Individual Details
BENJAMIN RIDER
(15 Apr 1724 - )
[Below is from Fremont Rider Book:
Davis quotes the following warrant, dated at Plymouth, 1778:Fe11, as showing, he says, "abundant evidence of the indifference on the part at least of some of the descendants of the Pilgrims to revolutionary measures:
"I, the subscriber, clerk of the committee of correspondence, inspection and safety for the town of Plymouth , truly represent to you as a Justice of the Peace in the county aforesaid, that there is, in the opinion of said committee, sufficient reason to suspect that the following persons, viz. Edward Winslow and George Watson, Esquires, Captain Gideon White, John Watson, Benjamin Churchill, Captain Thomas Davis, Captain Barnabas Hedge, Isaac LeBaron, Samuel Hunt, Ichabod Shaw, John Kempton, John Kempton, Jr., Zaccheus Kempton, Benjamin Rider, William LeBaron, Enoch Randall, William Cuffee, Jerry Connel, Richard Durfrey, Lemuel Cobb and James Doten, Jr. are inimical to the United States, and you are requested upon this representation, to proceed immediately against the abovenamed persons, agreeably to an Act of said State passed at the present session of General Court, entitled, an Act for prescribing and establishing an oath of fidelity and allegiance.
Per order of the Committee of Correspondence. Andrew Croswell, Clerk."
From the caliber of the names in the above "representation", and other evidence, it would appear that those cited were not so much "inimical to the United States" as inimical to being pushed around by the said Committee, this last attitude being a deeply grounded one in all dye-in-the -wool New England Yankees.
(Mayflower:13:169; Rider, Nellie; Plymouth Landmarks:188, 214-15)]
Davis quotes the following warrant, dated at Plymouth, 1778:Fe11, as showing, he says, "abundant evidence of the indifference on the part at least of some of the descendants of the Pilgrims to revolutionary measures:
"I, the subscriber, clerk of the committee of correspondence, inspection and safety for the town of Plymouth , truly represent to you as a Justice of the Peace in the county aforesaid, that there is, in the opinion of said committee, sufficient reason to suspect that the following persons, viz. Edward Winslow and George Watson, Esquires, Captain Gideon White, John Watson, Benjamin Churchill, Captain Thomas Davis, Captain Barnabas Hedge, Isaac LeBaron, Samuel Hunt, Ichabod Shaw, John Kempton, John Kempton, Jr., Zaccheus Kempton, Benjamin Rider, William LeBaron, Enoch Randall, William Cuffee, Jerry Connel, Richard Durfrey, Lemuel Cobb and James Doten, Jr. are inimical to the United States, and you are requested upon this representation, to proceed immediately against the abovenamed persons, agreeably to an Act of said State passed at the present session of General Court, entitled, an Act for prescribing and establishing an oath of fidelity and allegiance.
Per order of the Committee of Correspondence. Andrew Croswell, Clerk."
From the caliber of the names in the above "representation", and other evidence, it would appear that those cited were not so much "inimical to the United States" as inimical to being pushed around by the said Committee, this last attitude being a deeply grounded one in all dye-in-the -wool New England Yankees.
(Mayflower:13:169; Rider, Nellie; Plymouth Landmarks:188, 214-15)]
Events
| Birth | 15 Apr 1724 | Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |  | ||
| Marriage | 6 May 1749 | Living | |
Families
| Spouse | Living |
| Child | STEPHEN RIDER (1750 - ) |
| Child | BETTY RIDER (1752 - ) |
| Child | MARY RIDER (1754 - ) |
| Child | PRISCILLA RIDER (1756 - ) |
| Child | JESSE RIDER (1758 - ) |
| Father | BENJAMIN RIDER (1693 - ) |
| Mother | HANNAH STEPHENS (1692 - ) |
| Sibling | AMOS RIDER (1720 - ) |
| Sibling | LYDIA RIDER (1721 - ) |
| Sibling | HANNAH RIDER (1723 - ) |
| Sibling | ABIGAIL RIDER (1725 - ) |
| Sibling | ELIZABETH RIDER (1727 - ) |
| Sibling | STEVENS RIDER (1728 - 1829) |
| Sibling | JESSE RIDER (1730 - ) |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | SARAH RIDER (1735 - ) |
Endnotes
1. RYDER GENEALOGICAL FILES.
2. RYDER GENEALOGICAL FILES.