Per New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2, William R. Cutter:
Richard sailed for New England in the ship "Elizabeth" of Ipswich, April 30, 1635, with his wife Rose, aged fifty, and children, George and John, aged thirteen years. He settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, and
was admitted a freeman, September 2, 1635. He was a miller and bought a windmill located at Boston and mortgaged or sold it in 1648. In 1642 he had a homestall of twelve acres, bounded by land of John Spring, Martin Underwood, and the highway, John Wincoll and John Knight. He had another lot bounded by
land of Edward Row, Richard Benjamin and Edmund Blois, a total of three hundred and ten acres. He bought, in September, 1648. of Edward Holbrook and wife Anne, a mill in Boston and sold it in December, 1648, to William Aspinwall.