Richard More was a pilgrim on the Mayflower. Read more about him here.

A genealogical link for Richard More. According to this link, Richard was the only surviving sibling of four children who were placed aboard the Mayflower and sent to the new world when their father learned that he was not actually their real father and his wife had been having an affair throughout the course of their marriage.

A more detailed story of the Mayflower Waifs.

Richard More, arriving at Plymouth as a boy of about six, married in 1636, sold land at Duxbury in 1637, and two months later was admitted as an inhabitant at Salem. He worked as a seaman and ultimately became a sea captain. 33

Baptized at Shipton, Shropshire, 13 November 1614, Richard More was a son of Catherine (More) More, wife of Samuel More. He sailed on the Mayflower as a young ward to Elder Brewster. Sir Anthony Wagner, "The Origin of the Mayflower Children: Jasper, Richard and Ellen More," NEHGR 114:163 and "The Royal Descent of a Mayflower Passenger," NEHGR 124:85, shows that the More children (including a fourth sibling, whom Bradford called a boy, but who probably was Mary, known sister to the other three) were born of an adulterous relationship of their mother. The husband, to spare them future disgrace, put the children out with John Carver and Robert Cushman to go to the New World. Wagner traced the mother back to royalty, making the More children the only ones on the Mayflower of proven royal descent. Richard, the only surviving More child of that first winter, later disappeared from Plymouth records, leaving some writers to identify him with Richard Mann of Scituate. However, it was later discovered that he moved to Salem and became a sea captain (MD 22:49, 74; MQ 43:45). Richard's son, Caleb More, testified in 1678 that his father "bought out of a London ship in Virginia," Mary, who became the wife of Giles Corey (who was later executed as a "wizard" at Salem) (Essex County Quarterly Courts 7:148). The discovery that [p.329] Richard More of Plymouth and Richard More of Salem were identical was made by Dr. Edwin A. Hill in 1905 and published in NYGBR 36:213, 291. 33

Here is another interesting biography of Richard More, with some very interesting notes about this gravestone.

Capt. Richard More was given a license that he had previously had in Ipswich to sell wine to strangers only. 36