Theophilus Richardson1

b. 22 December 1633, d. 28 December 1674
Theophilus Richardson|b. 22 Dec 1633\nd. 28 Dec 1674|p802.htm|Ezekiel Richardson|b. c 1604\nd. 21 Oct 1647|p746.htm|Susanna (—?—) (Richardson-Brooks)|d. 15 Sep 1681|p786.htm|Thomas Richardson||p732.htm|Katherine Duxford||p733.htm|||||||

6th great-granduncle of Louise Underwood.
8th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
     Theophilus Richardson was baptized on 22 December 1633 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.1,2 He was the son of Ezekiel Richardson and Susanna (—?—) (Richardson-Brooks).1 He married Mary Champney on 2 May 1654 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.1 He died on 28 December 1674 in Woburn at age 41.1,3 Hiis estate was valued on 3 April 1675 at £559.1
     
     In his will dated 20 July 1647, "Ezekiell Richardson of Woebourne" appointed "my wife Susanna and my eldest son Theophilus joint executors." The residue of the estate went to the executors, and in case "my son Theophilus die before he shall accomplish one and twenty years of age, then his portion shall be equally divided to my other children."4,5,6 On 13 December 1659 "Henry Brookes & Susanna Brookes of Woburn," in accordance with an award of the court, deeded to Theophilus Richardson the right and title they had in "the moiety or half part of the housing & land of Ezekiell Richardson of Woburn aforesaid, by executorship or otherwise."7

Children of Theophilus Richardson and Mary Champney

Citations

  1. [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: 221, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth (1958).
  2. [S174] James P. Hunnewell, "The First Record-Book of the First Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts", New England Historic and Genealogical Register (NEHGR) 25 (April 1871): 147.
  3. [S153] Edward F. Johnson, ed., Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, from 1640 to 1873 (Woburn: Andrews, Cutler & Co., 1890), 3 vols., 2: 157. Hereinafter cited as Woburn VR.
  4. [S179] W.B. Trask, "Abstracts of Wills of the Early Settlers of New England", New England Historic and Genealogical Register (NEHGR) 7 (April 1853): 172, 173.
  5. [S170] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-16?? (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-200?). The Great Migration Study Project is ongoing. Several volumes have been published in hardcopy, and new sketches appear frequently in the "Great Migration Newsletter" (online subscription or hardcopy). The database is online and may be viewed at New England Ancestors.org or Ancestry.com, both of which are subscription sites. It is also available in hardcover and CD-ROM from NEHGS, citing Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, Case #72.
  6. [S165] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Richardson, of Chelmsford," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 3: 220, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth (1958).
  7. [S170] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, citing Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Deeds, 2: 154.
  8. [S153] Woburn VR (published), 1: 210.
  9. [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), 40.