. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. Richardson, his first American an-cestor, who came from England about 1666 andsettled at Woburn, Mass., the line of his descentbeing through William, Stephen (2), Capt. Caleb,Caleb and Deacon Lee Rchardson. Stephen(1) married Abigail Wyman, and they had foursons—William, Francis, Seth and Timothy. II. William Richardson, son of StephenRichardson, born in
. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. Richardson, his first American an-cestor, who came from England about 1666 andsettled at Woburn, Mass., the line of his descentbeing through William, Stephen (2), Capt. Caleb,Caleb and Deacon Lee Rchardson. Stephen(1) married Abigail Wyman, and they had foursons—William, Francis, Seth and Timothy. II. William Richardson, son of StephenRichardson, born in 1678, married Rebecca Vin-ton; he was a native of Attleboro, Massachusetts. III. Stephen Richardson (2), son of WilliamRichardson, was born in 1714, married HannahCoy, and was also a resident of Attleboro, Massa-chusetts. IV. Capt. Caleb Richardson, son of StephenRichardson, born in 1739 in Attleboro, Mass., mar-ried, in about 1762, Esther, daughter of John andDeliverance (Parmenter) Tiffany, of Attleboro,Mass. Capt. Richardson was a soldier in theFrench and Indian war in 1765. He traversed theMohawk Valley before any settlements were madein it. He was with Gen. Bradstreet at the tak-ing of Frontenac. He was a captain in the war of. COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 227 the Revolution, and was in possession of and heldthe old fort on the site of the present Battery in NewYork City while Gen. Washington and forces madetheir retreat. On the close of the war he wasmade a justice in Attleboro. Capt. Richardson, asreferred to in the foregoing, was one of the NinePartners who in 1790 began the settlement of alarge tract of land in what is now Harford, Sus-quehanna county. These men, in the fall of 1789,at Attleboro, Mass., had considered the matter ofpurchase and settlement, and the following springcarried out the project. Their purchase consistedof a body of land some four miles lon«- and onemile wide. Capt. Richardson, however, while hemade the journey and figured in the preli
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