Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. I, Part 94

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 858


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(VIII) Barzilla (2), ninth child and sixth son of Barzilla (1) and Lydia (Foster) Richardson, was born in Keene, February 7, 1833. He has been employed thirty years as locomotive engineer, con- ductor and in construction work on the Cheshire, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and Illinois Central railroads. He married, February 20, 1856, Sarah M. Goodnow, who was born March 5, 1835. She was the daughter of Daniel and Matilda (Chase) Goodnow, of Keene. He died May 9, 1903. aged seventy years. They had five children: Ada MI., Sarah Agnes, Frank Walton, deceased ; Jennie Fos- ter, and Walter B .. assistant postmaster at Keene. (IX) Jennie Foster, fourth child and third 1-22


daughter of Barzilla (2) and Sarah M. (Goodnow) Richardson, was born in Keene, February 26, 1863, and married, May 2, 1888, Jerry P. Wellman (see Wellman, IV).


(Third Family.) (1) Thomas Richardson was RICHARDSON the youngest of the three broth- ers of that name who united


with others in the settlement of Woburn, Mas- sachusetts, and the formation of a church there in 1641. It is highly probable that Thomas originated in Norfolk, England, where the name had been settled as early as the sixteenth century, and perhaps earlier, but it is quite probable that he did not come to America until after 1633, for the first mention of him is found in a record dated February 21, 1635-36, when Mary, his wife, united with the church in Charlestown. Thomas and his next elder brother Samuel joined the church on the "18th of the 12th month (February), 1637-S," and in consequence thereof were admitted freemen of the colony May 2, 1638. Their names are found on the Charlestown records for the first time in 1637, when the town granted each of them a house lot. At the time of immigration Thomas must have been quite young, and it is believed that he mar- ried just previous to his departure from England. Thomas Richardson died in Woburn August 28, 1651, and if he made a will it was not placed on the records. His property in lands comprised one hun- dred acres of land in Woburn, which was valued at eighty pounds, and his other property of all kinds amounted in appraised value to a little over one hundred and thirty-seven pounds, from which it may be inferred that Thomas was a man of sub- stance. The name of his wife was Mary, and after the death of her husband she married again. Thomas and Mary Richardson had seven children, the first two of them being born in Charlestown and the others in Woburn. They were Mary, Sarah, Isaac, Thomas, Ruth, Phebe and Nathaniel.


(II) Thomas (2), second son and fourth child of Thomas (1) and Mary Richardson, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, October 4, 1645. He moved to Billerica about 1667, and is said to have settled on a large tract of about nine hundred acres of land in the eastern part of the town. He was a soldier in Captain Samuel Gallup's company in the land expedition against Canada in 1690, and was deputy from Billerica to the general court in 1703-04. Thomas died in Billerica February 25, 1720-21, aged seventy-six years. He married, first, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 5, 1669-70, Mary Stimpson (her name is mentioned in the town records at Cambridge as Mary Stevenson), by whom he had nine children. He married, second, in Billerica, December 29, 1690, Sarah, widow of Thomas Patten. Thomas Richardson's children, all by his first wife, were: Mary (born and died on the same day), Mary (born and died the same day), Mary, Thomas, Andrew, Nathaniel, Jonathan, Ruth and Elnathan. (Ill) Jonathan, seventh child and fourth son of Thomas (2) and Mary (Stimpson) Richard- son, was born in Billerica, Massachusetts, February 14, 1682-83, and lived in that town throughout his entire life. He went to Dunstable and Groton as a soldier in July, 1706. His father gave him property to the amount of thirty pounds, which he increased somewhat before his death, which occurred suddenly August 13, 1720. He married, in 1713, Hannalı, daughter of John French of Billerica, and had four children : Hannah, Jonathan, Thomas and Abicl.


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born in Billerica, Massachusetts, June 5, 1718; mar- ried, in 1739, Abigail Merrow, who was born in Woburn in 1713, daughter of Henry and Abigail (Parker) Merrow and granddaughter of John Mer- row, whose father, Henry Merrow, came from Scot- land. Thomas and Abigail (Merrow) Richardson had six children: Abigail, Mary, Hepzibah, Abigail (the first child of that name having died in in- fancy), Beulah and Ebenezer.


(V) Ebenezer, youngest of the children of Thomas (3) and Abigail (Merrow) Richardson, was born in Reading, Massachusetts, April 14, 1754, and lived near his father's home in that town until about 1790, when he removed to New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and settled on a farm. The date of his death is not known, but his will, dated July 7, 1723, was admitted to probate April 17, 1827. To his wife he left the east half of his house, to his daughter Sarah the use of the east chamber until she should marry, and the remainder of his prop- erty, real and personal, was devised to his son Thomas. Ebenezer Richardson married, January 15, 1777, Sarah Parker, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Parker and by whom he had five children, the youngest of whom was born in New Ipswich. They were : Sarah, Lucy, Jonathan, Ebenezer and Thomas.


(VI) Jonathan Parker, third child and eldest son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Parker) Richardson, was born in Reading, Massachusetts, July 28, 1784, and died in Greenville, New Hampshire, 1871. He was connected with the operation of the once fa- mous Greenville Cotton Mill, and for a long time was its overseer or superintendent. So far as he took part in public affairs it was as a Republican, and in religious preference he was a Congregation- alist. Mr. Richardson married Hannah Bailey, of Hudson, Massachusetts, and had children.


(VII) Charles Parker Richardson, son of Jonathan and Hannah (Bailey) Richardson, was born in Greenville, New Hampshire, June 26, 1826, and died in Peterborough, New Hampshire, August 29, 1895. He received a good education in New Ipswich Academy and Hancock Seminary, and after leaving school went to work in the cotton mill at Greenville, with which he continued in one capacity and another from 1857 to 1870. He proved an industrious employee, and advanced in his position from time to time until he became agent of the company in New Ipswich and Greenville. After quitting the company's service he went to Peter- borough and from 1871 to 1888 was cashier of the First National Bank of that place. For about ten years he was a justice of the peace and quorum, and was a Mason and member of the Congregational Church. Mr. Richardson married, November 17, 1854, Amanda Mansfield, who was born in Green- ville, August 4, 1833, a daughter of Frederick and Hannah Mansfield of Greenville. Mr. Mansfield was a carpenter and builder, and was born July 29, 1807, and died July 20, 1897; his wife was born April 7, 1812, and died April 1I, 1884.


(Fourth Family.)


There are several family stocks RICHARDSON of this name in the United States, but not all the ancestors are known to be related. The family from which the members of this line have sprung is called the Newbury Richardsons. Many able men have been members of the Richardson family.


(I) William Richardson was born in Eng- land about 1620, came to America, and settled in Newbury, Massachusetts. His name is found in that place in 1647, and he had probably been there some years at that time, perhaps as early as 1640. His


residence was in what is now known as West New- bury. His widow Elizabeth made oath to an inven- tory of his estate dated March 30, 1657, amount fifty-two pounds. His real estate consisted of "A house and foure akers of land prised at £23." He died March 25, 1657, probably under forty years of age. His children were: Joseph, Benjamin and Elizabeth.


(II) Joseph (1), oldest child of William and Elizabeth ( Wiseman) Richardson, was born in West Newbury. May 18, 1655. He took the oath of allegi- ance to the colony in 1678, when twenty-three years old. He was a cordwainer, and lived in West New- bury. His will is dated April 7, 1724. proved June I, 1724; recorded in Essex Probate Records in Volume XV, page 51. He married July 12, 1681, Margaret Godfrey, born October 9, 1663, daughter of Peter and Mary (Browne) Godfrey, of New- bury. Their children were: Mary, William, Jo- seph, Elizabeth, Daniel, Sarah, Thomas, Margaret and Caleb.


(III) Joseph (2), third child and second son of Joseph (1) and Margaret (Godfrey ) Richardson, was born in Newbury, December 31, 1686. Chester, New Hampshire, was settled about 1723, and Jo- seph Richardson bought a hundred acre and an eighty acre lot in that town as early as 1725, but it does not appear that he ever lived in Chester, but resided in what is now West Newbury, on the road from Newburyport to Bradford, about a quarter of a mile from Brown's Springs. He bought the lots for his sons, four of whom afterward resided in Chester. He made his will April 24, 1764, and it was proven April 1, 1767. The inventory amounted to two hundred and twenty-three pounds eight shillings. He married Ann Riggs, of and at Glou- cester, February 24, 1712. Their children were: Ann, Joseph, Thomas, Moses, William, Daniel, Mary, Betty and Caleb. (Daniel and descendants receive mention in this article.)


(IV) Moses (I), fourth child and third son of Joseph (2) and Ann (Riggs) Richardson, was born July 28, 1718, and died March 30, 1806. By the provisions of his father's will he had one-half of his father's one hundred acre lot in Chester, described as add. lot No. 70, east of the Carr place in Chester, where G. A. Clark lived in 1869. Here he was taxed in 1741. He was a deacon in the con- gregational Church. He married, 1746, Mary Good- hue, born May 2, 1730, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Powell) Goodhue, of Chester. She died October 13, 1809, aged seventy-nine. Their chil- dren were: Mary, David, Elizabeth, Sarah, Nelly, Ruth, Moses, Jonathan, Lucretia, Anna and Ed- ward.


(V) David, second child and eldest son of Moses and Mary (Goodhue) Richardson, was born on his father's farm in Chester, in 1748, and died December 19, 1821. He lived in Chester from 1773 to 1789, and settled in Pembroke, December 26, 1789, and resided on the farm till his death. In the spring of 1776 he with many others signed what was called the Association Test, pledging the subscribers to resist to the utmost, even with arms and at the risk of their lives and fortunes the encroachment of the British ministry. He married, 1773, Sally Shackford, born February 3, 1755, daughter of Theodore and Mary (Bartlett) Shackford, of Allens- town. She died April 15, 1842. Their children were: Theodore, Moses, David, Mary, Susan Par- ker, Josiah, Richard Bartlett, Nancy, Sally, Dolly and Betsey.


(VI) Moses (2), second child and son of David and Sally ( Shackford) Richardson, was born in Chester, April 29, 1775, and died July 28, 1870, aged


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ninety-five years. He came to Pembroke with his father in 1789, and lived in that town till his death. He was a farmer, a member of the Methodist Church, and for a time class leader, a man of un- blemished character, and highly respected. He mar- ried, June 17, 1796, Lois K. Garvin, of Concord, born June 17, 1775, in Concord, and died December 19, 1856, in Pembroke. Their children were: Deb- orah, Johu True, Susan, Mark, Lucy, Moses, Parker, Sally, Mary Ann and Moses Waldo.


(VII) Parker, seventh child and fourth son of Moses (2) and Lois K. (Garvin) Richardson, was born in Pembroke, March 16, 1808, and died in 1900, aged ninety-two years. He was educated in the Pembroke common schools and academy, and was a farmer. He was a Democrat in his early life, but in after years was a Prohibitionist. October 2, 1834, he married Ann Quimby, born in Concord, daugliter of James Goodwin, of Concord. She died November 30, 1890. Their children were: Pluma Ann, Esther Jane, James Moses, and Lois Fran- ces.


(VIII) James Moses, third child and only son of Parker and Ann L. (Goodwin) Richardson, was born August 19, 1840. His education was obtained in the common schools and at the seminaries at Pembroke and Tilton. He learned and worked at the wheelwright trade for twenty-five years in Pem- broke, and has carried on the manufacture of brick in Rochester for twelve years. After conducting a hotel business six years in Virginia and North Carolina he returned to New Hampshire and bought the place known as the Kimball Tavern, built in 1780, situated on Pembroke street, where he main- tains a summer hotel. He also carried on farm- ing to a limited extent. He is a Methodist and a Republican, and is superintendent of the school committee. He has been a member of Pembroke Grange, No. III, since 1903. Mr. Richardson mar- ried, first, 1865, Jennie Moore, born in Loudon, daughter of Archelus Moore. She died in 1891, and he married, second, May 1, 1895, Mary E. Werner, born in Aberagse, Maryland, January 1, 1866, daughter of John Werner, a native of Stutt- gart, Germany, and his wife Regina Ritzles, of Baden.


(I\') Daniel, fifth son and sixth child of Jo- seplı (2) and Ann (Riggs) Richardson, was born March 28, 1722, in West Newbury, Massachusetts, and settled in Chester, New Hampshire, probably about 1760, many years after his brothers had settled there. He lived in the southeastern part of that town, near the line of the present town of Sandown, and his son Daniel succeeded him on the homestead. He signed the association test in 1776. He died March 23, 1799, being survived just a week by his widow, who died March 30. He was married No- vember 21, 1751, to Lydia Davis, daughter of Ephraim and Lydia Davis, of Newburyport. Their children born in West Newbury, were: Moses, Lydia (died young), Anna, Lydia, Betty, Daniel and Joseph.


(V) Moses, eldest child of Daniel and Lydia (Davis) Richardson, was born November 12, 1752, in West Newbury, and was among the early settlers, and was one of the proprietors of Protectworth (now Springfield), New Hampshire, settling there in 1791. He became a deacon of the Congregational Church there and so continued throughout his life, dying March 26, 1842, in his ninetieth year. About 1795 he with Robert Stevens built the "Old Spruce" mill in Springfield for one C. McDee Carr, and each received for his labor fifty acres of land. He was early a teacher, and was a prominent man in the town. Before there was a settled minister he led


the religious meetings, reading from a book the sermons and conducting the prayers. He was chair- man of the first committee appointed to arrange for the settlement of a minister. He was moderator in 1792-93, and in the latter year was one of the selectmen. At the first regular meeting for the incorporation of the town, March II, 1794, he was chosen clerk, selectman and treasurer, and at the annual March meeting for the two succeeding years he was chosen treasurer. He was married in 1778 to Sarah Chase, of Chester, who was born November 28, 1756, eldest child of Jacob and Prudence (Hill) Chase, of that town, formerly of Newbury (see Chase, VIII). They had five children, born in Chester, and the same number in Springfield, namely: Jacob Chase, Moses, David, Prudence Hill, Amos, Sarah Betty, Daniel, Lydia, Joseph and Anna.


(VI) Joseph, fifth son and ninth child of Deacon Moses and Sarah (Chase) Richardson, was born December 2, 1798, in Protectworth (now Spring- field), New Hampshire, and was a farmer in that town. He was married November 22, 1827, to Rhoda Stevens, who was born April 23, 1803, and died September 9, 1886, surviving her husband by more than six years. He passed away March 29, 1880. They celebrated their golden wedding in Springfield, at which many friends were present and speeches made by Hon. D. N. Adams, then state senator, Dr. D. P. Goodhue and others. The festivities were marked with music and other social incidents, appropriate. Their children were : Willard Ste- vens, Calista Ann and Joseph Franklin.


(VII) Willard S. Richardson, eldest child of Rhoda and Joseph Richardson, was born September 29, 1829, in Springfield, and was educated chiefly in the common schools of that town, attending the Newport High School one year. His early years were largely occupied with the labors on a farm, and in 1855, he went to Nashua, New Hampshire, where he was employed eleven years in a grocery store. At the end of that time he became a partner in the business, which was conducted under the firm style of R. M. Sawyer & Company. Removing from Nashua to Lowell, Massachusetts, he remained eight- een years in the employ of the J. C. Ayer Company as a chemist. During this time he spent six years ( summers ) in Montreal, Canada, in the interest of the same firm. Since 1897, he has been living in retire- ment in Newport, New Hampshire. He is a member of the Congregational Church and a staunch Re- publican in politics. While a resident of Nashua he served two years as a member of the City Council. Mr. Richardson adopted the eldest son of his brother, namely Willard Stewart Richardson, born 1867, a very studious youth, who was a steady pa- tron of the city library and kept a year ahead of liis class in his studies at school but died before he completed his tenth year. Mr. Richardson possesses and prizes an antique relic, made from the wood of a British man-of-war, "Somerset," which was wrecked on Cape Cod, November, 1778. It is in the form of a book neatly carved. Mr. Richardson is a reader and thinker and keeps abreast of the times and is an interesting conversationalist. His handsome home on South Main Street, opposite the Congregational Church in Newport, is thoroughly modern and he takes a justifiable pride in his hand- some lawn and splendid gardens. The care of these occupies most of his time and they are models of neatness, utility and convenience. He was married in Springfield, June 8, 1852, to Miss Sarah A. Peters, who was born October 23, 1829, and died December 30, 1905, after a happy union of about fifty-three years. On their golden wedding anni-


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versary their cosy home in Newport was the scene of festivities appropriate to the occasion and they were the recipients of many handsome and useful tokens of esteem from their friends. Among these was a beautifully engraved gold-headed cane for Mr. Richardson, from Newport friends and his wife received a handsome silver fruit dish and bric- a-brac from the Ladies Aid Society of which she was a member. Their children were: Frank Ells- worth, born 1881, and Willard Peters, 1866, both of whom died in infancy.


(Fifth Family.)


RICHARDSON This name had numerous representatives in New England in the early period, and is now scattered widely throughout the United States. The line herein traced is no doubt allied to others treated in this work. It is probable that John Richardson, the ancestor of this line, was a brother of George Richardson, who was in New England at the same time. There is no proof of this, however. George Richardson embarked at London in the ship "Susan and Ellen," for New England, April 15, 1635, being then thirty years of age, and probably arrived in July of that year. Of the coming of John Richard- son, no record has been found. They were both at Watertown in the following year.


(I) John (1) Richardson had a grant of one acre of land in 1637, in the Beaver Brook plow- lands in the town of Watertown, which is within the present town of Waltham. The Beaver Brook plowlands were one hundred six in number, one acre to each person, and consisted partly of meadow and partly of upland. They were mostly on Wal- tham plains, on the north side of the Charles River. It is probable that John Richard was concerned in the Antinomian controversy of 1637, and probably left Watertown in that year. A record is found in Exeter in 1642 of the witnessing of a deed by John Richardson, from which it would seem that he fol- lowed Mr. Wheelwright to that point in the winter of 1637-38. A John Richardson was in Exeter in 1642, whose wife was Hannah Truair. He appears to have managed to keep out of the records most of the time. A John Richardson is found in Wells, Maine, in 1673, and was probably the son of John Richardson that followed the fortunes of Mr. Wheelwright and settled at Wells, in 1643.


(II) John (2), the first of the name found on the Medfield records, first appears there in notice of his marriage. On May 1, 1679, Ralph Wheelock, magistrate, married John Richardson to Rebecca Clark, who was born in Medfield, August 16, 1660, youngest daughter of Joseph and Alice Clark, early settlers of that part of Dedham, which was in- corporated as the town of Medfield in 1651. This John Richardson owned a tract of land in Wells, Maine, formerly granted to John Richardson, which makes it tolerably certain that he was a son of the first John Richardson. He was by trade a cord- wainer, and cultivated a farm of less than fifty acres. He was a member of the church in Medfield, in 1697, as was his wife. He died in what was then Med- field, May 29, 1697. No will is found on record. The inventory of his estate, dated February 22, 1700, includes a homestead of twenty-six acres with orchard and buildings valued at thirty pounds, besides eight acres of meadow and ten acres of upland and swamp near Bear Hill. The estate was administered by his widow, and the entire value of real estate was estimated at forty-six pounds, inventory including three cows and some other livestock. His personal estate was valued at twenty- seven pounds ten shillings. His widow married John Hill, of Sherburne, an adjoining town, and


died February 17, 1739, aged seventy-nine years. Their children were: John, Elizabeth, Daniel, Jo- seph, Mehitabel, Benjamin and Rebecca.


(III) John (3), eldest child of John (2) and Rebecca (Clark) Richardson, was born August 25, 1679, in Medfield, that part which is now Medway. He was a carpenter and housewright, and the records show several transfers of property, which would indicate that he was a prosperous citizen. He died in what is now East Medway, May 19, 1759, aged eighty years. He was married about 1699 to Esther Breck, who was born in Medfield, in ' 1679, probably a daughter of John Breck of that place. She died of cancer August 17, 1774, aged ninety-five years. Their children were: Sarah, John, David ( died young), Jonathan, Esther, Mary, Joseph, Samuel, Solomon, Moses, Asa and David.


(IV) Joseph, fourth son and seventh child of John (3) and Elizabeth (Breck) Richardson, was born April 3, 1711, in Medfield, Massachusetts, and followed the trade of his father, that of housewright. He lived in Medway until about 1753, when he re- moved to Uxbridge. In 1751 he sold a lot of land in Wells, Maine, which had been granted to his grandfather in 1673. He died before the settlement of his fathers estate in 1759, and on May 12, 1760, his widow became the wife of Joseph Draper, of Dedham. She was then residing at Sherburne. Her Christian name was Abigail. The children of Jo- seph and Abigail Richardson were: Joseph (died young), Mary, Esther, Abigail, Thankful, Joseph, Chloe and Benjamin.


(V) Joseph (2), second son and sixth child of Joseph (I) and Abigail Richardson, was born November 12, 1748, in Medway, Massachusetts. At the time of his death in 1834 he was a resident of Uxbridge. His wife was Rosanna (or Naomi) Adams, a daughter of Oliver Adams, of Medway. His will, dated August 17, 1834, and proved in the following April, provides for his wife Rosanna and children Joseph, Dexter and Simon.


(VI) Joseph (3), eldest son of Joseph (2) and Rosanna (Adams) Richardson, was born prob- ably in Uxbridge, and resided in Auburn, Massa- chusetts, where he married Hannah Chase. She died and was buried in Auburn, being the mother of four children, namely: Leonard, Selby, Joseph and Cyrus. The third was a soldier of the south- ern army during the civil war; the last died un- married at the age of twenty-one years. Joseph Richardson married (second) a widow named Platt. She was the mother of one daughter, Hannah, who. married a Kirk. They also reared an adopted son, George R.


(VII) Leonard, eldest child of Joseph and Han- nah (Chase) Richardson, was born March 20, 1807, in Auburn, Massachusetts, and died in Newport, New Hampshire, March 12, 1890. In 1844 he re- moved from Auburn to Newport, and bought a farm at Northville, where he resided the remainder of his life. He was a farmer and representative citizen, and took an active interest in the progress of events. He was active in church work, and was for many years leader of the church choir at Auburn. He spent a part of his life in Oxford, Massachusetts, whence he removed to Newport. He was married May 24, 1831, to Lusanna Jennison, of Auburn, Massachusetts, who was born December 8, 1809, and died October 12, 1899. She was a daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Ryan) Jennison, of Auburn, Massachusetts. They were the parents of seven children : Cyrus Emmons, Leonard Edmund, Caro- line Ophelia, Hannah Loraine, Francis Joseph, Mary Lusanna, Elizabeth Jane.




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