On Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 9:27:17 PM UTC+3, D. Spencer Hines wrote: > The Nathaniel Rich you mention below was allegedly born about 1620 in > Cornwall and was allegedly the son of Robert Rich and Susanna Bean Rich? > > DSH > > Thomas Durham of Bermuda was the eldest son of (Acting) Governor Henry > Durham and wife Judith Hunt, who was the daughter of Richard Hunt and > Frances Grimsditch, daughter of Thomas Grimsditch by Jane, sister of > Nathaniel Rich, who left a lifetime interest in his Bermuda property to the > Grimsditches. Nathaniel Rich was also a correspondent of Thomas Hunt of > Bermuda, presumed father of Gov. Henry Durham. Um no, according to the Dictionary of National Biography: "RICH, Sir NATHANIEL (1585?–1636), merchant adventurer, born about 1585, was probably eldest son of Richard Rich, an illegitimate son of Richard, first baron Rich [q. v.] His mother was daughter of John Machell, sheriff of London. He had a legal training, and was admitted a member of Gray's Inn on 2 Feb. 1609–10; but he devoted himself first to political life, and later to the rôle of a mercantile pioneer... "Rich was connected with the Bermudas Company in 1616, and bought shares in the Virginia Company in 1619. Of the latter company he became a prominent member, and when, in April 1623, there occurred the great split between two factions in the company, he took a leading part on the side of his connection, Robert Rich, second earl of Warwick [q. v.] ... In his will he named several of the Rich (Warwick) family." And he also mentioned his nephew Thomas Grimsditch, son of his sister Jane. Nathaniel Rich's brother Robert (whose death in Bermuda occasioned a letter from Thomas Durham to Nathaniel Rich) married a Dutton, and it is interesting to note that Thomas Grimsditch, husband of Nathaniel Rich's sister Jane, was also descended from the Duttons through his mother's Nuthall family of Frodsham, Cheshire.