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Richard Spitty - American connection early 1600's
The Records of the Virginia Company of London.

June? 1623 - New adventureres to be bought :- ....Richard Spitty...

And so some 14 p'sons will sway the Goverm't for each man can have but 15 shares
Richard Spitty (amongst 12 other names)

[The Records of the Virginia Company of London Vol. VI, Documents II - Library of Congress 1935]

Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts Vol. 1

ca. 1631 - George JENNISON ........He was formerly a partner of Richard Spitty of Grey's Inn, London....
16 May 1637 - Conveyance for £33.6.8
Richard Spitty of Graie Inn, gent to William Jesop of High Holborne, gent - "one part and share of lands and ground within the Somer of Barmodas Ilands scituate lyeing and being within the tribe of the right honorable the Earle of Derbyshire commonly called the Lord Cavendish his tribe containing by estimacion twenty and five acres be it more or lesse one side thereof abutting upon the share now or late of John Fletcher and Company and the other side of the lands now or late of William Nicholls.
[Ref. DDHU 53/21 - Lancashire Record Office - Records of the Hulton family of Hulton Park, Baronets]

1639
In July 1639 Lechford recorded several agreements for Robert Scott "of Boston haberdasher," particularly regarding a claim by Richard Spitty of Gray's Inn, Middlesex, against Capt. William Jennison of Watertown. [Lechford 107-9]1 (Full Transcript of Agreement dated 11 May 1639)2

1The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633., Anderson, Robert Charles, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig.], I:37.Note-book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638, to July 29, 1641, Edward Everett Hale, Jr., ed. (Cambridge 1885; rpt. Camden, Maine, 1988). Citations herein refer to the pagination as printed (and not to the manuscript pagination) and will therefore differ from the index entries of the 1885 edition.

2Full transcript of agreement in 
Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquity Society - Vol.VII' 1883
Note-Book kept by Thomas Lechford Esq., Lawyer, Un Boston Massacchusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638, to July 29, 1641.
  

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