John Richmond

Abt 1594 - 1664  (~ 70 years)

• Name	John Richmond  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1594  [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	Between 14 Dec 1663 and 11 Apr 1664	Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts   [5]
  Death	20 Mar 1664	Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 6, 7, 8]
  Person ID	I22695	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of GFS
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2021

  
  

  Children	+ 1. John Richmond,   b. Abt 1627   d. 7 Oct 1715, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age ~ 88 years) + 2. Edward Richmond, Attorney General of Rhode Island,   b. Abt 1632, England d. Nov 1696, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island (Age ~ 64 years) + 3. Mary Richmond,   b. Abt 1639   d. 3 Oct 1715, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age ~ 76 years)
  Family ID	F13676	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2021

  
  

• 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).

  
  

• Sources

  [S1739] Mayflower Increasings: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants by Susan E. Roser. 2nd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995. [S2894] Thomas Rogers Society. [S2217] "Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories." The Mayflower Descendant 18:248, 1916. [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. [S2883] Robert S. Wakefield, "Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: The Richmond Family." The American Genealogist 54:96, 1978. [S2003] Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams by Josephine C. Frost. 1920. [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. [S5710] The Richmond Family 1594-1896 by Joshua Bailey Richmond. Boston, 1897.