Clarke Jr and Josiah Morton. It totaled £89 9 shillings and included: 

• Wearing clothes
• Bible, province bills 
• Gun and sword
• Bed & bedding, table linen 
• Pewter, brass skillet, warming pan, plate, pot, kettle, fireslice, tongs, trammel, wood dishes, earthenware, glass bottles
• Tables, chairs, chests 
• Cart, wheels, plow chain, yoke, scythe, sickle, hoe, small tools, tubs, pails, barrel, feathers, meal bags, baskets 
• Cord of wood in the woods
• One mare, one colt, one yoke of oxen, one heifer, one steer, three yearling cattle

It wasn’t until 6 March 1718[/19] that Anne Rider, administratrix of the Estate of Samuel Rider late of Plymouth decd, made oath to the inventory. 

On that same date Anne presented an account of the estate. Debts due from the estate included a least four family members:

To Mr Watson 2 10 8

to Mr. Thomas 1 19 8

to Mrs. Barns 0 9 0

Ebenezer Donham 0 8 0

Joseph Rider 2 15 6 [brother]

Kenelm Winslow 3 0 0

John Foster 2 12 0

to his mother Rider 3 0 0 [Lydia Tilden Ryder]

Wm Swift 0 10 0 

Eliezer Morton 0 5 0

Josiah Rider 2 0 0 [brother]

Benja Rider 12 10  [brother]

Due to the Estate:

Hannah Bartlett 0 3 10

Thoms. Harlow - 3 -

Benja Bartlett 0 8 0

John Gibbs 0 4 10

Joseph Silvester 0 13 6

Josiah Morton 0 8 3

At the Plymouth Court of Common Pleas in June 1720, there was a case involving Samuel and Ann’s children. Benjamin Rider vs. “Keziah Rider, Ezekiel Rider, Samuel Rider, minor children of Samuel Rider Jr deceased, and grandchildren of Samuel Rider Sr deceased,” regarding partition…lands granted to plaintiff and his brother Samuel Rider Jr lying in Common between the Plaintiff and the defendants. [Lainhart]

On 13 April 1744 Samuel Rider’s real estate was settled on son Ezekiel, that latter paying certain amounts to his brother Samuel and to Ann and Keziah, minor children of William Swift of Sandwich, the heirs of his sister Keziah, deceased. [Plymouth County Deeds 9:309] 

On 19 April 1744 Ezekiel sold to Benjamin Rider [Ezekiel’s uncle] land at Manomet Ponds “Said granted Premises is the Same that was laid out to ye heirs of my hon’d father Saml Rider deceasd as their Part of the Homestead wheron my Grandfather in his Life time dwelt.” [Plymouth Colony Deeds 36:179] 

“Anna Rider” married, second, James Clark. Their intentions were published in Plymouth on 21 April 1722 [Plymouth VR p 143] and they married 8 June 1722 [Plymouth VR 140].  John was the son of James and Abigail (Lothrop) Clark. 

Ann and James had three children, recorded Plymouth VR 1:77, as “children of James Clark son of James Clark & Ann his wife:”

1. James born 9 April 1723; died 6 February 1815 
2. Ann born 4 August 1724 
3. Abigail born 15 December 1727

Ann died after 23 June 1748 when her husband James Clark mentions her in his will. His will was proved 2 April 1750. He also mentions children James, Anna and Abigail. [Probate Records 1749-1752, vol 12-12C, State Archives, Boston]

Sources: 

George Ernest Bowman, The Mayflower Descendant, “Samuel 2 Rider of Plymouth Had Two Wives, Sarah Bartlett and Lydia Tilden,” 11:182 (1909)

Ann Smith Lainhart, The Mayflower Descendant, “Genealogical Gleanings from Plymouth County Court Records,” 51:1:14

Amos Otis, Library of Cape Cod History & Genealogy, No. 47, "The Yarmouth Families of Eldredge," 1914