Joseph Richardson (1667 - 1752)

Born 1667 in Bristol, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Bevan — married 30 Jun 1696 in Merion Meeting House, Chester, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 1 Jan 1752 at about age 85 in Perkiomen, Montgomery, Pennsylvania

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• From the blog, "The Neebor Lee", The Road to Oletheho ^[1]

  "Oletheho was the name given by native Americans of the Lenni Lenape tribe to the land situated between the northern bank of the Schuylkill River and Perkiomen Creek. It would represent the westernmost extent of the lands purchased by William Penn from the tribe in 1684 for the purpose of ensuring peace so that Europeans, and in particular Quakers, could permanently settle in southeastern Pennsylvania. It is on Oletheho land that the Neeber Lee house would be built 100 years later.
  William Penn was granted this land and other lands in what was to become Pennsylvania by King Charles II of England in 1681 in order to pay off debts owed to Penn’s father. Within six months of receiving this grant, Penn would parcel out 300,000 acres of this land grant to over 250 prospective settlers, mostly wealthy Quakers, in order to increase his own wealth and to encourage a Quaker migration. One of the areas Penn retained for himself in the new colony was a 60,000 acre parcel located on the northeastern bank of the Schuykill River, extending above and below Perkiomen Creek, thereby incorporating Olethelo... Penn named this parcel the “Manor of Gilberts” in honor of his mother’s family.
  Penn claimed this land for himself by warrant in 1683. However, by 1687 he too had sold much of this land reducing the size of the Manor to 10,000 acres. In 1706, William Penn would sell off another 1000 acres of the Manor, a parcel that included most of Oletheho, to his good friend Abraham Bickley."

  In 1710, Bickley sold it to Joseph RICHARDSON, the brother of his wife, Elizabeth Bickley. Joseph was the second wealthiest man in the colony. and moved his family to Oletheho in 1714, and then built the 1st road to the area in about 1727 and it became...

  "...known as the “Great Road” and sometimes “Joseph Richardson’s Road”. It is now a busy thoroughfare that is called Egypt Road, so named for the rich bottom soils in the Perkiomen Valley that were said to be as rich as those of the Nile."

  This road would pass less than a mile from the Vanderslice Plantation. (See map below) Richardson died in 1745 in his home in Oletheho, but the name Oletheho would no longer mentioned in the historical records after he died. ^[2]

Present day location of the former Vanderslice / Custer Plantation and the Neebor Lee Home (Calculated with data from map created by Barbara Wentz [3]

Sources

1. ↑ Blog/The Neebor Lee. "The Road to Oletheho" Posted by PETERJRANDAZZO on Feb 20, 2015 https://peterjrandazzo.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/the-diary-of-a-patriot/
2. ↑ From a story entitled: Joseph Richardson’s Road. A bit of Color from the Forgotten Past. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 35, No. 1 (1911), pp. 41-50 by Samuel W. Pennypacker, decedent of Hendrick Pannepacker and Governor of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1907.
3. ↑ WentzMap/USGenWeb http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/montgomery/stjamesperkiomen/provfams.html Map enhanced by Barbara Wentz in 2005 using the data given in the lot numbers, and deed notes of the early Johnson and Bergey map in Genealogical Landmarks and Milestones of the Lower Perkiomen Country, published by The Perkiomen Region, Vol. XII, #3 & #4, October 1934, plus additions from sales and distribution of land found in Deed and Will Books of Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties.

• WikiTree profile Richardson-1697 created through the import of Travis Family Tree.ged on Jun 22, 2011 by Roger Travis. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Roger and others.

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