Josiah Richardson1 
b. 8 May 1734, d. 15 April 1801
Josiah Richardson|b. 8 May 1734\nd. 15 Apr 1801|p593.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|Lieut. Josiah Richardson|b. 18 May 1665\nd. 17 Oct 1711|p659.htm|Mercy Parish|b. 5 Jan 1667/68\nd. 25 Apr 1743|p660.htm|Benjamin Butterfield|d. 24 Jul 1715|p960.htm|Sarah Bates|b. 1677/78\nd. 5 Apr 1735|p969.htm|
3rd great-granduncle of Louise Underwood.
5th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
- Family Background:
- Underwood and Allied Families
Josiah Richardson was born on 8 May 1734 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.1 He was the son of Zachariah Richardson and Sarah Butterfield.1 He married Lydia Warren, daughter of Ephraim Warren and Esther (—?—), on 2 December 1761 in Chelmsford.2 He died on 15 April 1801 at age 66.3 He was buried on 16 April 1801 in Forefather's Burying Ground, Chelmsford Center.4
Josiah and Lydia Richardson "owned the covenant", a custom that entitled them baptism for their children, on 25 April 1763.3
Josiah and Lydia Richardson "owned the covenant", a custom that entitled them baptism for their children, on 25 April 1763.3
Children of Josiah Richardson and Lydia Warren
- Paul Richardson5 b. 14 Jun 1762
- Lydia Richardson5 b. 7 Dec 1763
- Olive Richardson5 b. 7 Jun 1765, d. 28 Apr 1769
- Josiah Richardson1 b. 9 Jun 1767
- Simeon Richardson6 b. 24 Sep 1768, d. 10 May 1811
- Esther Richardson1 b. 10 Dec 1770, d. 24 Jan 1787
- Silas Richardson6 b. 27 Dec 1773
- Benoni Richardson7 b. 27 May 1775, d. 7 Oct 1777
- Zachariah Richardson6 b. 6 Oct 1777
Citations
- [S111] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1914), 131.
- [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 306.
- [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), 81.
- [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 434, citing church record, First Congregational Church (now Unitarian), Chelmsford Centre.
- [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 132.
- [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 133.
- [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 130.
