Tenth Generation


636. Richard CARD was born about 1620 in Churston Ferrers, Devon, England. He died before 1 July 1674 at the age of 54. Richard was in Newport by 1653, when he served as a juryman. In 1655 he was a freeman of Newport. He was one of the original grantees of Conanicut Island (Jamestown) in 1656.

More on the Card family is in the NEHGS Register, Vol. 83, pages 89-93 (1929) and the RI Genealogical Regester Vol. 3. Rebecca STANFORD and Richard CARD were married in 1648 in Newport, Newport Co., RI.

637. Rebecca STANFORD347 was born in 1618 in Devon, England. She died on 12 November 1692 at the age of 74 in Newport, Newport Co., RI.

Children were:

318

i.

Joseph CARD.

ii.

James CARD was born in 1650.

iii.

Job CARD was born in 1653.