Did Anderson include an entry in the Directory for Richard York (PGM)?

Question

Richard's WikiTree profile contains conflicting information about his immigration. I'm working on his profile and have been unable to source a passenger list entry. 

Hope to learn if Anderson included an entry for Richard York in the Directory. If there is an entry for Richard, I hope to learn the details. 

Thank you in advance for any assistance you are able to provide.--Gene

Reference--Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640: A Concise Compendium (Boston, Massachusetts : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015).

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He is not found in the GMD. I will check the GM Project newsletters at American Ancestors.

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I don't find him in any of the newsletters and I don't think he's referenced anywhere in the main series of books, either. It looks like some records are under the spelling Yorke.

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Thank you T. I didn't find many references to him in a search at AmericanAncestors, Great Migration study project

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Andrew below is correct, a man of this name is found pg 389 of GMD. I somehow didn’t see the entry earlier.

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Collaboration on WikiTree is the best!!! --Gene

Answer 1

In GM Directory p.389: York, Richard: Unknown; 1635; Dover [NHPP 40:11; GDMNH 775].

Hollick's New Englanders in the 1600s adds a reference for his death: pages 287-289 in Alicia Crane-Williams, Stone-Gregg Genealogy (Gateway Press 1987).

The quote on the profile about the 1634 Elizabeth passenger list comes from The original lists of persons of quality page 280, but only up to the ellipsis: Richard York(e) does not appear on that list. Neither does he appear in the book's index.

The claim in the first paragraph that he came on the James cannot be checked in Persons of Quality as "We know that many ships sailed from Bristol, among others The Angel
Gabriel and The James, conveying the Revd. Richard Mather and the Revd. Daniel Maude, but no records of departures from that port remain." (page xxxi).

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Thank you, Andrew. Those references are invaluable.

I pulled the Hotten report earlier this a.m. and found the same thing. He was of Dover by 1635, but don't believe he can be documented on any ship. Will report back if that is, happily, not the case.

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Find I am more than normally cross-eyed after tracking records to clarify entry on Richard's now profile about the ship James "arrived here Oct. 10, 1633 at Salem, Massachusetts. He came with Capt. Wiggings." 

Believe "Capt. Wiggings" is otherwise our "Governor Thomas Wiggin," of whom Anderson reports [AmericanAncestors], "[he returned to] England 1632, and back to Salem 10 November 1633 in the James," citing "WJ 1:137" [GoogleBooks]. Latter has entry that date, "... Mr. Grant, in the ship James, arrived at Salem, having been but eight weeks between Gravesend and Salem. He brought Capt. Wiggin and about thirty  … to Pascataquack, (which the Lord Say and the Lord Brook had purchased of the Bristol men,) and about thirty for Virginia, and about twenty for [this/that] place, and some sixty cattle." 

About two years later there was another James, 13 July 1635, whose passenger list includes Henry Tibbets and Remembrance Tibbets.  John Camden Hotten, The original lists of persons of quality … (New York, J. W. Bouton, 1874), 179-180 (James, 13 July 1635), at 180; digital images, Hathi Trust.

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Unless I missed something, Alicia Crane-Williams, Stone-Gregg Genealogy (Gateway Press 1987) [InternetArchive (borrow)] has his death as 23 March 1672, but that is prior to the date of his unsigned will, as "ripe in memory this 23 daye of appriell one thousand six hundred seventie and tow." [InternetArchive]

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A possible explanation is that 23 March 1672 old style would be 11 months after 23 April 1672. His will is here https://archive.org/details/provincialstatep31newh/page/134/mode/1up confirming its date and with inventory 27 March 1674.

Checking Alica Crane Williams sources, that death date is in Ancestry of Edward Wales Blake and Clarissa Matilda Glidden, with ninety allied families p. 279. There is another list of sources there which would need checking.

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Another possibility is that 3-23-1672 has been misinterpreted as March when it would be May in the month numbering of the time.

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Good catch. 

We have pulled quite a few sources about Richard. See Richard York Family Notes 2022. 

Her work is posted under the Bibliographic Notes and it includes her works consulted list. Have not yet pulled her Gloucester references. 

May take me a bit, but one of the sources about Richard suggest he died about the same time as the will was dated, possibly the same day, since the will was presented unsigned. (Will update this reply with that reference when I get a chance.) 

Answer 2

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062846829&view=1up&seq=1

Answer 3

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062846829&view=1up&seq=289

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