He had a relationship with Rebecca Short.
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Taken from Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Mann (Richard Mann of Scituate, MA)
Richard Man, of Scituate, Massachusetts, was one of the first to bear the name in America. He was not a "Mayflower" passenger, nor a soldier in the Rehoboth battle with Indians, as stated by the Rev. Samuel Deane in his "History of Scituate." The first appearance of his name on record is found in Scituate, Massachusetts, as having with thirty-one others taken the "oath of fidelity," January 15, 1644. His coming to America may be placed a few years previous to this date. He was a farmer, and one of the original proprietors of Scituate. His farm lay along the sea, while north of him was "Musquascut Pond," which was later to claim his life. In an attempt to cross this pond on the "iyce" in February, 1655, he was drowned. The verdict of the jury that investigated his death was: "Wee find that by coming over the pond from his own house towards the farmes, that he brake through the iyce and was in soe deep that hee could not git out and by reason of the cold of the weather and water made him unable to healp himselfe, neither could any other present aford him any healp, that could healp him out, though they used their best endeavors for the space of about an hour, as is reported to us by the witnesses that saw him in which time he died. This wee find to bee the cause of his death as wee all judge." (P. C. R., vol. iii, pp. 92-93. [perhaps Plymouth Colonial Reports?) He married, in England, Rebecca ----, who survived him and became the wife of John Cowen, the last of March, 1656. Children of Richard and Rebecca Man, all born in Scituate:
1.Nathaniel, September 23, 1646, died July 20, 1688.
2.Thomas, August 15, 1650; married Sarah ---- and had eight children; he died in 1732, leaving a will.
3.Richard, see forward.
4.Josiah, born December 10, 1654.
(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (1) and Rebecca Man, was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, February 5, 1652. He was three years old at the time of his father's death, and only four when his mother married John Cowen. At eleven years of age he was apprenticed to Thomas Hinckley, governor of Plymouth Colony from 1681 to 1692, for the term of ten years. He received a grant of land in Connecticut for his services in the "Indian War," which he deeded to "My well beloved son Nathaniel a tract of land granted me by ye general assembly of ye Massachusetts Bay, I being one of the Shounelers (soldiers) in ye former Indian War and especially in ye Narrangansett Sortie Fight commonly so called." This tract lay in Hebron, Connecticut, where the deed is recorded. In 1703 he sold his farm in Scituate to his brother Thomas and removed to Lebanon, Connecticut, where he died. He owned lands in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and at Lebanon, Connecticut. He married Elizabeth Sutton, of Scituate, born 1662, eldest daughter of John Sutton, and granddaughter of Elder Nathaniel Tilden, a wealthy citizen of Scituate, who settled there prior to 1628, coming from Tenterden, Kent, England. Children, all born in Scituate except the youngest son:
1.John, of Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1719.
2.Rebecca, married Isaac Tilden (his second wife), of Lebanon, Connecticut.
3.Hannah, born April 13, 1689.
4.Nathaniel, see forward.
5.Richard, of Lebanon, Connecticut; married Mary Culver.
6.Elizabeth, born August 27, 1696.
7.Abigail, married Simon Baxter.
8.Elisha.
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