Elizabeth Richards
wife of John Richardson.

Date of birth: July 1675.
Date of baptism: 21 March 1679/80.
Place of baptism: Farmington, CT.
[Farmington Records, 37]

Date of death: 23 May 1750?
Place of death: Recorded at Waterbury, CT.
[Waterbury Vit. Rec., 1: 114, FHL film #6,111 (date hard to read)]

Father: Obadiah Richards, d. bef. 24 November 1702.
Mother: Hannah (prob. Andrews).

Spouses:

(1) m. Waterbury, CT, 13 January 1702/3, John Richardson, b. 15 April 1672, d. 17 October 1712.
[Waterbury VR 1: 114, FHL film #6,111]

(2) m. bef. 29 May 1727, Nathaniel Arnold Sr., d. Westbury, CT, 13 September 1753.
Her marriage to Nathaniel Arnold Sr. is proven by the Waterbury vital records [Waterbury Vit. Rec. 1: 114, FHL film #6,111], and by the distribution of the estate of her mother Hannah Richards on 29 May 1727, in which one share went to Elizabeth Arnold, wife of Nathaniel Arnold Sr. [Woodbury, CT Probate Register 1: 33, FHL film #6,171]. Some confusion may be caused by the fact that Elizabeth's daughter Elizabeth married her stepbrother Nathaniel Arnold Jr., son of Nathaniel Sr. by an earlier marriage, both both of these marriages seem well documented. Nathaniel Arnold Sr., formerly of Hartford, appears as a grand juror in Waterbury in December 1723 [Hist. Waterbury, CT, 244]. He removed to Westbury, where he died on 13 September 1753 [Hist. Waterbury, CT, 245; Waterbury, CT to 1895, 1: Appendix, 9].

Children:
See the page of John Richardson for details.

son (twin), b. 4 September 1703, d. 11×12 September 1703, rec. at Waterbury.

daughter (twin), b. 4 September 1703, d. 11×12 September 1703, rec. at Waterbury.

Elizabeth Richardson, b. 5 October 1704, rec. at Waterbury, d. 11 October 1773;
m. Waterbury, 26 July 1732, Nathaniel Arnold Jr., bp. Feb 1703/4, d. 12 May 1777.

Mary Richardson, b. 14 February 1706/7, rec. at Waterbury, d. bef. 4 December 1750;
m. Waterbury, 9 May 1728, Nathan Prindle, d. 8 July 1746.

Sarah Richardson, b. 20 April 1710, rec. at Waterbury;
m. Samuel Weed, b. 18 July 1704, rec. at Derby.

John Richardson, b. 5 May 1713, rec. at Waterbury, d. bef. 28 November 1749.

Reference abbreviations

Farmington Records = Nathaniel Goodwin & Daniel Goodwin, "Church Records of Farmington in Connecticut", New England Historical and Genealogical Register 12 (1858): 34-8, 147-50.

Hist. Waterbury, CT = Henry Bronson, History of Waterbury, Connecticut (Waterbury, 1858).

Waterbury, CT to 1895 = Joseph Anderson, The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, from the Aboriginal Period to the year eighteen hundred and niney-five (3 vols., New Haven, 1896).

Compiled by Stewart Baldwin

First uploaded 14 August 2011.