Josiah Richardson and Mercy Parish

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60. Lieutenant Josiah Richardson (1665–1711), son of Captain Josiah Richardson and Remembrance Underwood

Josiah Richardsonwas born on 18 May 1665 in Chelmsford. [1, 134] Lieutenant Josiah Richardson died on 17 October (or September) 1711, age 48, in Chelmsford. [1, 434] He married Mercy Parris of Dunstable on 14 December 1687. [2]

Lieutenant Josiah Richardson's gravestone in Chelmsford says that he died on 11 October 1711, age 47 years. [3, 746]

61. Mercy Parish (b. 1678), daughter of Robert Parish and Mercy Crispe

Mercy Parish was born on 5 January 1667/[8?] in Groton. [4, 1:167]

Children of Josiah Richardson and Mercy Parish:

i. Mercy Richardson was born on 9 January 168[torn] or 1690 in Chelmsford. [1, 132] She married Ephraim Hildreth of Dracut about 1707. [2]

ii. Captain Josiah Richardson was born on 5 May 1691 in Chelmsford. [1, 131] He died after 1773. He married first Lydia Unknown. She died on 28 March 1737. He married second Elizabeth French after 1 April 1738 (int.) [2]

Josiah Richardson, gentleman, signed his will in 1773. [2]

iii. Captain Robert Richardson was born on 2 October 1693 in Chelmsford. [1, 132] He married Deborah Unknown. [2]

Robert was captain of a company of horse shoe men in 1725 in Litchfield, New Hampshire. [2]

iv. Captain Zachariah Richardson was born on 16 February 1695/6 in Chelmsford. He was buried on 23 March 1776 in Chelmsford. He married Sarah Butterfield.

v. Hannah Richardson was born on 28 September 1698 in Chelmsford. [1, 131] She either married John Barron of Dracut after 23 April 1721 (int.) in Chelmsford or Jonathan Parkhurst after 7 June 1724 (int.) in Chelmsford. [1, 304]

vi. William Richardson was born on 19 September 170(1?) in Chelmsford. [1, 133] He died between 1 April 1776, when signed his will, and 7 November 1776 when it was probated. [2] He married Elizabeth Colburn. [2]

William moved to Pelham, New Hampshire.

Endnotes:

1. Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1914).

2. Walter Goodwin Davis, Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, vol. 3 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), 226–8.

3. Wilson Waters, History of Chelmsford (Lowell, MA: Courier Citizen Co., 1917).

4. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, 2 vols. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1926, 1927).

Revised 16-Feb-2020