STATE OF MAINE. The narrative here writRICHARDSON ten concerns the family and descendants of one of three immigrant brothers, all of English birth and parentage, who came to New England and were among the first settlers in the plantation at Woburn in the colony of Massachusetts Bay. They were Ezekiel, Samuel and Thomas Richardson, sons of Thomas and Katherine (Durford) Richardson, of West Mill, Herts, England, whose marriage is recorded 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, Massachusetts, March 23, 1658. He was the last of the three brothers to come to America. He inherited lands from his father and was executor 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 youngest brother Thomas sailed for New England. He appears first in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1636, and in 1640 was one of the signers of the town orders in Woburn. 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 Richardson was admitted to the church in Charlestown, 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 In 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: 1. Mary, baptized February 25, 1637-38, married Thomas Mousall. 2. John, baptized November 12, 1639, married (first) Elizabeth Bacon; (second) Mary Pierson; (third) Margaret 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 September 27, 1657. 8. Elizabeth. (II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) 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 10, 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 observing 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 Hannah 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 infant in order to save herself, and it was slain where it fell. The father pursued the Indians 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 buried 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 1651 place of concealment after being shot; and at this place the Indians left behind them a bundle 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; (second) 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 survived him and died October 14, 1717. Samuel 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: 1. Samuel, born November 5, 1670, married (first) Susannah Richardson; (second) Esther -. 2. Thomas, twin with Samuel, killed by Indians, April 10, 1676. 3. Elizabeth, born about 1672, married Jacob Wyman. 4. Martha, born December 20, 1673, died November . 1677. 5. Hannah, born April 11, 1676, kied 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 September 9, 1681. 8. Sarah, born August 20, 1682, married William Chubb. 9. Thomas, born September 25, 1684, married Rebecca Wyman. 10. 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 February 10, 1692-93. 14. Jonathan, born July 16, 1696, married Abigail Wyman. 15. David, born April 14, 1700. (III) David, youngest of the fifteen children of Samuel (2) and Sarah (Hayward) Richardson, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, 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 Edward 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, Abigail, daughter of Joseph Holden, of Westminster; she died August 5, 1777. David Richardson had fifteen children: 1. 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 5. Woodward. 4. Lydia, born about 1730, married, January 16, 1755, Abijah Fuller. David, born February 24, 1732. 6. Samuel, born April 25, 1734, married (first) December 11, 1760, Sarah Parker; (second) February 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. Captain Aaron, born October 2, 1740, married Ruth Stingley. 10. Abigail, born May 16, 1743, married, March 28, 1765, Aaron Fiske. 11. 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. Sarah, born August 25, 1755. 15. Mary, born March 23, 1757. 14. (IV) David (2), son of David (1) 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 Pearsontown, now Standish, Maine, lived there from 1778 to 1807, when he took up his residence in the town of Monmouth. He married (first) February 13, 1755, Mary Hall, born March 7, 1734, died 1775, daughter of Edward and Mary (Miller) Hall, of Newton. Married (second) September 20, 1778, Hannah Mills, born June 3, 1748, died June 10, 1809. David Richardson had sixteen children, nine by his first and seven by his second wife: 1. 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. Joseph, born July 3, 1763, see below. 6. Elisha, born March 21, 1766, married Dorothy Frost. 7. Jonathan, born September 10, 1768, married, March 14, 1790, Mary Thomas. 8. Huldah, 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; (second) Mary Dearborn. 14. Nancy, born October 8, 1782, married Captain Artemas Richardson. 15. Lucy, born October 8, 1782, twin with Nancy, married Philip Ayer. 16. William, born September 4, 1784, married Lydia |