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Captain Edward RICHMOND
(Abt 1632 –1696)
Abigail DAVIS
(1635 –1682)
John ROGERS
(Abt 1640 –1732)
Elizabeth PABODIE
(1647 – )
Colonel Silvester RICHMOND
(1672 –1754)
Elizabeth ROGERS
(1673 –1724)
Judge William RICHMOND
(1694 –1770)

 

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Spouses & Children

1. Anna GRAY

Judge William RICHMOND 1 2 3
  • Born: 10 October 1694, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA 1 3
  • Marriage (1): Anna GRAY on 8 July 1720 1 2
  • Died: 22 February 1770 at age 75 1
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bullet  General Notes

JBR +151 (Fourth Generation)

"His will, dated July 5, 1766, proved April, 1770, mentions sons Barzillai, Ephraim, William, Perez, Thomas and Sylvester; daughters Elizabeth Brownell, wife of Jonathan; Mary Ware, wife, of Dr. George Ware; Sarah Walker, wife of David Walker; and Abigail Pitts, wife of Peter Pitts; daughter-in-law Hannah, wife of son William; grandson Gilbert, son of son Ichabod, deceased; granddaughter Anna, daughter of Ephraim.
Hon. William Richmond4 was one of the Assistants of the Governor from 1753 to 1755.  He was a Judge, and instrumental in locating the line securing Little Compton to Rhode Island.  He was Town Clerk, March 15, 1731.
Sylvester3 in his will mentions his "grandson Sylvester, son of my son William."
Thomas Gray, in his will, gave his daughter Anna "a negro woman and a Bible." On March 28, 1728, Jack Richmond married Peggy Gray; undoubtedly Jack was a negro servant of
William Richmond, and married Peggy Gray, the negro woman given to Mrs. Richmond by her father. Banns of Jack Richmond (probably the same Jack) and Phebe Merigo were published in
Little Compton, September 14, 1743."

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William married Anna GRAY, daughter of Thomas GRAY and Anna UNK, on 8 July 1720.1 2 (Anna GRAY was born on 29 January 1702 in prob Dighton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA 1 and died on 9 October 1762 in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA 1.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Joshua Bailey Richmond, The Richmond Family 1594-1896: And Pre-American Ancestors, 1040 –1594, Boston, Massachusetts: Published by the Compiler (W. B. Clarke & Co. Agents), 1897, Fourth Generation, pp. 37-38 (William Richmond #151).
  2. Kirsty M. Haining.
  3. Joshua Bailey Richmond, The Richmond Family 1594-1896: And Pre-American Ancestors, 1040 –1594, Boston, Massachusetts: Published by the Compiler (W. B. Clarke & Co. Agents), 1897, Third Generation, No. 23 (Colonel Silvester Richmond), p. 18.


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