Notes for Richard Singletary

Notes for Richard Singletary

!RICHARD SINGLETARY was the founder of the Singletary family in America. If the family tradition just told is true, then he was the lost heir of Dunham and was born in England. We know that his birth predates the earliest New England settlement and that American papers carried some notices about Singletary heirs and unclaimed estates in England. Mr. David W. Hoyt in his Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury refers to him as "Richard Singletary of Salisbury and Haverhill; planter; born about 1599; married Susannah Cook in 1638/9; she was born 1616, and died April 11, 1682, at Haverhill".