More on Immigrant Richard Hyde (1635/36)
On 21 August 1635, Richard Hide, age 24, was listed in a group of 150 people to be transported to Virginia on the ship George, under the command of Mr. Jo. Severne.?[Passengers for Virginia, 1635]
EDWARD MINTER, 300 acs., last day of May 1636, p. 353.At the upper Chippoecks Cr. on the W. side of a great Sw. parting this from land of BENJAMIN HARRISON, Ely. upon sd. Sw., Wly. to land of JERIMIAH CLEMENTS, abutting Nly. on the main Riv. & Sly. into the woods.50 acs. for trans. of his how wife GRACE MINTER & 50 acs. for trans. of 1 servt. called RICHARD HYDE (HIDE); 200 acs. by deed of sale from CHARLES FOARD (FORD), to whom it was due for trans. of 4 pers: ANN EMMERTON, HEN. PATRICK, EDWARD YOUNG, JON. COOPER, servants to CH. FORD.Note: this pattent surrendered & renewed by Sir JOHN HARVY.RICH. KEMP, Secr.??[Louise Pledge Heath Foley, “Early Virginia Families Along the James River: James City County, Surry County, Virginia,” Genealogical Publishing Com, 1974 p. 10 (Google eBook)]
Note:Chippoecks creek was in James City (now part of Surry Co) VA.
There are a number of references to Richard Hide and one to Judah Hide in Surry County records, Surry County, Virginia, 1652-1684 By Eliza Timberlake Davis (Google eBooks)Some appear to refer to Richard Hyde II, son of the immigrant, since they postdate 1669.
Online genealogies commonly attribute this Richard Hyde as the son of Laurence Hyde, a barrister of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (a count of public member trees at Ancestry.com on 23 Sep 2011 revealed 39 trees that show Richard Hyde’s parents as Laurence Hyde and Barbara Castilian (including my own!).However, the bio of Sir Laurence Hyde in the Oxford University alumni list enumerates eight sons of Sir Laurence Hyde, but does not enumerate a son named Richard.However, the Wikipedia page for Sir Laurence says that he had 11 children, so it is possible that there could have been an unnamed son.However, at this point, I have seen nothing that definitely links the 1635/36 immigrant Richard Hyde to Sir Laurence Hyde of Salisbury.