Richard Warren
Mayflower Passenger & Plymouth Pilgrim First-comer
About 398 years ago, my 11th (& 12th) Great Grandfather boarded a ship in England and traveled to America, just as many people have done since.
The only difference is that the journey across the ocean that my ancestral great grandpa was on was a voyage that was documented fairly well and one that would become a huge part of American History.
Today I would like to introduce Richard Warren, whose blood runs through the veins of myself and my siblings and their children because of our mother, Marlene Deitz Repinski.
This is his story and thus part of my story.....My Pilgrim Ancestral Great Grandfather.
My Lineage from Richard Warren
My lineal descent from Richard Warren
My two lines come together with my 5th Great Grandparents who were both descendants of Richard
(Line #1)
My two lines come together with my 5th Great Grandparents who were both descendants of Richard
(Line #1)
Great grandparents:
11th: Richard Warren
10th: Mary Warren Bartlett
9th: Joseph Bartlett
8th: Sarah Bartlett Holmes
7th: Jabez Holmes
6th: Mary Holmes Hammond
5th: Ruth Hammond Pope
4th: Thomas Faunce Pope
3rd: Thomas Pachal Pope
2nd: Henry A Pope
1st: Grace Pope Dietz
GF: Raymond Dietz
Mom: Marlene Deitz Repinski
John Repinski
(Line #2)
Great Grandparents:
12th: Richard Warren
11th: Mary Warren Bartlett
10th: Rebecca Bartlett Harlow
9th: Rebecca Harlow Cushman
8th: Rebecca Cushman Mitchell
7th: Rebecca Mitchell Pope
6th: Elnathan Pope Junior
5th: Mitchell Pope
4th: Thomas Faunce Pope
3rd: Thomas Pachal Pope
2nd: Henry A Pope
1st: Grace Pope Dietz
GF: Raymond Dietz
Mom: Marlene Deitz Repinski
John Repinski
(Line #2)
Great Grandparents:
12th: Richard Warren
11th: Mary Warren Bartlett
10th: Rebecca Bartlett Harlow
9th: Rebecca Harlow Cushman
8th: Rebecca Cushman Mitchell
7th: Rebecca Mitchell Pope
6th: Elnathan Pope Junior
5th: Mitchell Pope
4th: Thomas Faunce Pope
3rd: Thomas Pachal Pope
2nd: Henry A Pope
1st: Grace Pope Dietz
GF: Raymond Dietz
Mom: Marlene Deitz Repinski
John Repinski
Further in the post I will relate the spouses of this lineage. Let me start with what I know of this man.
Richard Warren (11th/12th Great Grandfather)
Introduction
There was not a lot written about Richard in his time, thus his personal history and his life has been hard to reconstruct but researchers have made many inroads in the last few years...
That being said, his name was recorded in numerous historical mentions and his legacy is with us today in his very large progeny including my mother and myself and my brothers and sisters and their children as well as in my uncle Clyde and his children and their children and thousands of others alive today that descend from one of his seven children.
My family line descends from his first child, a daughter named Mary, who was born in 1610 and then two different lines, one from son Joseph and one through daughter Rebecca.
As these paragraphs from Mayflowerhistory.com state:
Richard Warren's English origins and ancestry have been the subject of much speculation, and countless different ancestries have been published for him, without a shred of evidence to support them.
Luckily in December 2002, Edward Davies discovered the missing piece of the puzzle. Researchers had long known of the marriage of Richard Warren to Elizabeth Walker on 14 April 1610 at Great Amwell, Hertford.
Since we know the Mayflower passenger had a wife named Elizabeth, and a first child born about 1610, this was a promising record.
But no children were found for this couple in the parish registers, and no further evidence beyond the names and timing, until the will of Augustine Walker was discovered. In the will of Augustine Walker, dated April 1613, he mentions "my daughter Elizabeth Warren wife of Richard Warren", and "her three children Mary, Ann and Sarah." We know that the Mayflower passenger's first three children were named Mary, Ann, and Sarah (in that birth order).
All of Richard Warren's children survived to adulthood, married, and had large families: making Richard Warren one of the most common Mayflower passengers to be descended from.
Richard Warren's descendants include such notables as Civil War general and President Ulysses S. Grant; President Franklin D. Roosevelt; and Alan B. Shepard, Jr. the first American in space and the fifth person to walk on the moon.
Here is what I have been able to learn about my 11th & 12th Great Grandfather, who was one of the 102 Mayflower passengers, a signer of the Mayflower Compact and one of the 1st settlers of Plymouth Mass.
Origins and Early Life
BIRTH: Probably around 1585 in co. Hertford, England.
MARRIAGE: Elizabeth Walker, 14 April 1610 at Great Amwell, co. Hertford, England, daughter of Augustine Walker.
CHILDREN: Mary, Ann, Sarah, Elizabeth, Abigail, Nathaniel and Joseph.
DEATH: 1628 at Plymouth.
yDNA HAPLOGROUP: R1b-M269
Based on his marriage in Hertfordshire, current speculation is that he also came from that county. His parentage and apparent birthplace in Hertfordshire are uncertain, but there is a Warren family that may be of that ancestry residing in the vicinity of Therfield.
The author and genealogist Charles Edward Banks states that Warren came from London and was called a "merchant" of that city (Mourt).
Warren was one of those very few English merchants who signed on to make the Mayflower voyage as a member of the Leiden contingent. His reason for this has not been determined, and given his status, it is unusual that little is actually known of him.
It has been discovered that his financial contribution to the voyage was quite substantial, with some historical sources say that much of the cost of the voyage was born by him.
The Mayflower Voyage
At the time of the Mayflower's voyage in 1620, Richard and his wife had five daughters: Mary, Ann, Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail.
But Richard came on the Mayflower alone, deciding to wait until conditions in the New World were satisfactory before bringing over his family.
William Bradford's recollection of that time from his journal "Of Plymouth Plantation": "Mr. Richard Warren, but his wife and children were lefte behind, and came afterwards."
In 1623 Warren felt that conditions were right to bring his family over from England, and they arrived that year on the Anne.
Marriage and Children
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| My two lines from Mary and Robert |
Richard Warren married Elizabeth Walker, daughter of Augustine Walker, on 14 April 1610, at Great Amwell, Hertfordshire.
The Seven Children of Richard and Elizabeth Warren:
1. Mary was born about 1610 and died on 27 March 1683 in Plymouth.
She married Robert Bartlett about 1629 and had eight children.
He died between 19 September and 29 October 1676 in Plymouth.
She and her husband were buried at White Horse Cemetery Plymouth, Mass.
My family descends from two different lines from Mary and Robert (one from daughter Rebecca and one from son Joseph that end up converging with may 5th great grandparents, Mitchell Pope and Ruth Hammond Pope.
(See photo above)
2.Ann was born about 1611/2 and died after 19 February 1675/6.
She married Thomas Little on 28 April 1633 in Plymouth and had nine children.
He died shortly before 12 March 1671/2 in Marshfield.
3.Sarah was born about 1613 and died after 15 July 1696.
She married John Cooke, son of Francis Cooke, on 28 March 1634 and had five children.
He died on 23 November 1695 in Dartmouth.
4.Elizabeth was born about 1615 and died on 9 March 1669/70 in Hingham, MA.
She married Richard Church by 1635/6 and had eleven children.
He died 27 December 1668 in Dedham.
5.Abigail was born about 1619 and died after 3 January 1692/3 in Marshfield.
She married Anthony Snow on 8 November 1639 in Plymouth and had six children.
He died in August 1692 in Marshfield.
6.Nathaniel was born about 1624 in Plymouth and died between 21 July and 31 October 1667 in Plymouth.
He married Sarah Walker on 19 November 1645 in Plymouth and had twelve children.
She died on 24 November 1700.
7.Joseph was born by 1627 in Plymouth and died on 4 May 1689 in Plymouth.
He married Priscilla Faunce about 1653 and had six children.
She died on 15 May 1707 in Plymouth.
My Great aunt Pricilla was also descended from my Faunce ancestors thus making her an aunt in two different of my lines.
In the New World
Early Explorations of the Coast
Richard participated in some of the early explorations of Cape Cod, when a suitable settlement location was being searched for and he was one of the 1st settlers to meet the Native Americans who inhabited the area.
One such extensive exploration began on Wednesday, 6 December 1620 in freezing weather using the ship's shallop, a light, shallow-water boat with oars and sails which was navigated by two pilots, with a master gunner and three sailors. One of the pilots was another of my 11th Great Grandfathers, Thomas Clark.
Pilgrims on board the shallop, in addition to Richard Warren, were senior members (Governor) Carver, my 11th Great uncle William Bradford, Standish and my 11th Great Uncle, Edward Winslow along with 11th Great Grandfather John and 11th Great Uncle Edward Tilley, 11th Great Grandfather John Howland, Stephen Hopkins and Hopkins servant, Edward Doty.
These persons were less than half the number of the previous exploration due to many having been felled by illness, the English exploring in freezing temperatures wearing unsuitable clothing due to not planning for the severity of the New England winter weather.
This exploration would result in their first encounter with Indians and did not turn out well, as they learned that slow-firing muskets were no match for rapid-fire arrows.
This Indian challenge to the Pilgrims was later known as the First Encounter.
Building the Family Unit and Life in Early Plymouth
In 1623 Warren felt that conditions were right to bring his family over from England, and they arrived that year on the Anne.
In the 1623 Division of Land, Warren received two "akers" (acres) of land in one area – "these lye one the north side of the towne nexte adjoyning to their gardens which came in Fortune" and five acres in another – "these following lye on the other side of the towne towards the eele-riuer (Eel River)" (as Richard "Waren").
In Plymouth two more children were added to their family – in 1624 his wife Elizabeth gave birth to a son Nathaniel and in 1626 another son, Joseph."
In 1626 twenty seven Plymouth settlers , called Purchasers, were involved with the colony joint-stock company which afterwards was turned over to the control of senior colony members.
That group was called Undertakers, and were made up of such as Bradford, Standish and another of my 11th Great Grandfathers, Isaac Allerton initially who were later joined by Winslow, Brewster, Howland, Alden, Prence and others from London, former Merchant Adventurers.
The agreement was dated 26 October 1626 and was finalised sometime in 1627.
Richard Warren may have originally been a party to the agreement, but due to his death, which may have been sometime in 1628, his name on the charter was replaced by that of his wife, recorded as "Elizabeth Warren, widow."
Elizabeth Warren, as a widow, was named in a law passed by the Plymouth Court specifically to give her the Purchaser status that her husband had – "hee dying before he had performed the bargaine, the said Elizabeth performed the same after his decease, …"
In the 1627 Division of Cattle, Richard, his wife and their seven children, in the ninth lot, received several animals that had arrived on the ship Jacob, apparently in 1625.
The ninth lot also listed John Billington and the Soule (spelled Sowle) family.
George Souls would be another of thy 11th Great Grandfathers as well.
In his "Increasings and Decreasings", Bradford assigns Richard Warren the title of "Mr." which indicates someone of status, but does not mention him at all in his recording of Plymouth history. And except for a few mentions elsewhere, not very much is known about him in Plymouth, but the Warren family does seem to have been among those with wealth.
During her widowhood, Elizabeth Warren's name is noted in Plymouth Colony records quite often. She was listed as the executor of her husband's estate, paying taxes as head of household and as an independent agent in her own right.
The records on Elizabeth are so numerous after Richard's death and from those records, I have come to the conclusion that she was a shrewd business woman and a family matriarch that was both well respected and well liked by most of her peers.
This site notes some of those records and gives one an idea of her life after the death of Richard:
Death and Burial of Richard & Elizabeth
Richard Warren died of unknown causes, possibly sometime in 1628, exact date unknown. Nathaniel Morton in his 1669 book New England's Memorial, p. 68, recorded that "This Year (1628) died Mr. Richard Warren, who …. was an useful Instrument; and during his life bare a deep share of the Difficulties and Troubles of the first Settlement of the Plantation of New-Plymouth.
From Bradford's recorded Plymouth history: "Mr. Richard Warren lived some *4* or *5* years, and had his wife come over to him, by whom he had *2* sons before (he) dyed; and one of them is maryed, and hath *2* children. So his increase is *4* But he had *5* doughters more came over with his wife, who are all married, and living, and have many children."
Banks states that Richard Warren died before 1628 and it probable that he was considerably past middle life at the time of emigration in 1620.
Richard Warren was buried at Burial Hill in Plymouth.
His grave has been lost and it is not known where on the hill he is buried.
My 11th Great Grandmother Elizabeth would live to be more than ninety years of age, dying on 2 October 1673.
Her death as noted in Plymouth Colony records: "Misstris Elizabeth Warren, an aged widow, …haveing lived a godly life, came to her grave as a shoke of corn fully ripe". She was buried at Burial Hill in Plymouth.
Richard's Legacy
Because all seven of Richard Warren and Elizabeth Walker's children survived and had families, they have very many descendants today.
Some notable descendants and thus cousins include:
Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States and noted Civil War General
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States
Sarah Palin, vice-presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska
Sir Charles Tupper, Canadian prime minister
Joseph Warren, American Patriot leader killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill
Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter
Orson Welles, noted American actor, director, writer, and producer
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator
Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher, poet, and author
Alan Shepard, American astronaut
Richard Gere, American actor
Gary A. Kowalski, American author
Jeffrey Evans, American economist and political strategist
Sue DiCicco, American artist and author
Scott Brust, American lawyer
L. L. Bean, American business entrepreneur
John Posey (actor), American actor, writer
Tyler Posey, American actor, singer
Ernest Hemingway, American Author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Tyler Curtis, Cyclist
James Kendall
Elizabeth Henrikson
Here is a neat little website that goes into the detail of the trees of some of his more famous descendants:
So there you have it......the story of another of one of my many Mayflower Ancestral Great Grandparents.
Warm Regards
John
The Family Historian
Footnotes and Sources
My Two Lines with spouses and misc information:
My two Richard Warren lines of descent:
#1:
11th GGP:
Richard Warren and Elizabeth Walker Warren
10th GGP:
Mary Warren Bartlett and Robert Bartlett
9th GGP:
Joseph Bartlett
Hannah Pope Bartlett
(whose father Thomas was already my 9th great grandfather Twice.. through Isaac and through Susannah Pope Mitchell...
And so here he is my 10th GGF)
8th GGP:
Their daughter Sarah married Elisha Holmes.
Their son was Jabez Holmes.
7th GGP:
Jabez married Rebecca Harlow.
6th GGP:
Their daughter Mary married Faunce Hammond.
(Faunce' great grandfather Thomas Faunce, pointed out Plymouth Rock to the townspeople)
5th GGP:
Their daughter Ruth Hammond married Mitchell Pope...
(Funny thing there is if you look back a bit it seems that both Ruth and Mitchell are related to each other as Thomas Pope is a great grandfather to both)
From their Ruth and Mitchell had
4th GGP:
Thomas Faunce Pope
Eliza Converse Pope
3rd GGP:
Thomas Paschal Pope.
Elizabeth Cave
2nd GGP:
Henry Alan Pope.
Isadora Safron Smith
GGP:
Grace Pope Dietz.
Henry C Dietz
Grandparents:
Ray Dietz
Maud Kismeider Dietz
Parents:
Marlene Dietz Repinski.
Maurice Repinski
me..
#2:
12th GGP:
Richard Warren and Elizabeth Walker Warren
11th GGP:
Mary Warren Bartlett
Robert Bartlett
10th GGP:
Rebecca Bartlett Harlow
William Harlow
9th GGP:
Rebecca Harlow Cushman
Isaac Cushman Sr.
8th GGP:
Rebecca Cushman Mitchell
Jacob Mitchell
7th GGP:
Rebecca Mitchell Pope
Elnathan Pope Sr.
6th GGP:
Elnathan Pope jr
Mary Thompson Pope
5th GGP:
Mitchell Pope!
Ruth Hammond Pope!
(Yup my 5th GGPs on one line are my 5th on another!)
How that is possible I'll never understand...
4th GGP:
Thomas Faunce Pope
Eliza Converse Pope
3rd GGP:
Thomas Paschal Pope
Elizabeth Cave Pope
2nd GGP:
Henry Alan Pope
Isadora Safron Smith Pope
1st GGP:
Grace Pope Dietz
Henry C Dietz
Grandparents:
Ray Dietz
Maud Kosmieder Dietz
Parents:
Marlene Dietz Repinski
Maurice Repinski
Me
Sources and further reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Warren
http://mayflowerhistory.com/warren/
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/104130526/person/280036812466/facts
https://mayflower.americanancestors.org/richard-warren-biography
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6797309/richard-warren
http://www.pilgrimhallmuseum.org/pdf/Richard_Elizabeth_Warren_17th_Century_Documents.pdf
https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=9317+richard+warren
http://www.phillipsplace.net/genealogy/ps02/ps02_096.html
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Warren-66
https://www.geni.com/people/Richard-Warren-Mayflower-Passenger/6000000000286600393
Richard Warren died of unknown causes, possibly sometime in 1628, exact date unknown. Nathaniel Morton in his 1669 book New England's Memorial, p. 68, recorded that "This Year (1628) died Mr. Richard Warren, who …. was an useful Instrument; and during his life bare a deep share of the Difficulties and Troubles of the first Settlement of the Plantation of New-Plymouth.
From Bradford's recorded Plymouth history: "Mr. Richard Warren lived some *4* or *5* years, and had his wife come over to him, by whom he had *2* sons before (he) dyed; and one of them is maryed, and hath *2* children. So his increase is *4* But he had *5* doughters more came over with his wife, who are all married, and living, and have many children."
Banks states that Richard Warren died before 1628 and it probable that he was considerably past middle life at the time of emigration in 1620.
Richard Warren was buried at Burial Hill in Plymouth.
His grave has been lost and it is not known where on the hill he is buried.
My 11th Great Grandmother Elizabeth would live to be more than ninety years of age, dying on 2 October 1673.
Her death as noted in Plymouth Colony records: "Misstris Elizabeth Warren, an aged widow, …haveing lived a godly life, came to her grave as a shoke of corn fully ripe". She was buried at Burial Hill in Plymouth.
Richard's Legacy
Because all seven of Richard Warren and Elizabeth Walker's children survived and had families, they have very many descendants today.
Some notable descendants and thus cousins include:
Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States and noted Civil War General
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States
Sarah Palin, vice-presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska
Sir Charles Tupper, Canadian prime minister
Joseph Warren, American Patriot leader killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill
Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter
Orson Welles, noted American actor, director, writer, and producer
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator
Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher, poet, and author
Alan Shepard, American astronaut
Richard Gere, American actor
Gary A. Kowalski, American author
Jeffrey Evans, American economist and political strategist
Sue DiCicco, American artist and author
Scott Brust, American lawyer
L. L. Bean, American business entrepreneur
John Posey (actor), American actor, writer
Tyler Posey, American actor, singer
Ernest Hemingway, American Author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Tyler Curtis, Cyclist
James Kendall
Elizabeth Henrikson
Here is a neat little website that goes into the detail of the trees of some of his more famous descendants:
So there you have it......the story of another of one of my many Mayflower Ancestral Great Grandparents.
Warm Regards
John
The Family Historian
Footnotes and Sources
My Two Lines with spouses and misc information:
My two Richard Warren lines of descent:
#1:
11th GGP:
Richard Warren and Elizabeth Walker Warren
10th GGP:
Mary Warren Bartlett and Robert Bartlett
9th GGP:
Joseph Bartlett
Hannah Pope Bartlett
(whose father Thomas was already my 9th great grandfather Twice.. through Isaac and through Susannah Pope Mitchell...
And so here he is my 10th GGF)
8th GGP:
Their daughter Sarah married Elisha Holmes.
Their son was Jabez Holmes.
7th GGP:
Jabez married Rebecca Harlow.
6th GGP:
Their daughter Mary married Faunce Hammond.
(Faunce' great grandfather Thomas Faunce, pointed out Plymouth Rock to the townspeople)
5th GGP:
Their daughter Ruth Hammond married Mitchell Pope...
(Funny thing there is if you look back a bit it seems that both Ruth and Mitchell are related to each other as Thomas Pope is a great grandfather to both)
From their Ruth and Mitchell had
4th GGP:
Thomas Faunce Pope
Eliza Converse Pope
3rd GGP:
Thomas Paschal Pope.
Elizabeth Cave
2nd GGP:
Henry Alan Pope.
Isadora Safron Smith
GGP:
Grace Pope Dietz.
Henry C Dietz
Grandparents:
Ray Dietz
Maud Kismeider Dietz
Parents:
Marlene Dietz Repinski.
Maurice Repinski
me..
#2:
12th GGP:
Richard Warren and Elizabeth Walker Warren
11th GGP:
Mary Warren Bartlett
Robert Bartlett
10th GGP:
Rebecca Bartlett Harlow
William Harlow
9th GGP:
Rebecca Harlow Cushman
Isaac Cushman Sr.
8th GGP:
Rebecca Cushman Mitchell
Jacob Mitchell
7th GGP:
Rebecca Mitchell Pope
Elnathan Pope Sr.
6th GGP:
Elnathan Pope jr
Mary Thompson Pope
5th GGP:
Mitchell Pope!
Ruth Hammond Pope!
(Yup my 5th GGPs on one line are my 5th on another!)
How that is possible I'll never understand...
4th GGP:
Thomas Faunce Pope
Eliza Converse Pope
3rd GGP:
Thomas Paschal Pope
Elizabeth Cave Pope
2nd GGP:
Henry Alan Pope
Isadora Safron Smith Pope
1st GGP:
Grace Pope Dietz
Henry C Dietz
Grandparents:
Ray Dietz
Maud Kosmieder Dietz
Parents:
Marlene Dietz Repinski
Maurice Repinski
Me
Sources and further reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Warren
http://mayflowerhistory.com/warren/
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/104130526/person/280036812466/facts
https://mayflower.americanancestors.org/richard-warren-biography
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6797309/richard-warren
http://www.pilgrimhallmuseum.org/pdf/Richard_Elizabeth_Warren_17th_Century_Documents.pdf
https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=9317+richard+warren
http://www.phillipsplace.net/genealogy/ps02/ps02_096.html
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Warren-66
https://www.geni.com/people/Richard-Warren-Mayflower-Passenger/6000000000286600393
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