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Personal data Capt. Edward Richmond 

• He was born about 1632 in England.Source 1
• Religion: Church of England.Source 2
• He died November 1696 in Little Compton, RI.Source 3
• A child of John Richmond
• This information was last updated on March 3, 2013.

Household of Capt. Edward Richmond

(1) He is married to Abigail Davis.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Abigail Richmond  1656-????
2. Edward Richmond  1658-1743
3. John Richmond  1660-????
4. Elizabeth Richmond  1666-????
5. Mary Richmond  1668-????
6. Esther Richmond  1669-????
7. Sylvester Richmond  1672-????

(2) He is married to Amy Bull.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Henry Richmond  
2. Ann Richmond  

Notes about Capt. Edward Richmond

2. Captain Edward, born about 1632, in England, died in November, 1696; married (first) Abigail Davis, daughter of James Davis; (second) Amy Bull, daughter of Governor Henry and Elizabeth Bull.

Genealogy: a journal of American ancestry, Volumes 1-2
pg 159

Richmond.[262] P. D. R.Abigail Richmond, wife of John Remington, was a daughter of Captain Edward Richmond and his first wife, Abigail Davis. Edward Richmond was born in England about 1632, and died in Little Compton, R. I., November, 1696. He was general solicitor, attorney general, deputy to the Rhode Island assembly, lieutenant in King Philip's war, and, May 20, 1690, captain. His second wife was Amey Bull, daughter of Henry Bull. Captain Edward Richmond was a son of John Richmond of Taunton, Mass., born 1594, died March 20, 1664. The name of his wife is undiscovered, but his children were: John, Edward, Mary and Sarah. He has been identified with John Richmond, an officer of distinction during the civil wars in England, son of Henry Richmond alias Webb, representative of a family long settled in Wiltshire, whose great-grandfather married Alice Webb, an heiress, quartered her arms and assumed her name. The line goes back to Roaldus Musard de Richmond of the time of the Conqueror. There is no record of John Richmond in New England from 1643 to 1655.

Abigail Davis was a daughter of William Davis of Boston, who died in 1664. Mary Davis, his widow, married, second, John Cowdall. In 1657 Abigail sent a petition to the Rhode Island assembly, as a result of which her marriage to Richard Ussell was annulled, because her parents forced her to do it. Thus she was enabled to marry Edward Richmond, the man of her choice. B. H. D.

A history of Ontario County, New York and its people, Volume 2
by: Charles F. Milliken
pg 159-160

(II) Captain Edward Richmond, son of John Richmond, was born about 1632. He married (first) Abigail, daughter of James Davis, and (second) Amy, daughter of Governor Henry and Elizabeth Bull. He died in November. 1696. He had a share in Westerly, Rhode Island, 1661. He was general solicitor in 1667-69-70-72; was lieutenant in 1676, and he and his men captured seven Indians in King Philip's war; clerk of a court martial that condemned to death some Indians; was one of the grantees of East Greenwich in 1677; attorney-general 1677-78-79-80; deputy 1678-79; selectman, 1683-85-89-90; captain in 1690. He was a member of the Church of England. His gravestone is to be seen on the old Richmondfarm at Little Compton, Rhode Island, inscribed: "Here lyeth the body of Edward Richmond, captain, who departed this life in ye 63d year of his age, Nov. 1696." He was one of the incorporators of the town of Little Compton. Children of first wife: Abigail, born 1656; Edward, 1658; John, 1660; Elizabeth, December 6, 1666; Mary, 1668; Esther, 1669; Silvester, mentioned below; Sarah. Children of second wife: Henry and Ann, born at Little Compton.

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