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I believe the origins of Myles Standish are fairly clear, with just a few puzzles to sort out. Rev. John Cree has set up his committee, with the main aims of publicising Myles’s association with the Chorley area and discovering as much more as possible. A few documents referred to by Farrer still need following up, plus the end of the series of settlements in the Standish of Duxbury Muniments during Sir Richard’s lifetime (died 1693).
(a) The Probate Will and codicil of 1662 of Richard Standish of Duxbury, Esq., presumably at the Borthwick Institute, York. (Mainly to see the codicil, although I suspect that this was added after his wife died shortly before him.)
(b) The copy of the 1655 document at the Public Record Office.
(c) The copy of the 1657 document at the Public Record Office.
I doubt very much if we will discover his father and grandfather, but you never know.
A series of abstracts of titles from 1639/40 to 1730 might also prove interesting (21/ 22-25), but it would be a daunting task to transcribe these. They are all concerning rents, mortgages and settlements in the Duxbury area and most seem to provide the background to first Sir Richard, then his widow Margaret née Holcroft and then their son and heir Sir Thomas raising a series of mortgages to exploit the lead mines in Anglezarke.