Pane-Joyce Genealogy
Warren family (302)

620. Richard Warren. Born ca 1578 in England.5 Richard died in 1628 in Plymouth, MA.24

Richard came to America on the Mayflower. He was not one of the Puritans fleeing religious persecution for Leyden Holland, but rather was one of the "strangers" picked up in London by the ship (the "strangers", over 30 men and families, comprised more than half the Mayflower passengers). The Mayflower, having departed Plymouth, England, on 6 September 1620, landed in America later that year. Richard's wife and five daughters came later aboard the Anne in 1623. He was not one of the Leyden, Holland Pilgrims, but instead had been a merchant at Greenwich, county of Kent, England. He joined the Pilgrims in Southampton and, upon their landing at Plymouth, was one of ten men chosen to be in the exploring party, and was one of those surprised by the Indians in "The First Encounter". Though Warren appears to have been all but excluded from some Pilgrim histories such as Bradford's, it appears he was among the more important and accomplished of the Pilgrims. Richard was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact, the first establishment of civil government in America. He was given the prefix "Mr.", or Master, by Governor William Bradford, which indicates one of high birth or achievement. He may have had a period of illness before his death in 1628. Even so, he appears as a leader of one of twelve groups formed to own cattle in 1627. In that same year, he is listed as one of the 58 sole proprietors of land in Plymouth Colony.

See Robert S. Wakefield’s Mayflower families in Progress, Richard Warren of the Mayflower and his descendants for four generations, 1991.

On 14 Apr 1610 Richard married Elizabeth Walker, daughter of Augustine Walker (-Aug 1614), in Great Amwell, Hertfordshire.111 Born ca 1583 in Baldock, Hertfordshire. Elizabeth was baptized in Baldock, Hertfordshire, in Sep 1583.111 Elizabeth died on [2]2 Oct 1673 in Plymouth, MA.3 “Mistris Elizabeth Warren an aged widdow aged above 90 yeares Deceased on the [twenty-] second of October 1673 whoe haveing lived a Godly life Cam to her Grave as a shoke of Corn fully ripe shee was honoralby buried on the 24^th of October aforsaid”. Buried on 24 Oct 1673 in Plymouth, MA.

Elizabeth arrived at Plymouth July 1623 in the Anne with her five daughters: Mary, Elizabeth, Ann, Sarah, and Abigail.

Elizabeth outlived her husband by 45 years. She never remarried, but was allowed to succeed to her husband's rights as “Purchaser.” She was honored with the title "Mrs.", as most women were called “Goodwife.”

For more information on Elizabeth, see Edward J. Davies article “The Marriage of Richard^1 Warren of the Mayflower” in The American Genealogist 310 (2003): 81-86.

Their children include:
2289 i. Mary Warren (ca 1611-27 Mar 1683)
2290 ii. Anna Warren (ca 1612-aft 19 Feb 1675/6)
2291 iii. Sarah Warren (ca 1614-aft 15 Jul 1696)
2292 iv. Elizabeth Warren (ca 1616-9 Mar 1669/70)
2293 v. Abigail Warren (ca 1618-aft 3 Jan 1692/3)
2294 vi. Nathaniel Warren (1624/5-bet 16 Jul and 21 Oct 1667)
2295 vii. Joseph Warren (ca 1626/1627-4 May 1689)

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