Silas Richmond (abt. 1710 - 1784)

Born about 1710 in Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Emmons) Richmond — married 19 Dec 1733 in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 21 Feb 1784 at about age 74 in New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut

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Silas Richmond performed Patriotic Service in the American Revolution.

Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed April 22, 2016), "Record of Silas Richmond", Ancestor # A205299.

Biography

Silas Richmond was born about 1710 at Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts^[1][2] He Married Hannah Emmons December 19, 1733. By March 25 1736/7 he had moved to Lichfield, dated by the deed to the sale of his father's land. He moved to Goshen, Connecut around 1750 returning to Litchfield around 1762. He sold land to his son Ephraim in 1754 and they did a further land exchange in 1755, and finally he gifted land to Ephriam March 21, 1761. He died February 21, 1784 at New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut, where he may have been living with his son Ephriam.^[3].^[4][5][6][7]

The Mayflower Society omits the children Elizabeth and Daniel but considers the following "almost certain":^[8]

Phebe b. 29 Oct. 1736

Silas b. ca. 1738

Sarah b. ca. 1744

Banabas b. ca. 1746

Hannah b. ca. 1748

• September 16, 1777 Silas signed Oath of Allegiance (Goshen Town Records, Vol. 1, Goshen, Litchfield, CT)
• September 25, 1777 Silas was appointed to a committee to procure clothing for the non-commissioned officers serving in the Continental Army.
• October 1780 to the new seat at the meeting house
• December 11, 1780 fence viewer
• December 14, 1781 committee to exchange 100 acres for other land near the meeting house
• June 17, 1782 added to committee to add to the parsonage house
• September 2, 1782 committee to dignify the seats in the meeting house
• December 2, 1782 Selectman
• March 24, 1783 collector of the rate for Goshen

There is a Silas Richmond who married a Hannah Tuttle (c1723-1799) in 1762. She is thought to be Hannah Wadhams who married Timothy Tuttle in January 1742. DAR Application #862188). Some think that these were the same Silas Richmond and that Hannah Tuttle was his second wife.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S348 77. SILAS RICHMOND was born in Middleboro. He married Hanah Emmons, daughter of Wililaim Emmons. He went to New Milford, Conn., where he died February 21, 1784, p. 28.
2. ↑ Source: #S385 p. 59.
3. ↑ Report of D. L. Jacobus to Roy H. Elliott of Calif. 15 Jan 1952.
4. ↑ Alice W. A. Westgate, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Vol. 19. Family of Thomas Rogers, Revised by Ann T. Reeves (General Society of Mayflower Desdendants, 2000) pp. 206, 207.
5. ↑ Source: #S70 p. 177. RICHMOND, RICHMAN, Silas, f. Ephraim, d. Feb. 21, 1794. Vol. 1, p. 36
6. ↑ Source: #S387 p. 799.
7. ↑ Source: #S348 p. 28.
8. ↑ Alice W. A. Westgate, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Vol. 19. Family of Thomas Rogers, Revised by Ann T. Reeves (General Society of Mayflower Desdendants, 2000) pp. 206, 207.

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed April 21, 2016), "Record of Silas Richmond", Ancestor # A205299.
• Source: S348 Richmond Family 1594-1896 and Pre-American Ancestors 1040-1594, by Joshua Bailey Richmond (W. B. Clarke & Co, Park St, Boston, Mass, 1897)
• Source: S385 Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Nineteen: Thomas Rogers, Edition: Ann T. Reeves, Volume: 19, by Alice W.A. Westgate (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000) p. 207.
• Source: S387 History of the Towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1703-1882, by Samuel Orcutt (Case, Lockwood and Brainard, Hartford, Conn., 1882)
• Source: S70 New Milford Vital Records, 1712-1860: The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Records, Compiled by Lorraine Cook White; General editor Lorraine Cook White (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland)
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Silas Richmond of Litchfield and Goshen, The American Genealogist (The American Genealogist, Barrington, RI, 1957) Vol. 33, Page 181-84
• Goshen Conn. Land Records 3:240, 274, 281; 6:177.