William Richmond

Notes:

He was an assistant to the governor from 1753 to 1755. He was a judge, and according to Little Compton Families (citation details below), he was instrumental in securing the Rhode Island border that ensured Little Compton was inside Rhode Island.

William married Anna Gray on 8 Jul 1724 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island. Anna (daughter of Dr. Thomas Gray and Anna Little) was born on 29 Jan 1702 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 9 Oct 1762 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ephraim Richmond was born on 5 May 1723 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1673
• Alternate death: 20 Nov 1754, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts

Notes:

From Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy (citation details below):

Silvester Richmond served as sheriff of Bristol County, Justice of the Peace in 1711 and 1729, and was one of the original members of the First Congregational Church in Little Compton. He was commissioned a Lieutenant on 25 July 1710 and a Colonel in April 1742. In 1752 he removed from Little Compton to Dartmouth.

He owned a large number of slaves but liberated them and settled them in some woodlands in Dartmouth (Dartmouth Woods). Richmond Family states there is a ridge of land in that town which was settled almost wholly by negroes who were descendants of Col. Richmond's emancipated slaves.

Sylvester married Elizabeth Rogers about 1693. Elizabeth (daughter of John Rogers and Elizabeth Pabodie) was born on 16 Apr 1673 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 23 Oct 1724 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1672
• Alternate death: 21 Oct 1724, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island

Notes:

From Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy (citation details below):

Before coming to Little Compton, Edward owned property in the part of Newport which became Middletown. A gunsmith, he was an incorporator of Little Compton and bought two great lots there. He lived and is buried on the place known as the Father Richmond place, slightly north of the entrance to Meeting House Lane on the other side of the West Main Road. His gravestone in the small Richmond cemetery is the second oldest in town and a photo appears in Little Compton Families.

In 1661 Edward had a share in Misquamicut (Westerly) lands appointed to him, and in 1663 he received a legacy of forty acres and wearing apparel from his father's will. On 31 October 1677 he and forty-seven others were granted 5,000 acres to be called East Greenwich. He bought the twenty-seventh lot in Little Compton from Daniel Wilcox for £50 on 2 February 1692.

Edward served the Colony of Rhode Island as General Solicitor 1667, 1669, 1670, and 1672; Attorney General 1677-1680; Deputy 1678-1679, 1686; and Selectman 1683-1685, 1689-1690. In 1677 he was one of three men appointed to go to Newport regarding advancing money for the Colony's use in sending agents to England. He took the oath of fidelity at Little Compton on 6 June 1683.

On 6 August 1767 the Assembly voted "that Lieutenant Edward Richmond, with his company, shall be allowed and have the one-half of the produce of the seven Indians they brought in" (according to the act allowing certain Indian men and women be sold for service of nine years). Edward was clerk of a court martial held on 23 August 1676 for the trial of four Indians who were executed. He was fined 65 on 4 June 1686 for furnishing an Indian with rum or strong liquor. In May 1690 he was appointed Captain.

Edward married Abigail Davis. Abigail (daughter of William Davis and Mary) died before 20 Aug 1685. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"She married first, Richard Ussell. On 21 May 1657 Abigil Davis petitioned the General Court alleging that her stepfather John Cowdell and her mother had forced her into marriage with Richard Ussell . The marriage was declared unlawful and she was free to marry Edward Richmond." [Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy, citation details below]

John married Elizabeth Pabodie in Nov 1666 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of William Pabodie and Elizabeth Alden) was born on 24 Apr 1647 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died between 4 May 1677 and 21 Oct 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 14 Dec 1663 and 11 Apr 1664, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts

Notes:

From Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy (citation details below):

The Richmond Family states John Richmond came from Ashton Keynes, co. Wiltshire, England. The name of his wife is unknown. They probably married in England.

John was a purchaser of six original shares of Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1637 , but lived in Newport and other places much of his life. The court records for the Province of Maine include numerous citations of a John Richmond involved in civil cases for slander, trespass, etc., at the Saco Court in 1636 and 1637 (Register, 39: 362-4) .

He took the oath of fidelity at Taunton before 1640 and was in Rhode Island in 1655. He was a Commissioner for Newport at the Court of Commisioners held at Portsmouth in 1656. At the Court of 17 March 1656, moderated by Roger Williams , it was ordered that "Whereas, there are divers presentments standing uppon a booke of records (belonging to ye Islan ), against John Richmond" and a number of others, the "presentments shall not be, any of them, prosecuted, except by expresse orders from His Highness ye Lord Protector" ( R. I. Colonial Records, 1:333 ). In 1656-7 John Richmond of Newport "sen'r" paid a fine levied against Edward Richmond of Newport for £3.13s which had been uncollected "by reason that noe estate was found to serve it on" (Newport, R.I. Records).

William married Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 20 Sep 1692, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

"He probably arrived at Plymouth around 1630 when the last of the Separatists arrived from Leiden." [Stott, citation details below.]

John Rogers (1606-~1692) = Anna Churchman (d. ~1665)
Elizabeth Rogers (~1643->1702) = Nathaniel Williams (1641-1692)
John Williams (1675-1724) = Hannah Robinson (1678-1757)
Silas Williams (1707-1775) = Mary Wetherell (1715-1757)
Paul Williams (1738-1773) = Mary
Jairus Williams (1764-1841) = Hannah Morse (1770-1850)
Jason Williams (1805-1886) = Melinda Chamberlin (1805-1884)
Julia Ann Williams (1832-1895) = Calvin Sanford (1817-1888)
Lucy Fidelia Sanford (1860-1901) = Charles Wesley Nourse (1856-1914)
Ralph Carroll Nourse (1892-1958) = Alice Adelaide Gleed (1892-1981)
Cynthia Bassett Nourse (1930-1980) = Virgil Greeley Hetfield (1925-1996)
James Alan Hetfield (1963- ), lead singer and cofounder of Metallica

John married Anna Churchman on 16 Apr 1639 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Anna died after May 1665. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft May 1664

William married Elizabeth Alden on 26 Dec 1644 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins) was born about 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 31 May 1717 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Alleged to have been the first white woman born in New England.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1571, Watford, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1572, Watford, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate death: Between 1620 and 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Arrived in New England in 1620 on the Mayflower; died in the first sickness.

He was a camlet merchant; i.e., a trader in the kind of heavy cloth used in, for instance, cloaks. On 25 Jun 1618 he was admitted as a citizen of Leiden, not a distinction achieved by most of the English Separatists living there. Prior to his voyage on the Mayflower, on 1 Apr 1620 he sold his house on the Barbarasteeg to one Mordecai Cohen for 300 guilders.

Thomas married Alice Cosford on 24 Oct 1597 in Watford, Northamptonshire, England. Alice (daughter of George Cosford and Margaret) was born before 10 May 1573; was christened on 10 May 1573 in Watford, Northamptonshire, England; died after 1629 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Robert Charles Anderson's assumption is that she came to Plymouth with the last of the Leiden Separatists in 1629 or 1630.

Recorded in Leiden as Elsgen Rogiers.

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Admitted freeman of Duxbury 2 Jan 1638. Proprietor of Bridgewater 1645.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1598

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620. Removed to Duxbury 1632. He was a cooper, and a signer of the Mayflower Compact. A protagonist of Longfellow's "The Courtship of Miles Standish", which may or may not be grounded in actual events.

He was hired at the port of Southampton, but despite the strenuous efforts of many researchers over many years, absolutely nothing has been proved about his English origins.

Deputy Governor of Plymouth, 7 Mar 1665 and 30 Oct 1667. Treasurer 3 Jun 1656, 3 Jun 1657, 1 Jun 1658. Council of War 27 Sep 1642, 10 Oct 1643, 2 Jun 1646, 6 Apr 1653, 12 May 1653, 1 Jun 1658, 2 Apr 1667. Committee to revise laws 4 Jun 1645, 3 Jun 1657. Committee on Kennebec trade 3 Mar 1645, 7 Jun 1648, 8 Jun 1649, 5 Mar 1656. He was literate. "Although there is no direct evidence for his literary and educational attainments, his extensive public service, including especially his appointments as colony treasurer and to committees on revising the laws, certainly indicates that he must have been well-educated." [Robert Charles Anderson, The Pilgrim Migration, citation details below.]

John Alden (1599-1687) = Priscilla Mullins (d. aft. 1651)
Ruth Alden (~1640-1674) = John Bass (1630-1716)
Hannah Bass (1667-1705) = Joseph Adams, Jr. (1654-1737)
John Adams (1691-1761) = Susanna Boylston (1709-1797)
John Adams (1735-1826) = Abigail Smith (1744-1818), 2nd President of the United States
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), 6th President of the United States

John Alden (1599-1687) = Priscilla Mullins (d. aft. 1651)
Rebecca Alden = Thomas Delano
Jonathan Delano (~1675-1765) = Hannah Doty (1675-1764)
Jonathan Delano (1701-~1745) = Elizabeth Winslow (1707-~1745)
Elizabeth Delano (b. 1725) = John Penney (1721-~1756)
Jonathan Penney (~1754-~1812) = Priscilla Grover (1757-~1820)
Priscilla Pinney (~1778-1811) = Luther Franklin (1780-1861)
Abigail Franklin (1811-1892) = Hiram D. Moor (1812-1888)
Victoria Josephine Moor (1846-1885) = John Calvin Coolidge (1845-1926)
(John) Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th President of the United States

John married Priscilla Mullins about 1623 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Priscilla (daughter of William Mullins and Alice) was born about 1602; died after 1651. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1600 to 1605
• Alternate birth: Abt 1603
• Alternate death: Bef 1687, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620.

She may have been a daughter of an earlier wife of William Mullins, rather than of Alice.

William married Eleanor. Eleanor died before 23 May 1607; was buried on 23 May 1607 in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Margaret. Margaret died before 18 Nov 1615; was buried on 18 Nov 1615 in Watford, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her surname may have been Mills.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1572

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620. Died in the first winter. He was a shoemaker.

From "The Probable English Origin of Mayflower passenger Peter Browne, and His Association with Mayflower Passenger William Mullins," by Caleb Johnson, The American Genealogist 79:3, July 2004:

"The parentage and ancestry of William Mullins have not been conclusively proven. The Mullins family may have been living in Dorking for a considerable period of time prior to William Mullins himself, as the Dorking manor court rolls between 1454 and 1458 mention a Peter and Isabel Moleyn on several occasions. The Dorking parish registers are unfortunately defective for the years 1572 through 1578 -- the time period in which we would expect William to have been baptized. However, there was only one Mullins family in Dorking that was having children during this time period: the John Mullins who married Joan Bridger there on 8 July 1571. Most of their children would have fallen into the 'black hole' in the registers. On 23 September 1582, we see the baptism of their last child, Edward Mullins. On 4 February 1583/4, a Mullins (no Christian name given) was buried. Wc can reasonably assume this burial record was for John Mullins the father, because the next Mullins burial record in the registers, on 8 July 1584, was recorded as the 'son of widow Mullins.' And since son Edward Mullins appears in no subsequent Dorking records, we can speculate that this was the unnamed son who was buried. The following year, on 1 November 1585, the widow Joane Mullins was remarried to Vyncent Benham.
"Two Mullinses appear in later Dorking records; they are assumed to be unrecorded children of John and Joan (Bridger) Mullins. They are the Mayflower passenger, William Mullins, and John Mullins."

William married Alice before 1593. Alice died after 2 Apr 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 21 Feb 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620. Died sometime after the Mayflower set sail on its return voyage, but before the mid-November arrival of the Fortune.

She may or may not have been the mother of Priscilla Mullins.