Edward Richmond

1632 - 1696  (64 years)

• Name	Edward Richmond
  Birth	1632	England
  Gender	Male
  Death	Nov 1696	Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
  Person ID	I25976	Ingram-Related
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2024

  
  

  Father	John Richmond,   b. 1594, Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, England d. 20 Mar 1663, Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Nicholas,   b. 1596, All Cannings, Wiltshire, England d. 1664 (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F9875	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Abigail Davis,   b. Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
  Marriage	1657
  Family ID	F9885	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 May 2015

  
  

• Notes

  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, hewasGeneral Solicitor. October 31, 1677, he and forty-seven othersweregranted 5,000 acres to be called East Greenwich.1677-78-79-80,Attorney-General. 1678-79, 1686 Deputy.1683-84-85-89-90, Selectman. June4,1686, Lieutenant. May 20, 1690,Captain. He was one of theincorporators of Little Compton, RI, in1674, and owned severalshares. The following is from the tombstone in the family cemetery on theoldRichmond farm in Little Compton, RI, being the most ancient date onanytombstone in the town. " HERE LYETH BURIED THE BODY OF EDWARDRICHMOND,CAPTAIN, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN Ye 63d YEAR OF HIS AGE,NOV. 1696 ". (Source: "The Richmond Family 1594-1896 and Pre-AmericanAncestors1040-1594" by Jouhua Bailey Richmond)