by editor | Apr 25, 2011 | Richard Borden
The following text is take from the definitive work on the family of Richard Borden, written in 1899 by Hattie Borden Weld: The place first selected for settlement was about half a mile southeast from Bristol Ferry, at the south end of a pond that opened into Mt. Hope...
by editor | Mar 29, 2011 | Fall River, Portsmouth, Richard Borden
Many members of the Borden family in America can trace their ancestry to Richard Borden who emigrated with his family (and his brother John and family) to Boston in about 1635 from the village of Headcorn, Kent County, England. The ancestors of brothers Richard and...