Col. Sylvester Richmond

1672 - 1754  (82 years)

• Name	Sylvester Richmond
  Prefix	Col.
  Birth	1672	Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1673	Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island   [4, 5]
  Baptism	3 Nov 1700	First Congregational Church, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island   [4, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	20 Nov 1754	Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island   [1, 7]
  Death	20 Nov 1754	Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts   [4, 6]
  Person ID	I22653	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Edward Richmond, Attorney General of Rhode Island,   b. Abt 1632, England d. Nov 1696, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island (Age ~ 64 years)
  Mother	Abigail Davis   d. Bef 20 Aug 1685
  Family ID	F13628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Rogers,   b. 16 Apr 1673, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 23 Oct 1724, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1693  [1, 3, 4, 6]
  Children	+ 1. William Richmond,   b. 10 Oct 1694, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island d. 22 Feb 1770, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F13627	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2025

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S479] Little Compton Families, from records compiled by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour. Little Compton, Rhode Island: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967. Fifth edition, Baltimore: Clearfield, 1997. [S679] The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island by John Osborne Austin. Albany, New York; 1887. Corrected edition, including corrections by John Osborne Austin and material by G. Andrews Moriarty from The American Genealogist. Baltimore: Genealogicical Publishing Co., 1969, 1978., year only. [S5710] The Richmond Family 1594-1896 by Joshua Bailey Richmond. Boston, 1897. [S637] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden by Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999. [S2219] Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy: The Ancestors and Descendants of Philip Putnam Chase and His Wife Anna Cornelia Wigglesworth ed. Alicia Crane Williams. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1990., year only. [S2219] Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy: The Ancestors and Descendants of Philip Putnam Chase and His Wife Anna Cornelia Wigglesworth ed. Alicia Crane Williams. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1990. [S679] The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island by John Osborne Austin. Albany, New York; 1887. Corrected edition, including corrections by John Osborne Austin and material by G. Andrews Moriarty from The American Genealogist. Baltimore: Genealogicical Publishing Co., 1969, 1978., date only.