Thomas Richardson_10-04-1645_02-25-1720

5113. Thomas Richardson, second son of Thomas and Mary Richardson; born in Woburn, Oct. 4, 1645; m., first, in Cambridge, Jan. 5, 1666-70, Mary Stimpson. They were married by the eminent Daniel Gookin, so often mentioned in the early history of Massachusetts. In those days, marriage, being regarded as a civil ordinance, was performed by the civil magistrate. The town records of Cambridge, as copied, call Thomas Richardson’s wife Mary Stevenson. She died June 7, 1690, the mother of nine children. Second, in Billerica, Dec. 29, 1690, Sarah Patten, widow of Thomas Patten, of Billerica, who died Jan. 16, 1689-90, aged about 54. They were married by Major Jeremiah Swain.

He removed from Woburn to Billerica, previously known as Shawshin, about the year 1667; and settled, it is believed, on a large tract of about nine hundred acres of land, quite in the easterly part of the town, called the Cambridge School Far, a little west of the Shawshin River and north of the present Boston Road. He was a soldier in the company of Capt. Samuel Gallup in the land expedition to Canada, by way of Albany in 1690, with utterly failed. He was a deputy from Billerica to the General Court of Massachusetts in 1703 and 1704.

Some time after, he gave to his eldest son, Thomas, a farm near the Boston Road, now Washington Streety; to Andrew, a farm north of Thomas and to Nathaniel, a farm north of Andrew. The deed to Andrew is dated Oct. 14, 1705 and there is a deed to his grandson Thomas, son of Thomas, dated Feb. 25, 1709-10.

He died in Billerica, Feb. 25, 1720, in his seventy-six year. His widow Sarah died Nov. 20, 1734.

The children of Thomas Richardson, all by first wife, were:

5127. Mary,³ b. Feb. 8. 1670-1 : d. the same day.

5128 Mary,³ b. Jan. 831, 1671-2; d. the same day.

+5130 Mary,³ b. Feb. 17, 1672-3: m. Edward Farmer, Jr. .

+5131 Thomas, ³ b. Dec. 30, 1675; m. Abigail —————

+5132 Nathaniel,3 b. Jan. 25, 1679-80; m. Mary Peacock.

+5133 Jonathan,³ b. Feb. 14, 1682-3; m. Hannah French.

5134. Ruth,³ b. Dec 4, 1685; m. John French.

5135. Elnathan,³ b.Feb 7. 1686-7; d. the same day.

There was a Thomas Richardson of Billerica and wife Judith in 1705.