Tabitha (Kendall) Richardson (1707 - 1739)

Born 22 Jan 1707 in Woburn, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Nathan Richardson — married 3 Jul 1729 (to 25 Nov 1739) in Woburn, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 25 Nov 1739 at age 32 in Woburn, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Descendant of Deacon William Locke of Woburn

Tabitha Kendall was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, on January 22, 1706-7, the daughter and youngest child of Samuel Kendall and Mary Locke.^[1][2][3]

On July 3. 1729, she married, in Woburn, Nathan Richardson, also of Woburn. Their children:^[1][2][4]

1. Tabitha, born April 14, 1730.^[2]
2. John, born February 5, 1731-2; married Hannah Richardson, 1753.^[2]
3. Amos, born November 6, 1733; married Bethiah Richardson, 1762.^[2]
4. Jotham, born October 23, 1735; married Phebe Whittemore, 1759.^[2]
5. Mary, born September 7, 1737.^[2]

Tabitha (Kendall) Richardson died in Woburn on November 25, 1739, "in y^e 33'rd Year of her Age. (gravestone)" She was buried at the First Burial Ground in Woburn, where her gravestone reads:^[2][5][6]

Here lyes y^e Body of

M^rs TABITHA RICHARDSON Wife to

M^r NATHAN RICHARDSON Who

Died Nov^br 25^th 1739 in y^e

33^rd Year of her Age.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Locke: Page 20. Citing: "4 MARY LOCKE. m. SAMUEL KENDALL ... Chil. by Mary Locke. ... 39 Tabitha, b. Jany. 22, 1706-7; m. Nathan Richardson, July 3, 1729."
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Vinton: Pages 57-58. Citing: "75. Deacon Nathan Richardson ... married first, Esther Pierce, daughter of Stephen Pierce, of Chelmsford. She died Nov. 10, 1727, aged 27. ... Second, July 3, 1729, Tabitha Kendall, ... youngest child of Samuel and Mary (Locke) Kendall. ... She died Nov. 25, 1739, aged 33. ... Third, Lydia Whittemore, of Malden, April 3, 1740 ... he died Oct. 21, 1775, aged 74. [7 children]."
3. ↑ Woburn Records: PART I. BIRTHS. Page 139. Citing: "KENDALL, Tabitha, d. of Samuel and Mary, Jan. 22, 1707."
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHVV-8MS : 13 July 2016), Nathan Richardson and Tabitha Kendal, 03 Jul 1729; citing Marriage, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 859,998.
   Transcript of Image: "Nathan Richardson and Tabitha Kendall both of Woburn [were married] July 3. 1729."
5. ↑ Woburn Records: PART II. EPITAPHS, FIRST BURIAL-GROUND. Page 26*. Citing: "(114.) 'Here lyes y^e Body of M'rs Tabitha Richardson Wife to M'r Nathan Richardson Who Died Nov'br 25'th 1739 in y^e 33'rd Year of her Age.'
   Tabitha (Kendall) Richardson, second wife of Deacon Nathan Richardson (epitaph 236), married July 3, 1729; daughter of Samuel and Mary (Locke) Kendall, Woburn; born Jan. 22, 1706-7. (Vide Vinton Memorial, 379, 380; Book of Lockes, 20, 29."
6. ↑ Woburn Records: PART II. DEATHS. Page 158. Citing: "RICHARDSON, Tabitha, wife of Nathan, Nov. 25, 1739; 33 y."

See also:

• Johnson, Edward. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Marriage Intentions, from 1640 to 1900 (Woburn, Mass., 1890-1919).

• Locke, John Goodwin. Book of the Lockes (James Munroe & Co., Boston and Cambridge, 1853).

• Vinton, John. The Richardson Memorial, Comprising a Full History and Genealogy of the Posterity of the Three Brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel, and Thomas Richardson (Brown Thurston & Co., Portland, Maine, 1876).

Acknowledgements

• Kendall-1806 was created by Edwin Rogers through the import of Kendall1580-des-20no14.ged on Nov 20, 2014.