General Notes

The following is from Joshua Bailey Richmond's "The Richmond Family"

                             "INTRODUCTION."
                      "THE PRE-AMERICAN RichmondS."

"It is extremely difficult to follow ancestral lines previous to the founding of the Herald' s College by Richard III, in 1483, so much is tradition engrafted in history.  The credit for tracing our English ancestors is mostly due to the nephew of the compiler, Henry I. Richmond, Jr. who has spent much time, in this country and in England, examining old wills and records, to enable the Richmonds to "read their title clear" to ancestors who served by the side of William the Conqueror on Hastings Field.  Mr. Richmond's forte is Geology, which bears close relations to Genealogy, and he will not be satisfied until he discovers the bones of Richmonds in some ante-diluvian strats.  It is possible that he may give the family a more complete and revised history of the English Richmonds at some future time."

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