Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 1

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 896

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GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY

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STATE OF MAINE

COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF

GEORGE THOMAS LITTLE, A. M., Litt. D.

Vice-President Maine Genealogical Society Honorary Member Minnesota Historical Society

Librarian of Bowdoin College Member Maine Historical Society Member American Historical Association Member of Council, American Library Association Author "Little Genealogy"

AND INCLUDING AMONG OTHER LOCAL CONTRIBUTORS

State Historian

REV. HENRY S. BURRAGE, D.D. Chaplain of National Home, Togus . AND

ALBERT ROSCOE STUBBS Librarian Maine Genealogical Society

VOLUME IV

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The narrative here writ- RICHARDSON ten concerns the family and descendants of one of three immigrant brothers, all of English birth and parentage, who came to New Eng- land and were among the first settlers in the plantation at Woburn in the colony of Massa- chusetts Bay. They were Ezekiel, Samuel and Thomas Richardson, sons of Thomas and Katherine (Durford) Richardson, of West Mill, Herts, England, whose marriage is re- corded as of date August 24, 1590, and whose children were baptized in the parish church at West Mill. It is with the second of these brothers and his descendants that we have particularly to deal in these pages.

(I) Samuel, son of Thomas and Katherine (Durford) Richardson, of West Mill, Herts, England, was baptized December 22, 1602 (or 1604), and died in Woburn, Massachu- setts, March 23, 1658. He was the last of the three brothers to come to America. He inherited lands from his father and was ex- ecutor of his will, his father having died after March 4, 1630, the date of his last will and testament. This business perhaps may have delayed his coming over, for the will was not probated until 1634, and it was not until after 1635 that Samuel Richardson and his young- est brother Thomas sailed for New England. He appears first in Charlestown, Massachu- setts, in 1636, and in 1640 was one of the signers of the town orders in Woburn. In 1642 he was one of the founders of the church in Woburn, and in 1644 and several times afterward was selectman of the town, and his name appears in the first tax list there in 1645. In that year he paid the highest tax of any settler in Woburn. In 1637-38 Samuel Rich- ardson was admitted to the church in Charles- town, and November 5, 1640, he was chosen with his brothers, Ezekiel and Thomas, and others, as commissioners for the settlement of a church in the north part of Charlestown, and the part of the mother town which was set off to form the new town of Woburn; and when the church was established in Woburn in August, 1642, Samuel Richardson and his brothers, with four others, formed the nu-

cleus around which the church itself was built up in its early membership and found its early support. - Samuel Richardson died in Woburn, March 23, 1658, and it may be said of him that he was one of the most useful men of the town in his time. The baptismal name of his wife was Joanna, but her family name is not known. She bore her husband eight children : I. Mary, baptized February 25, 1637-38, mar- ried Thomas Mousall. 2. John, baptized No- vember 12, 1639, married (first) Elizabeth Bacon; (second) Mary Pierson; (third) Mar- garet Willing. 3. Hannah, born March 8, 1641-42, died April 8, 1642. 4. Joseph, born July 27, 1643, married Hannah Green. 5. Samuel, born May 22, 1646. 6. Stephen, born August 15, 1649, married Abigail Wyman. 7. Thomas, born December 31, 1651, died Sep- tember 27, 1657. 8. Elizabeth.

(II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) and Joanna Richardson, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, May 22, 1646, died there April 29, 1712. He lived about one mile north of the present village of Winchester. He was a soldier of King Philip's war, and on April IO, 1676, his family was attacked by Indians and three of its members were killed. On the afternoon of that day Mr. Richardson and one of his sons was at work in a field, and observ- ing a commotion near the house he hastened there only to find that his wife Hannah and son Thomas had been slain by the savages. The house had been plundered of much of its most needed belongings, and a further search revealed the fact that his infant daughter Han- nah had also been killed. Her nurse had fled, carrying the child in her arms, and went in the direction of the neighboring garrison house, but being closely pursued she dropped the in- fant in order to save herself, and it was slain where it fell. The father pursued the In- dians with a party of men and overtook them in the woods near the edge of a swamp, where they had seated themselves, and immediately fired upon them, wounding one of the Indians fatally, as the body was afterward found bur- ied under the leaves where his companions had laid him. The fact of his being wounded was shown by traces of blood which led to the

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place of concealment after being shot; and at this place the Indians left behind them a bun- dle of linen in which was found the scalps of one or more of their victims.

Samuel Richardson married (first) Martha who died December 20, 1673; (sec- ond) September 20, 1674, Hannah Kingsley, who was killed by the Indians, April 10, 1676; (third) November 7, 1676, Phebe, daughter of Deacon Baldwin. She died October 20, 1679, and he married (fourth) Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel Hayward, of Malden. She sur- vived him and died October 14, 1717. Sam- uel Richardson had in all fifteen children, four by his first wife, one by his second wife, one by his third wife, and nine by his fourth wife: I. Samuel, born November 5, 1670, married (first) Susannah Richardson; (second) Es-

ther 2. Thomas, twin with Samuel, killed by Indians, April 10, 1676. 3. Eliza- beth, borr. about 1672, married Jacob Wyman. 4. Martha, born December 20, 1673, died No- vember 9, 1677. 5. Hannah, born April II, 1676, kined by Indians, April 10, 1676. 6. Zachariah, born November 21, 1677, married, February 14, 1699-1700, Mehitable Perrin. 7. Thomas, born August 18, 1681, died Septem- ber 9, 1681. 8. Sarah, born August 20, 1682, married William Chubb. 9. Thomas, born September 25, 1684, married Rebecca Wy- man. IO. Ebenezer, born March 15, 1686-87. II. Infant son, born August 17, 1689, died same day. 12. Hannah, born August 11, 1690, married - Pratt. 13. Eleazer, born Feb- ruary 10, 1692-93. 14. Jonathan, born July 16, 1696, married Abigail Wyman. 15. David, born April 14, 1700.

(III) David, youngest of the fifteen chil- dren of Samuel (2) and Sarah (Hayward) Richardson, was born in Woburn, Massachu- setts, April 14, 1700, died in 1770. He was a blacksmith by trade, and lived during the greater part of his life in the town of Newton, Massachusetts, where he died. He married (first) May 21, 1724, Esther, daughter of Ed- ward Ward, of Newton; she died February 26, 1725. Married (second) October 19, 1726, Remember, daughter of Jonathan Ward, and cousin of his first wife; she died in August, 1760. Married (third) January 28, 1762, Abi- gail, daughter of Joseph Holden, of West- minster; she died August 5, 1777. David Richardson had fifteen children: I. Esther, born 1725, married, November 15, 1750, Elisha Fuller. 2. Edward, born February 26, 1726. Children by second wife: 3. Jonathan, born July 1, 1727, married, October 31, 1751, Mary

Woodward. 4. Lydia, born about 1730, mar- ried, January 16, 1755, Abijah Fuller. 5. David, born, February 24, 1732. 6. Samuel, born April 25, "1734, married (first) Decem- ber II, 1760, Sarah Parker; (second) Febru- ary 6, 1764, Sarah Holland. 7. Jeremiah, born March 13, 1736, married, May 7, 1761, Dorcas Hall. 8. Moses, born May 17, 1738, married, April 26, 1763, Lydia Hall. 9. Cap- tain Aaron, born October 2, 1740, married Ruth Stingley. 10. Abigail, born May 16, 1743, married, March 28, 1765, Aaron Fiske. II. Ebenezer, born June 14, 1745, married, May 3, 1770, Esther Hall. 12. Elizabeth, born September 15, 1748, married, January 18, 1770, Daniel Richards. 13. Thaddeus, born May 29, 1750, married Mary Sanborn. 14. Sarah, born August 25, 1755. 15: Mary, born March 23, 1757.

(IV) David (2), son of David (I) and Remember (Ward) Richardson, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, February 24, 1732, died in Monmouth, Maine, May 27, 1825. He made his home in Newton until about the time of his second marriage, then removed to Pear- sontown, now Standish, Maine, lived there from 1778 to 1807, when he took up his resi- dence in the town of Monmouth. He married (first) February 13, 1755, Mary Hall, born March 7, 1734, died 1775, daughter of Ed- ward and Mary (Miller) Hall, of Newton. Married (second) September 20, 1778, Han- nah Mills, born June 3, 1748, died June io, 1809. David Richardson had sixteen children, nine by his first and seven by his second wife : I. Sarah, born August 25, 1756, died young. 2. Mary, born March 23, 1757, married Isaac Small. 3. Thomas, born November 2, 1758, died young. 4. David, born March 20, 1761, married, July 1, 1784, Sarah Wiley. 5. Jo- seph, born July 3, 1763, see below. 6. Elisha, born March 21, 1766, married Dorothy Frost. 7. Jonathan, born September 10, 1768, mar- ried, March 14, 1790, Mary Thomas. 8. Hul- dah, born May 13, 1771, married, September 1, 1791, Ephraim Brown. 9. Edward, born 1773, died young. 10. Hannah, born August 4, 1779, married Captain Jonathan Moore. II. Esther, twin with Hannah, married

Rich. 12. Sarah, born April 27, 1781, died 1786. 13. Thomas, born April 27, 1781, twin with Sarah, married (first) Mary Ayer; (sec- ond) Mary Dearborn. 14. Nancy, born Octo- ber 8, 1782, married Captain Artemas Rich- ardson. 15. Lucy, born October 8, 1782, twin with Nancy, married Philip Ayer. 16. Wil- liam, born September 4, 1784, married Lydia

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Ayer. The last seven children; all of the sec- ond wife, Hannah ( Mills) Richardson, were at one time rocked together in one cradle.

(V) Joseph, son of David (2), and Mary (Hall) Richardson, was born in Newton, Mas- sachusetts, July 3, 1763, died in Baldwin, Maine, February 21, 1836. He went from Newton to Standish in 1778 with his father's family, and about 1785 settled in Baldwin, then called Flintstown, where he was one of the oldest settlers, At that time the region round about Baldwin was an almost unbroken wilderness, and there he built his log cabin on the southerly slope of Saddleback mountain, in a rough and densely wooded locality, but in a region where the soil was rich and very pro- ductive. A few old apple trees still remain to mark the spot where his cabin was built. He married, about 1782, Mary Carpenter, born May 25, 1754, died September 23, 1848. Chil- dren : I. Samuel, born Standish, Maine, May 26, 1782, died March 14, 1785. 2. Abigail, born Standish, January 10, 1784, married, September 8, 1805, Benjamin McCorison. 3. Joseph, born July 3, 1785, married Charlotte Thompson. 4. Sarah, born Baldwin, June 22, 1787, married, September, 1810, Eleazer Marr. 5. Samuel, born May 1, 1789, married (first) June 3, 1813, Sarah Mansfield; (second) Hannah Towle. 6. Huldah, born July II, 1791, married, October 19, 1815, Barnabas W. Sawyer. 7. Ephraim, born June II, 1793, married (first) October 22, 1822, Charlotte Wellington ; (second) January 12, 1843, Mary Sprague. 8. Mary, born May 22, 1795, mar- ried, 1817, Dudley Moody. 9. Hannah, born December 22, 1798, died February II, 1799.

(VI) Deacon Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Mary (Carpenter) Richardson, was born in Standish, Maine, July 3, 1785. He spent his young life in a log cabin in the wilds of Maine. Soon after birth his parents removed with him from Standish to Baldwin, then called Flintstown, from Eleazer Flint, one of the early settlers and a large proprietor of that township. Joseph committed to memory select verses and hymns from a fragment of a book which, together with a well worn copy of the Scriptures, constituted almost the entire family library. In a log hut, by the corner of a large fireplace, by the light of pitch-pine knots, he learned to cipher on a piece of whet- stone. In these simple ways his education commenced, and he always took pleasure in adding to it. He attended the common schools of his day, and later Fryeburg Acad- emy, and subsequently became a successful

teacher in the common schools. He was a farmer by principal occupation and owned an excellent farm in the town of Baldwin. He was a deacon in the Congregational church in Baldwin and also in Sebago from the time of organization in 1821 until his death. He was. a revolutionary soldier and served under Gen- eral Peleg Wadsworth. He was one of the original trustees of ministerial, and school funds until his death. He was clerk of said boards for several years, selectman, assessor and superintending school committeeman at various times, also justice of the peace. About the year 1832 he changed his residence to a more easterly part of Baldwin, where he died September 21, 1848. Deacon Richardson married, May 26, 1808, Charlotte Thompson, born May-2, 1786, in South Reading, Massa- chusetts, now Wakefield, died in Baldwin, Maine, February 26, 1843, daughter of Isaac Snow Thompson, M.D., and his wife, Char- lotte (Hay) Thompson. Dr. Thompson was a physician in Baldwin, Maine, the eldest son of Daniel Thompson, who was killed by a British grenadier in the retreat of the British troops from Concord, April 19, 1775. He had enlisted from Woburn. Charlotte (Thomp- son) Richardson was an active, devoted Christian; she was the first person to teach a grammar school in Baldwin. Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Richardson removed to a place in Baldwin, on the westerly slope of Saddleback mountain, where all of their eleven children were born. Children: I. Charlotte Thompson, born May 20, 1809, died July 29, 1811. 2. Mary, born April 1, 1811, married, March 5, 1838, Rev. Elkanah Walker, who was a missionary, and shortly after their marriage they removed to Oregon, then a sparsely settled country, and here the Rev. Mr. Walker began his labors; theirs was the first white male child born west of the Rocky Mountains; Mrs. Walker died at the age of eighty-six years, retaining her facul- ties to the last. 3. Joseph Carpenter, born March 3, 1813, graduated from Bowdoin Col- lege, class of 1840. 4. Daniel T., born Au- gust 8, 1815. 5. Charlotte, born July 19, 1817, married, December 17, 1851, Joseph E. Smith. 6. Phoebe P., born July 30, 1819, died Febru- ary 15, 1859; married, October 21, 1847, Rev. John H. Merrill. 7. Samuel Stone, born April 21, 1821, died 1903; went to California in 1849, returning in 1893. 8. Isaac Thompson, born October 5, 1823, died October 5, 1852; married, August 1, 1849, Maria Duncklee. 9. Ebenezer, born May 29, 1826, died March 29,

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1829. 10. John, born November 19, 1828, died February 27, 1848. 11. Persis Hannah, born April 2, 1831, died February 22, 1850.

(VII) Hon. Daniel Thompson, son of Dea- con Joseph (2) and Charlotte (Thompson) Richardson, was born in Baldwin, Maine, Au- gust 8, 1815, died May. 12, 1890. He was given a good early education, and at the age of eighteen years began teaching school. He fitted himself for college at the seminary in Readfield, Maine, and graduated from Bow- doin College with the class of 1841. After leaving college he taught school for about one year and then, because of impaired health, abandoned the life of a pedagogue and began farming, which line of work he followed five years. Later on, however, he removed to East Baldwin and engaged in mercantile pur- suits, in which he continued for thirty-eight years, all of which time he was postmaster of Baldwin; was town clerk for more than thirty- seven years; trustee of the ministerial and school funds forty-four years; member of the school board over forty years; selectman, as- sessor and overseer of the poor twenty-five years, acting as chairman of all these boards a great many times ; trial justice of Cumberland county about forty years, and during this time did a large amount of the probate business of the town; and in a large measure acted as legal adviser for people of the town; he was also a surveyor and did the surveying for Baldwin and surrounding towns. In 1850 and again in 1870 he took the census of the town of Baldwin. After the close of the civil war he was United States claim agent, and also for some time was deputy United States marshal. In 1860 he represented the towns of Baldwin and Harrison in the state legislature, and in 1865-66 was senator from Cumberland county. During the earlier part of his active life, while a teacher, Mr. Richardson taught in about thirty-five schools. It is probable that no man of the past or present has ever taken a more active part, for so long a period, in the affairs of any one town in the state of Maine as did Senator Richardson. He was a public man in the highest sense of the word and endeavored to carry out every trust reposed in him with strictest integrity. He was a deep thinker and a great reader, and he was especially profi- cient in the languages and mathematics. His house was always open to his friends who were numbered among the most influential men of the state of Maine in his day and time. As a student he attended college with ex-Gov- ernor Frederick Robie and other men who later became prominent in the affairs of state

and whose friendship he retained to the last. The late T. B. Reed was a personal friend and entertained at the home of Mr. Richardson. He took great pride in the accounts which it was necessary for him to keep in connection with the various offices which he held, and these accounts were marvels of neatness and positive accuracy. At one time, while calling at his house, it became necessary for Con- gressman Reed to examine a set of the town books kept by him, and, after spending some hours with them, he said: "In all my experience with the accounts of public offi- cers, I have never seen a set of books kept so neat and accurate." His death was a loss, not only to the town of Baldwin and the county of Cumberland, but as one of the prominent, useful, public men of the state of Maine who for nearly a half century had with unswerving fidelity served the best interests of the com- munity, and his example of the highest type of citizenship will long be remembered.

Daniel Thompson Richardson married, Au- gust 8, 1843, Eliza Ann Sawyer, born in Bald- win, July 17, 1820, died January 16, 1897, daughter of Ebenezer, a soldier in the war of 1812, and Mary (Parker) Sawyer, of Bald- win. Besides the ancestors, mentioned above, who were in the revolution, there was also John W. Fuller, an ancestor of Mary Parker Sawyer, who enlisted from Dedham and was wounded in the Narragansett fight. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Richardson : I. Howard Thompson, born April 17, 1845, served in the Twenty-fifth Regiment of Maine Volunteers ; married, January 18, 1866, Abbie C. Graffam, born April 2, 1843. Children: i. Edwin F., born August 22, 1866, married Cecelia Minton and had Helen and Anna; ii. Hattie, married Ernest C. Bauckman and had Clara C., Marion M., Howard C., and Harry W. 2. Joseph Carpenter, born August 14, 1846, served in the Twenty-sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers; married, February 24, 1872, Mary Laura Senior, of Philadelphia; Joseph Carpenter died November 22, 1872. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born May 21, 1848, died September 2, 1851. 4. Leland Sawyer, born January 21, 1850, in Standish, married Mabel F. Ayer. 5. Daniel Thompson, born July 1, 1852, married Nellie Gurney and had Edward and Florence. 6. Mary Charlotte, born in Baldwin, January 22, 1854, married Charles F. Gould and had George P., who died at six years of age. 7. John Samuel, born August 25, 1855. 8. Ann. Eliza, born February 15, 1858, married Ether E. Flint ; children : Annis B., Mary C., Fan- nie P. 9. Clara Augusta, born Baldwin, Jan-

Respectfully D'amel J. Richardson

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uary 5, 1860, married Walter C. Allen and had one child, Blanche, who died at three years of age. 10. Phoebe Maria, born Baldwin, Feb- ruary 16, 1862, died April 14, 1870. II. George Parker, born Baldwin, December 20, 1866, married Annie Fitzgerald and had How- ard T., George E. and Mabel F.

(VIII) John Samuel, son of Hon. Daniel Thompson and Eliza Ann (Sawyer) Richard- son, was born in Baldwin, Maine, August 25, 1855. He was educated at Norway, Maine, Institute, Phillips Exeter Academy, law office of General Charles P. Mattocks, Portland, Maine, and Harvard Law School, and was ad- mitted to the Maine bar in 1884 where he practiced until his admission to the Suffolk bar, March 23, 1885, since which time he has been in active practice in Boston. He began teaching school in Maine in 1873, when only eighteen years of age, and taught for some years. After coming to Boston he continued teaching in the evening schools for a period of twenty years (until 1905), sixteen of. which he was principal of the Dearborn evening school. As a young man he took an active in- terest in politics ; he served on the boards of selectmen, assessors and overseers of the poor two years, chairman one year; was elected and served as a representative to the general court of Massachusetts in 1893-94 ; was a dele- gate to the national Republican convention in 1896; in 1898 was nominated for district at- torney of Suffolk county. Of over 70,000 votes cast, his opponent, Stevens, only received 2,012 majority. He acted as assistant district attorney from June, 1906, to May, 1907; was a member of the various city committees and has been delegate to a large number of city and state conventions. He is a member of Greenleaf Lodge, No. 117, Free and Accepted Masons, of Cornish, Maine, and of the Golden Cross. He married, December 31, 1884, Min- nie J., daughter of Josiah and Margaret (Per- rott) Bennett. Children: I. Zana Frances, born November 8, 1885. 2. Joseph Leland, born March 10, 1887. 3. John Samuel Jr., born January 9, 1890. Joseph Leland gradu- ated from Dartmouth College in class of 1908, and John Samuel Jr. is now in his sophomore year in the same college.

From an excellent account of the SMALL Small family, by Lauriston Ward Small, published in the proceed- ings of the Maine Historical Society, 1893, that part of the following sketch referring to the four earliest generations of the family is taken; the remainder is from other sources.

"Of the Smalls in England, some of them were lowly; some of them were knighted and held high social positions; one of whom-Sir John-was chief justice of India; another of whom-Colonel John-protected the body of Warren at Bunker Hill, as seen in the picture by Trumbull, I am not now to speak. In the year 1330 John and William Small, of Dart- mouth, were flatteringly mentioned in an act under Edward III, and some of their descend- ants seem to have resided there continuously to this day. Just three hundred years later, or in 1630, one or more of the Smalls, who presumably lived in Dartmouth or other place in Devonshire, was a cavalier of high social position and a kinsman of the Champer- nownes, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Sir John and Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh. The Champernownes were the most powerful family in Devonshire, and were descendants of the old Byzantine kings, hence the Smalls of Maine, all of whom were presumably de- scended from that cavalier of whom I am speaking, can reasonably claim to have a drop of old Byzantine blood. One of the Champer- nowne girls married a Gilbert and became the mother of Sir John and Sir Humphrey Gil- bert. After her husband's death she married Raleigh, and became the mother of one of the most brilliant men of that remarkable age, Sir Walter Raleigh. All these four noblemen and kinsmen were much interested in American colonization. Presumably because of kinship and the social influences incidental thereto, five Smalls came to America between 1632 and 1640; and that one who was certainly a cava- lier brought with him a son of about twelve years named Francis. They were William, three Johns and Edward. William was un- married and went immediately to Virginia. Two of the Johns were in humble life. The John who came in 1632 with Winslow, and married Elizabeth Huggins or Higgins, and was one of the founders of Eastham or Cape Cod, may have been the father of Francis, but a thousand silent tongues proclaim Ed- ward as the man. I shall assume that it was Edward, it being clearly understood that I am without positive proof."

(I) "Edward Small, the presumptive father of Francis, came to Maine under the auspices of his kinsman, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, about 1632, or possibly a few years later. He and Champernowne, together with several others, founded Piscataqua, which has since been di- vided into the towns of Kittery, Eliot, South Berwick and Berwick. He was in Piscataqua in 1640, and seems to have been there some

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 1

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe Publication date: 1909 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 896

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 896