from the Encyclopedia of Biography: Richard Borden, of the ninth recorded
English generation, and the founder of this American line, was born in Parish o
Hedcorn, Kent, England, and there baptized February 22, 1595-96, died at
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, May 25, 1671, son of Matthew and Joan Borden. He
married in Hedcorn Church, September 28 1625, Joan Fowle, and moved to the
neighboring parish of Cranbrook, in 1628. In 1637-38 they came to America
(another source states they arrived at Boston in 1635 on the Elizabeth and Ann)
and settled at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where he died in 1671, his wife on Jul
15, 1688. Richard Borden was a surveyor and acquired large tracts of land in
Rhode Island and New Jersey. He was a freeman of Portsmouth, March 16, 1641;
member of a committee to treat with the Dutch, May 18, 1653; Assistant, town of
Portsmouth, 1653, 1654; Commissioner, 1654-56-57; Treasurer, 1654-55; Freeman,
a655; and Deputy from Portsmouth to theGeneral Assembly, 1667, 1670. His
concupative will was admitted to probate May 31, 1671, by the town council of
Portsmouth.
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