Captain Josiah Richardson1 
b. 5 May 1691, d. between 17 August 1773 and 31 December 1776
Captain Josiah Richardson|b. 5 May 1691\nd. bt 17 Aug 1773 - 31 Dec 1776|p695.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|Josiah Richardson|b. c 1634\nd. 22 Jul 1695|p805.htm|Remembrance Underwood|b. 27 Feb 1639/40\nd. 20 Feb 1718/19|p806.htm|Robert Parish|b. c 1635\nd. b 5 Sep 1709|p661.htm|Mercy Crisp|b. s 1648|p663.htm|
4th great-granduncle of Louise Underwood.
6th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
- Family Background:
- Underwood and Allied Families
Josiah Richardson was born on 5 May 1691 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.1,2 He was the son of Lieut. Josiah Richardson and Mercy Parish.1 He married Lydia circa 1711.1 Lydia Richardson died in 1737, and on 1 April 1738 marriage intention for Josiah Richardson and Elizabeth French was published at Dracut.1,3 He died between 17 August 1773 and 31 December 1776, the dates of the making and proving of his will.1
On 17 October 1711, he was admitted as an inhabitant of Dracut, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, settling on a large tract on the Merrimack River. He was devoted to the public service of the town, serving as selectman, town clerk and treasurer.1
Josiah's father died intestate in 1711 leaving an estate valued at £514 : 4 : 0, less payments of £78 : 2 : 7. The probate judge ordered the widow's dower of one-third of the estate set off on 17 November 1712 and directed that the other two-thirds be carefully valued as he had granted the request of the eldest son, Josiah Richardson, to which the widow and the guardians of the minor children had consented, that Josiah should buy the said two-thirds. He entered a bond for £500, with his brother-in-law Ephraim Hildreth as his surety on 16 July 1718, to pay "the several sums ordered" to his brothers Robert, Zachariah and William Richardson, and his sisters Mercy Hildreth, the wife of Ephraim Hildreth, and Hannah Richardson.4 In 1749 he paid the second highest tax.1 Calling himself gentleman in his will of 1773, he named two grandsons, Uriah Coburn and Obadiah Richardson executors.1
On 17 October 1711, he was admitted as an inhabitant of Dracut, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, settling on a large tract on the Merrimack River. He was devoted to the public service of the town, serving as selectman, town clerk and treasurer.1
Josiah's father died intestate in 1711 leaving an estate valued at £514 : 4 : 0, less payments of £78 : 2 : 7. The probate judge ordered the widow's dower of one-third of the estate set off on 17 November 1712 and directed that the other two-thirds be carefully valued as he had granted the request of the eldest son, Josiah Richardson, to which the widow and the guardians of the minor children had consented, that Josiah should buy the said two-thirds. He entered a bond for £500, with his brother-in-law Ephraim Hildreth as his surety on 16 July 1718, to pay "the several sums ordered" to his brothers Robert, Zachariah and William Richardson, and his sisters Mercy Hildreth, the wife of Ephraim Hildreth, and Hannah Richardson.4 In 1749 he paid the second highest tax.1 Calling himself gentleman in his will of 1773, he named two grandsons, Uriah Coburn and Obadiah Richardson executors.1
Children of Captain Josiah Richardson and Lydia (—?—) (Richardson)
- Lydia Richardson5 b. 4 Nov 1713, d. 4 Nov 1713
- Lydia Richardson5 b. 27 Sep 1714, d. 24 Nov 1753
- Hannah Richardson6 b. 20 Apr 1717, d. 26 Feb 1717/18
- Josiah Richardson5 b. 29 Dec 1718, d. 13 Feb 1756
- Lieutenant Jonathan Richardson+5 b. 19 Dec 1720, d. 18 Feb 1768
- Ephraim Richardson7 b. 12 Nov 1722
- Moses Richardson8 b. 14 May 1724, d. 21 Mar 1725/26
- Hannah Richardson6 b. 25 Dec 1725
- Moses Richardson8 b. 12 Jun 1728
- Mercy Richardson8 b. 5 Jan 1729/30
- David Richardson7 b. 1 Jun 1731, d. 6 Jun 1773
- Samuel Richardson9 b. 28 Mar 1737, d. 28 Mar 1740
Citations
- [S165] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Richardson, of Chelmsford," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. III, 3: 227, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth (1958).
- [S111] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1914), 131.
- [S110] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Dracut Massachusetts (Boston: The Essex Institute, 1914), 231.
- [S165] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Richardson, of Chelmsford," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 3: 226, 227, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth (1958).
- [S110] Dracut VR (published), 99.
- [S110] Dracut VR (published), 98.
- [S110] Dracut VR (published), 97.
- [S110] Dracut VR (published), 100.
- [S110] Dracut VR (published), 101.
