Richard Soale

Richard Soale or Solly was born in 1633 in Goodnestone near Ash, Kent, England. 

His parents were Richard Solly / Soal (1598-1653) and Elizabeth Pryor. 

On the 8th of September 1633, he was baptised in Goodnestone, near Ash, Kent. 

His siblings included Michael Solly (Born 1635), Stephen Solly (Born 1639), Martha Soale (1640-1735), Elizabeth Solly (Born 1642). 

He was the first of the Sollys in the Soale lineage to be born outside of Ash, Kent. 

He was an agricultural labourer. 

On the 24th of September 1676 he may have married Susanna Mumery who may have died that year. 

Their children included John Soal (1674-1747)

On the 22nd of October 1683, Richard Soale died on the Moat Farm in Ash, Kent, England. 

His life spanned the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659), The Founding of Maryland and Rhode Island (1634-1636), The Founding of Harvard College (1636), Perquot War (1637), Bishops' Wars (1639-1640), Dutch arrival in New Zealand (1642), Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1674), English Civil War (1642-1651) and the reign of Oliver Cromwell (1653-1658), The Fronde (1648-1653), The Interregnum and Commonwealth (1649-1660), The Restoration (1660-1688), Seizure of New Amsterdam (1664), The Great Plague of London (1665-1666), Great Fire of London (1666), Founding of Charles Town (1670) The Exclusion Crisis (1681), The Rye House Plot (1683), The Ottoman-Habsburg Wars (1683), Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678), The Treaty of Westminister (1674), King Philip's War (1675-1678), Founding of Penssylvania (1681), French Claim of Louisiana (1682), The Wars of the Holy League (1683). English Monarchs / Protectors: Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Richard Cromwell, Charles II.