Christopher Richmond

From the Thomas Rogers Society page on Christopher Richmond:

http://www.thomasrogerssociety.com/p21.htm#i615

Christopher Richmond[1]

M, b. circa 1689, d. 26 January 1771

Christopher Richmond was born circa 1689 at prob., Taunton. He was the son of Joseph Richmond and Mary Andrews.

Christopher Richmond married Phebe Williams, daughter of Joseph Williams and Elizabeth Watson, before 1717.

Christopher Richmond died on 26 January 1771 at Taunton.

He married 2nd at Middleboro on 15 Nov 1750 to Susanna (DURFEY) BARDEN.

She had married 1st at Middleboro on 22 Sep 1748 to Abraham BARDEN. She had married 3rd at Taunton or Middleboro on 4 or 9 Jun 1771 to William RICHMOND.

Children of Christopher Richmond and Phebe Williams

• 1. Judith Richmond b. 29 May 1717
• 2. Elizabeth Richmond b. 1 Oct 1719
• 3. Mary Richmond b. 18 Oct 1721
• 4. Eliakim Richmond b. 28 Jan 1724/25
• 5. Phebe Richmond b. 2 Jan 1726
• 6. Joseph Richmond b. 4 Feb 1730/31

Citations

1. [S1] Ann T. [Revised by], (Originally compiled by Alice W. A. Westgate) Reeves, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620: Family of Thomas Rogers (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000), p. 195. Hereinafter cited as Rogers-Silver.

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CHRISTOPHER RICHMOND4 (Joseph3, John2, John1) was born in Middleboro in 1688. He married, first, Phebe Williams, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Watson) Williams, born September 25, 1687; she died, and he married, secondly, November 15, 1750, Susanna Barden of Middleboro, widow of ---- Barden.

CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE (born in Middleboro):

1. JUDITH5, born May 29, 1717; married William Claggett of Newport, R.I. -191. ELIZABETH5, born Oct. 1, 1719.
2. MARY5, born Oct. 18, 1721; married ---- Stephens.
3. ELIAKIM5, born Jan. 28, 1724-5; married Sarah Hackett.
4. PHEBE5, born Jan 2. 1726-7; married Gershom Richmond. (See No. 221.) -195. JOSEPH5, born Feb. 4, 1730-1; died young and unmarried.

Christopher RICHMOND4 made a deposition, December 24th, 1744, in which he says he was then in the fifty-sixth year of his age; this would make the date of his birth 1689.

Source: RICHMOND FAMILY 1594-1896 AND PRE-AMERICAN ANCESTORS 1040-1594 BY JOSHUA BAILEY RICHMOND Member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society page 27 ___________________