1William Richard Cutter, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: a Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of ..., Vol. 4, p. 1744 (1914).
"(IV) Peleg Richmond, son of Colonel Silvester Richmond, was born at Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 25, 1700, died August 13, 1783. On June 25, 1733, he and his wife Mary, of Barrington, conveyed property "belonging to the estate of our mother, Mary Pierce," lands in Boston held in partnership with heirs of John Rogers, of Barrington, deceased. He lived in Barrington, Rhode Island, settling there after 1767. He is buried on Prince's Hill, in Barrington. His will was dated in 1767, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, proved November 10, 1783. In 1855 his grandson Ichabod was living on his farm. He married (first) December 14, 1727, his cousin Patience Palmer, daughter of William and Mary (Richmond) Palmer. She was born February 19, 1704, died December 27, 1728. He married (second) January, 1733, Mary Viall, widow of James Viall, and daughter of John and Mary (Cobham) Pierce. James Viall, of Barrington, died early in 1731, leaving Mary and four children. She died April 19, 1781, aged seventy-seven years. Child by first wife: Gamaliel, born in Little Compton, April 24, 1728. Children by second wife, born in Barrington: Peleg, March 5, 1734, died young; James, baptized August 17, 1735, probably died young; John Rogers, mentioned below; Mary, September 3, 1740; Elizabeth, married Amos Bicknell, of Ashford; Sarah, married ------- Corbin.
(V) John Rogers Richmond, son of Peleg Richmond, was born in Barrington, Rhode Island, April 23, 1737, died April 30, 1816.".