Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Samuel Rider

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 282 
  • Father:
  • John Rider 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Barnes   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Nov 1698 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 1 Mar 1762 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Sylvester
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Nov 1722 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Maria Rider (Ahnentafel No:141 )

  Lois Rider

  Deborah Rider

• Sources for Samuel Rider

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Probate Case #1011, Will of grandfather Jonathan Barnes.
  • ² Plymouth, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Page 55, Birth record for Samuel Rider.
  • ³ Plymouth, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Page 93, Marriage record for Samuel Rider and Mary Silvester.
  • ⁴ Hinman, Royal R., A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company (1852), 590.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 323.
  • ⁷ Stover, Margaret Harris and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 10, Samuel Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 40.
  • ⁸ Stover, Margaret Harris and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 10, Samuel Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 40, 44, 78.
  • ⁹ Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 9, Francis Eaton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 66, 70.
  • ¹⁰ Wakefield, Robert S., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 2, 2nd Ed., Richard Warren, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 38-39, 60.
  • ¹¹ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 65.
  • ¹² Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 492.

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