Sarson, Richard, 1637 - 1703

Captain Richard Sarson was a merchant and justice of the peace on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.  Around 1667, he married Jane Paine Mayhew, the widow of Rev. Thomas Mayhew, Jr.  During King Philip's war, Governor Thomas Mayhew, Sr., ordered Sarson to treat with the Christian Indians of Gay Head to "quiet the minds of the [English] people." Laura Arnold Leibman, ed., Experience Mayhew's Indian Converts: A Cultural Edition (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008), 296-297.  Daniel Neal, The History of New-England, Vol. 2 (London: Clark et. al., 1720), 30-31.