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An American Family History

Captain John Richards
Children of John Richards
and Mary Brewer
  • Mary Richards Darling Shaw
  • Captain John Richards
  • Edward Richards
  • Crispus Richards
  • Elizabeth Richards Kent
  • Joseph Richards
  • William Richards
  • Abigail Richards Collins
    • When the colonists arrived in America they continued to use British monetary units, namely the pound, shilling and pence for which £1 equalled 20s and 1s equalled 12d. The form lb is actually an abbreviation of the Latin word libra. li and £ were also used as abbreviations. In 1792 the dollar was established as the basic unit of currency.

    Captain John Richards was born on May 1, 1677 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts. His parents were John Richards and Mary Brewer.

    He married Mary Allen. They married October 25, 1705 in Lynn.

    John and Mary's children were Mary Richards Norwood (1706), Richard Richards (1715), and Sarah Richards (1717). Mary married Zacheus Norwood whose second wife was Susannah Dwinnell, daughter of John Dwinnell.

    In 1713 he received 40 schillings from his father’s will. He lived in Lynn and Boston.

    It is unlikely that he is the John Richards who married Lydia Phillips as her children were all born after he died. John died October 7, 1733.

    From The Old Burying Ground, Lynn, Massachusetts.

    Here lyes buried ye body of Captain John Richards, who Departed this life October ye 7th, Anno Domini, 1733, Aged 56 Years.

     

    Settlers from Salem purchased land in an area known as Saugus from the Indians. This land originally included the towns of Swampscott, Nahant, Saugus and Lynnfield. In 1630 the land was incorporated as the Town of Saugus. The settlers changed the name to Lynn in 1637 in honor of their first official minister, Samuel Whiting, from King’s Lynn, England.
     

    Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans by Abner Morse

    7. 14. John [Richards], m. Mary ;and 2d, Jan. 25, 1732-3, Lydia Phillips, who survived to a very great age; r. Lynn and Boston.
    Had,
    15. i. Mary, b. Nov. 17, 1706.
    35. 16. ii. William, who m. Tabitha Williams.
    40. 17. iii. John, who m. 175- Elizabeth Alley.
    44. 18. iv. Richard, aged in 1754 above 14 years, m. Abigail Breed.
    v. Sarah, b. July 16, 1717, (by 1st wife,) d. prior to 1754, s. p.
    46. 19. vi. Walter, (by 2d wife,) aged under 14 in 1754; m. Cox.
    54. 20. vii. Joseph, aged under 14 years in 1754; m. Martha Burrill.
    21. viii. Lydia
    ix. Hannah

    		 

     

         

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