Lydia Richardson1

b. 7 December 1763
Lydia Richardson|b. 7 Dec 1763|p584.htm|Josiah Richardson|b. 8 May 1734\nd. 15 Apr 1801|p593.htm|Lydia Warren|b. 1 Jan 1738\nd. 15 Oct 1822|p601.htm|Zachariah Richardson|b. Feb 1695/96\nd. 22 Mar 1776|p585.htm|Sarah Butterfield|b. 23 Sep 1701\nd. 11 Aug 1788|p586.htm|Ephraim Warren|||Esther (—?—)|||

1st cousin 4 times removed of Louise Underwood.
1st cousin 6 times removed of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
     Lydia Richardson was born on 7 December 1763 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.1 She was the daughter of Josiah Richardson and Lydia Warren.1 She married John Farmer, son of Oliver Farmer and Rachel Shed, on 24 January 1788 in Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. They both were of Chelmsford.2,3,4
     
     Lydia and John had five children. John, their oldest, was a distinguished antiquary. His most important work is the Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England.4

Citations

  1. [S111] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1914), 132.
  2. [S162] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Westford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1915), 160.
  3. [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 306; gives groom's name as John Farrar, an obvious mistake for the date is the same as the Westford record.
  4. [S166] John Adams Vinton, The Richardson Memorial, Comprising a Full History and Genealogy of the Posterity of the Three Brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel, and Thomas Richardson, Who Came from England, and United with Others in the Foundation of Woburn, Massachusetts, in the Year 1641, of John Richardson, of Medfield, 1679, of Amos Richardson, of Boston, 1640, of Edward and William Richardson, of Newbury, 1643, with Notices of Richardsons in England and Elsewhere (Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston & Co., 1876), 112.