Richardsn Memorial
The Richardson Memorial
POSTERITY OF THOMAS RICHARDSON.
5267.
 Abigail Richardson5 (Benjamin,4 Benjamin,3 Isaac,2 Thomas1), daughter of Benjamin4 and Patience (Earle) Richardson, of Leicester; born there, 1725; married, first, ______ Moore; second, April 12, 1760, Zachariah Eager, of Shrewsbury, born 1716.
This family, with others, was set off to Lancaster in 1768. The husband died in Lancaster, probably in the part which is now Sterling, about the commencement of 1791. The widow, Abigail, survived till about 1821, when she died at the house of her son, Jonathan Eager, in Newton, near Boston, wanting but four years of the age of One Hundred.

Her children who reached mature age were:
  1. Louisa (Eager), b. Nov. 11, 1760; m. Ezra Penniman.
  2. Benjamin (Eager), b. Oct. 7, 1762.
  3. Jonathan (Eager), b. January, 1765; lived in Newton.
  4. Betsey (Eager), m. Joseph Reed, jr.
  5. Lydia (Eager), m. Joseph Snow.


5269.
 Benjamin Richardson,5 Esq. (Benjamin,4 Benjamin,3 Isaac,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding, and eldest son of Benjamin4 and Patience (Earle) Richardson, of Leicester; born there, Feb. 22, 1732;* married, first, 1758, Eunice Swan, born 1741, daughter of Dudley Wade and Beulah Swan, who removed from Milton to Leicester in 1736. She died in Leicester, June, 1776, aged 35. Second, Mrs. Abigail Holman, a widow; her maiden name has not been preserved. She died in 1790, aged 43. Third, Olive ______; surname not known. Fourth, Mrs. Candace Allen, of Princeton, a widow, married in 1817, when he was in his eighty-fifth year. She survived him.
At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to a carpenter in Worcester to learn the trade. His master was at times rather severe, and Benjamin did not always fare well; one meal every day consisted of bean porridge.
At the age of twenty-one, 1753, he returned to Leicester, and engaged in the business of making potash. His was the first manufactory of that article in the County of Worcester. Being without capital, he became indebted to others for the purchase of kettles and other implements needed. In the prosecution of this business he was very successful, thus obtaining the means of further advance in life.
In 1760, he had so prospered that he felt able to purchase and occupy the farm of Mr. Israel Parsons, son of Rev. David Parsons, the first minister of Leicester, and which we presume was formerly owned and occupied by that minister.† It was half a mile north of the meeting-house. He sold this farm to John Lyon, in 1777, and removed to Sterling, then the west precinct of Lancaster. [Washburn’s Hist. of Leicester, p. 391.]
In Sterling he purchased, with the money which had come from the making of potash, the firm belonging to the brothers Timothy and Seth Heywood; and also a tract of land adjoining the same, in the south-easterly part of Princeton, of Sylvanus Oak. The deeds of transfer, still in existence, are dated April 7, 1777.
Here he opened an inn, and the place was thenceforward known as “The Richardson Tavern.” It was on the direct road from Boston to Albany, and was, therefore, a convenient and frequent stopping-place for travelers.
He was greatly respected as a citizen, and invested with many public offices.
He was first lieutenant of the military company which marched from Leicester to Cambridge on the alarm sounded through the country on the advance of the British to Concord, on the morning of April 19, 1775. Of this company Thomas Newhall, whose wife was a daughter of the Richardson family, was captain. See under [5197]. On the 4th day of April, 1776, our Benjamin Richardson was made “captain of the First company of the First Regiment of militia in the county of Worcester, whereof Samuel Denny, Esq., is colonel.” So the commission reads which is yet in existence. In August of the same year, he was made captain of a company drafted from the militia in the regiment of which Nicholas Dike, Esq., was colonel. This commission, also, is in good preservation.
He was one of the Revolutionary Committee of Correspondence in Leicester in 1776 and 1777.
He was chosen representative from Sterling, May, 1787.
In March, 1788, he was commissioned by Governor John Hancock as justice of the peace for the County of Worcester for the term of seven years; and from this time was known as Squire Richardson. He was one of the selectmen of Sterling in 1798. In 1816, he was again commissioned as justice of the peace, by Governor Strong, for another term of seven years. Of course his politics coincided with those of that highly respected governor.
By the inhabitants of the town he is now familiarly called, “the Old Squire.” His will is dated April 7, 1821; proved July 3, 1821.
He died, full of years and honors, June 8, 1821, aged 89 years, 3 months.

His children were, by first wife Eunice, born in Leicester:
  1. Abigail,6 b. 1760; d. in Sterling, 1791, aged 31.
  2. Benjamin,6 b. 1764; m. ______ ______; settled in Vermont.
  3. Phineas,6 b. 1767; living at the date of the father’s will, 1821.
  4. Artemas,6 b. 1768; m. Mary Leonard, a widow. He lived in Princeton, and died in 1827 or 1828. His will is dated Dec. 13, 1827; proved Oct. 7, 1828. The will mentions wife Mary, and her only son, George Leonard, but no child of his own. [Worcester Prob. Records, lxvi. 307.]
  5. Alpheus,6 b. about 1769; m. Phebe Parkhurst.
  6. Asa,6 b. 1771; m. a lady from Sterling; settled in the State of New York; d. in 1803, aged about 33, leaving four children.
  7. Catharine,6 b. 1773; unm.; d. 1792, aged 19.

    8. By second wife Abigail, born in Sterling:

  8. William,6 b. April 19, 1783; m. Prudence Burpee.
  9. Silas,6 b. about 1785; m.
  10. Cyrene,6 m. John Moore, of Princeton. She died there, a widow, about 1866.
  11. Gardner,6 m. ______ ______; he was a mechanic and farmer in Templeton, and died there. He had a son Ira Richardson, who resided in North Chelmsford.
  12. Eunice,6 m. previous to 1821, Whitney Whitaker, of Newfane, Vt. She died previous to 1866.
  13. Phebe,6 m. Isaac Rindge, of Greenwich, Mass., was supposed to be living there, 1874, in widowhood.
*George Washington was born the same day.

† Mr. Parsons was born in Northampton, 1679; graduated, Harvard College, 1705; ordained pastor at Malden, 1709; dismissed, May, 1721; installed at Leicester, Sept. 15, 1721; bitter difficulties soon arose, which caused his resignation, March 6, 1735, and he died in Leicester, in 1735; a man of ability, but wanting in prudence.


5271.
 Nathaniel Richardson5 (Benjamin,4 Benjamin,3 Isaac,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding, and son of Benjamin4 and Patience Richardson, of Leicester; born there, 1737; married Ruth Gilkey, daughter of Semple Gilkey, who removed from Plainfield, Ct., to Leicester, Mass., in April, 1773.
He was a private in the military company commanded by Capt. Thomas Newhall, which marched from Leicester to Cambridge upon the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. Of this company his brother Benjamin was first lieutenant.
He was also in Capt. Todd’s company, part of the force besieging Boston, 1776.
He lived in the south-east part of Leicester.

His children were:
  1. William,6 b. 1764.
  2. Semple,6 b. 1767.


5277.
 Captain Addison Richardson5 (Isaac,4 Benjamin,3 Isaac,2 Thomas1), son of Isaac and Elizabeth Richardson, born in Woburn, July 3, 1739; married, first, Dec. 24, 1761, Mary Greenleaf, born April 25, 1734, daughter of Stephen and Mary Greenleaf, of Medford. She died in February, 1799. Second, Jan. 1, 1800, Anstiss Blanchard, of Salem. She died Dec. 8, 1807, aged 52. Third, Lucy HOLDEN, daughter of Col. Benjamin and Catharine (Richards) Holden, of Princeton. She died in Princeton, Mass., Nov. 26, 1848, aged 89.
After the death of his parents, he lived a few years in Cambridge. Addison Richardson, of Cambridge, then aged 19, was in the military service in the old French war, eight months and four days. He was in the expedition to Canada in 1758, in Capt. William Angier’s company, in Col. Joseph Williams’ regiment, and was discharged Nov. 1, 1758.
He must have been a citizen of Salem after his marriage, and certainly as early as 1765; for on the 28th of October, 1765, Benjamin Daland conveyed to him, then “of Salem,” some real estate on School Street. At the outbreak of hostilities with the mother country, he was one of the first to take up arms in the patriot cause, receiving a commission as captain. He was taken prisoner at Fort Washington, near New York, Nov. 16, 1776, and remained a prisoner, at Gravesend, Long Island, until exchanged May 9, 1778.
He died in Salem, July 31, 1811.

His children, all by first wife, were:
  1. Addison,6 b. June 16, 1764; m. Deborah Molloy.
  2. Isaac,6 b. Feb. 4, 1767; lost at sea, 1791.
  3. William,6 b. April 8, 1769; m. Elizabeth Townsend.
  4. Mary,6 b. Jan. 19, 1772; m. Penn Townsend.
  5. Stephen,6 b. Aug. 16, 1775; m. ______ ______; had a son Stephen,7 m. ______ Nelson. The father died at sea, 1814. The son went to California about 1848.


5280.
 Olive Richardson5 (Isaac,4 Benjamin,3 Isaac,2 Thomas1), sister of the preceding, and daughter of Isaac4 and Elizabeth Richardson; born in Woburn, Oct. 15, 1746; married, Dec. 21, 1768, Benjamin Flint, born in North Reading, 1746, third son of Ebenezer4 and Abigail (Sawyer) Flint, a descendant of Thomas Flint, of Danvers, the emigrant ancestor of the Flints of Salem and Reading.
They lived for some years in Middleton; but after the death of his father, who was killed by an Indian in the old French war, they lived in North Reading in the old homestead of his father and grandfather. He was a man of great personal worth and of a thoroughly blameless life. He died in 1837, aged ninety-one.
Olive, the wife of Benjamin Flint, was dismissed from the church in Middleton to the second church in Reading, Dec. 6, 1770.
On the day of the annual Fast in 1773, a contribution was taken up in Middleton in behalf of Benjamin Flint, of Reading, on account of the loss of his house by fire. The amount collected was £17 16. 3., old tenor.
Mrs. Olive Flint died Feb. 1, 1837, aged ninety.

Their children were:
  1. Benjamin (Flint), b. 1769; settled in Norway, Me.
  2. Olive (Flint), b. 1771.
  3. Betsey (Flint), b. 1773; m. William Pratt, 1796.
  4. Sarah (Flint), b. 1775.
  5. Thirza (Flint), b. 1778.
  6. Ruth (Flint), b. 1780.
  7. Addison (Flint), b. May 23, 1782; m. first, June 10, 1804, Sally Upton, b. Jan. 15, 1785, daughter of Josiah and Sarah (Underwood) Upton, of Charlemont. Second, 1833, Mrs. Mary E. (Foster) Burrill, a widow. He was a deacon of the church in North Reading 28 years, and a remarkably good man. He was one of the board of selectmen of Reading, and represented the old town of Reading in the legislature. See a further notice of him in the Upton Memorial, page 361. He died Dec. 21, 1871, in his ninetieth year.
  8. Isaac (Flint), b. 1784; m. 1807, Lydia Frost. He settled in Greenwood, Me.; was a justice of the peace, and representative; died 1858.


5288.
 Elizabeth Richardson5 (Solomon,4 David,3 Isaac,2 Thomas1), daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth (Goodale) Richardson, of Middleton, Mass; born there, Aug. 20, 1730; married, March 22, 1749, Francis Sawyer, who was born in North Reading, Feb. 1728, and died Dec. 31, 1827, wanting but about seven weeks of being one hundred years old. His wife Elizabeth died in 1772, aged 42.
They removed to Dracut in 1759, and afterwards to Canterbury, N. H., where he died.
His second wife, Tamar Barker, of Methuen, was born Sept. 1746; married 1773 (published July 19, 1773), and died April 1819, aged 72.

Children of Francis and Elizabeth (Richardson) Sawyer were,
Born in North Reading:
  1. Elizabeth (Sawyer), b. Oct. 8, 1750; unm.; d. March 17, 1816.
  2. Francis (Sawyer), b. Feb. 22, 1752; m. Susanna Clough, of Dracut, June 11, 1772; served his country in the war of the Revolution, and lost his life at Saratoga, October, 1777.
  3. Molly (Sawyer), b. Oct. 9, 1753; unm.; d. 1843, aged ninety.
  4. Ebenezer (Sawyer), b. Dec. 25, 1755.
  5. Abigail (Sawyer), b. April 15, 1758; unm.; d. Dec. 5, 1855, aged ninety-seven.

    6. Born in Dracut:

  6. David (Sawyer), b. March 17, 1760.
  7. Amos Richardson ( Sawyer), b. Jan. 25, 1765; m. Elizabeth Bixby, March 30, 1790.
  8. Aaron (Sawyer), b. Sept. 11, 1766; d. Aug. 28, 1854, aged 88.
  9. Hannah (Sawyer), b. Jan. 18, 1769; d. Oct. 2, 1869, aged one hundred years.
  10. Moses (Sawyer), b. Dec. 16, 1772.
Two other children died in infancy. Mr. Sawyer had two children by his second wife, Tamar, between 1774 and 1789, making the whole number twenty. Several of his children, as well as himself, reached a very advanced age.


5289.
 Hannah Richardson5 (Solomon,4 David,3 Isaac,2 Thomas1), sister of the preceding, and daughter of Solomon4 and Elizabeth (Goodale) Richardson; born in Middleton, Mass., Dec. 20, 1732; married, Aug. 16, 1752, Col. Archelaus Fuller,4 son of Benjamin3 and Mary (Fuller) Fuller. Benjamin3 was a son of Benjamin,2 born 1660, who was a son of Lieut. Thomas Fuller,1 who came from England in 1638, and settled in what is now Middleton, formerly a part of Salem. Isaac Richardson,2 grandfather of Solomon,4 married his daughter Deborah, and he (Thomas) is regarded as the progenitor of the Fullers of New England. He owned and settled upon a large tract of land in Middleton, though for some years previously he had dwelt in Woburn.*
Col. Archelaus Fuller was an officer of the Revolutionary army, and died at Bennington, Vt., of small pox, about 1777.

By his first wife, Hannah Richardson,5 he had:
  1. Elijah (Fuller), unmarried.
  2. Sarah (Fuller), d. young.
  3. Hannah (Fuller), m. Joseph Hutchinson, and had by him, Elijah, Joseph, Archelaus and Levi,.
*A brother of Col. Archelaus Fuller was Rev. Daniel Fuller,4 born in Middleton, Sept. 1, 1740; graduated Harvard College, 1764; minister of the Second Church in Gloucester from Jan. 10, 1770 to 1821, fifty years.
An imperfect genealogy of the Fuller Family appears in the New England Historic and Genealogical Register, vol. xiii. pp. 351-363. From this document we gather the following notices:
Benjamin Fuller,3 the father of Col. Archelaus Fuller4 in the text, had an elder brother, Jacob,3 born in Middleton, 1700, who by wife Abigail Holton, of Danvers, had ten children, the sixth of whom (and third son) was Rev. Timothy Fuller,4 born May 18, 1739, who graduated Harvard College, 1769, and was ordained the first minister of Princeton, Mass., Sept. 9, 1767. He was dismissed 1776, and died at Merrimack, N. H., July 3, 1805, aged 66.
His fourth child and eldest son was Hon. Timothy Fuller,5 born at Chilmark, Martha’s Vineyard, July 11, 1778; graduated Harvard College, 1801, having the second rank in his class; was an eminent lawyer in Boston, with his residence in Cambridge; was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1813 to 1816; representative in Congress from 1817 to 1825; speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1825, and died suddenly, of Asiatic cholera, at Groton, Oct. 1, 1835.
The eldest child of Hon. Timothy Fuller,5 by his wife Margaret Crane, of Canton, was Margaret Fuller,5 born at Cambridge, May 23, 1810. For genius, literary culture, and nobleness of aim, she has seldom been equalled. Her Power of conversation, it is said, fully equalled that of Madame de Stael. With her husband, Giovanni [John] Angelo, Marquis Ossoli, an Italian nobleman, an exile from his country by the failure of the Roman republic, and their child, she perished by shipwreck, July 19, 1850.
She had several brothers who rose to eminence, one of whom was Rev. Arthur Buckminster Fuller,6 born Aug. 10, 1822; graduated Harvard College, 1843; ordained pastor of the Unitarian Society in Manchester, N. H., March 29, 1848; installed over the New North Church in Boston, June 1, 1853. From zeal in his country’s cause, he served as chaplain in the war of the Rebellion, and met his death by a shot from a rebel hand.


5290.
 David Richardson5 (Solomon,4 David,3 Isaac,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding, and son of Solomon4 and Elizabeth (Goodale) Richardson; born in Middleton, April 9, 1735; married LUCY ______.
He passed his life in Middleton; was a yeoman, and appears to have had no children, as none are mentioned in the settlement of his estate.
Administration was granted, May 7, 1776, by request of his widow, Lucy Richardson, to his half-brother, Stephen Richardson. One of the sureties was another half-brother, John Richardson. [Essex Prob. Rec., li. 292.]
His inventory amounted to £301. 16. 4., and the real estate included " one end of a house," a. barn, and land near by; " also, another tract of land, about fifty-one acres, in Lynn; also, about four acres of woodland in Andover; a right in the back seat in the meeting-house, and a horse stable near the meeting-house." [Essex Prob. Rec., lii. 17.]


5293.
 Stephen Richardson6 (Solomon,4 David,3 Isaac,2 Thomas1), half-brother of the preceding, and son of Solomon4 and Abigail (Buxton) Richardson; born in Middleton, Oct. 21, 1750; married, Nov. 14, 1780, Hannah Upton, born in North Reading, 1753, daughter of Francis3 and Edith (Herrick) Upton, of that place. She was one of ten sisters, without a brother.
Her sister Jerusha’s husband was Jacob Fuller,4 a younger brother of Rev. Timothy Fuller,4 the first minister of Princeton, already mentioned, and cousin to Col. Archelaus Fuller,4 the husband of his sister Hannah.
Stephen Richardson was one of the wealthiest and most influential citizens of Middleton. For many years he was town treasurer. He had a large farm. He was taxed in Andover, for land he owned there, in 1780 and 1781.
He died July 20, 1829, aged 79. His wife Hannah died May 2, 1809, aged 58 years and 5 months.

Their children were:
  1. David,6 b. Nov. 19, 1781; m. his cousin, Sally Richardson [5530].
  2. Edith,6 b. Dec. 3, 1783 [on the town record Edah].
  3. Elijah,6 b. March 25, 1786; unm.; d. Jan. 12, 1823, aged 36.
  4. Abijah,6 b. Aug. 3, 1788; m. his cousin, Naomi Richardson [5534].
  5. Daniel,6 b. Aug. 17, 1791; m. Olive B. Perkins.
  6. Jeremiah,6 b. Feb. 19, 1794; m. his cousin, Hannah Richardson [5538].


5294.
 John Richardson5 (Solomon,4 David,3 Isaac,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding; born in Middleton, Sept. 28, 1752; married Rebecca Kenney, Dec. 10, 1788.
They lived in Middleton. He died Feb. 21, 1826, aged 73. His wife Rebecca died Feb. 9, 1826, aged 64.

Their children were:
  1. Sally,6 b. March 2, 1789; m. her cousin, David Richardson [5524].
  2. Polly,6 b. Jan. 22, 1792; d. Nov. 13, 1801, in her tenth year.
  3. Jonathan,6 b. Sept. 30, 1796; m. his cousin, Lucy Richardson [5540].


5296.
 Jonathan Richardson5 (Solomon,4 David,3 Isaac,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding; born in Middleton, March 12, 1757; married Mary Peters, of Andover, Oct. 14, 1779.
They lived in Middleton. He was a farmer. He was taxed for land in Andover, 1780 and 1781. He died March 15, 1798, aged 41.

Their children were:
  1. Solomon,6 b. Nov. 8, 1780.
  2. Naomi,6 b. Nov. 13, 1782; m. her cousin, Abijah Eichardson6 [5527].
  3. Amos,6 b. April 23, 1785; m. Naomi ______.
  4. John,6 b. Dec. 10, 1787.
  5. Eli,6 b. July 13, 1790; m. Olive White.
  6. Hannah,6 b. Nov. 19, 1792; m. her cousin, Jeremiah Richardson [5529].
  7. Ezra,6 b. March 20, 1795; m. Eliza Ann Wilkins.
  8. Lucy,6 b. July 2S, 1797; m. her cousin, Jonathan Richardson6 [5532].


5297.
 Thomas Richardson5 (Thomas,4 Thomas,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), son of Thomas4 and Sarah (Ditson) Richardson, of Billerica; born there, Sept. 30, 1724; married, first, ______ ______; second, Abigail Reed, of Westford, April 13, 1769; third, Polly ______.
His mother, in her will, Nov. 29, 1752, mentions him as then living. He must have been married previous to 1769, when he married Abigail Reed, because a son Silas is mentioned in his own will, but the name and the date are both lost.
His will is dated Sept. 26, 1799; proved March 8, 1803. Of course he died in the interval. His will mentions wife Polly, who at the date of the probate had become Polly Cummings.

His children mentioned in the will were:
  1. Silas,6—the son, probably, of a former wife.
  2. Thomas,6 b. in Westford, March 9, 1770.
  3. Abigail,6 b. June 13, 1772.
  4. Willard,6 b. March 13, 1774; m. Mary ______. They had: Thomas,7 b. in Westford, Feb. 3, 1803.
  5. Hannah,6 b. Jan. 23, 1776; m. Aaron Hood, of Nottingham West, now Hudson, N. H., March 8, 1792.
    6. The Westford records, as copied for me, give him another son:
  6. Jesse,6 b. Jan. 3, 1773, which is manifestly erroneous, though it may contain an element of truth.


5303.
 Josiah Richardson5 (Josiah,4 Andrew,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), only son of Josiah and Judith Richardson, of Billerica; born there June 19, 1751; married Lydia Walker, of Billerica, Oct. 25, 1770; married by Rev. Henry Cummings. They lived in Billerica.
Administration on his estate was decreed to widow Lydia, 1815. Of course his death was not long previous.

Children:
  1. Josiah,6 b. Feb. 11, 1771; d. March 1, 1771.
  2. Josiah,6 b. Sept. 10, 1773; d. Aug. 22, 1775.
  3. Abigail,6 b. May 17, 1776.
  4. Judith,6 b. Feb. 3, 1783.


5311.
 Joseph Richardson5 (Nathaniel,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), son of Nathaniel4 and Elizabeth (Stevens) Richardson, of Townsend, Mass.; born there, 1746; married, about 1770, Hannah Drury, daughter of Capt. Zedekiah Drury, of Temple, N. H., who, we suppose, was front Shrewsbury, Mass.
Temple, N. H., is in the County of Hillsborough with only one town, New Ipswich, between it and the Massachusetts line. It has the towns of Peterborough, Francestown, Lyndeborough, Wilton, and Mason around it. The location is favorable, and soon after the old French war, the attention of farmers and others in Middlesex County, Mass., was turned towards it. As early as 1760, families had settled there from Acton, Boxford, Carlisle, Shrewsbury, Townsend and other places in Massachusetts. Zedekiah Drury was there some time previous to 1768, and soon became one of the leading men in town. He was a captain in 1768, and the first town meeting, Sept. 26, 1768, was held at Isis house. He started with his company on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, but finding himself not needed returned home. He commanded a company that marched to reinforce the army of Gates, upon the advance of Burgoyne in June, 1777. His sons Gershom and William, and his son-in-law, Joseph Richardson, the principal subject of this notice, were soldiers in that company, with thirty-five others from that newly settled town. Capt. Drury died in that service.*
Joseph Richardson, in early life, was an apprentice to Benjamin Cutter, of Temple, a carpenter and farmer, a native of Lexington, Mass., who was also a soldier in 1775 and 1776; selectman of Temple, 1783, and died in Temple, March 16, 1821.† As Benjamin Cutter was but a year or two older than our Joseph, it may have been his brother Nathan, a house-wright, of New Ipswich, an adjoining town, to whom Joseph was apprenticed.
We find our Joseph Richardson a soldier in the Revolutionary army from Temple, in December, 1775; a service, perhaps, lasting eight months and closing with the year. His grandchildren have it that he was in the battle of Bunker Hill, and they say he assured them that such was the fact. Indeed, it is affirmed in a History of Temple. He also marched, with his brothers-in-law, Zedekiah and William Drury, in a company commanded by their brother, Capt. Gershoin Drury, from Temple to Saratoga, and there assisted in the defeat and capture of Burgoyne’s army.
Not long afterwards he removed to Wilton, which joins Temple on the east, and thence, about 1797, removed to Weston in the south part of the County of Windsor, Vt.
He and his wife Hannah lived to a good old age, and died only about fifteen weeks apart. He died in Weston, August 18, 1843, aged ninety-seven. She died there May 7, 1843, aged ninety-five.

Their children were:
  1. Hannah,6 b. Oct. 19, 1772.
  2. Nathan,6 b. May 15, 1775; m. Hannah Shattuck,
  3. Thomas,6 b. May 25, 1777; m. ______ _______.
  4. Zedekiah,6 b. Feb. 25, 1779; m. ______ Burnham.
  5. Nathaniel,6 b. Jan. 17, 1781; m. first, Mary ______; second, Betsey ______.
  6. Elizabeth,6 b. Feb. 9, 1783.
  7. Joseph,6 b. Feb. 28, 1785.
  8. Sarah,6 b. June 23, 1787.
  9. Rebecca,6 m. ______ Pierce.
    10. All the above are deceased, except Rebecca, who is a widow, residing at Mantua, Ohio.
*Capt. Gershom Drury, son of Zedekiah, had for his wife Elizabeth Richards on, born 739, the eldest sister of our Joseph.

†See Cutter Genealogy, pp. 83, 84.


5313.
 Samuel Richardson5 (Samuel,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), eldest son of Samuel and Hannah (Walker) Richardson, of Billerica; born there, Sept. 24, 1737; married Martha ______. They lived in Billerica.

Their children were:
  1. Samuel,6 b. May 2, 1767; he was living in Clinton, Me., in 1815. Further evidence is wanting.
  2. John,6 b. April 6, 1768; m. Nabby ______.
  3. Patty 6 [Martha], b. Dec. 6, 1772.
  4. Jane,6 b. July 6, 1774.
  5. William,6 b. March 7, 1776. There is no record of wife or children. He lived in Burlington, which adjoins Billerica, his native town. He died intestate in 1815, and what property he had was distributed to his brothers Samuel and Timothy, and the four children of his brother John. [Midd. Prob. Records.]
  6. Timothy,6 b. Aug. 24, 177S; he was living in 1815, as he then shared in his brother William’s estate.


5319.
 Joseph Richardson5 (Samuel,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding; a younger son of Samuel4 and Hannah Richardson; born in Billerica, Oct. 21, 1752; married Martha Chapman.
He was a farmer. He lived in Billerica, in a remote part of the town, and died Oct. 6, 1779, aged 27, leaving his wife pregnant.

His children were:
  1. Martha,6 b. July 17, 1775; d. Aug. 1, 1778.
  2. Joseph,6 b. Feb. 1, 1778; m. Ann Bowers.
  3. John Chapman,6 b. Feb. 18, 1780; posthumous.


5322.
 William Richardson6 Esq. (William,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), eldest son of William 4 and Mary (Hobart) Richardson, of Townsend, Mass.; born there, May 10, 1745; married Hannah (Stevens) Crosby, widow of Joel Crosby, of Winslow.
Near the close of the Revolutionary war he removed to what was then known as Hancock Plantation, in the District of Maine. It lay above Fort Halifax, in the angle formed by the Kennebec and Sebasticook Rivers. It has since been divided into the towns of Winslow, Clinton, and Benton. Here he married a wife, and here was his home for the remainder of his long life. He died without issue in 1839, aged ninety-four.
Sept. 25, 1783. William Richardson, of Winslow, yeoman [no wife mentioned], sold to Hezekiah Stratton, of Winslow, about fifty acres in Winslow, bounded northerly on Sebasticook River. [Lincoln Deeds, xvi. 218.]
Aug. 8, 1791. William Richardson, of Winslow, gentleman, and his wife Hannah, she as executrix of her former husband’s estate, sold sonic of the real estate of the former husband, in Winslow, to Samuel and William Howard. [Lincoln Deeds, xxxiv. 114.]
They sold another portion of said estate, June 18, 1792. [Lincoln Deeds, xxx. 14S.]
In one deed Winslow is called No. 4.
In 1785, he owned 217 acres and 40 poles of land, situated between Muscongus and Round Pond, in the east part of Bristol, Me., as shown on a plan preserved in the Lincoln County Registry of Deeds, xxix. 266.


5325.
 Abel Richardson5 (William,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding, and third son of William4 and Mary (Hobart) Richardson, of Townsend; born there, April 22, 1751; married, March 6, 1783, Tabetha Bennet, born, 1756, in Hollis, N. H.
They lived in Ashby ever after their marriage, and died there. The husband died Dec. 7, 1843. The wife Tabitha died March 14, 1839.

Their children were:
  1. Mary,6 b. Jan. 23, 1784; d. April 6, 1794.
  2. Abel,6 b. March 5, 1786; m. Martha Lawrence.
  3. Rhoda,6 b. July 9, 1788; m. Philip Piper. He died in Ashby, 1858. She died in Winchester, Mass., Sept. 14, 1874, aged 86.
  4. William,6 b. June 27, 1791; m. Rebecca Lawrence.
  5. Israel,6 b. Sept. 14, 1793; m. Sarah Haynes.
  6. Mary,6 b. Oct. 7, 1797; unm.; d. in Ashby, June 14, 1821.
  7. Emma,6 b. Aug. 24, 1800; m. Jacob Wilkes, of Ashburnham, Mass. He died Nov. 17, 1862, aged 64. She was living in 1875.


5326.
 Josiah Richardson5 Esq. (William,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding; born in Townsend, Aug. 10, 1753; married, first, Abigail Dix, of Townsend, Dec. 10, 1781; second, Susanna Wallis, of Townsend, Aug. 19, 1784.
He spent his life in his native town of Townsend, where he was a leading man, justice of the peace, selectman, and town clerk.
His will, dated Sept. 24, 1822, mentions wife Susanna, and children William and Abigail, then unmarried.

His children were:
  1. Josiah,6 b. 178-; m. Betsey —. He was a physician in Pepperell; but died intestate at his father’s house in Townsend, March 18, 1817, leaving a widow Betsey.
  2. William,6 m. Lucy —; he lived in Townsend, was a prominent man there; and died there in 1826, leaving a widow Lucy, and one child also named:
  3. Lucy,7
  4. Abigail.6


5328.
 Andrew Richardson5 Esq. (William,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding, and youngest son of William and Mary (Hobart) Richardson; born in Townsend, Mass., Aug. 25, 1760; married, in 1781, Hannah Grant, of Marsh Bay,: Frankfort, Me.
He and his three older brothers, Israel, Abel, and Josiah, all left their pleasant home in Townsend, on the Lexington alarm, April, 1775, and joined the patriot army at Cambridge. Andrew was but fifteen years old. All four were in the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. As heretofore noticed, Israel never returned. He was in the army of Washington on Long Island, and died August 29, 1776, either from wounds received in the battle of the 27th, or from the effects of the severe rain-storm which immediately followed.
After two years of service in the army, Andrew went down into the District of Maine, and joined his eldest brother William in the Hancock Plantation. In that place, afterwards the town of Winslow, and the part finally the town of Clinton, he became a leading citizen. He was the first captain of militia in the town; was elected selectman year after year; and represented the town in the General Court at Boston in the years 1809 and 1810.
June 30, 1786. Andrew Richardson, of Hancock Plantation, yeoman, bought of Silas Barron, of said Hancock, a certain lot of land on the east side of Sebasticook River, and at the west end of the north line of lot No. 4, above the town of Winslow. [Lincoln Deeds, xx. 134.]
Clinton, however, is mostly on the west side of Sebasticook. He died in Clinton, Me., Jan. 10, 1818, aged 58. Hannah, his wife, died in January, 1811.

Their children were:
  1. William,6 b. Dec. 3, 1782; m. Hannah Wilson, 1803.
  2. Israel,6 b. Feb. 11, 1784; m. Sarah P. Wells, 1817.
  3. Ephraim,6 b. March 11, 17S6; m. Nancy Grant, 1813.
  4. Andrew,6 b. 1788; d. 1792.
  5. Hannah,6 b. Oct. 3, 1789; m. her cousin, Andrew Grant, about 1811. She had seven children; died 1844. Their daughter:
  6. Thirza Maid (Grant), m. Otis Crosby; both are living in Boston, 1875.
  7. Hobart,6 b. April 22, 1792; m. first, Louisa Wood; second, Sarah N. Tobey; third, Mary N. Fernald.
  8. Andrew,6 b. April 9, 1794; m. Lois Reed, 1819.
  9. Samuel,6 b. Oct. 25, 1796; unm.
  10. Mary Hobart,6 b. March 14, 1799; m. Nathaniel Nason, 1830. They live in China, Me., and have three children.
  11. Grant,6 b. about 1804; d. in childhood.
    12. All of this family, except Mary, settled in Clinton or Benton.

5330.
 Hezekiah Richardson5 (Hezekiah,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), eldest son of Hezekiah4 and Elizabeth (Walker) Richardson, of Townsend, Mass.; born there, July 20, 1741; married, Sept. 11, 1766, Elizabeth Howe, born Aug. 30, 1742, daughter of David and Mary Howe, of Woburn; married by Rev. Josiah Sherman, of Woburn.
They lived on the old homestead of his father in Townsend; the old house is still standing, one hundred and thirty years old.

Their children were:
  1. Elizabeth,6 b. Aug. 31, 1767; unm.; d. June 12, 1845, aged 78.
  2. Mary,6 b. Dec. 30, 176S; d. Jan. 24, 1769.
  3. Mary,6 b. Dec. 8, 1769; unm.; d. March 21, 1853, aged 83.
  4. Zaccheus,6 b. Jan. 21, 1771; m. Mary Ball.
  5. Hezekiah,6 b. 177-; m. Betsey (Lawrence) Farwell.
  6. Levi.6
  7. Achsah,6 d. early.
  8. Phebe.6
  9. David.6 He was of Fitchburg.
  10. Esther.6
  11. Achsah.6


5331.
 Lieut. Jacob Richardson5 (Hezekiah,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding; born in Townsend, Mass., Dec. 13, 1742; married, May 19, 1766, Sarah Brown, born July 28, 1742, daughter of Josiah Brown, of Billerica. The town record says, 1767, which is a manifest error. They were married by Rev. Henry Cummings, of Billerica.
He was a blacksmith and farmer. He lived in Billerica after marriage until 1805; afterwards at Lyndeborough, N. H., till his death in 1817.
The General Court of Massachusetts having passed a resolve, Sept. 22, 1777, to reinforce the northern army, a company of soldiers marched from Billerica, having Edward Farmer as captain, and our Jacob Richardson as Lieutenant. Their service extended from Sept. 29, to Nov. 8, 1777, forty-one days. This company formed a part of the regiment of Col. Page, and assisted in the capture of Burgoyne. [Mass. Archives.]
He died at Lyndeborough, N. H., Sept. 5, 1817, in his seventy-fifth year. His widow Sarah died March 1, 1825, aged eighty-three.
His will is dated Aug. 23, 1817; proved Oct. 30, 1817; recorded Hillsborough Prob. Records, xxvi. 234. His eldest daughter Sarah is to be supported during her natural life; his eldest son Jacob is to be executor of the will; and five other children are mentioned, to wit, Josiah B., Timothy, John, William, and Anna Jones.

The children of Jacob and Sarah Richardson were:
  1. Sarah,6 b. Jan. 15, 1767;* num.; d. in Billerica.
  2. Jacob,6 b. Aug. 10, 1769; m. Sarah Lewis.
  3. Elizabeth,6 b. Oct. 11, 1771; d. Feb. 29, 1776.
5605.  Josiah Brown,6
5606.  Timothy,6		 twins born
5 Oct. 1, 1773;		 m. Mary Wyman.
m. Judith Reynolds.
  1. John,6 b. June 15, 1776; m. Lydia Johnson.
  2. William,6 b. Aug. 20, 177S; m. Phebe Batchelder.
  3. Elizabeth,6 b. Nov. 22, 1780; unm.
  4. Elijah,6 b. July 5, 1783; d. April 26, 1784.
  5. Julia,6 b. Aug. 25, 1785; unm.; d. June 22, 1802.
  6. Anna,6 b. Aug. 19, 1788; m. Joseph Jones.
*Town record has 1768, which is wrong.


5335.
 Abijah Richardson,5 Esq. (Hezekiah,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding, and fifth son of Hezekiah and Elizabeth (Walker) Richardson; born in Townsend, Mass., Feb. 22, 1749,* married, first, about 1770,______ Livingston; second, Eunice Thompson, born in Brunswick, Me., Oct. 16, 1747. After marriage, he lived a while in Westford, Mass.
After the Revolutionary war, he, with his family of eight children, removed to Litchfield, then in the County of Lincoln, now in the County of Kennebec, Maine. His three youngest brothers, Joel, Joshua, and Simeon, went to Maine about the same time. He lived near the village of Litchfield Corner until his death, nearly forty years after. He was a farmer and a working mason. He was a prominent man in the town; was a justice of the peace, and represented the town in the Legislature of Massachusetts one or more terms.
He became surety for two traders in the place, and thus lost much of his property. In 1823, after his death, his estate was declared insolvent. One of the largest creditors was his son Jesse Richardson. The estate was sold in 1824, reserving sixteen acres for the widow’s dower. [Lincoln Prob. Records, xxv. 148, 429, 438, 470.]
He died in Litchfield, March 15, 1822, aged 73. His youngest son, Cornelius, was appointed administrator of his estate, Aug. 26 1822. [Lincoln Prob. Records, xxi. 351.]
His widow Eunice died in Litchfield, Nov. 12, 1841.

His children were, By first wife:
  1. Amos,6 b. 177-; m. Sarah ______. He was a farmer. He lived some years in Litchfield; sold land in 1802 to James Ham, of Bath. In 1803, he bought of Abijah Richardson, Esq. [his father], one hundred acres in Litchfield, bounded in part on land of said Abijah and Jesse Richardson [his brother]. [Lincoln Deeds, lii. 246.] Discouraged by the cold and backward season of 1816, he removed to Ohio, as many others did.
  2. Jesse,6 b. 177-. Neither his wife’s name, nor the names of his children, have been reported to us. He lived in Litchfield, Me.; was a farmer, and a very smart, capable man; “could turn his hand to almost anything; was a Jack at all trades, and good at all;” was captain of a military company, and much respected. He acquired considerable property, and was one of the largest creditors of his father’s estate in 1823. He had a daughter who married a Wilson, and their daughter married Rev. Luther Richardson, who lived a while in Warwick, and afterwards in Massachusetts.
  3. Lois,6 m. Levi Robinson, of Litchfield, Me. She was a school teacher.
  4. Abijah,6 b. May 9, 1775; m. Rebecca Malcolm.

    5. By second wife, Eunice:

  5. Eunice,6 m. ______ Winslow; she was a school teacher; d. in Bath, Maine.
  6. Hannah Smith,6 unm.; was a teacher; and daring in the management of a horse.
  7. Phineas,6 b. about 1789; m. and settled in New Brunswick. When a young man he had the measles badly, and was broken out with it. He took a sudden cold, and fell asleep; was asleep, it is said, three days and three nights. He was a ship carpenter; is not now living, 1874.
  8. Cornelius Thompson,6 b. Jan. 3, 1792; m. Sarah Rollins Lovejoy.
*Another account says, born March 15, 1749.


5336.
 Ebenezer Richardson5 (Hezekiah,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding, and sixth son of Hezekiah and Elizabeth Richardson; born in Townsend, Mass., Nov. 25, 1751; married, first, Catharine (Tufts) Wyman, Dec. 12, 1776. She died before 1789, or perhaps early in that year. Second, Jerusha Dodge, 1789, daughter of Zechariah Dodge, of Edgecomb.
In the Revolutionary war he was in the military service of his country three years. He was at the surrender of Cornwallis, October, 1781.
After the war, he went down to Maine, as did his brothers, Abijah, Joel, Joshua, and Simeon, and settled on what was known as “the million acre lot,” which, we believe, was situated on both sides of the Kennebec River in Maine. We find him in the plantation, afterwards town, of Canaan, near Norridgewock, in 1785, as witness the following:
Sept. 21, 1785. Ebenezer Richardson, of the plantation of Canaan, in the County of Lincoln, yeoman, sold to Seth Wyman, of said plantation, about two and one-half acres in Canaan, aforesaid. [Lincoln Deeds, xxi. 63.]
Lincoln County then included the whole of the counties of Kennebec and Somerset up to the Canada line. Canaan then included Skowhegan. Seth Wyman may have been his wife’s brother.
March 21, 1789. Ebenezer Richardson conveys to Amasa Steward, of Canaan, about one hundred acres of land in Canaan. As no wife joins in the conveyance, the transfer must have been made between the first and second marriage. [Lincoln Deeds, xxxvi. 38.]
It is tolerably clear that Ebenezer Richardson lived on the west side of the Kennebec River, in the present territory of Skowhegan. There are people now in that town of the names of Steward and Wyman.
I have no account of wife or children.


5337.
 Joel Richardson5 (Hezekiah,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding; born in Townsend, Mass., June 22, 1758.
He was a soldier three years in the war of the Revolution. After the war, he settled in Litchfield, Me., near his brother Abi-jah, and died there. He was a farmer. At one time he lived in Portland.
Further information is lacking.


5338.
 Joshua Richardson5 (Hezekiah,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding; born in Townsend, Mass., Dec. 20, 1759.
Like his brothers, Ebenezer and Joel, he served three years in the armies of his country, during the war of our Independence. After the war, he went to Maine, and settled in Litchfield, where his brothers Abijah and Joel also settled, and not far from the same time. After a residence there of thirty years, more or less, he removed to Ohio, as many did, after an exceedingly cold and unproductive season, that of 1816, when it was said there was frost every month in the year.
He had two sons, grown to manhood, whom he left behind, to wit:
  1. Joshua,6 b. March, 1796; m. Deborah Fales.
  2. Hezekiah.6 He lived and died in Mexico, in the county of Oxford, Me. He has a son:
  3. Isaac,7 who lives in Chelsea, near Boston, May, 1874, and a daughter, the wife of ______ Butler, in Chelsea.


5339.
 Simeon Richardson5 (Hezekiah,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding, and youngest son of Hezekiah4 and Elizabeth (Walker) Richardson; born in Townsend, May 4, 1763.
It is said that he was a Revolutionary soldier. To be more definite, it is stated that he performed military service in the Rhode Island campaign, August, 1778. If so, it is remarkable, as he was then but little more than fifteen years old. This is considerably under the military age, and he could not then have been compelled to do military duty.
About 1790, he went to Maine, as four of his brothers had done, and made his home in Solon, on the Kennebec River, a few miles above Norridgewock. He died there. The name of his wife has not been reported.

His children were:
  1. Simeon,6 lived and died in Madison, an adjoining town.
  2. Nahum.6
  3. Polly,6 unmarried
  4. Lucy,6 unmarried.
  5. Rhoda,6 unmarried.
    Two other daughters, unmarried.
    6. All have died.


5344.
 Ebenezer Richardson5 (Ebenezer,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), son of Ebenezer4 and Elizabeth (Shed) Richardson, of Billerica; born there, Feb. 25, 1754; married, first, Rebecca Walker, of Billerica, April 25, 1776. She died May 17, 1782. Second, Susanna Tufts, of Medford, April 24, 1783. In both cases, married by Rev. Henry Cummings, D. D., minister of Billerica from 1763 to 1813, fifty years.*
They spent their lives in Billerica. He died, intestate, 1818. Administration on his estate was decreed to the widow Susanna, 1818.

His children were,
By first wife, Rebecca:
  1. Joel,6 b. Jan. 17, 1777.
  2. Rebecca,6 b. Sept. 13, 1778:
  3. Nathaniel,6 b. April 27, 1781.

    4. By second wife, Susanna:

  4. Isaac,6 b. July 18, 1786.
  5. Susanna,6 b; May 21, 1787.
  6. Lucy,6 b. March 23, 1789.
  7. Martha,6 b. Feb. 2, 1791.
  8. Mary,6 b. March 2, 1792.
  9. Eleanor,6 b. Sept. 11, 1794.
* In the notice of his father, Ebenezer Richardson,4 page 531, we have given him only five wives, the fifth being Elizabeth Bacon, of Bedford, married May 21, 1783, when he was in his sixty-first year. The compiler is now assured, on good authority, and by a relative, who must know, that he afterwards married two more wives from Bedford, making seven in all. Beat this who can.


5348.
 Asa Richardson5 (Ebenezer,4 Nathaniel,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding, and son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Shed) Richardson, of Billerica; born there, Feb. 14, 1760; married Sarah Tufts, of Medford, May 23, 1781.
He spent his life in Billerica. He died there, June 28, 1813, or 1823, for the figures of the record are obscure. The widow Sarah died in Billerica, Oct. 13, 1835.

Their children were:
  1. Asa,6 b. March 5, 1782; m. Elizabeth Bird.
  2. Sarah,6 b. Dec. 22, 1785.
5640.  Francis,6
5641.  Josiah,6		 twins, born
Dec. 6, 1787;		 m. Martha Richardson.
m. Martha ______.
  1. William,6 b. Feb. 24, 1790; m. Sarah _____. He lived in Billerica; was a trader, innkeeper, and proprietor of stage coaches; became involved in money matters, failed, and committed suicide in 1826.
  2. David,6 b. Feb. 10, 1792; m. Eliza Kingsbury.
  3. Joseph,6 b. Nov. 8, 1794; m. Lucy Cummings.
  4. Margaret Tufts,6 b. June 23, 1795; unm.; d. Feb. 7, 1837.
  5. George,6 b. June 18, 1797; m. Asenath Cummings.
  6. Lucretia,6 b. May 9, 1799; unm.; d. Jan. 26, 1833.
  7. Samuel,6 b. Dec. 5, 1802; d. Sept. 13, 1810.


5356.
 Thomas Richardson6 (Jonathan,4 Jonathan,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), son of Jonathan4 and Abigail (Farmer) Richardson, of Billerica; born there, Sept. 3, 1747; married Judith Kendall, of Billerica, Dec. 3, 1772; married by Rev. Henry Cummings, minister of Billerica.
He was an innkeeper at Billerica Corner.

Their children, all born in Billerica, were:
  1. Judith,6 b. April 12, 1774.
  2. Abigail,6 b. April 28, 1776.
  3. Hannah,6 b. Sept. 29, 1778.
  4. Polly,6 b. June 4, 1781.
  5. Sarah,6 b. Oct. 26, 1783.
  6. Reuben Kendall,6 b. July 20, 1787.
  7. Lydia,6 b. Dec. 6, 1788.
  8. Anna,6 b. Feb. 3, 1791.
  9. Betsey,6 b. Jan. 21, 1793.
  10. Thomas,6 b. Aug. 31, 1796; m. Olivia Alger, of South Boston.
    11. Eight daughters and two sons.


5364.
 Ebenezer Richardson5 (Thomas,4 Jonathan,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), son of Thomas4 and Abigail (Merrow) Richardson, of Reading; born there, April 14, 1754; married, Jan. 15, 1777, Sarah Parker, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Parker.
He lived in Reading, I suppose, in Lowell Street, near the village, the previous residence of his father, but about 1790 removed to New Ipswich, N. H., where he owned and cultivated a farm.
His will is dated July 7, 1823; proved April 17, 1827; recorded Hillsborough Prob. Rec., xxxv. 385. By the will, wife Sarah Richardson was to have the east half of the house; daughter Lucy to have the use of the east chamber, etc., until married; Thomas to have all the estate, personal as well as real.

The children were:
  1. Sarah,6 b. Nov. 3, 1780; m. Eliphalet Bailey.
  2. Lucy,6 b. Aug. 10, 1782; unm. at the date of her father’s will, 1823.
  3. Jonathan,6 b. July 28, 1784.
  4. Ebenezer,6 b. Nov. 6, 1788.

    5. Born in New Ipswich:

  5. Thomas.6
    6. Two grandchildren of the testator are mentioned in the will, both under twenty-one:
  6. William.7
  7. Henry.7
    8. Thomas Richardson was one of the executors, but declined the trust. He was probably son of Abiel.4


5368.
 Abiel Richardson5 (Abiel,4 Jonathan,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), son of Abiel4 and Sarah (Smith) Richardson, of Pepperell, Mass.; born in Westford, 174-; married, but his wife’s name to the compiler is unknown.
We know little more about him than that he was the father of the children whose names follow. It is almost certain, however, that he lived in Royalston, Mass., in the north-west angle of Worcester County.
  1. Abiel,6 b. about 1770; m. Rebecca Chase.
  2. Isaac,6 b. 177-; m. ______ Towne.
  3. Lot.6
  4. Timothy.6


5369.
 Thomas Richardson5 (Abiel,4 Jonathan,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding; born in Westford, Jan. 8, 1751; married Abigail _______.
They lived in Dunstable and in Temple, N. H. He died in Temple, 1786, aged 35. His will is dated Temple, N. H., April 6, 1786; proved May 4, 1786; recorded Hillsborough Prob. Rec., i. 479. The inventory was presented by the widow Abigail, who was the executrix, Oct. 2, 1786. It exhibited one hundred and fifty acres of land and buildings thereon, appraised at £250; personal estate, £53. 7. 6. Oliver Taylor, husband of the eldest daughter, Abigail, was appointed, Jan. 18, 1796, guardian of Thomas and Abiel Richardson, minor sons of the deceased. [Hillsborough Prob. Rec., vi. 435.]

The children of Thomas and Abigail Richardson were:
  1. Abigail,6 b. June 14, 1775; m. Oliver Taylor, of Dunstable, Dec. 30, 1794.
  2. Anna,6 b. Aug. 22, 1777.
  3. Sarah,6 b. July 8, 1779.
  4. Thomas,6 b. May 4, 1781.
  5. Abiel,6 b. May 31, 1783; m. Rhoda Parkhurst, of Dunstable, March 12, 1805. He was then living at Dunstable.
  6. Edith,6 b. Jan. 8, 1786; m. Levi Dakin, of Dunstable, Dec. 26, 1806.


5381.
 Benjamon Richardson5 (Benjamin,4 Nathaniel,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), eldest son of Benjamin4 and Judith (Wyman) Richardson; born in Woburn, May 10, 1730; married, Aug. 16, 1759, Rebecca (Richardson) Wyman [1795], born in Woburn, in the part which is now Winchester, Sept. 29, 1729, daughter of Daniel Richardson [1596], and widow of Jesse Wyman, who died Nov. 2, 1754.
He lived in Woburn; owned land in Stoneham, near Medford line, 1784. His father, Benjamin,4 having died 1782, nearly eighty years of age, our Benjamin5 and his son Benjamin6 were appointed to administer the estate of the deceased, 1782.
He was drowned Sept. 5, 1786. His widow Rebecca died April 26, 1812, aged 82.

Their children, born in Woburn, were:
  1. Benjamin,6 b. March 4, 1760; m. Mary Cutter, Feb. 16, 1783.
  2. Judith,6 b. Feb. 17, 1764; unm.; d. in Woburn, June 4, 1805.


5402.
 Capt. Israel Richardson5 (Israel,4 Nathaniel,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), son of Israel Richardson,4 of Brookfield, Mass.; born there, Jan. 24, 1736; married, 1759, Susanna Foebush, born in Hardwick, Aug. 14, 1735.
Though his birth is recorded in Brookfield, it is next to certain that he was born in what is now Spencer, which was the second precinct of Brookfield till April 3, 1753, when it was incorporated as a town. The military returns describe him as of Spencer in 1756, when he served as a private in the campaign of that year. He was taxed in Templeton in 1763, but only for a poll.
After marriage they lived in New Salem, a town near Hardwick, till 1781. His grandson, Chauncey Richardson, assures me that he was a captain in the Continental army, which, I think, must mean that he commanded a company of militia called out to resist the invasion of Burgoyne in 1777, which appears to have been the fact. I am told, however, that he was in the battle of White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776, and in the battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, when, as I understand, none but the enlisted Continental troops were present.
In the summer of 1781, having sold his property in New Salem, he removed, with his wife and three sons, then constituting his entire family, to Woodstock, Vt. He bought six hundred acres of land where that beautiful village now stands. He gave to the County of Windsor a plot of land sufficient to set the court house on and land for the common, and built two large houses for inns and places of refreshment for the courts and the public.
His occupation, besides the care of a farm, was that of a blacksmith and gunsmith. He was also the first trader in the village, and was probably in his day the most wealthy man in Woodstock. He died May 8, 1800, aged 64. His wife died Sept. 1, 1806, aged 71.

Their children, all born in New Salem, were:
  1. Israel,6 b. Nov. 14, 1759; m. Hannah Kellogg.
  2. Jason,6 b. Feb. 21, 1761; m. Mary Powers.
  3. Lysander,6 b. March 30, 1763; m. Lois Ransom.
  4. Seth,6 b. Jan. 30, 1765; d. Sept. 9, 1777.
  5. Noah,6 b. Dec. 11, 1766; d. Aug. 28, 1777.
  6. Susanna,6 b. Aug. 30, 1768; d. Aug. 9, 1770.


5407.
 Major James Richardson5 (James,4 James,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), eldest son of James4 and Sarah4 (Fowle) Richardson; born in Woburn, Dec. 25, 1729; married, Feb. 12, 1749-50, Hannah Reed, born Jan. 28, 1728-9, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Conyers) Reed, of Woburn. Mary Conyers,4 her mother, born Jan. 12, 1701-2, was a daughter of Capt. Josiah3 and Ruth (Marshall) Conyers. Capt. Josiah3 was a son of Dea. Josiah,2 who was the eldest son of Dea. Edward Conyers,1 one of the founders of Woburn, 1641. It was, therefore, a highly respectable, indeed eminent family.
Daniel Reed, father of our Mrs. Richardson, born Oct. 1, 1700, was son of Daniel, who was son of Ralph, born in England, but brought to this country in 1635, when five years old, by his parents, William and Mabel Reed. [Sewall’s Hist. of Woburn.]
James Richardson, after marriage, spent three or four years in his native Woburn, and then removed to Leominster, a new town, incorporated June 23d, equivalent to July 4, 1740. His father went there six years previously. He soon rose to distinction there. He commanded a military company, 1756, in the expedition against Crown Point. He was selectman, 1763, 1764, 1766, and 1771; surveyor of highways, 1764 and 1768; constable, 1765; assessor, 1766; and one of a committee chosen, 1767, to divide the town into three parts for the purpose of schooling. We find him called captain in 1768, and major, 1772.
He was administrator of his father’s estate; sworn as such April 7, 1763.
He was a wealthy and public-spirited man. He was a man of business on a large scale, for that region, and for those times. He was engaged in the manufacture of potash, and made money by it. He kept a country store opposite to his house. His house was a most spacious and elegant mansion. It was built by a Mr. Leland; it is the “Old Leland Place.” It is still standing, and in good repair, though considerably over one hundred years old. It is well known as the “Old Abbey.” There are two rows of beautiful elm trees, one on each side of the road, set out by Major James Richardson.
He bought a mill and mill-privilege, on the Nashua River, with the land adjacent, which, once belonged to Ebenezer Wilder, and afterwards to Jonathan Wilson. He rebuilt the mill with a new dam; but failing in business, the property passed into the bands of some of his creditors in Boston, particularly one of the name of Hubbard. Since 1845, the mill has been an appendage of the paper-mill of Edward Crehore. [Wilder’s Hist. of Leominster.]
Becoming insolvent, he returned to Woburn, and died there. [Midd. Prob. Records.] His wife Hannah survived him.

His children were,
Born in Woburn:
  1. Hannah,6 b. March 3, 1750-1; d. young.
  2. James,6 b. Nov. 23, 1753; d. young.

    3. Born in Leominster:

  3. James,6 b. Jan. 13, 1755; m. Lucy Wyman.
  4. Hannah,6 b. Sept. 19, 1757; m. ______ Reed; living in 1784.
  5. Joseph,6 b Aug. 1, 1750; m. Lydia ______. His tax was abated,
    6. 1798. His wife Lydia died in Leominster, Aug. 14, 1850, aged 90.
  6. Salmon,6 b. Jau. 30, 1761; m. Lucy Kendall.
  7. Catharine,6 b. Jan. 14, 1763; m. David Wilder. They had a son: Elisha (Wilder).
  8. Dorothy,6 b. May 23, 1764; m. John Barker, of Stoddard, N. H.
  9. Esther,6 b. March 9, 1767; living, 1784, but not then married.
  10. Rebecca,6 b. April 28, 1769; m. David Josselyn.


5408.
 Col. William Richardson5 (James,4 James,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding, and second son of James4 and Sarah (Fowle) Richardson; born in Woburn, May 6, 1731; married, about 1754, Esther, Joslin, born March, 1729, daughter of John, who was a son of Peter Joslin, born 1665, one of the early settlers of Lancaster.*
He went with his father’s family from Woburn to Leominster about 1734. He must have been born in Woburn, though his birth is recorded in Lancaster. Leominster was a part of Lancaster at that time, and was separated from it by an act of incorporation, dated June 23, 1740. It was, about 1734, receiving frequent accessions of inhabitants from the towns near Boston.
That he was a brother of Major James Richardson [5407], conclusively appears from the statement of his nephew, Josiah6 son of Luke.5
He passed his life in Princeton, Mass., in that part which was taken from Lancaster. His children’s births are recorded in Lancaster.
The greater part of Princeton was taken from Rutland. It had previously been known as Wachuset, because the mount Wachuset is there.
The General Court of Massachusetts, in October, 1759, passed “an Act for erecting the East Wing of Rutland, so called, in the County of Worcester, and sundry farms contiguous thereto . . . into a separate District by the name of Princetown.”
In the Act, which I have before me, the bounds and measurements are very particularly given. It is conterminous with Narraganset No. 2 [Westminster], the second precinct of Lancaster [Sterling], Holden, and Shrewsbury. Then is added the following:
“And be it further enacted, that William Richardson, Esquire, be and hereby is empowered to issue his warrant to some principal inhabitant of said District, requiring him to notify and warn the inhabitants of said District, qualified by law to vote in town affairs, to meet at such time and place as shall be therein set forth to choose all such officers as shall be necessary to manage the affairs of said District.”
The district thus incorporated, comprised nearly fifteen thousand acres, constituting the main part of what is now the town of Princeton; was incorporated as a town April 24, 1771. Besides “the east wing of Rutland,” it took in “sundry farms contiguous thereto,— in Lancaster or rather in Sterling, one of which was the farm of William Richardson, who appears to have been a prime mover of the enterprise. It was called Princeton, to perpetuate the name and memory of Rev. Thomas Prince,† then colleague pastor of the Old South Church, Boston, and a large proprietor of this tract of land. His only surviving daughter and child afterwards became the wife of Hon. Moses Gill, Lieut. Governor of Mass., under Governor Sumner, 1797 to June, 1799, and after the death of Governor Sumner acting governor the remainder of the year. At the time of the incorporation, as a district, there were about thirty families in the place. [Hist. of Princeton.]
William Richardson was a merchant and a tailor, as well as an agriculturist. He was a leading man and magistrate in Lancaster, as he afterwards was in Princeton. Of Lancaster he was representative ten years, between 1741 and 1761. He was sent to Boston to procure the incorporation of Princeton, which was effected mainly by his efforts. He was town clerk of Princeton, 1768 and 1774; selectman, 1774; assessor 1774; justice of the peace, colonel of the militia, etc.
He was a creditor of his father, at his father’s death, 1761.
He died Dec. 30, 1814, aged 83. His wife Esther died Oct. 13, 1814. Both were buried in Princeton.
His children were,
Born in Sterling, then the second precinct in Lancaster:
  1. Esther,6 b. March 12, 1755; married, but the husband’s name is not known. They “went out West;” but it is said she was buried in Princeton. No children.
  2. William,6 b. Jan. 28, 1757; m. ______ Miles.
  3. Abigail,6 b. Dec. 28, 1758; d. March 21, 1830, aged 72. She probably married Jesse Harrington. See below.
  4. Samuel,6 b. June 27, 1760; m. Lucy Mirick.
  5. Peter,6 b. July 2, 1762; d. at an advanced age.
  6. John,6 b. April 14, 1764; m. Hannah Lewis.
  7. Elizabeth,6 b. Aug. 31, 1766.
  8. Josiah,6 b. April 23, 1770; unm.; d. at the house of John Davis in Princeton.

    9. Born in Princeton, but probably on the same spot:

  9. Levi,6 b. June 11, 1772; d. at an advanced age.
  10. Catharine,6 b. May 11, 1773; unm.; a town pauper; d. April 27, 1803.
Besides these children, William Richardson, Esq., adopted as his son, Jesse Harrington, son of Jesse and Abigail Harrington, born in Amherst, N. H., Nov. 3, 1782. Probably son of his second daughter Abigail.

* On the 18th of July, 1692, a party of Indians attacked the house of Peter Joslin in Lancaster, while he was at work in the field, and murdered his wife, three children, and a widow Whitcomb, who resided in the family. He outlived his fourth wife, and died at the house of his son John in Leominster, April 8, 1759, aged 94. He was the grandfather of Esther Joslin in the text.
Capt. John Joslin, with a company of volunteers under his command, was at the battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777. His youngest brother, Thomas Joslin, was shot through the heart at the first fire. Peter Joslin, another brother, was at the battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778.

†Mr. Prince was born in Sandwich, 1687; graduated Harvard College, 1707; ordained Oct. 1, 1718; died Oct. 22, 1758, aged 72.


5409.
 Sarah Richardson5 (James,4 James,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), sister of the preceding, and daughter of James4 and Sarah (Fowle) Richardson; born in Woburn, Dec. 12, 1732; married Philip Sweetser, Aug. 14, 1755.
They lived a while in Leominster, and removed to Winchendon.

Their children, all born in Leominster, were:
  1. Sarah (Sweetser), b. Feb. 10, 1756. Her daughter, Sarah Sweetser, b. in Leominster, Feb. 4, 1783, married, at Athol, Nov. 20, 1803, Hon. Solomon Strong, b. in Amherst, Mass., March 2, 1780, fourth son of Hon. Simeon Strong, a lawyer of great eminence in that town, an earnest Christian, and a man of uncommon worth. His son, Solomon Strong, graduated Williams College, 1798; practiced law at Royalston, Athol, Westminster, and Leominster from 1825 to 1850; was a senator in the State Legislature, 1812 and 1813; member of Congress, 1815 to 1819, and judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, 1818 to 1842. He was a public-spirited man. He died at Leominster, Sept. 16, 1850, aged 70. She died there, Dec. 2S, 1865. Their only child, Adelia, b. Feb. 28, 1812, m. Nov. 6, 1832, at Leominster, Rev. William Matticks Rogers, b. in the island of Alderney, in the English Channel, Sept. 10, 1806; graduated Harvard. College, 1827; Andover Theological Seminary, 1830; pastor of the Central Church in Boston from 1841 until his death, in Dorchester, Aug. 11, 1851.
  2. Joseph (Sweetser), b. Aug. 25, 1757.
  3. Philip (Sweetser), b. April 27, 1760.
  4. Samuel (Sweetser), b. Oct. 16, 1765.


5410.
 Lieut. Luke Richardson5 (James,4 James,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding, and son of James4 and Sarah Richardson; born in Leominster, Aug. 15, 1734; married, 1758, Damaris Carter,* daughter of Jonathan and Damaris (Whitcomb) Carter, of Lancaster.†
His life was spent in his native Leominster, and he was much employed in public business. He was chosen deer-reeve in 1764; constable, 1766; surveyor of hiJohn,6 b. Aug. 8, 1770; m. Nancy Low.ghways, 1766, 1769, 1774; selectman, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777; one of the school committee, 1775. He and his brother John were on a committee to regulate prices—vain attempt!—in consequence of the depreciation of the old Continental currency, 1779, with other similar trusts. We first find him called lieutenant in 1774.
He died at Leominster, March 27, 1812, aged 77 years, 7 months, and 12 days. His wife Damaris died at Lancaster, Sept. 18, 1812, aged 74 years, 8 months.
Their children were:
  1. Damaris,6 b. June 16, 1759; m. David Boutelle.
  2. Sarah,6 b. Nov. 16, 1760; m. John Buss.
  3. Luke,6 b. April 2, 1763; m. Relief Fuller.
  4. Thomas,6 b. Feb. 1, 1766; m. Jane Brown.
  5. Abigail,6 b. May 13, 1768; m. Thomas Bullard, of Lancaster, 1789. They had eleven children. The eldest was:
  6. Mary (Bullard), b. 1789, who m. - Hawkes. She is now living, March, 1874, aged 85. Her son, Col. Hawkes, of Templeton, was an officer in our late civil war, and returned in safety with an honorable record. Her daughter:
  7. Abigail (Hawkes), m. ______ Lewis. She had eight or nine children. Four of her sons are in California, near together. The eldest is quite wealthy, the others prosperous. Mrs. Abigail Bullard died Aug. 20, 1843, aged 75 years, 3 months.
  8. John,6 b. Aug. 8, 1770; m. Nancy Low.
  9. Dorothy,6 b. June 20, 1775; m. Capt. Rufus Houghton, of Leominster. She had ten children. She died in childbed with her tenth child, Dec. 4, 1816, in Andover, formerly known as Wayne Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio.
  10. Josiah,6 b. Feb. 18, 1777; m. Reliance Crosby.
  11. Sewall,6 b. July 30, 1784; m. Abigail Kendall.
The members of this family have been remarkable for longevity and for general worth of character. All are descended, on the mother’s side, from the first minister of Woburn.

* The CARTER FAMILY.
  1. REV. THOMAS CARTER, born in Hertfordshire, Eng., 1610; married Mary Dalton; came to this country, 1635; ordained first minister of Woburn, Nov. 22, 1042; died Sept. 5, 1684. His wife died March 28, 1687.
  2. SAMUEL CARTER, their son, born Aug. 8, 1640; graduated Harvard College, 1660; married Eunice Brooks, 1672; died at Groton, 1693.
  3. SAMUEL CARTER, their son, born Jan. 7, 1678; married Dorothy Wilder, of Lancaster; died 1738.
  4. SAMUEL CARTER, their son, born 1703; married Jeunima Houghton, Feb. 14. 1725.
  5. JONATHAN CARTER, their son, married Damaris Whitcomb, of Lancaster; lived in Leominster; parents of Damaris Carter in the text.

† The following statement was made by Josiah Richardson 6 [5717], son of Luke5 and Damaris Richardson, about a year before his death, which took place Oct. 28, 1863. It was addressed to his nephew, William H. Richardson, merchant in Boston, and is now before me, written in a clear, beautiful hand.
“When my father and mother commenced housekeeping, 1758, it was in the house with grandfather [James Richardson,4 one of the early settlers of Leominster], where they continued to live.... The first settlers in those days were compelled to endure sufferings and hardships far beyond any that were endured by the early settlers in the far West. They were surrounded not only by the wild beasts of the wilderness, but by the still more ferocious savages. At the approach of night, they took refuge in some garrison, if one were near; otherwise, they took into the house with them every deadly weapon, guns, axes, scythes, pitchforks, clubs, everything that could strike a mortal blow. While hoeing in the field, their big dog would sometimes fly to the brow of the hill and bark loudly, with hair bristled up. The dog undoubtedly scented Indians in the swamp, for their foot-tracks were discovered in the corn field after the corn was fit to roast; and in the winter, when our people went to the swamp to obtain wood for fuel, they would find logs partly burned, where Indians had roasted corn. There was a spot on the hill, as one goes to the swamp, where I have counted twenty or thirty Indian corn-hills at a time. Tomahawks, scalping-knives, flint arrow-heads, stone hoes, stone chisels for cutting ice, and other native implements were found long within my remembrance. if those were not times that tried men’s souls—and women’s also—I have yet to learn what could be.
“At that time there was but one school-house in town; it stood nearly opposite the old burying ground. My mother never went to a man’s school but one day in her life, and then she walked from Dea. Butters’ farm to that school-house, over roads in the woods so bad as to make it three-fold worse than it would be now. When her children were old enough to attend school, there were four school-houses in town.
“In those days, all that was thought needful for boys was to learn to read, spell, write, and cypher as far as the single rule of three, or perhaps a little more. The girls must read and spell, and if they could write well enough to sign their names to a deed it was sufficient for them.
“Notwithstanding the exposure of the people to the effects of Indian ferocity, it is a fact that no person was ever killed in Leominster by the Indians. The shield of divine protection was thrown over the persons and property of the early settlers, and a blessing rested on their labors. They were a pious, praying people. They trusted in God; they committed themselves to his care, and he kept them from harm. They gathered their families around the domestic altar morning and evening, and God kept them from serious harm, and blessed them in their basket and in their store.”


5411.
 Esther Richardson5 (James,4 James,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), sister of the preceding, and daughter of James’ and Sarah (Fowle) Richardson; born in Leominster, about 1736; married, 1762, Dr. Thomas Gowing, born 1734.
He came from Lynn to Leominster about 1760, and succeeded Dr. Jacob Peabody in medical practice in that town. He took a lively interest in education and in other praiseworthy objects. He represented the town in the legislature in 1796, 1797, and 1798. After a careful and successful practice of about forty years, he died in 1800, aged 66. Mrs. Gowing, his widow, died Feb. 7, 1812, aged 78.

They had but one child:
  1. Esther (Gowing). b. Sept. 10, 1778; m. Col. Israel Nichols, of Leominster. She died Jan. 1, 1852, in her seventy-fourth year.


5412.
 John Richardson5 (James,4 James,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding; born in Leominster, July 18, 1741; married, Dec. 12, 1765, Eunice Green, born Nov. 19, 1743, daughter of Peter and Abigail Green.
They settled in Petersham after marriage, but removed back to Leominster before 1771, and passed the remainder of life there. He was a yeoman. He was a capable man, and like his brothers, much occupied with town affairs. He was surveyor of highways, 1777; selectman every year from 1778 to 1789 inclusive, except 1780 and 1781, or ten years in the whole, and town clerk from 1782 to 1791, both inclusive, ten years.
He died at Leominster, Feb. 13, 1814, in his seventy-third year. His will is dated July 21, 1809; proved May 17, 1814. His widow Eunice died in Leominster, March 2, 1831, aged 87.

Their children were,
Born in Petersham:
  1. Eunice,6 b. Oct. 20, 1776; m. Ephraim Lincoln, of Leominster. She died Jan. 8, 1812, aged 45. He afterwards married her sister Mary.
  2. Abigail,6 b. March 24, 1708; m. Willard Parker, of Leominster. She died Aug. 5, 1858, aged ninety. Children:
  3. Eveline (Parker), m. Henry Perry, of Leominster.
  4. Sarah (Parker), m. ______ Joslin, of Jaffrey, N. H.
  5. Abigail (Parker), m. Thomas Wilder, of Leominster.
  6. Henry (Parker).
  7. Francis,6 b. Jan. 26, 1770; d. Sept. 6, 1805, aged 35.

    8. Born in Leominster:

  8. John,6 b. Nov. 22, 1771; m. Sarah Tibbets, of Lisbon, Me.
  9. Green,6 b. Sept. 27, 1773; d. June 9, 1775.
  10. Susanna,6 b. July 20, 1775; d. April 5, 1801, aged 25.
  11. Mary,6 b. Nov. 27, 1777; m. first, Joseph Darling, of Leominster; second, Ephraim Lincoln, of Leominster, who had been the husband of her sister Eunice. He died Sept. 10, 1843, aged 80. Children, all born in Leominster:
  12. Cassius (Darling), b. 1800; living in New York City, 1873.
  13. Joseph Sumner (Darling), b. 1802; living in Leominster, 1873.
  14. Charles Boynton (Darling), b. 1805; living in Boston, 1873.
  15. William Augustus (Darling), b. 1807; living in Paris, France, 1873.
  16. Martha,6 b. Nov. 29, 1779; unm.; d. Nov. 4, 1819, aged 40.
  17. Betsey,6 b. April 4, 1782; unm.; d. June 13,.1813, aged 31.
  18. Green,6 b. Aug. 16, 1784; m. Hannah Tibbets, of Lisbon, Me., sister of his brother John’s wife. He followed his brother John to Maine when a young man and settled in Bath. He died without issue May 4, 1841.
  19. William,6 b. Oct. 26, 1786; m. first, Harriet Leland; second, Maria (Ogden) Waud.


5413.
 Capt. Josiah Richardson5 (James,4 James,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding; born in Leominster, 1742; married, first, Rebecca Beaman, of Leominster, Feb. 17, 1771; second, 1782, Abigail (Bellows) Hunt, born Jan. 13, 1759, widow of Seth Hunt, a lawyer of Northampton, and daughter of Col. Benjamin Bellows, of Walpole, N. H., from whom Bellows Falls derived its name. She was a woman of rare moral and intellectual endowments. Her mother was Mary (Hubbard) Jennison, widow of John Jennison, of Lunenburg, a brother of Rev. William Jennison, of Salem.
He lived in Keene, N. H., and was a man of influence. He died there, leaving, it is believed, no children.


5441.
 Nathaniel Richardson5 (Joshua,4 Joshua,3 Nathaniel;2 Thomas1), eldest son of Joshua and Eunice (Jennison) Richardson; born in Woburn, March 20, 1742; married, in Middleton, September, 1771, Eunice Putnam, born in Danvers, March 29, 1751, daughter of David and Rebecca (Perley) Putnam, of Danvers. Her father David was a brother of Gen. Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary fame. She named one of her sons for him.
Nathaniel Richardson was a tanner and a merchant in Salem. He was industrious and prosperous [gravestone]. He was killed accidentally by a building he was assisting to remove, Jan. 25, 1796, aged 54. His widow Eunice died at Salem, Nov. 26, 1846, aged ninety-five years, 7 months, 27 days. His remains repose in the Charter Street Burying Ground, Salem; those of his widow in Harmony Grove Cemetery.
Nathaniel Richardson having died suddenly and intestate, his widow Eunice was appointed administratrix, with Nathaniel Richardson for surety, giving a bond for twenty thousand dollars, Feb. 1, 1796. The inventory amounted to $77,498.04. The real estate consisted of a dwelling-house, tan-yard, vats and land thereto belonging, pew No. 25 in the East meeting-house (Dr. Bentley’s), an undivided fourth part of a piece of land east of the dwelling-house of the deceased, land south of it bought of the town, a large store on said laud, a slaughter-house on said land, a currier’s shop, etc., land in North Fields, about twelve acres, a small house and two shops, a slaughter-house in Beverly and land, land in Danvers, one-half of 32 acres Great Pasture Rights, land on Kennebec River, 1243 acres, in common with Capt. William Orne. [Essex Prob. Rec., lxv. 156.]

His children were,
Born in Woburn:
  1. Nathaniel,6 b. Aug. 20, 1772; unm.; d. Jan. 24, 1818, aged 45.

    2. Born in Salem:

  2. Joshua,6 b. Sept. 28, 1774; m. first, Eunice Lander; second, Ann (Hanford) Jones.
  3. Jesse,6 b. Dec. 2, 1776; m. Eunice Dodge.
  4. Eunice,6 b. April 19, 1779; d. Sept. 14, 1802, aged 23 [gravestone].
  5. Israel,6 b. Jan. 15, 1782; unm.; d. in Portland, March 26, 1867, aged 85.
  6. William Putnam,6 b. May 5, 17S5; m. Deborah Lang.
  7. Betsey,6 b. Dec. 24, 1788; d. Dec. 6, 1789, aged 11 months, 13 days.
An unusually prosperous family.


5443.
 Joshua Richardson5 (Joshua,4 Joshua,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding, and second son of Joshua4 and Eunice Richardson; born in Woburn, Feb. 14, 1745-6; married, July 23, 1772, Anstice Chipman, baptized Nov. 17, 1754, daughter of Capt. Samuel and Anstice (Manning) Chipman, of Salem. He lived in Salem, and died there, Feb. 22, 1774, aged 28. He was a provision dealer, that is, he kept beef and lamb for sale. His will is dated Jan. 18, 1774; proved March 7, 1774; recorded Essex Prob. Records, 1. 73. In the will, he calls himself a “slaughterer.” He gives to his wife Anstice one-third of all his personal estate, and all the residue to his son Joshua Richardson; but if this son die before arriving at the age of twenty-one, it shall go to the eldest male heir of the testator’s brother, Nathaniel Richardson, who is made executor of the will.
The inventory of the estate, all personal, was presented to the Probate Court, Sept. 7, 1774, by the executor, Nathaniel Richardson, tanner. Amount, £370 12. 6+.
The widow Anstice married Thomas Manning, of Salem, mariner, Oct. 23, 1777. This second husband died about 1780.
Anstice Manning, twice a widow at the age of twenty-six, was many years a teacher in Salem.*
It appears, from the will, that Joshua and Anstice had one son:
  1. Joshua,6 b. 1773; d. in infancy.
*She had by her second husband a son, Thomas Manning, who died April 1, 1798, aged 20.


5445.
 Josiah Richardson5 (Joshua,4 Joshua2 Nathaniel,1 Thomas`), half-brother of the preceding, and son of Joshua4 and Abigail (Carter) Richardson; born in Woburn, April 8, 1749; married Ruth Brooks, sister of John and Thomas Brooks, who were husbands of Josiah Richardson’s sisters. Residence not reported.
He died April 29, 1826, aged 77.

Children:
  1. Abigail,6 b. 1774; d. Aug. 14, 1826, aged 52.
  2. Josiah,6 m. Abigail Bray.
  3. Ruth,6 d. Sept. 25, 1826.
  4. Seth,6 b. October, 1786.
  5. Lois,6 living in Salem, 1875, much deranged.
There were others, names not known.


5448.
 Asa Richardson5 (Joshua,4 Joshua,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding; born in Woburn, July 19, 1757; married at West Cambridge, (now Arlington), Feb. 11, 1779, Jane Wyman,5 born Oct. 10, 1759, eldest child of Paul Wyman,4 who was the fifth son of David,3 who was the third son of Jacob,2 who was the youngest of ten children of Lieut. John Wyman,1 one of the original settlers of Woburn, 1641.
He was a teamster, and lived by hard work in Woburn. He removed to Charlestown after the birth of the second Jane; but returned to Woburn, and died there, Aug. 30, 1822, aged 67 years. His wife Jane survived him.

Their children were:
  1. Alford,6 b. Oct. 11, 1779; m. Susan Barneville.
  2. Hannah.6
  3. Fanny,6 m. Robert Clark, of Andover. She died in 1804; she had one child, who lived but a few days.
  4. Prudence,6 m. in Charlestown, June 7, 1807, John Bowers, of Pepperell. They had one child, Mary Jane (Bowers), who married Daniel C. Colesworthy, then of Portland, now of Chelsea,Mass., a bookseller on Cornhill, Boston.
  5. Jane,6 d. at the age of two years.
  6. Jane,6 m. Asa Caldwell, 1818.
  7. Rhoda,6 d. at the age of two years.
  8. Phebe,6 m. Daniel Foster, of Waltham.
  9. Joshua.6 d. young.
  10. Joshua.6
The records of Charlestown are defective.


5450.
 Eunice Richardson5 (Joshua,4 Joshua,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), sister of the preceding; born Sept. 6, 1763; married, 1785, Joshua Leavitt, born in Hingham, Mass., Jan. 29, 1759, a son of Joshua and Deborah (Fearing) Leavitt, of Hingham.
They lived in Salem. He died there, Sept. 18, 1806. His widow Eunice died there, Oct. 15, 1820, aged 57.

Their children were:
  1. Joshua (Leavitt), b. July 7, 1736; d. Sept. 15, 1787.
  2. Marshall (Leavitt), b. Feb. 9, 1788; d. Feb. 9, 1807, aged 19.
  3. Charles (Leavitt), b. Feb. 7, 1791; d. Jan. 22, 1831, aged 40.
  4. Simon (Leavitt), b. March 26, 1792; d. Sept. 15, 1793.
  5. George (Leavitt), b. Aug. 14, 1796; drowned at sea, April 12, 1819, aged 22.
  6. William (Leavitt), b. April 15, 1801; m. June 10, 1829, Mary Gardner Lemon, daughter of William and Mary (Gardner) Lemon, of Salem. He was a teacher in Salem. They had one child:
  7. Mary Gardner (Leavitt), b. July 14, 1830; unmarried.
  8. Henry (Leavitt), b. Aug. 31, 1803; lost at sea, Sept. 1830, aged 27.


5452.
Capt. John Richardson5 (Caleb,4 John,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), only son of Caleb and Elizabeth (Watts) Richardson; born in Roxbury, Feb. 11, 1737; married, first, 1757, before arriving at the age of twenty-one, Ruth Sawtell. She died Oct. 1, 1764. Second, April 21, 1768, Rebecca Moore, daughter of Abraham and Silence Moore, of Bolton.
On his father’s removal from Roxbury to Bolton, which was not long previous to 1749, he doubtless removed with him. His father and his father’s brothers had an interest in a township of land which was known as Narraganset Township, No. 6, within the present County of Worcester. It was one of the seven townships granted by the legislature of Massachusetts, in 1728 and 1732, to those soldiers, or their heirs, who had done service in the war against the Narraganset Indians in 1675 and 1676. As Nathaniel Richardson, the grandfather of these brothers, was one of these soldiers, the right devolved on the father and uncles of our John Richardson. The land was laid out in 1735 in lots of forty acres each. Joshua Richardson, uncle of John, drew one of these lots, but being unmarried did not go there to settle. The matter lay along for many years, and nothing was done about settling there till about 1750, after the peace of Aix-la-chapelle. At length, after the marriage of our John Richardson, it seemed best to make a decisive movement. At what precise time he went thither is not known; it was probably about 1760. The township was incorporated as the town of Templeton, March 6, 1762. It then included portions of Phillipston and Gardner. We find John Richardson in 1763 taxed in Templeton. Though only twenty-seven years of age, he was chosen one of the selectmen of Templeton in 1764, and his name heads the list of five. He was also a selectman in 1771, 1772, and 1787. He was town clerk in 1764 and 1772. He represented the town in the General Court in 1776, 1777, and 1785.
He was a man of strong mind and will, independent in judgment and action, an ardent patriot, ready to serve his country on every fit occasion. He had a part in the taking of Ticonderoga, and fought at Bunker Hill, as his descendants assure me.
The town of Templeton had a meeting, Dec. 31, 1772, to consider the encroachments made by the British ministry on the rights and liberties of the American colonies. A committee of nine persons was chosen to report on the subject. Of this committee Capt. John Richardson was the chairman. The committee made a spirited report. He was also appointed, May 14, 1774, on a committee to report resolves respecting goods imported from Great Britain. Again, Oct. 10, 1779, he was chosen on a committee to regulate prices as affected by the depreciation of the Continental currency. Thus it appears that for many years he was a leading man in Templeton.
In 1785 he was administrator of the estate of his father, Caleb Richardson, of Bolton. [Worcester Prob. Rec., xix. 496.]
His uncles Joshua and James, both of Bolton, remembered him in the final disposition of their estates. He died Nov. 4, 1819, aged 82. His widow Rebecca died Dec. 30, 1832, aged 81.
The old homestead of Capt. John Richardson, at Templeton, is in excellent preservation, and is “tenderly cherished and occupied every summer” by descendants of his daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Brown, now residing at Springfield, Mass. There is a good portrait of him in the possession of his granddaughter, Mrs. Henry A. Page, residing at No. 29 St. James Avenue, Boston. The face is strong, like the man. From this portrait the engraving which accompanies this notice is copied.

The children of Capt. John Richardson were,
By first wife, Ruth:
  1. John,6 b. May 17, 1758; m. Sarah Wilder.

    2. By second wife, Rebecca:

  2. Sarah,6 b. June 21, 1769; m. Aaron Hall, 1788:
  3. Ruth,6 b. Sept. 18, 1770; d. Aug. 30, 1774.
  4. Caleb,6 b. Sept. 21, 1772; m. Clarissa Knight, 1797.
  5. Joshua,6 b. Aug. 17, 1774; m. Abigail Sparhawk.
  6. James,6 b. Oct. 27, 1776; m. Adah Hinds.
  7. Rebecca,6 b. Oct. 11, 1778; m. Cyrus Brown.
  8. Silence,6 b. Sept. 28, 1780; m. Washington Howe.
  9. Betsey,6 b. July 6, 1782; m. Jonathan Shattuck.
  10. Achsah,6 b. Aug. 9, 1784; m. July 29, 1819, Dr. Alexander Campbell, of Putney, Vt. He died December, 1839. She died at the Oneida Community, July 7, 1874. Children:
  11. Ann (Campbell), d. young.
  12. Emma A. (Campbell), m. William H. Woolworth, at Putney, Vt. She died at Oneida, N. Y., in 1855.N
  13. Helen (Campbell), m. George W. Noyes, at Putney, Vt.
  14. Joel,6 b. May 29, 1786; m. Mary Haild, of Templeton, Jan. 1, 1815. He died at Templeton, May 26, 1860. She died March, 1863.
  15. Lydia,6 b. Jan. 27, 1789; m. Leonard Stone.
  16. Jehu,6 b. April 9, 1791; unm.
  17. Abigail,6 b. Feb. 17, 1795; m. John Bigelow.


5453.
 Abigail Richardson5 (Caleb,4 John,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), sister of the preceding, and daughter of Caleb4 and Elizabeth (Watts) Richardson; born in Bolton, Mass., Sept. 4, 1741; married Josiah Moore, of Bolton, May 10, 1759.
They lived in Bolton. He died Feb. 28, 1812. She died Sept. 8, 1800.

Their children were:
  1. Caleb (Moore), b. August, 1768; m. Achsah Whitney.
  2. Henry (Moore), b. Aug. 23, 1772; m. Mary Cook.
  3. Achsah (Moore), b. July 29, 1774; m. Stephen P. Gardner.
  4. James (Moore), b. Jan. 7, 1777; m. Hannah Fairbanks.
  5. Elizabeth (Moore).


5454.
 Mary Richardson5 (Caleb,4 John,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), sister of the preceding; born in Bolton, Sept. 21, 1744; married, Dec. 5, 1765, Rev. Nehemiah Parker, of Hubbardston, in the County of Worcester, Mass.
He was born in Shrewsbury, 1742; graduated Harvard College, 1763; was ordained first pastor of the church in Hubbardston, June 13, 1770, and continued in the pastoral office there thirty-one years. He resigned his pastoral charge June 16, 1800, and died Aug. 20, 1801, at the age of fifty-nine. He had respectable talents, was prudent and circumspect in his deportment, and harmony prevailed during his ministry. A part of the interval between his marriage and his ordination was spent in Bolton; in what capacity the compiler is not informed, but probably as a teacher. His widow Mary died July 4, 1829, aged 85.

Their children, born in Bolton, were:
  1. Mary (Parker), b. July 4, 1766; m. ______ Goodspeed.
  2. Elizabeth (Parker), b. March 1, 1768.
  3. Thomas Hubbard (Parker), b. May 7, 1770. He received his name in honor of Thomas Hubbard, of Boston, who was a large proprietor in the township of Hubbardston, and from whom the town was so named in 1767.


5468.
 Capt. Joseph Richardson6 (Philip,4 Thomas,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), son of Capt. Philip Richardsm4, of Boston, by his first wife, Catharine Briggs; born 1756; married, previously to 1784, Sarah Hanson, a daughter of Humphrey and Hannah Hanson, of Dover, N. H.
The compiler has made very considerable effort to ascertain his parentage, the date and place of his birth, the residence of his early youth, and the facts of his life.
His son, John Adams Richardson, Esq., of Durham, N. H., whom the compiler visited for this purpose, was very positive that our Joseph Richardson was born in December, 1756, and was the son of Philip Richardson, of Boston, by Esther Webster, the second wife. That he was the son of Philip Richardson there can be no doubt; but I think he was not born in Boston, for in that case how could his father, in August, 1756, have command of a military company raised in central Massachusetts, and be intimate with Timothy Ruggles, of Hardwick ? Moreover, if born in December, 1756, he was hardly old enough to be a soldier in May, 1775. He certainly could not be the son of Esther Webster, for not she but Catharine Briggs was the wife of Philip Richardson in 1756 and some years after. The story took its rise from the facts that his own mother died when he was quite young, and his second mother took good care of him, which he repaid by his kindness to her after the war.
Another statement made to the compiler by the same authority, though very confidently made, is manifestly erroneous, because it is contradicted by our Joseph’s sworn statement, now before me, as we shall soon see.
These remarks are offered only to show how little reliance is due to family tradition, even when very confidently alleged, and not long after the date of the alleged facts, and made by persons of unblemished character, without any motive or intention to deceive.
Here is Joseph Richardson’s own statement, made under the solemnity of an oath:
“To the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas.
“And the said Joseph doth here depose an oath, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz.:
“In the Spring of 1775, I enlisted in Capt. Benjamin Titcomb’s company,* in the Second New Hampshire Regiment, commanded by Colonel Poor, for the term of eight months, during which I was present at an affair with the enemy on Charlestown Neck.† Immediately after the expiration of the term, I re-enlisted in the same company and regiment, for the term of twelve months, during which I was present in the retreat of the American army from Canada, and was severely wounded in the arm by a party of Indians. . . . I was present at the capture of the Hessians at Trenton, in December, 1776. I was likewise present at the affair at Princeton, about the same time, in which my cartridge-box, containing my pittance of savings, was shot from my side, and destroyed by a cannon ball. I afterwards enlisted in the same company and regiment, then commanded by Col. Hale, for the term of three years; was present at the retreat from Ticonderoga in 1777, and was in the engagement at Hubbardton, where I was wounded in the shoulder. I afterwards assisted at the capture of Burgoyne in the autumn of the same year, and then marched into winter quarters at Valley Forge. In the year 1778, I was at Monmouth, and spent the season with the main army at the White Plains. I marched with Major General Sullivan into the Indian country, and was present at the engagement with the Indians at Newtown. After the return of the army, I was, in the month of January, 1780, at Danbury, in Connecticut, honorably discharged, my term of service having expired; having spent nearly five years of the flower of my life, and having lost the service of my limbs in the cause of my country. Nor was it until the year 1809, that my duty to my family required me to apply for some remuneration for these sacrifices, when the pitiful allowance of two dollars and fifty cents upon the pension-list was made me, which was regarded, not as a favor, but an inadequate compensation for a debt, earned with the greatest exertion and suffering. . . . Sworn and declared before the said court the sixth day of July, 1820.”
(Signed)Joseph Richardson
Attest, A. Pierce, Clerk.

Here is an additional statement by Joseph Richardson:
“In 1776, I was wounded in Canada by the Indians, by having a ball shot through my left arm. In the retreat from Ticonderoga, at the battle of Hubhardton, I received another ball through my left shoulder.” He then repeats what he says in the foregoing statement about Winter Hill, Trenton, Monmouth, and the campaign in the Indian country; and adds: “I continued in the service six years.” More exactly, it was five years and eight months in the whole. During the campaign against the Indians, 1779, he was promoted by General Sullivan to be captain of Artillery.
Another document is worthy of notice:
“War Department.
“Revolutionary claim.
“I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 8th of March, 1818, Joseph Richardson, of the county of Strafford, State of New Hampshire, late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension-List, Roll of the New Hampshire Agency, at the Rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the second day of April, 1818.
“Given at the War Office of the United States, this 19th day of April, 1819.
(Signed)J. C. Clahoun,”
Secretary of War.
Another statement made to me in the account furnished to me by the family at Durham, N. H., to wit, that Joseph Richardson was present at the surrender of Cornwallis, in October, 1781, is proved to be without foundation by the foregoing interesting narrative.
After leaving the army in 1780, he settled in Dover, N. H., and married as already stated. Some time after, but previous to 1797, he removed to Durham, N. H., where he passed the remainder of his life. Disabled for hard work, he was an innholder in Durham. His wife had a brother Dominicus Hanson, of Dover, a brother Joseph Hanson, of Rochester, trader, and a sister Eliza, wife of John Philips Gilman, Esq., of Dover. These four united in the sale of certain parcels of land in Pepperelborough, now Saco, to Thomas Cutts, of Pepperelborough, April 16, 1802. [York Deeds, lxvii. 234.]
Understanding that his step-mother, who from love to the royal cause, had deserted him in March, 1776, and gone off with the enemy, was in destitute circumstances, he had her brought to his home, and carefully nourished her during the remainder of her life. She died March 17, 1810, aged 85.
He died in Durham, N. H., Dec. 22, 1824, aged 68, having borne the reputation of a true patriot, a good citizen, and a devoted son.

His children were:
  1. Humphrey,6 b. 178-; d. young.
  2. Susan,6 b. 178-; m. Dr. John Greeley, of Dover. She d. in 1812.
  3. Hannah,6 m. Ebenezer Smith, of Durham, N. H.
  4. Sarah,6 b. 179-; d. 1836.
  5. John Adams,6 b. Nov. 18, 1797; m. first, Marcia A. Rice; second, Frances J. Murdock.
  6. Fanny,6 b. about 1800; living July, 1874.
  7. Joseph,6 b. 180-; m. first, Caroline King; second, Caroline Mackay.
*This statement is utterly inconsistent with the statement made to me at Durham, viz.: that when Mrs. Esther Richardson left her family to accompany the British troops when they left Boston in March, 1773, she placed her son Joseph with a farmer in Oxford, Mass. If placed at Oxford it must have been some years previous to 1775. The first enlistments were for eight months, from May 1, to Dec. 31, 1775. Enlistments for three years were not resorted to till the beginning of 1777.

† He means Winter Hill. The N. H. troops, under Stark and Reed, on the night after the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, occupied Winter Hill, and were reinforced by Poor’s regiment, which had not been engaged. They threw up strong intrenchments, and threw shot from them into Boston. [Barry’s Hist. of Mass., vol. iii. 41.]


5469.
 Benjamin Richardson6 (Philip,4 Thomas,2 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding, and son of Philip Richardson, ropemaker, of Boston; born, it is supposed, in Boston, about 1760.
Another statement is that his name was John, which I discredit; that his wife was Sylvia Hawkes, of New Bedford; that they were both of New Bedford, which is likely to be true, as we know that Philip Richardson died when his children were young, and they were scattered in different places. The statement, moreover, is. that he came to New Sharon, Me., about 1812, which seems to correspond with a deed dated May 13, 1794, in which about one hundred acres of land on Sandy River were conveyed to Benjamin Richardson and Jonathan Crowell, by three men in Hallowell. [Lincoln Deeds, xxxviii. 148.]
New Sharon is on Sandy River. The statement that his name was John comes from a grandson in Portland, who may have been in error. This grandson gives the children as follows:
  1. John,6 m. Lucinda Burrell, and lived in Abbott, Me. Children:
  2. Jacob.7
  3. Simeon,7 or Charles,7 he knows not which.
  4. Benjamin.7
  5. Eliphalet.7
  6. Sylvia.7
  7. Susan.7
  8. Mary.7
  9. Benjamin,6 b. 1793; m. Mary McLaughlin; lived in New Sharon. Children:
  10. Harrison,7 a blacksmith on Federal Street, Portland, who gives the information.
  11. Henry.7
  12. Olive.7
  13. Henry Webster,6 m. Margaret ______; lived in New Bedford; a sea faring man.
  14. Susan.6
  15. Mary.6
  16. Thankful.6


5470.
 Henry Richardson5 (Philip,4 Thomas,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1) brother of the preceding, and son of Philip Richardson,4 of Boston; born probably in Boston, about 1765.
He is said to have been a ship-master, sailing out from New Bedford, and was lost at sea, with his only son.


5471.
 Lieut. Thomas Richardson5 (Thomas,4 Phinehas,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), son of Thomas4 and Mary (Gould) Richardson; born in Reading, Mass., June 28, 1749; married, March 3, 1774, Phebe Emerson, daughter of Joseph and Phebe (Upton) Emerson, of Reading.
He was a lieutenant in the army of the Revolution. He lived in Reading, and seems to have died in 1794.

His children, all born in Reading, were:
  1. Phebe,6 b. Jan. 16, 1775; m. Samuel Holt, Dec. 18, 1800.
  2. Edmund,6 b. May 18, 1778.
  3. Jobn,6 b. May 18, 1786; d. Sept. 4, 1810, aged 24.
  4. James,6 b. April 12, 1789; d. April 17, 1789.
  5. Sally,6 b. April 29, 1790.


5474.
 Herbert Richardson5 (Thomas,4 Phinehas,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), brother of the preceding; born in Reading, Oct. 15, 1757; married, first, ______ ______, who died May 13, 1780. Second, Oct. 11, 1785, Lydia Parker, born 1763, daughter of Thomas Parker, of Reading. She died May 13, 1789. Third, Mary Upham, Nov. 3, 1791.
He was a soldier of the Revolution. He passed his life, when not in the army, in Reading, and died Nov. 29, 1823. His wife Mary (or Polly, as one record has it) died in Lynnfield, May 28, 1821.

His children were,
By second wife, Lydia:
  1. Thomas,6 b. July 18, 1786; d. Aug. 17, 1786.
  2. Thomas,6 b. May 25, 1788; m. Dolly Pearson.

    3. By third wife, Mary:

  3. Mary,6 (the record says Polly), b. Aug. 7, 1792; unm.; d. Nov. 7, 1868, aged 76.
  4. Herbert,6 b. Jan. 18, 1794; drowned in Andover, March 8, 1818, with his affianced bride, Charlotte Farmer, while attempting to cross Shawshin River, on their way to be married that evening, the river being swollen by the melting of snow.*
  5. Moses,6 b. Oct. 31, 1795; m. Ann Mansfield. They lived in Lynnfield.
  6. Aaron,6 b. Jan. 30, 1798; m. first, Lucy Peabody, b. Sept. 27, 1802. She died Aug. 27, 1826. Second, Sarah Brown. They lived in Lynnfield. No children.
  7. Susanna,6 b. May 10, 1800; m. Feb. 5, 1824, George Pearson, of Lynnfield, brother of Dolly Pearson, already mentioned.
  8. Sophia,6 bap. at Lynnfield, Oct. 14, 1802; d. young.
*The Boston Recorder of March 17, 1818, in giving an account of this sad affair, calls the lady Charlotte Palmer, of Londonderry, and says that both were interred in one grave.


5476.
 Hannah Richardson5 (Phinehas,4 Phinehas,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas1), only daughter of Phinehas4 and Hannah Richardson, of Woburn; born there, Feb. 8, 1760; married Nathaniel Weston, cordwainer, of Reading.
They lived for a while in Stoneham; removed thence to Salem, where some of their descendants still reside.

Their children were:
  1. William (Weston), d. young.
  2. Nathaniel (Weston), m. Christina Waters. They live in Salem.
  3. Phinehas Richardson (Weston), m. Emma Savory. He is living, January, 1874.
  4. Hannah (Weston).
  5. Ruth (Weston), m. Henry Elver.
  6. Lucinda (Weston), m. Willis Richards.
  7. Sarah (Weston), m. William Jefferson.
  8. Mary (Weston), m. ______ Tolman.
  9. Louisa (Weston), d. young.
  10. Eliza (Weston), m. Benjamin Hill.
  11. Ruth, 2d (Weston), m. Seth Rogers, of Plymouth.
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