Thomas
Richards
Born about in England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of Thomas Richards
[uncertain]
and Thomasine (Unknown) Richards
[uncertain]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Priscilla (Wakeman) Richards
— married
23 Jan 1630 in England
Descendants 
Died about
at about age 40
in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
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This is a quick biography using Savage. He is not listed in Anderson. See the sources listed with the Torrey Source below. Especially check parents.
Biography
Thomas Richards was one of The Founders of Hartford Connecticut. 1637. His name is shown on the Founders Monument in Hartford. Thomas Richards and his wife Priscilla were probably part of Rev Thomas Hooker's congregation that split with the Boston,Massachusetts Puritans (Rev Cotton Mather), over Church doctrine. Rev Hooker received permission for his flock to settle south in the Connecticut River Valley, where they drafted their revolutionary Constitution.
Thomas Richards was of Hartford 1639.[1]
He died soon leaving a widow who died in 1671.[1]
Children:[1]
- John,
- Mary Peck of Milford, perhaps w. of Joseph,
- Samuel, wh. d. bef. mid. age,
- Thomas
- Obadiah.
MARRIAGES (1) Spouse Priscilla Wakeman Marriage 23 January 1630 Of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Priscilla, was a sister of Samuel Wakeman. Other siblings Anne, wife of Adam Nichols; Martha wife of William Davis; Esther, wife of Thomas Selden and Andrew Ward; John Wakeman of Hartford.[2]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692. Vol. I-IV. Boston, MA, USA: 1860-1862.
- ↑ The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). Sketch of Samuel Wakeman. p. 1901 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/1901/235196764
- Torrey's New England Marriages RICHARDS, Thomas (bef 1639, 1659?) & Priscilla WAKEMAN (-1671?); 23 Jan 1630, by 1631; Hartford {Brainerd Anc. 292; ?Andrews (1872) 56; Beckwith (,3) 5; Wethersfield 2:542; Hartford Prob. 1:146, 226} == Key to Torrey sources
- Brainerd Anc. 292. [Brainerd, Dwight], Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal, 1948) Priscilla d/o Frances and Anne (Goode) Wakeman b. say 1611; d. 1671; m. 23 Jan 1630 Thomas Richards.
- Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five., New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896, Ap112. " ... of Hartford ..."
- Henry R. Stiles, A.M., M.D., History of Wethersfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's,, Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000, vol 2, p 542.
- Ancestral File Number: 8X1C-XM
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The firt settlements in Connecticut were 1633 in Hartford, Connecticut Colony. Windsor Connecticut was also settled 1633. Connecticut was settled by English colonists leaving Massachusetts. Lyons Gardiner (of Gardiners island, and East Hampton, Long Island, NY), settled Saybrook Connecticut 1634. The English settlers were leaving the strict colonies of Massachusetts and trying to prevent the Dutch from expanding control up the Connecticut River. Is there a supporting source saying that he was born in Connecticut?