Individual Details

Residence

Richard Risley left Boston for Connecticut with Reverend Thomas Hooker and his group. "Richard Risley, with the Hooker Company, was one of the original founders of the Commonwealth of Connecticut. Each male member of the Colony was given about two and one-half acres of the above tract of land and the balance was held in common. This division was made in what is now the center of Hartford city. By the terms of the division each man was required to build a house on his land within a year or forfeit his portion of the land to the colony." Risley family history book.

Residence

Richard along with all other able bdoied men joined Massachusetts Bay in fighting off the Pequot Indians

Civil

On January 14, 1638 (0. S.), Richard participated in the adoption of the " Fundamental Order," the first written Constitution known to history.

Probate

Richard's young children are in the will, Mary's 2nd husband William Hills is in the will, his job is to make sure the children are cared for and educated.

Inventory Summarized: IN the hall one musket, one sword, 2 frying pans, a kettle, one small kettle, 3 platters, a pewter pot and cup, six spoons, earthenware, 2 Indian trayes, 1 great wooden platter, 2 chairs, a childs chair, 1 great Bible, 1 small Bible. IN the Parlour a featherbed, 1 pillow, 1 paire blankets, 6 yards lynsey woollsy, 1 cradle, a warming pan, wearing clothes and mony in his purse. IN the chamber one great Indian bag, one fann, 6 lbs of hops, rough hemp, 1 spade, 1 corne basket, one saw. IN the barne 40 bushel of pease and rye, 15 bushel Indian corne. A Howse at Hartford with the homelott, 4 akers oof swamp and 2 of woodland. [Livestock all listed]

Occupation

Richard's inventory shows a barn, crops, seeds, livestock.