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Descendants of John Richmond 1594 thru 1900's

Generation No. 2

2. EDWARD¹⁸ RICHMOND (JOHN¹⁷, HENRY RICHMOND¹⁶ WEBB, EDMOND RICHMOND¹⁵, WILLIAM RICHMOND¹⁴, WILLIAM RICHMOND¹³, WILLIAM¹² RICHMOND, THOMAS¹¹, ELYAS¹⁰ DE RICHMOND, ELYAS⁹, EUDO⁸, SIR⁷ ROALD , FIL ALAN RICHMOND DE CROFT, FIL ROALD RICHMOND DE CROFT⁶ ALAN, SIR ROALD FIL ALAN⁵ DE RICHMOND, SIR ALAN FIL ROALD⁴, ROALDUS³, HASCULFUS MUSARD², ROALDUS MUSARD¹) was born 1632 in England, and died November 1696 in Little Compton, RI. He married (1) ABIGAIL DAVIS 1657. He married (2) AMY BULL August 20, 1685.

Notes for EDWARD RICHMOND:
Captain Edward Richmond is frequently mentioned in the Colonial Records, under the following dates:
August 23, 1676, he was clerk of a court martial. 1667-69-70-72, he was General Solicitor. October 31, 1677, he and forty-seven others were granted 5,000 acres to be called East Greenwich. 1677-78-79-80, Attorney-General. 1678-79, 1686 Deputy. 1683-84-85-89-90, Selectman. June 4,1686, Lieutenant. May 20, 1690, Captain. He was one of the incorporators of Little Compton, RI, in 1674, and owned severalshares.
The following is from the tombstone in the family cemetery on the old Richmond farm in Little Compton, RI, being the most ancient date on any tombstone in the town. " HERE LYETH BURIED THE BODY OF EDWARD RICHMOND, CAPTAIN, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN Ye 63d YEAR OF HIS AGE, NOV. 1696 ".
(Source: "The Richmond Family 1594-1896 and Pre-American Ancestors 1040-1594" by Jouhua Bailey Richmond)

Children of EDWARD RICHMOND and ABIGAIL DAVIS are:

ABIGAIL¹⁹ RICHMOND, b. 1656; d. 1744.

ii.

EDWARD RICHMOND, b. 1658.

iii.

JOHN RICHMOND, b. 1660; d. 1740.

iv.

ELIZABETH RICHMOND, b. 1665; d. 1717.