Caleb RICHARDSON

Caleb married Mary LADD on 31 Jul 1682 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Daniel LADD and Ann ?) was born on 14 Feb 1646 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 22 Feb 1697 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary RICHARDSON was born on 12 Jan 1684/5 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
2. Ruth RICHARDSON was born on 1 Mar 1683; died on 18 Sep 1749 in Plaistow, New Hampshire.

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Edward Richardson was born in England in 1617, which appears from the fact that he took the oath of allegiance to the colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1678, at the age of sixty-one; came to American, and settled in "Old Newbury," probably soon after 1640. he was married, but his wife's name does not appear.

He was a member of the church in Newbury, of which rev. Thomas Parker was pastor, and rev. James Noyes the teacher. Not long after 1650 difficulties arose in the church on the subject of discipline, and the church was divided into two parties, one party maintaining that all church power resides in the church itself, the other party, and especially the ministers, claiming that the ministers must take the initiative in all cases, and nothing be done but in accordance with their wishes. Indeed, both ministers were understood to be Presbyterian in sentiment. For five or six tears after 1665 the church was in a very excited and unhappy state, divided into two parties, nearly equal in numbers, and each claiming to be THE church. Mr. Richardson was of the party opposed to Mr. Parker, the pastor. A full history of the matter is contained in Coffin's History of Newbury.

Edward Richardson and several other inhabitants of Newbury, with some of Dover, presented a petition to the General Court of Massachusetts in May, 1659, for a grant of land twelve miles square, at Penacook (Concord). the petition was granted, but the conditions as to settlement, etc., not being fulfilled, the grant was forfeited. Most of New Hampshire was then under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. (Bouton's Hist. of Concord, p. 52)

Neither Edward Richardson nor any other Richardson is on the list of proprietors of lands in Newbury, compiled December, 1642; ninety-one in all, but twenty-two were afterwards added. (Coffin's Newbury, p. 292).

Edward Richardson died Nov. 14, 1685, aged 68.

Edward married UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]