Edward Richmond, Attorney General of Rhode Island

Abt 1632 - 1696  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Edward Richmond  [1, 2]
  Suffix	Attorney General of Rhode Island
  Birth	Abt 1632	England   [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Nov 1696	Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island   [3, 6, 8, 9]
  Burial	Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island   [6]
  Person ID	I22655	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	John Richmond,   b. Abt 1594   d. 20 Mar 1664, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age ~ 70 years)
  Family ID	F13676	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Abigail Davis   d. Bef 20 Aug 1685
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Richmond,   b. 6 Dec 1666, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island d. 9 Feb 1717, Bristol County, Massachusetts (Age 50 years) + 2. Col. Sylvester Richmond,   b. 1672, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island d. 20 Nov 1754, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F13628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2021

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2217] "Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories." The Mayflower Descendant 18:248, 1916. [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. [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. [S2883] Robert S. Wakefield, "Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: The Richmond Family." The American Genealogist 54:96, 1978. [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. [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. [S5710] The Richmond Family 1594-1896 by Joshua Bailey Richmond. Boston, 1897. [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., place only. [S5710] The Richmond Family 1594-1896 by Joshua Bailey Richmond. Boston, 1897., date only.