General Notes

JBR +343 (Fifth Generation)

343. (COLONEL) BARZILLAI RICHMOND5 (William4, Silvester3, Edward2, John1) was born in Little Compton, R. I., April 13, 1721, and died January 5, 1796. He married in Providence, November 24, 1743, Sarah, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Knight, who was born November 21, 1718, and died October 10, 1791.
The following is taken from the tombstone of Colonel Barzillia:
"In Memory of
Col. Barzillia Richmond,
who having served his country
for many years
in several public stations,
Departed this Life, on the 5th
Day of Jan'y, A. D. 1796,
Aged 74 years, eight
Months & 23 days."

He was one of the seceders from the First Congregational Church on account of Josiah Cotton  preaching "damnable good works." The secession was in 1743, and he was one of the small number who formed the Beneficent Congregational Society.
He was in the Canada War during two campaigns, and in 1755, and afterwards was ordered to raise a body of men and proceed to the relief of the British Colonial Army on Lake Champlain. He contracted a disease in one of his legs which made him lame for life. He was at the siege of Ticonderoga under Dalrymple, a Colonel; he was not however, in the storming party.  His brother William, of Little Compton, was with him as volunteer lieutenant.
At one time he received orders late Saturday night. He repaired to his minsters, and had an appropriate sermon preached on Sunday morning; opened a rendezvous for enlistment in the afternoon, and in the evening, with a large company, was on his march.
Of the four companies to be raised as a reinforcement to go against Crown Point under Major-General Johnson, he was a captain on the fourth company, and was Lieutenant-Colonel in 1758 and 1760. He also held various municipal , civil, and State office. He was a member of the General Assembly of Rhode Island in 1758, May and October, two sessions, and was also member of the Town Council of Providence.
Richmond Street, in Providence, received its name from Colonel Richmond, who with others, laid in out over what was then called Cow-pen Point to Ship Street. It has been extended since.

CHILDREN:
+1023. WILLIAM6, born Aug. 17, 1744; married, 1st Lois Gray; 2nd Hannah Mason.
+1024. ELIZABETH6, born April 5, 1746 (?); married James Searle.
+1025. EBENEZER6, born Feb. 5, 1747; died unmarried.
+1026. MEHITABLE6, born June 21, 1749; married Lewis Bosworth.
+1027. ANNA6, born Oct. 1, 1750; married Silas Talbot.
-1028. SARAH6, born Sept. 28, 1758; died Sept. 12, 1785.

There were probably three other children, viz: Barzillai, Samuel and Cyrus. There are  two small stones in the graveyard in Providence , R. I., one of which has "Samuel, son of
Barzillai, died June 10, 1750"; on the other the name is effaced but "B. R." on the footstone probably is for Barzillai. There is a small stone near Samuel, probably for an infant, but no name of Cyrus can be found. Sarah Richmond6 was a woman of rare mental accomplishments.

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