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Descendants of Thomas Richardson

Generation No. 2

2. ELIZABETH² RICHARDSON (THOMAS¹) was born ca. 1593 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England, and died ca. June 20, 1630 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England. She married FRANCIS WYMAN May 1, 1617 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England. He was born ca. 1594 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England, and died September 16, 1658 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England.

Notes for ELIZABETH RICHARDSON:
The Wyman Genealogy by John H. Wyman, Wyman Organization at http://www.wyman.org:
Elizabeth (Richardson) Wyman was the sister of three brothers who settled in Woburn, MA. Her brother Ezekiel Richardson came to Boston in 1630 in the Winthrop fleet with his wife Susanna (Bradford) Wyman. They were original members of the First Church of Boston and on 11 Oct. 1632 they were dismissed to the church in Charlestown when it was founded. The brothers Samuel and Thomas Richardson came over some time before 1636 when they first appear in the records of Charlestown and Boston. All three brothers were members of the Charlestown church in 1638.

More About ELIZABETH RICHARDSON:
Bp/Chr: January 15, 1592/93, Westmill, Hertfordshire, England
Burial: June 22, 1630, St. Mary's Church, Westmill, Hertfordshire, England
Source 1: May 12, 2003, rootsweb.com/~mecoakla/documents/records.html
Source 2: May 16, 2003, Dale Mower's records - rootsweb.com
Source 3: March 2, 1998, FTM CD194, MA & ME Fam., V3, pg 217
Source 4: 2002, Grt.Mig. (Ezek.Rchrdsn) NEHGS ONLINE Vol. I-III
Source 5: June 1, 2003, John H. Wyman - wyman.org

Notes for FRANCIS WYMAN:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mecoakla/documents/records.html:
B Francis-1 WYMAN, b West Mill, Hertfordshire, ENG ab 1592, d and bur West Mill 19 Sep 1658; mar(1) West Mill 1 May 1617 Elizabeth RICHARDSON, b and bpt West Mill 13 Jan 1593, d West Mill 22 Jun 1630, bur West Mill 12 Jul 1656, d/o Thomas and Katherine (DUXFORD) RICHARDSON; mar(2) Jane _____. Children:
1 WYMAN, Francis, b ab 1617, bpt West Mill 2 May 1617.
2 WYMAN, Francis, b ENG 1618/1619, bpt 24 Feb 1619, d Woburn MA 28 Nov bur 30 Nov 1699; mar Woburn 30 Jan 1644 Judith PIERCE; mar(2) Woburn MA 2 Oct 1650 Abigail REED.
3 WYMAN, Thomas, b and bpt West Mill 5 Apr 1618; mar 5 Mar 1653 Ann GODFREY.
4 WYMAN, John, b and bpt West Mill 3 Feb 1621, d 9 May 1684; mar 5 Nov 1644 Sarah Ruth NUTT.
5 WYMAN, Richard, b West Mill and bpt St Mary the Virgin, Hertfordshire, ENG 14 Mar 1623.
6 WYMAN, Elizabeth, b West Mill 26 Mar 1626 bpt St Mary the Virgin, Hertfordshire, ENG 28 Mar 1626-7 WYMAN, William, bpt West Mill 31 Aug 1628, d Jul 1630 bur 18 Jul 1630.

Wyman Genealogy, John H. Wyman at http://www.wyman.org
Spelling in Church register is Wimant, Wymant, Weinant of Westmill Snow-Estes Ancestry;I have copy of the will;marriage listed as Wimant, baptisms listed as Wymant see tithe book references cf. Fifty Great Migration Colonists & Their Origins, J.B.Threlfall, 1990:
'I Francis Wyman of the Parish of Westmill in the county of Hertford, husbandman, 15 September 1658. I do give and bequeath unto Jane my wife the full sum of ten shillings of lawful English money to be paid unto her by mine executor presently after my burial. Item I do give and bequeath unto my two sons Francis Wyman and John Wyman which are beyond sea ten punds apiece of lawful English money to be paid unto them by mine executor if they be in want and come over to demand the same. I do give
and bequeath unto my sister Susan Huitt widow the full sum of forty shillings of lawful English money to be likewise paid to her by mine executor within one whole year next coming after my decease. I do give
and bequeath unto Thomas Wyman my son all that my messuage of tenement wherein I now dwell with all my other buildings and outhousing thereunto belonging, and all my lands, orchard, garden and yards, with all and singular their appurtenances whatsoever, to him and his heirs forever. All the rest of my goods &c. to my said son Thomas, whom I appoint executor. Pell, 116.'
Francis failed to pay his tithe for a number of years and so irritated the vicar that he lost patience with Francis and took him to court. The record appears in the tithe book: '1640 Francis Wyman payed 15 April 1640 17/5d at the Court at Hitchin for ye Calves valued at 8s ye Calfe, for eleven years last past viz for ye years 1623, 1624, 1625, 1626, 1627, 1628, 1629, 1630, 1631, 1632, 1633, the sum of 17s5d by the hand of Mr. Dawson Curate to Dr. Ward of Much Munden for which there is an Act in Court unto me Richard Taylor parson of Westmill which Calves were fallen in St. Croft.

The Wyman Family (Collected by T. B. Wyman, Jr. of Charlestown, MA, NEHGR Vol. 3, pg 33:
The name of Wyman is of German derivation, and was originally spelled Weymann. The two individuals first named in the following genealogy are the progenitors of the largest portion of the Wyman family in this country. The first mention made of them is in Charlestown, Dec. 18, 1640, (see Frothingham, p. 106) s signers of the "town orders" coeval with the settlement of Woburn. Their descendants have been numerous and chiefly among the "sturdy yeomanry,", possessing substance and a fair estimation in the ordinary ranks of life. At the present time the family is chiefly comprised in that class so ably apostophrized by the poet in the thrilling liens---
"Heart of the people--WORKING MAN:
Marrow and nerve of human powers;
Who on your sturdy backs sustain,
Through streaming time, this World of Ours."
FIRST GENERATION:
(1) I. John, Lieut., a tanner, m. Nov. 5, 1644, d. May 9, 1684. Wife Sarah, dau. of Miles Nutt of Woburn, who, after his death, m. Thomas Fuller of Woburn, Aug. 25, 1684.
(2) II. Francis, a tanner, m. (see wives) D. Nov. 28 or 30, 1699, aged 82. He m. 1, Judith Pierce of Woburn, Jan. 30, 1645; m. 2, Abigail, dau. of William Read of Woburn, Oct. 2, 1650.
(3) III. Name unknown. See issue No. 27.
(4) IV. Name unknown. See issue No. 28.

More About FRANCIS WYMAN:
Burial: September 18, 1658, Westmill, Hertfordshire, England
Father: Thomas Wyman (Wymant)
Issue: 6 children
Misc: Aft. 1630, m. (2) Jane ???
Mother: Joan Cressal
Source 1: May 12, 2003, rootsweb.com/~mecoakla/documents/records.html
Source 2: May 16, 2003, Dale Mower's records - rootsweb.com
Source 3: March 2, 1998, FTM CD194, MA & ME Fam., V3, pg 217
Source 4: June 1, 2003, John H. Wyman - wyman.org
Source 5: 1849, Wyman Fam. by T. B. Wyman, NEHGR 3:33
Will: September 15, 1658, Written, proved: Feb. 15, 1659

Children of ELIZABETH RICHARDSON and FRANCIS WYMAN are:

6.	i.		FRANCIS³ WYMAN, b. February 24, 1618/19, Westmill, Hertfordshire, England; d. November 28, 1699, Woburn, Massachusetts.
7.	ii.		LT. JOHN WYMAN, b. ca. 1621, Westmill, Hertfordshire, England; d. May 9, 1684, Woburn, Massachusetts.

3. SAMUEL² RICHARDSON (THOMAS¹) was born ca. 1601 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England, and died March 23, 1657/58 in Woburn, Massachusetts. He married JOANNA THAKE ca. 1632 in prob. Much Hormead, Hertfordshire, England. She was born Bet. 1603 - 1606 in of Much Hormead, Hertfordshire, England?, and died ca. 1666 in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Notes for SAMUEL RICHARDSON:
The Richardson Memorial by John Adams Vinton, 1876 printed by Brown Thurston & Co., Portland, Maine (1876), pg. 183 - 184:
SAMUEL RICHARDSON, the 2nd of the three brothers of that name, who united in the settlement of Woburn, was born in England, not far from the year 1610. We do no know in what year he came to this country. Possibly he came with his elder brother, Ezekiel, in 1630, though this is not at all probable. A list of fifty-eight men, inhabitants of Charlestown, dated Jan. 9, 1633-4, is found on the records of that town. Among them is the name of Ezekiel Richardson, but not Samuel or of Thomas, his brothers. A similar list was made out, Jan. 1635-6, in which Ezekiel appears, but neither of his brothers. The first notice we find of Samuel is dated July 1, 1636, when he and his brother Thomas Richardson, with others, were on a committee to lay out lots of land for hay. In 1637, the names of Samuel and Thomas Richardson first appear in a list of inhabitants of Charlestown. The same year the town of Charlestown granted to each of them a "house-plot," clearly indicating that they had recently become residents in the place. These two brothers were admitted members of the church there, Feb.. 18, 1637-8, in consequence of which they were made freemen of the colony, May 2, 1638. Samuel was chosen surveyor of the highways, March 17, 1636-7.
Putting all these things together, it amounts to a certainty that while Ezekiel arrived in June or July, 1630, his younger brothers did not come till 1636. Ezekiel may have been twenty-five or thirty on his coming. Samuel was probably four or five years younger.
The three brothers had lots assigned them, April 20, 1638, on "Misticke side above the Ponds," that is, in Malden, and their names, among others, appear as persons having the privilege of pasturing cows upon the Common, Dec. 30, 1638.
On the 5th of Nov., 1640. the three brothers and four others, Edward Convers, Edward Johnson, John Mousall, and Thomas Graves, were chosen by the church of Charlestown as commissioners or agents for the settlement of a church and town, within what were then the limits of Charlestown, but soon after erected into a separate town, and called Woburn. That whole territory was then a wide, uncultivated waste. In the February following, the commissioners built a bridge over the Aberjona River, as the Mystic River is called, north of Mystic Pond. This bridge was known in after times as Convers' Bridge, from Edward Convers, the proprietor of the adjacent mill. He lived in the immediate vicinity, in the first house built in Woburn. His descendants lived there, or in that vicinity, and the entire locality is now in the heart of the town of Winchester.
When the church was constituted in Woburn, Aug. 14, 1642, O.S., Samuel Richardson and his two brothers, with John Mousall, Edward Johnson, Edward Convers, and William Leonard, solemnly stood forth, as the nucleus around which the church was to be gathered.
The three brothers lived near to each other, on the same street, which has ever since been known as "Richardson's Row." It was by the town laid out as a street in 1647, and the three Richardsons are in the town book represented as then living upon it.
Samuel Richardson was selectman of Woburn in 1644-1646, and 1649-1651. In 1645, he paid the highest tax of any man in Woburn; Capt. Edward Johnson the next.
His wife was Joanna------. It should have been mentioned that she united with the church in Charlestown, on the 9th of the 7th month, or Sept. 9, 1639.
He died, intestate, March 23, 1658. The inventory is dated March 29, 1658. His widow Joanna and eldest son, John, were appointed administrators. [Midd. Prob. Rc., i. 142.] Lieut. John Wyman, of Woburn, was appointed guardian of his sons, John and Joseph, June 25, 1658.

Family Tree Maker Online: GenealogyLibrary.com, Samuel Richardson and Josiah Ellsworth by Ruth Ellsworth Richardson, Call Number: CS71.R52, 1974:
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RICHARDSON
1. Samuel Richardson bapt December 22, 1602, d 1658, son of Thomas and Catherine (Duxford) Richardson was executor of his father's estate July 31, 1634, at Hutchins, England. The first notice of Samuel in the Colonies is dated July 1, 1636 when he and his brother Thomas were on a committee to lay out lots of land for hay. Thomas were on a list of inhabitants of Charlestown and were granted house lots April 20, 1638. He was a freeman May 2, 1638. The three brothers had lots assigned to them on Misticke side above the ponds, that is in Malden and their names appear as persons having the privilege of pasturing cows upon the Common, December 30, 1638. The three brothers were admitted members of the church in Charlestown February 18, 1637-8.
Samuel's wife united with the church July 7, 1639. On November 5, 1640, the three brothers and four others--Edward Converse, Edward Johnson, John Mousall, and Thomas Graves were chosen by the church of Charlestown as commissioners or agents for the settlement of a church or town within what was then the limits of Charlestown, but soon thereafter erected a separate town called Woburn, a wide uncultivated waste at that time. The following February they built a bridge over the Aberjone River as the Mystic River was called north of the Mystic Road. This bridge was afterward known as Conver's Bridge from Edward Convers, proprietor of a nearby mill. The entire locality is part of Winchester.
The three brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel, and Thomas Richardson lived near each other on what was called "Richardson Row." It was laid out as a street in 1747. It runs north and south in the present town of Winchester, a short distance east of Boston and
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Lowell R.R. and is now part of Washington Street in Boston (1876). For many years the cellar holes of their houses were pointed out to visitors.
Samuel Richardson was chosen a selectman of Woburn April 13, 1644, at first town meeting and held the office in '45, '49, '50, and '51. In 1645, he paid the highest tax of any man in Woburn. He m. 1633, Joanna (???). He d March 25, 1658, intestate. The widow and oldest son, John, were appointed administrators. The inventory was filed March 29, 1658. Lieut. John Wyman was appointed guardian of the sons John and Joseph June 25, 1658. Joanna d June 20, 1666, in Woburn, Mass. Her will was dated June 20, 1666; proved 1677. She gave her real estate to her sons, John, Joseph, Samuel and Stephen. She gave her clothing to her daughter Elizabeth. She mentions Mary Mousall as her daughter.
1. Samuel b July 3, 1633 d young
2. Elizabeth b May 22, 1635, d August 16, 1685, m John Mousall.
3. Mary bapt in church at Charlestown February 25, 1638, d September 13, 1677, m prob Thomas Mousall, son of Deacon John (some books say son of Ralph and Alice).
4. Lieut. John bapt in Charlestown church November 12, 1639; d January 1, 1696, m 1st October 22, 1658, Elizabeth Bacon b January 4, 1641/2 dau of Michael, 2nd October 28, 1673, Mary Person b April 10, 1652, d December 21, 1721, dau of Bartholomew and Ursula Person; 3rd June 25, 1689, Margaret Willing who d October 28, 1726. Made freeman May 2, 1658; removed to Woburn; one of the founders of the church there. Ch: John b 1660; Joseph b 1666; by 2nd wife, Mary 1674; Jacob 1675; William b and d 1678; by 3rd wife Job 1696.
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5. Hannah b March 8, 1642 d April 8, 1642; the first death in Woburn, Mass.
6. Joseph b July 17, 1643 m November 5, 1666 Hannah Green. Ch: Hannah 1667; Mary 1669 m James Fowle; Elizabeth 1670 m John Coggin; Deacon Stephen 1673-1752.
7. Samuel b 1641[1646] d 1712 m 1st Martha (???) d 1673; 2nd Hannah Kingsbury; 3rd Phebe Baldwin d 1679; 4th Sarah (Sally) Hayward 1655-1711.
8. Stephen b August 15, 1649 m 1st 1674/5 Mary Sawyer; 2nd Abigail Wyman prob dau of Francis; Ch: Stephen 1675; Francis b and d 1677/8; William 1678; Francis (again) 1680/1; Timothy b and d 1682; Abigail 1683; Prudence; Timothy (again) 1687/8; Seth 1689/90; Daniel 1681; Mary 1686; Rebecca 1692-1711; Solomon 1702; Henry 1704.

Early Emigrants from Herts, England by Walter Kendall Watkins, NEHGR 1903, Vol. 57, 299 & 300:
The three brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel and Thomas Richardson, are known as such by the will of Ezekiel, who names the other two as his brothers.
Samuel presented the will of his father for probate at Hitchin, England 31 July 1634. He had previously married; and had baptized at West Mill, a son Samuel, 3 July 1633, and a dau. Elizabeth 22 May 1635.
Samuel Richardson's name does not appear in the Tithe Book of West Mill after 1635. Against Over Green, where he (and also his father, Thomas) lived, is written "none." It was, therefore, after that date he and his brother Thomas sailed for New England, with their families; and we find, on 1 July 1636, the brothers were on a committee to lay out lots of land in Charlestown, for hay. There is no record of the birth or baptism of a dau. Elizabeth to Samuel in Woburn, but the will of his wife Joanna, in 1666 mentions a dau. Elizabeth, who was probably the one baptized at West Mill, 22 May 1635.

FTM CD194, Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, Vol. III, pg 217: RICHARDSON
iv. SAMUEL, bapt. Dec. 22, 1602; m. Joanna Thake at Much Hormead, co. Hertford, in 1622. He and his brother Thomas followed their brother Ezekiel to Massachusetts Bay where they had arrived by 1635/6. Both were on a Charlestown committee July 1, 1636, Granted a house-plot in 1637, he was admitted to the church Feb. 18. 1637/8, and took the Freeman's oath May 2, 1638. In 1640 with his brothers and four others he was a member of a committee to lay out the town which became Woburn, but which was then within the bounds of Charlestown. They were all original members of the new church "gathered" in 1642. A selectman of Woburn 1644-1646, 1649-1651, he paid the highest town tax in 1645. He died intestate March 23, 1657/8, and admin. was granted to his widow Joanna and his eldest son John. His nephew, Lieut. John Wyman, was appointed guardian of his sons John and Joseph on June 25, 1658.
Joanna Richardson, who had joined the Charlestown church Sept. 9, 1639, made her will June 20, 1666. She left her real property to her eldest son John and her other sons Joseph, Samuel and Stephen, her clothing to her dau. Elizabeth, and also mentioned her dau. Mary Mousall.

More About SAMUEL RICHARDSON:
Bp/Chr: December 22, 1602, St. Mary's, West Mill, Herts, England
Emigration: Bet. 1635 - 1636, to Charlestown, then (1641) Woburn, MA
Issue: 8 children
Misc: March 29, 1658, inv. of estate dated
Source 1: 1876, Richardson by J. A. Vinton, pg 183-185
Source 2: 1974, Richardson&Elsworth by R.E.Richardson, pg 11
Source 3: 1903, Emig. from Herts., Eng., NEHGR 57:300
Source 4: March 2, 1998, FTM CD194, MA & ME FAM, V3, pg 217

Notes for JOANNA THAKE:
Richardson Memorial by J.A.Vinton, Portland, Maine, 1876, pg 185:
The will of Joanna Richardson, widow of Samuel, is dated June 20, 1666. She probably died so on after, though the will was not proved till 1677. It is recorded Midd. Probate Rec., iv.122. She gives her real estate to her eldest son, John, and sons Joseph, Samuel, and Stephen, and her clothing to her daughter Elizabeth. She mentions Mary Mousall as her daughter.

Family Tree Maker Online: GenealogyLibrary.com, Samuel Richardson and Josiah Ellsworth by Ruth Ellsworth Richardson, Call Number: CS71.R52, 1974, Page 14:
Joanna d June 20, 1666, in Woburn, Mass. Her will was dated June 20,1666; proved 1677. She gave her real estate to her sons, John, Joseph, Samuel and Stephen. She gave her clothing to her daughter Elizabeth. She mentions Mary Mousall as her daughter.

More About JOANNA THAKE:
Father: may be William Thake, ca.1571-1630
Misc: September 9, 1639, Joined the Charlestown Church
Misc.: may be Joanna Thake
Mother: may be Johan Wood, ca.1574-1621
Source 1: 1876, Richardson by J. A. Vinton, pg 185
Source 2: 1974, Rechardson&Elsworth by R.E.Rchrdsn, pg 11
Source 3: 1903, Emig. from Herts., Eng., NEHGR 57:300
Source 4: March 2, 1998, FTM CD194, MA & ME FAM, V3, pg 217
Will: June 20, 1666, dated, 1677-proved

Children of SAMUEL RICHARDSON and JOANNA THAKE are:

8.	i.	LT. JOHN³ RICHARDSON, b. ca. 1639, Charlestown?, Massachusetts; d. January 1, 1696/97, Woburn, Massachusetts.
9.	ii.	JOSEPH RICHARDSON, b. July 27, 1643, Woburn, Massachusetts; d. March 5, 1717/18.
10.	iii.	SAMUEL RICHARDSON, b. May 22, 1646, Woburn, Massachusetts; d. April 29, 1712, Woburn, Massachusetts.
11.	iv.	STEPHEN RICHARDSON, b. August 15, 1649, Woburn, Massachusetts; d. March 22, 1717/18, Woburn, Massachusetts.

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