Jesse Richardson

1758 - 1838  (79 years)

• Name	Jesse Richardson  [1, 2]
  Birth	3 Feb 1758	Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1838	Monroe Township, Muskingum, Ohio   [3]
  Alternate death	1843  [5]
  Person ID	I30121	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	David Richardson,   b. 4 Mar 1729, Stonington, New London, Connecticut d. 15 Aug 1811, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Rachel Richardson,   b. 16 May 1729, Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut d. 13 Jan 1807, Somers, Tolland, Connecticut (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	28 Oct 1747  [3, 5]
  Family ID	F17985	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lydia Rowley
  Family ID	F18018	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Anna Jones,   b. 28 Sep 1759, Somers, Tolland, Connecticut d. 7 Sep 1807, Somers, Tolland, Connecticut (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	12 Nov 1778	Congregational Church, Somers, Tolland, Connecticut   [3, 4, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Jesse Richardson,   b. 3 Feb 1785, Somers, Tolland, Connecticut d. Aft 1850, Hancock County, Illinois (Age > 66 years)
  Family ID	F17984	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  "Jesse was not yet 17 when the Revolutionary War began, and he enlisted on July 7, 1775, with his brother David. Jesse served until December 16th in Captain Pease’s 3rd Company in Colonel Hunton’s Connecticut Regiment. The Pease family were prominent members of Somers. In 1776, with his brother Sanford, Jesse enlisted again with Captain Pease in Colonel Erastus Wolcott’s Connecticut Regiment and served nine months, being discharged on January 1, 1777. He enlisted again in 1778 and served one year in Captain Haws’ Company in Colonel Mason’s Connecticut Regiment. At the end of that last tour of duty, when he was 20, he married 19 year-old Anna Jones on November 12, 1778 in Somers, at the Congregational Church." [John Thomas Bullock, citation details below] A letter from A. D. Miller of the War Department pension office to Mrs. P. Nugent, 18 Feb 1932, viewable at fold.com, substantiates nearly all of the above, and adds that "He was allowed pension on his application executed March 7,m 1833 in Monroe Township, Mukingum County, Ohio, in which state he had resided fifteen years, aged seventy-four years."

  
  

• Sources

  [S180] Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, on familysearch.org. [S4362] Daughters of the American Revolution lineage book, volume 45, 1903. [S4361] John Thomas Bullock, "Our Family Tree.". [S4363] A Potter-Richardson Memorial: The Ancestral Lines of William W. Potter of Michigan, and His Wife, Margaret (Richardson) Potter by Doreen Potter Hanna and Louise Potter. 1957., year only. [S4363] A Potter-Richardson Memorial: The Ancestral Lines of William W. Potter of Michigan, and His Wife, Margaret (Richardson) Potter by Doreen Potter Hanna and Louise Potter. 1957. [S1898] Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 ed. Frederic W. Bailey. New Haven: Bureau of American Ancestry, 1896-1906.