General Notes

Chronology:

1786 Dec 10  born Jonathan Richmond (s/o Sylvester and Elizabeth Gardner Richmond) in New Braintree, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

1803 Oct:     married Hannah Harriet Duncan at New Braintree, Massachusetts.  s621

1804:         to Augusta, Madison County, New York

             farmer, s621

Ch Amiziah born Augusta 1804, ch Seth died infant in Augusta in 1819, therefore I assume all but 1st and last child probably born Augusta.  Bud

1820 abt:  removed to Onondaga County, New York  (per census per Elsie Rae Walton)
             (prob Syracuse as son John's wife b. Syracuse - Bud)

1852:  Jonathan's son John and family removed to Illinois

             (wife Harriet Duncan died Van Buren, Onondaga County, New York)

1861 Jan 3   died Elmira, New York.  s621 (residing with son or daughter?)

wife possible sister to Jonathan's bro-in-law John Duncan, Jr.)

All of the listing at Ancestry (including my own data) state that Hannah died in Van Buren, Onondaga co., New York but one.  It states she died in Van Buren Point, Chautauqua County, New York , USA


A brief history written by Rae Walton, descendant of John Richmond (1786 –1862), it states:  s 623

"Jonathan Richmond was buried in an unmarked grave at Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York.  Why Elmira when he had lived all of his adult life in Augusta (where he lived during the first 17 years of his married life) and then Onondaga?  And why an unmarked grave?  He was too old to have been in the Civil War so this rules out the possibility that he was in the Elmira Prison where many Civil War soldiers died.  Also, till we find out where and when his wife, Hannah Harriet Duncan Richmond died, we don't know whether she died before he did.  If this was the case, he could possibly have moved to Elmira to live with one of his children. Virtually nothing is known about his children except for our ancestor, John Richmond.  I have not been able to find out why he left Braintree. Perhaps the family farm in New Braintree was not big enough for all the brothers, perhaps because Jonathan was not the oldest son, Etc .  There was a lot of migration west about the time Jonathan and Hannah were married and, since they were young, they decided to head west into a less settled area of the country.  The revolutionary war was over and many young men felt it was the right time to move from the more crowded areas of the east to where there was much more land available for farming.  Many Richmond's moved to New York State and settled in the central part of the state."

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  Recorded Events in His Life

• He has conflicting birth information of 10 December 1786 and New Braintree, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. ⁶

• He appeared on the 1790 US Federal Census on 2 August 1790 in New Braintree, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. ⁷
  
  1790 census:  Sylvester Richmond in New Braintree, Worcester, Massachusetts:
  Free white males 16 and older:  3  [this would be Sylvester b1746, son Sylvester, and unknown]
  Free white males under 16: 3  [Elijah, Jonathan, and James]
  Free white females: 4 [Elizabeth, Catherine, Betsey, and Lucena]
  All other free persons: 0
  Slaves: 0
  
  The unknown male might be Captain Silvester Richmond (Sylvester b1746's father), just before Capt Silvester remarried to Mrs. Hannah Pratt.  However, new theory that Jonathan Richmond the elder might have survived.  Would explain the count.  And Captain Silvester may be the extra male in the household of Perez Cobb (who married Capt Silvester's daugther Abbiah) since in 1800, there's an older couple living in the Perez Cobb household.

• He appeared on the 1800 US Federal Census on 4 August 1800 in New Braintree, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. ⁸
  
  New Braintree, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA (head: Silvester Richmond)
  FWM under 10 — 2 [Zephaniah Richmond, age 1; ?Sherlock, child of "Miss Patty"]
  FWM 10-15 — 2  [Jonathan, age 14y7m; James, age 12]
  FWM 16-25 --  1 [Elijah, age 19]
  FWM 26-44  — 2? [looks like was written in wrong column and then erased]
  FWM 45+ — 2  [Sylvester Richmond, age 54; prob also Silvester Richmond, father, age 88 (but then where is his wife??]
  FWF under 10 — 3 [Nabby, age 9; Esther, age 5; ?child of Katy Richmond]
  FWF 10-15 — 0
  FWF 16-25 — 2  [Catherine, age 20; Betsey, age 17]
  FWF 26-44 — 1  [Elizabeth Gardner Richmond, age 41]
  FWF 45+ — 0
  Slaves — 0

• He appeared on the 1810 US Federal Census on 6 August 1810 in New Braintree, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. ⁹ New Braintree, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA (head: Jonathn Richmond)
  
  1810 census — New Braintree, Worcester County, Massachusetts (Jonathn Richmond)
  
  FWM under 10 — 4 [Sylvester, Amaziah, J Zeph, Jonathan]
  FWM 10-15 — 0
  FWM 16-25 — 0
  FWM 26-44 — 1 [Jonathan, age 24]
  FWM 45+ — 0
  FWF under 10 — 0
  FWF 10-15 — 0
  FWF 16-25 — 0
  FWF 26-44 — 1 [Hannah, age about 22]
  FWF 45+ — 0
  all other free persons — 0
  slaves — 0

• Moved: from Massachusetts to Oneida County, New York when Amaziah was 12 years old, Abt 1817, Oneida County, New York, USA. ⁴

• He appeared on the 1840 US Federal Census on 1 June 1840 in Van Buren, Onondaga County, New York, USA. ¹⁰ Van Buren, Onondaga County, New York, USA (between 60-70, head: Jonathan Richmond)

• He appeared on the 1850 US Federal Census on 8 December 1850 in Erin, Chemung County, New York, USA. ¹¹ 1850 census, Erin, Chemung, NY; 8 June 1850; Ancestry image #29 of 45
  dwg #191, fam #191
  
  Jason Frost 36 Cooper $400 NY
  Hannah Frost 26 NY
  Wm Frost 6 NY
  Albert Frost 5 NY
  Edwin Frost 3 NY
  Lydia Frost 1 NY
  Jonathan Richman 69 Farmer Mass

• He appeared on the 1860 US Federal Census on 26 July 1860 in Elmira, Chemung County, New York, USA. ¹² Elmira, Chemung County, New York, USA (Jonathan Richardson, age 75)

• He has conflicting death information of 3 January 1862 and Elmira, Chemung County, New York, USA. ^{1 6}