My 8x great grandfather Richard Willis Jr had, it would seem, an unfortunate life. His father died in 1642, the same year as Richard Jr's birth. Like his father, he died young at the age of 36 in 1676. The most notable event in his short life was his marriage to Patience Bonham, daughter of one of the more prominent citizens of Plymouth Plantation, my 9x great grandfather George Bonham.
George Bonham was one of the colonists who did a lot of buying and selling of land and one of those deals was the purchase of some land from Richard Willis Sr. along the Eel River. A few years later he married Sarah Morton on @0 Dec 1644 and they raisecd a family of four children. He was active in the colony and was a grandjuror. George had business and personal dealings with several other of my ancestors: he bought more land along the Eel River from John Barnes and "stood surety" for John Dunham.
I have a double descent from George Bonham. Besides Patience's marriage to Richard Willis Jr., his eldest daughter Ruth is my 7x great grandmother through her marriage to Robert Barrows.
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